This research investigated community perception towards dowry practice and its economic consequences in District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A total of 230 respondents were selected through simple random sampling technique to portray information. Chi square (χ2) Gamma (γ) test statistics used determine the level association strength direction between variables. The results indicated...

Introduction: Attempts from some colleges of medicine in Iraq were made trying to overcome the problems and suffocations that faced undergraduate medical studies in our country and trying to respond to our community health needs to increase awareness, evidence-campaign for staff members of the college and for administration and students focusing mainly on medical education quality and best prac...

background: community-based participatory research (cbpr) increasingly is being used to address health issues. few evidence exist to indicate how builds the capacity of communities to function as health promoter and what resources are required to promote successful efforts. this article presents the result of a capacity assessment for preventing drug abuse through cbpr, which working with rathe...

Community pharmacists play a significant role in patient/disease management and perception by patients is increasingly important. A self-administered questionnaire was developed consisted of sociodemographic part and 15 questions. Patients have a positive overall perception of community pharmacists that is comparable to most studies in Europe. Community pharmacists' beyond dispensing drugs play...

For members of the community, participation in leisure, sports and recreation is an important lifestyle choice. Individuals with Down syndrome live in our community and they, too, are equally entitled to active lifestyle choices. Children, adolescents and adults with Down syndrome have a wide range of interests and, although reported trends indicate that their engagement in recreational activit...

By facing the problem to describe the history of a virtual community as the sequence of events generated by its participants, a different perception of the meaning of communitywares emerges. This paper describes a proposal for a virtual community system based on the narrative process that supports the social evolution of the community.