The decline of the manufacturing sector in most cities and the suburbanization of blue-collar employment have been posited as likely explanations for the culture of poverty in American cities (Massey, 1994). Existing literature on inner-city marginality points to the spatial concentration of poor people as a predictor of dysfunctional norms, values, and behaviors that trigger a culture and cycl...

This article raises questions about the ways culture affects the nature of health care services. By examining the life story of Alma, a Central American woman who has a daughter with disabilities; her interactions with health care providers; and my own assumptions about cultural differences, I note the impact of cultural differences on coping and adaptation in Alma and in the health care system...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...

BACKGROUND Persons with disability run the danger of not profiting from the development process due to exclusion from basic services and opportunities. Still, the knowledge base on exclusion mechanisms is relatively weak and there is a danger that important aspects are not addressed as they are hidden behind established understandings that are not critically scrutinised. OBJECTIVES The main p...

This article outlines a food security synthesis: that food insecurity traces to poverty, that poverty must be addressed by economic development, and that economic development flows from application of the standard model which is now mainstream economics. Food insecure countries do not follow the standard model; their policies for agriculture and other sectors deter development. Why don’t they f...