OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of medicine use among high school students (14-18 years old) living in an urban area in Southern Brazil and the proportion who self-medicate and to explore the association between medicine use and demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral variables. METHODS A school-based survey was conducted among high school students in the city of Maringá/PR, Brazil in...

The existing literature on the socio-economic and living conditions of tribes in India and in Andhra Pradesh particular provided several factors that are directly and indirectly responsible for the socio-economic backwardness, poverty and indebtedness among different Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) and plain tribes. In this context The study of inter-tribe relations has assumed great importance ...

As a result of expanded life expectancies, early retirement programs, and supportive public policies, older Americans in recent decades are spending longer periods of time out of the work force and are increasing their reliance on social security and other retirement benefits. Employment among older persons is viewed as an alternative for maintaining levels of income while reducing the costs of...

Businesses and households face substantial idiosyncratic and aggregate economic risk. As a general principle, economic risk for businesses reflects the myriad of factors that impact the profitability of the business, while for individuals economic risk reflects the myriad of factors that impact the earnings and employment outcomes of household members. While aggregate risk gets most of the head...

improving employment opportunities for people and reducing the economic burden on government requires a broad and concentrated effort on private sectors.  private sector growth is a key engine for creation jobs. the major advantage of private sector is its employment potential at low capital cost. these sectors are the nursery of entrepreurship, often driven by individual creativity and innovat...

OBJECTIVE Sufficient dairy food consumption during adolescence is necessary for preventing disease. While socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents tend to consume few dairy foods, some eat quantities more in line with dietary recommendations despite socio-economic challenges. Socio-economic variations in factors supportive of adolescents' frequent dairy consumption remain unexplored. The pr...

background: social capital causes promoting community members’ participation level as set of norms among community systems. we aimed to determination between perceived social capital with relevant factors among health workers in medical and health network of rey city.   methods: this study was a cross sectional one which assessed determination between social capital and relevant factors among h...

In the past five years, several scientific articles have claimed that the increase some countries have registered in suicide rates since 2008 is somehow related to the economic crisis. Other research has suggested that the impact of specific economic problems on the probability of suicidal behavior is often mediated by other individual-level factors, mainly psychological and physical, whose neg...