Objectives: To investigate the impact of sociodemographic factors on prevalence of dental caries among children. Methodology: This study included 400 children with dental caries (i.e., DMFT/deft >0) and 400 controls, who were free from the disease under study (i.e., DMFT/deft=0). Participants with fluorosis or discernable enamel hypoplasia were excluded. Patients and their parents were intervie...

Background and Objectives: Job satisfaction is a critical factor in attracting and retaining nurses. Although many studies have dealt with nurses’ job satisfaction, rapid transformation of the community and health systems can alter the factors influencing this issue, hence calling for continuous monitoring of job satisfaction as perceived by nurses. Built on this necessity, the present study wa...

the extensive research done on the interrelationship between different social factors such as social class, gender and age and different linguistic variables has shown that these factors have important effects on the way language is used. among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-gradin...

OBJECTIVES (1) to examine consequences of falls in older men and women and (2) to examine risk factors for health service use and functional decline among older fallers. METHODS the study was performed within the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. In 1998/1999, potential risk factors were assessed during the third data collection. In 1999/2000, 204 community-dwelling persons (> or =65 years)...

Medicinal plants provide indigenous and peasant communities worldwide with means to meet their healthcare needs. Homegardens often act as medicine cabinets, providing easily accessible medicinal plants for household needs. Social structure and social exchanges have been proposed as factors influencing the species diversity that people maintain in their homegardens. Here, we assess the associati...

Regular combinations of verbal units, which are defined as autonomous linguistic formations with a given traditional meaning and form, i.e., language clichés, attract particular scientific interest in the process communication. The author considers nature concept laws their existence English Ukrainian foreign scholars’ viewpoints. researcher believes that issue classification communicative clic...

Nowadays internet is one of the main instruments for accessing to information. Social groups use different motivations, but this phenomenon has a special situation among students. Students in addition of amusement, fun and keen motivation to be familiar with unknown world, for educational-science purposes and finding job and educational choices are among main users of internet. The main purpose...

Well-documented health research points to trans people's vulnerability to health inequities that are linked to deeply embedded structural and social determinants of health. Gender and work, as social determinants of health for trans people, both shape and are shaped by multiple factors such as support networks, social environments, income and social status, shelter, and personal health practice...

Purpose: Among black transgender women (transwomen) at high risk of HIV acquisition or already living with HIV/AIDS, the study examined whether medical or socially based gender affirming factors may contribute differentially to selected measures of resiliency, perceived stress, and a scale measure of mental health outcomes. This question has implications for clinical care and counseling of this...