Sökning: "Socio-economic status"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 194 avhandlingar innehållade orden Socio-economic status.
11. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India
Sammanfattning : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. LÄS MER
12. Occupational and socio-economic factors in the etiology of cancer of the esophagus and gastric cardia
Sammanfattning : Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia and squamous-cell carcinoma of the esophagus have a poor prognosis. The increasing incidence and the strong male predominance of esophageal and cardia adenocarcinoma are striking, and yet unexplained, patterns that should be due to unknown environmental factors. LÄS MER
13. Towards a Socio-Economic and Demographic Theory of Elderly Suicide: A Comparison of 49 Countries at Various Stages of Development
Sammanfattning : D. Cowgill found out that the role and status of the elderly declined with modernisation, but in contradiction G. Hammarström found out that what actually affected the role and status of the elderly during modernisation was the rate at which modernisation occurred. LÄS MER
14. Gästriklands bergsmän, Kronan och handelskapitalet : Aktörer och institutionella spelregler i bergsmansbruket, 1650-1870
Sammanfattning : This investigation was originally based on the family archives of the bergsmän (iron producing peasants) in the parishes of Torskåer and Ovansjö in south-west Gästrikland. They gave an insight into a rather unknown proto-industry, run since medieval times by peasant households and flourishing in the 18th and 19th centuries. LÄS MER
15. Noise and music : a matter of risk perception
Sammanfattning : The prevalence of tinnitus and hearing impairments among adolescents seems to increase as a consequence of exposure to loud noise. Several studies have highlighted the negative auditory effects of exposure to loud music at concerts and discotheques, environments in which young people today spend considerable periods of time. LÄS MER