Cultural and Socioeconomic Influences on Divorce During Modernization: Southeast Asia, 1940s to 1960s

Spain and the international scientific conferences on polio, 1940s-1960s.

The development of international health from a historical point of view has undergone major advances in recent times and constitutes a substantial part of the current agenda for historians of medicine. Within this framework, and focussing on a specific case study (international responses to poliomyelitis outbreaks in the 20th century), we explore the main actions and achievements of agencies su...

Cross-Cultural and Socioeconomic Influences on Urological Cancer Patients

This journal paper is a literature review which aims to take a closer look at how different ethnicities/races, cultures and socioeconomic status affect both patients and their families and how those factors influence patients’ medical decision-making. Both culture and socioeconomic status have been shown to influence the stage at which an individual is diagnosed, how that individual copes with ...

Globalization and Southeast Asia

In the 1990s Southeast Asia became prominent in discussions of globalization. Comparative studies often pointed to the region’s capitalist economies as exemplars of pro-globalization development strategies, countries whose economic and political fortunes have been tied (for better or worse) to a deepening embrace of global trade and investment. The region’s sudden economic reversal in 1997-98 c...

Comparison of breast carcinomas diagnosed in the 1980s with those diagnosed in the 1940s to 1960s.

OBJECTIVE To find out if breast carcinomas diagnosed in the 1980s differ from those diagnosed a few decades ago. DESIGN Retrospective comparative cohort study. SETTING City of Turku, south western Finland. PATIENTS 439 patients with breast carcinoma diagnosed in 1945-65 with a median follow up of 27 years (95% of all those histologically diagnosed in Turku); and 370 patients with breast c...

Modeling the influences of aerosols on Pre - monsoon circulation and rainfall over Southeast 1 Asia