This entry examines the economic determinants of child maltreatment. We first discuss potential mechanisms through which economic factors, including income, employment, aggregate economic conditions, and welfare receipt, might have causal effects on the rates of child abuse and neglect. We then outline the main challenges faced by researchers attempting to identify these causal effects, emphasi...

Background The current study aimed to determine eye care utilization, to assess the role of economic inequality in the utilization of eye care services, and to identify its determinants in Shahroud, North of Iran.   Methods Of the 6,311 invited people, 5,190 (82.24%) individuals aged 40 to 64 years old participated in the study. A history of a visit by an ophthalmologist or optometrist was cons...

Background & Aims: People`s health, life expectancy and quality of life have been affected by social determinants of health, significantly. Also, socio-economic factors may affect health expenditure, considerably. This study has evaluated the effects of socio-economic determinants on health expenditure for the low-income urban householdsin the informalsector of employment. Methods: In this stud...

Area-based strategies have been widely employed in efforts to improve population health and take action on social determinants of health (SDH) and health inequities, including in urban areas where many of the social, economic and environmental factors converge to influence health. Increasingly, these factors are recognized as being part of a complex system, where population health outcomes are ...

This study aimed to examine the psychological determinants of economic growth. The sample was taken from Tanzania in two regions- Mwanza and Kagera. cross-sectional survey research design used. self-checklist questionnaires were used collect primary data 211 individuals. analysis-weighted automatic linear modelling (AW-ALM) probit model non-linear behaviour (Hube) on growth respectively. found ...

problem statement: the research's problem lies in the fact that deploying m-commerce technology in jordan represent the first serious trail to understand and explore the critical determinants that affect deploying mobile commerce technology. approach: this research applied tam model using the following variables: perceived trust, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social and cultural ...