Food-borne parasitic zoonoses have a major impact on the health and economy in developing countries in the tropics and sub-tropics. Complex socio-economic and socio-cultural factors impact on the maintenance of parasitic zoonoses. In addition to human disease, some of these parasites are responsible for economic loss to livestock production. Throughout India, problems of food-borne parasitic zo...

This paper seeks to illuminate the sociocultural contexts of attempting suicide among Iranian youth. A qualitative approach was employed to uncover the social and cultural dimensions of attempting suicide. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 participants aged 14-17 years who attempted suicide and were admitted to 2 of the hospitals in Isfahan. A thematic analysis approach was employed. T...

Convention on Biological Diversity provides for the first time an opportunity to break the nexus widely observed between the biodiversity and the poverty. It is recognized that one could not conserve biodiversity by keeping people poor even if historically biodiversity survived only under such conditions. Studies have shown that many of the communities which conserve diversity have remained poo...

the cities are home to half of the people who live on the planet earth. they stimulate economic growth and cultural prosperity, but they are also the center of pollution and poverty. therefore, the livability of cities, in particular urban distressed areas, has always been one of the issues and challenges facing thinkers in different fields of urban management. however, the planning to improve ...

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank. FOREWORD Throughout Latin America, the past decade has brought a growing national and international concern for the identity and rights of indigenous peoples. Moreover, in the context of structural adjustment programs in particular, the internation...

The current study aims to examine poverty theories in light of new perspectives and approaches. methodology used for this research, that is solely qualitative, based on the literature. explores a variety poverty, including classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, Marxist/radical, monetary, cultural, ecological, economic, political theory social exclusion capital. Some policy measures are suggested o...

Poverty is a social-cultural problem that can be categorized into monetary approach, capability social exclusion, and participatory poverty assessment. However, the existing measurement methods are complex, costly, time-consuming. This research was conducted to forecast using classification methods. Random Forest Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithms were applied since they supervised ...

A case of endemic goitre associated with thyroid cancer and huge enlargement of the scalp is reported in a Brazilian mulatto from an iodine deficient Central west region of the country. On admission, osteolytic metastases of follicular thyroid carcinoma were found scattered in the parietal bones. Impressive images from old files could illustrate and emphasize the hurdle-like role of poverty and...

The study, led by Dr. Ananda P. Dasanayake, Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion at New York University College of Dentistry in collaboration with the Faculty of Dental Sciences at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, eliminated smoking and alcohol use among a group of 190 pregnant women in the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka, where a combination of cultural taboos and povert...

Since the early 1970s, with the formation of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh by the eminent Mohammed Yunus, the microfinance movement has spread throughout the developing and developed world as a weapon in the fight against poverty. However, success of the Grameen model has not been followed by success in different economic and social settings. These failures have been due to several factors inc...