The need to introduce technologies in rural areas so as to capacitate communities towards overcoming various socio-economic challenges remains a priority in emerging economies. We rely on the foregoing for the investigation in the Kgautswane community in South Africa, of a range of socio-economic challenges that can be addressed through ICT. Identified challenges are further filtered for the se...

This editorial briefly summarises some aspects of research on socio-economic status and use of mental health services that have particular relevance for the theme of this issue of Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale. This discussion takes a view from the perspective of health geography, which examines how the relationships between individuals and their social and physical environment result in ...

In the present study, an attempt was made to develop a conceptual land use strategy for regional development in four provinces of northeast border region of Thailand. A detailed GIS analysis was done to create comprehensive database including land use, soil suitability, socio-economic data, rainfall, etc. The current land use was studied using GIS, satellite remote sensing, field observation an...

Early Modern Social and Economic History of Japan: The Tokugawa Legacy Post war historians of Japanese socio-economic history argued extensively in favor of a Japanese version of the Whig perspective on history in which practically everything in the Tokugawa early modern leads to the modern age of Japan as an indigenous and stable evolution. Many of us in the field who are dealing with the Toku...

This paper aims to present a new analysis framework for assessing disparities among regions (or countries). It combines both economic and social variables, where the economic attributes refer in particular to marked differences in consumption variables. This analysis is also appealing for spatial convergence analyses over time. In our paper, both economic and social variables are included as th...

Recruitment into peripheral possession trance cults has been explained as attempts to compensate for socio-economic deprivation and jural impotence. This model, best developed by I. M. Lewis, is reviewed and its predictions are tested against two types of Brazilian data. Firstly, national census Žgures of religious afŽliation are compared with measures of socio-economic stress for a diachronic ...

This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency ...