Sökning: "socio-economic status"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 195 avhandlingar innehållade orden socio-economic status.

1. 11. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

   Författare :Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

   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

3. 12. Occupational and socio-economic factors in the etiology of cancer of the esophagus and gastric cardia

   Författare :Catarina Jansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Esophageal cancer; adenocarcinoma; squamous-cell carcinoma; occupational exposures; socio-economic status; socio-economic factors;

   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

4. 13. Towards a Socio-Economic and Demographic Theory of Elderly Suicide: A Comparison of 49 Countries at Various Stages of Development

   Författare :Karatu Kiemo; Lars Tornstam; Illka Makinen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Age-integration; social change and role theories; social integration; socio-economic and demographic developments; suicide.; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi;

   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

5. 14. Gästriklands bergsmän, Kronan och handelskapitalet : Aktörer och institutionella spelregler i bergsmansbruket, 1650-1870

   Författare :Richard Ringmar; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; family archives; proto-industry; iron producing peasants bergsmän ; ironmasters; ironmerchants; institutional framework; economic differentiation; socio-economic conflicts; social status; merchant capital penetration; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   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

7. 15. Noise and music : a matter of risk perception

   Författare :Stephen E. Widén; Högskolan Väst; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adolescents; Tinnitus; Noise sensitivity; Socio-economic status; Attitudes; Use of hearing protection; Risk behaviour; Risk-consideration; Self-image; Norms and Ideals; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Adolescents; Tinnitus; Noise sensitivity; Socio-economic status; Attitudes; Use of;

   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