abstract:one of the target groups is women in poverty eradication programs, especially divorced women and widows in order to the social, economic and cultural community that are more involved with the issue of poverty. such a study aims to measure the effective factors on poverty alleviation and empowerment of divorced women and widows in selseleh city (as one of disadvantaged city).to do so, d...

The geometric increase in the rate of matrifocality or single motherhood in Zimbabwe is a huge cause of worry that needs to be addressed for the country to strengthen its family structures. The phenomenon has been associated with feminization of poverty, feminization of HIV/AIDS, child poverty and general despondency of the citizens generally. The article has used a review of literature methodo...

Maru et al. (2012) provide an insightful synthesis about the poverty and rigidity traps. They note how these states can be quite resilient and undesirable for indigenous cultures. We support their approach and add three additional considerations. (1) Maru et al. (2012) tend to interchange adaptive capacity and resilience as concepts. Adaptive capacity and resilience have two different purposes....

UNLABELLED This is a reflection on poverty, human development and their interfaces with Oncology Nursing Care. OBJECTIVES identify the prevailing types of cancer per region; point the challenges posed to nursing care; discuss the possibilities for Oncology Nursing actions in this context. In light of the demographic, epidemiologic and socio-cultural distribution of cancer in Brazil, a systema...

Sociologists have given considerable attention to identifying the neighborhood-level social-interactional mechanisms that influence outcomes such as crime, educational attainment, and health. Yet, cultural mechanisms are often overlooked in quantitative studies of neighborhood effects. This paper adds a cultural dimension to neighborhood effects research by exploring the consequences of legal c...

The second half of the nineteenth century in Spain was a period characterized by a strong presence of social science, which even came to permeate the masses. Evolutionary theories and some figures such as Charles Darwin himself were present in areas far from the scientific activity proper. The use of concepts and laws of biological origin for the diagnosis and political practice against certain...

BACKGROUND Whilst broadly agreed in the literature that disability and poverty are closely interlinked, the empirical basis for this knowledge is relatively weak. OBJECTIVES To describe and discuss the current state of knowledge and to suggest the need for further generation of knowledge on disability and poverty. METHOD Two recent attempts at statistically analysing the situation for disab...