THEORY Social homecare is important for older people, as it enables them to remain in their own homes during worsening health, thus relieving the burden on institutional facilities such as homes for the elderly or nursing homes and hospitals. METHOD A representative survey of social homecare users was employed to assess determinants of the scope of social homecare in Slovenia. Multiple regres...

OBJECTIVES Following the onset of intensive colonial intervention and rapid social change in the lives of Inuit people, youth in Nunavik have experienced high rates of mental health problems and suicide. Inuit people describe a broad range of contextual influences on mental wellness based on lived experience, but most epidemiological studies have focused on individual risk factors and pathologi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study examined both individual and neighbourhood correlates of injury mortality to better understand the contribution of socioeconomic status to cause specific injury mortality. Of particular interest was whether neighbourhood effects remained after adjusting for individual demographic characteristics and socioeconomic status. DESIGN Census tract data (measuring small are...

This study was conducted to identify student characteristics and instructional factors that impact student engagement in physical education (PE). Data were derived from the systematic observation of 124 sessions taught by 31 physical educators and the administration of health and PE engagement questionnaires to 2,018 students in grades 5-8. Physical activity was directly affected by student eng...

This investigation deals with the influence of situational variables and individual differences (internal versus external locus of control and achievement motivation) on self-imposed gratification delay. The sample consisted of 243 male and female high school students. Subjects who only had to wait for the delayed reward (Group 1) chose the delayed reward significantly more frequently than subj...

Productivity of remote workers is of critical concern to organizations and managers contemplating telecommuting arrangements. Here we suggest a general theoretical framework for understanding telecommuter productivity, and then report on a two-phased research study. In the first phase, semi-structured interviews with 32 telecommuters were conducted in one organization, and individual, social, a...

This study is motivated by the idea that the racial gap in earnings is generated not only by individual differences but also by systematic variation in the occupational structure that attenuates or exacerbates the effects of race. Using data from the 1990 census and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a hierarchical linear modeling approach is employed that allows the simultaneous exploratio...

STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) To identify and to categorise the various city indicators that are related to health levels; (2) to demonstrate the extent of the influence on health of these categorised health determinants; and (3) to demonstrate both the interactive associations among the health determinants and the magnitude of influence of each health determinant on the people's health. DESIGN By usi...

OBJECTIVES We examined individual- and community-level influences on domestic violence in Uttar Pradesh, North India. METHODS Multilevel modeling was used to explore domestic violence outcomes among a sample of 4520 married men. RESULTS Recent physical and sexual domestic violence was associated with the individual-level variables of childlessness, economic pressure, and intergenerational t...