Peer education of tobacco issues in Hungarian communities of Roma and socially disadvantaged children.

A Systematic Review of Peer-Support Programs for Smoking Cessation in Disadvantaged Groups

The burden of smoking is borne most by those who are socially disadvantaged and the social gradient in smoking contributes substantially to the health gap between the rich and poor. A number of factors contribute to higher tobacco use among socially disadvantaged populations including social (e.g., low social support for quitting), psychological (e.g., low self-efficacy) and physical factors (e...

Roma Inclusion Policies in a Central European Education System - The Case of Hungary

The paper deals with the limits of cross-ethnic social solidarity in the post-communist era. Combating social exclusion in schools, and especially among ethnic minorities, is one of the major themes of East Central European welfare and education policies. The inquiry presents the main points of Hungarian public debate around integrative education, in which the Roma population plays an absolutel...

Inclusive Education of Roma Students from Socially Disadvantaged Background as a Determinant of Their Social Inclusion in the Slovak Republic

Gypsies/roma in Hungary

try in an uneven distribution. Roma people live in around 2,000 of Hungary's 3,200 settlements. With regard to regional distribution, census data suggest the highest concentrations are in the regions of Northern Hungary and the Northern Alföld (Great Hungarian Plain). Although the proportion of Roma living in towns and cities has increased considerably in comparison to the 1970's, the majority ...

Body Mass Index, Relative Body Fat and Physical Performance of Hungarian Roma Boys

The aim of the present comparison of Roma and non-Roma prepubertal boys was to analyse if there were differences in some anthropometric measures and in running performance to see if Roma children fall behind their non-Roma peers in growth and development, and if so, to what extent. Until now no larger child sample of exclusively Roma ethnicity has been investigated concerning their basic somati...