Life Sciences Course From Primary School Students Perspective

Semmelweis University School of Ph.D. Studies School of Mental Health Sciences Behavioral Sciences Program Psychosocial correlates of Hungarian women’s mental health: focusing on the life-course perspective

Budapest 2004 INTRODUCTION Good mental health is an important resource for individuals, families, communities and nations. Mental health is an obscure part of general health, reflecting an equilibrium between the individual and environment. Mental health basically has two dimensions, positive and negative mental health. According to the WHO World Health Report 2001 determinants of mental health...

NAU Web Course Evaluations; Online Learning from the Students' Perspective

Northern Arizona University (NAU) is the only university located outside major Arizona metropolitan areas. The universities mission is to serve rural Arizona through distance education initiatives. Recently NAU has added web courses to further serve a growing number of statewide students. It is recognized that to offer meaningful courses on the Internet changes to the organization of class mate...

Ucl School of Life and Medical Sciences

Studying suicide from the life course perspective: implications for prevention.

Suicide is an important contributor to premature mortality accounting for over 800 000 deaths worldwide every year. Environmental and genetic factors acting from before birth to old age affect an individual's risk of suicide. Risk is influenced not only by psychiatric illness and impulsive behaviour but also by factors such as the cultural acceptability of suicide, the ease of availability of l...

A Life Course Perspective on Spirituality and Desistance from Crime

Spirituality has become a part of many drug and alcohol treatment strategies, and faithbased programming is also common within prison settings. Yet research on religion and crime linkages has often relied on general youth or adult samples, or included a short time line for gauging positive effects. Life course researchers focused on serious delinquents, in turn, have often emphasized other fact...