BACKGROUND Individuals in lower socio-economic groups have an increased prevalence of common mental disorders. AIMS To investigate the longitudinal association between socio-economic position and common mental disorders in a general population sample in the UK. METHOD Participants (n=2406) were assessed at two time points 18 months apart with the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule. The sam...

The need to introduce technologies in rural areas so as to capacitate communities towards overcoming various socio-economic challenges remains a priority in emerging economies. We rely on the foregoing for the investigation in the Kgautswane community in South Africa, of a range of socio-economic challenges that can be addressed through ICT. Identified challenges are further filtered for the se...

Recent theoretical and empirical advances in economic geography have contributed to the emergence of what might be termed a “relational turn” that focuses primarily on the ways in which socio-spatial relations of actors are intertwined with processes of economic changes at various geographical scales – global, local, or glocal. This mapping of actororiented “relational geometries” fundamentally...

In the present study, an attempt was made to develop a conceptual land use strategy for regional development in four provinces of northeast border region of Thailand. A detailed GIS analysis was done to create comprehensive database including land use, soil suitability, socio-economic data, rainfall, etc. The current land use was studied using GIS, satellite remote sensing, field observation an...

This paper aims to present a new analysis framework for assessing disparities among regions (or countries). It combines both economic and social variables, where the economic attributes refer in particular to marked differences in consumption variables. This analysis is also appealing for spatial convergence analyses over time. In our paper, both economic and social variables are included as th...

Recruitment into peripheral possession trance cults has been explained as attempts to compensate for socio-economic deprivation and jural impotence. This model, best developed by I. M. Lewis, is reviewed and its predictions are tested against two types of Brazilian data. Firstly, national census Žgures of religious afŽliation are compared with measures of socio-economic stress for a diachronic ...