Background: To determine the knowledge, attitude and practices about immunization among respondents of children aged 12-23 months. Methods: A total of 510 respondents were interviewed in the urban slums of Lucknow district of India, using 30 cluster sampling technique from January 2005 to April 2005. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to elicit the information about the knowledge, a...

BACKGROUND Perceptions of aging have been found to independently contribute to various aspects of health and wellbeing in old age. Since valid and reliable perceptions of aging instruments are unavailable in Dutch, these associations have not yet been tested in the Netherlands. This study examined the reliability and construct validity of the Dutch-language version of the 7-dimension Aging Perc...

Abstract This paper presents the results from a qualitative research project in Norway on forthcoming change electricity grid tariffs. As form of Demand Side Management to avoid capacity constraints grid, new tariff seeks reduce consumption peaks by incentivising householders even out use and shift nighttime. We examine perspectives 13 representatives companies as well 22 study process developi...

background: this study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in kuwait by gender and obesity. methods: a sample of 530 kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in kuwait (203 men and 327 women). the eating attitudes test‑26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes. results: the prevalence of disordered eating a...

BACKGROUND Urban renewal programs aim to target both the physical and social environments to improve the social capital, social connectedness, sense of community and economic conditions of residents of the neighbourhoods. We evaluated the impact of an urban renewal program on the health and well-being of residents of a socially disadvantaged community in south-western Sydney, Australia. METHO...

This paper presents Eco-avatars, a tool aiming to promote long-term energy conservation behaviors across householders. It takes advantage of the emotional links that can form between humans and avatars, or personal digital personifications. The application represents each member of a household as an avatar situated in a shared graphical environment that reacts according to individual consumptio...