low income

The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not the Athens County Retention Program (ACRP) at Hocking College, Nelsonville, Ohio assisted students from low socioeconomic backgrounds in obtaining a college degree. A comparison of students who participated in ACRP (n=100) …

This qualitative study was conducted to acquire a description of low income African American mother's beliefs about play's relationship with cognitive development. African American mothers of preschool children attending a Head Start program in the central region of Florida were…

As the nation's education crisis deepens, especially in terms of the achievement gap, school choice has emerged as a growing education reform movement, proponents of which argue may help improve educational attainment among underserved populations. Using a mixed methods approach…

The study was conducted involving 71 low-income mothers having each a child <5 years and who attend the child feeding service, at Bushulo health center in Sidama, southern Ethiopia. Household food production, consumption, child feeding practices, child health, morbidity and mort…

The majority of houses in Pakistani cities, as in other developing countries, are not built by the government or the private sector but by the people who live in them. Owner-built housing is still the most popular form of housing production in the region, among all income groups…

This study examined predictors of HIV testing for 217 high-risk, low-income, heterosexual African American and Latina women. The women were recruited from a primary health care setting in the Bronx. The theoretical framework guiding the research was Protection Motivation Theory …

Growth status was examined in relation to intrahousehold factors in urban primary school children (6–10 years old) from low-income households in Malaysia. The investigation consisted of one study with 8,005 children and one with 309 households. Children's data were obtained from…

The Child Friendly Cities is a concept for making cities friendly for all children especially in UN member countries that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (i.e., all except the United States) through municipal action. This idea is particularly important fo…

This study researches how low-income rural men can become stakeholders in gender empowerment programs in Bangladesh. Changing gender roles have been extensively researched in Bangladesh; the focus, however, has been exclusively on women. But poor women cannot exercise full agenc…