There is a close association between social circumstances and health. In India, there is a significant burden of both communicable and non communicable diseases. Risk factors responsible for these conditions are underweight, unsafe sex, unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene, indoor smoke pollution, zinc, iron and vitamin A deficiency, tobacco use, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. ...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran1   E. Aboonoori, Ph.D. * A.A. Saalem, Ph.D. ** J. Arab Yaarmohammadi ***   A multidimensional approach to measuring poverty facilitates the assessment of educational poverty as one of its several dimensions. Utilizing this approach, the overall poverty in Iran in the years of 2005 ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition in children can be a consequence of unfavourable socioeconomic conditions. However, some families maintain adequate nutritional status in their children despite living in poverty. The aim of this study was to ascertain whether family-related factors are determinants of stunting in young Mexican children living in extreme poverty, and whether these factors differ between ...

China has entered the era of post-poverty alleviation, which effectively links poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization strategies. In in order to promote sustainable development poor areas, local colleges and universities should actively nurture self-development skills needy. Local guide transformation ideas concepts, scientifically optimize allocation resources, improve inte...

This article analyses the emergence of discourse period poverty in UK news media across a two-year period. Using thematic analysis and analysis, I analyse three themes: focus on schoolgirl, silencing austerity context preoccupation with products public figures to solve structural issue poverty. In doing so, argue that has emerged cultural sphere due key, intertwined, forces: continued dismantli...

This study has been carried out as a part of the programme " Culture, tourism and development " of the Division of cultural policies and intercultural dialogue, Section culture and development by Pr Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard. The views expressed by the author, the selection of facts presented and the opinions stated with regard to the facts are the responsibility of the author and do no...

Although poverty alleviation has become an infinite game globally since the late 1940s, Sri Lanka not identified as issue until recently. The socio-welfare-based economic policies and continuous election-centered programs push country into IGPA, even though is accumulated with plentiful natural socio-cultural resources. Consequently, struggles severe crises political chaos, worsening which been...