Research has shown that student loan borrowers in repayment exhibit physical and mental health problems. These can be exacerbated by contribute to health-related financial hardship. We use the 2015 U.S. National Financial Capability Study examine likelihood of having past due medical bills avoiding care services not purchasing prescribed medication, skipping tests or follow-up with a doctor see...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE A better understanding of how poverty-related hardships affect child health could highlight remediable intervention targets. Tobacco smoke exposure may be 1 such consequence of family hardship. Our objective was to explore the relationship between family hardships and tobacco exposure, as measured by serum cotinine, a tobacco metabolite, among children hospitalized for ...

In the face of Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that nothing so special about human race particularly makes it immune to decimation. This at odds with general feeling something significant, purposeful and/or meaningful life. Thus, question immediately comes mind whether present pandemic negative situations presents, destroy any hope attaining me...

This paper examines the various representations of magical realism in Rawi Hage’s Carnival (2012). It investigates portrayal fictionalized imaginative situations novel. Further, it discusses Fly as an exilic individual who attempts to escape his chaotic and disordered society. Through flying carpet, overcomes hardship produces a new space for own order realize what he desires. Besides, among se...

Land grabbing in various forms is happening in many different parts of this globe. This involves ‘outsiders’ – nation-states as well as corporations – colluding with local domestic elites to radically alter existing land ownership and land uses. Contemporary forms of land theft take place under the guise of acquiring land for food and biofuels, and through imposition of resource extraction acti...

OBJECTIVE To examine the role of tobacco use in creating financial hardship for New Zealand (NZ) low income households with children. DATA The 1996 NZ census (smoking prevalence by household types), Statistics NZ (household spending surveys 1988-98), and NZ Customs (tobacco released from bond 1988-98). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion of children in households with smokers and < or = 15,000...