BACKGROUND Accessing cancer treatment requires First Nation peoples living in rural and remote communities to either commute to care, or to relocate to an urban centre for the length or part of the treatment. While Canadians living in rural and remote communities must often make difficult decisions following a cancer diagnosis, such decisions are further complicated by the unique policy and soc...

This study compares recent trends in family structure between the nation and the northern Great Plains states of Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, using census data from 1950 to 1990. I focus on patterns in two-parent and non-two parent families, and on married women in the labor force, to evaluate Popenoe's thesis that the American family has been declining since 1960. Two exp...

In this paper we examine the linkage of male-dominant family law systems and levels of nation-state security and stability. We expect such societies to be predisposed to parasitical rent-seeking and inefficiency, combined with coercive conflict resolution, resulting in higher levels of violence within the society. We demonstrate empirically that states with inequitable family law also exhibit h...

The present review sheds some light on family planning methods and contraceptive dosage forms in use nowadays and new ones under investigation. First, the benefits of family planning for women, men, children, nation and the world are addressed. Then a complete survey about the methods of contraception in use nowadays viz: pills, IUD, vaginal rings, injectables, barriers, natural methods, spermi...

The article is meant to stimulate debate about the social and historical determinants that shape the construction of public mental health policy within the context of the Brazilian family. Current policies have emphasized the family as a strategic target of initiatives aimed at social transformation, with the intervention of different actors, including psychologists. An examination of some idea...

The slightly simplified version of the Eaton-Kortum (EK) model that we work with has C nations each of which is endowed with a single factor of production (labor) used to produce a continuum of goods under conditions of perfect competition and constant returns. The transport costs between a typical origin nation (nation-o) and a typical destination nation (nation-d) are assumed to be of the ice...

Family planning coverage has improved in Ethiopia in the last decade, though fertility is still about 5.8 in the rural setup. In this paper, the major structural determinants of family planning service were analyzed using a multilevel model from 8906 individual women observation in the 2011 EDHS data. The results show that there is a big variation in family planning use both at the individual a...