Crop and livestock farmers must respond to climate change, including a range of physical cultural impacts risks. In rural northern California, face extreme drought catastrophic wildfires with increasing frequency. I draw on an extended case study agricultural advisors in Siskiyou County understand how agriculturalists perceive risks when navigating change discourses. While are changing their ma...

We investigated female entrepreneurship in Dakar with the following objectives: study of individual characteristics entrepreneurs, their motivations, existence an entrepreneurial culture and insertion networks. were also interested choice when they take on “administrative” sector (informal/formal). have thus shown importance social capital Senegalese entrepreneurship, as well motivations that d...

INTRODUCTION Scientific collaboration is an important mechanism that enables the integration of the least developed countries into research activities. In the present study, we use the order of author signatures and addresses for correspondence in scientific publications as variables to analyze the interactions between countries of very high (VHHD), high (HHD), medium (MHD), and low human devel...

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the levels of participation in social and civic community life in a metropolitan region, and to assess differential levels of participation according to demographic, socioeconomic and health status. To contribute to policy debates on community participation, social capital and health using these empirical data. DESIGN Cross sectional, postal, self completed survey...

BACKGROUND The government of Kenya is making plans to implement a social health insurance program by transforming the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) into a universal health coverage program. This paper examines the determinants associated with participation in the NHIF among residents of urban slums in Nairobi city. METHODS The study used data from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demogr...

Introduction: We discuss knowledge and expectations of services and other help available in the community to informal caregivers of stroke patients in Portugal, and their perceptions on actual experience within the next six months after patient discharge from the acute care hospital. Theory and methods: Most stroke patients are supported by close kin members, the informal caregivers, who play a...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe oncology nurses' understandings of the function and infrastructure of, current level of participation in, and advantages and disadvantages to conducting research through cancer cooperative groups (CCGs). DESIGN Descriptive. SETTING Cross-sectional, Web-based needs assessment. SAMPLE Doctorally prepared Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) members (n = 962), ONS Cl...

PARTICIPATION by lay citizens in technically complex political controversies often raises questions about the competence of participants and the quality of their contributions to decision-making. One way of addressing such concerns has been to establish temporary advisory bodies that involve lay people in cooperative deliberation informed by expert advice. Citizen juries, consensus conferences,...

How does transboundary water cooperation begin at the initial stages, and how can third parties help to foster said cooperation? Many nations with transboundary waters do not cooperate or have ceased cooperation. Yet cooperation often prevails, resulting in 688 water-related treaties signed from 1820 to 2007. We address the following: by which practices can development partners best design and ...