Urban sprawl has led to poorly planned cities that spread out over large distances of land, creating unequal distribution of resources and blocking access to opportunities for low-income residents who remain in the central city (Squires, 2002) . While sprawl does provide the opp…
"17" Result
Sort By:
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the study abroad experiences of minoritized first-generation, low-income students who are largely absent in literature, and whose lives are shaped by historical, institutional, systematic, and societal dynamics that require unpackin…
In the past 60 years, the number of low-to-working class White voters who have deserted the Democratic Party and instead support Republican candidates has steadily increased. Low-to-working-class Americans of other races have not abandoned the Democratic Party in comparable ways…
More than half of the human population will be living in urban areas in 2008, of which 81 percent will be in poor areas of towns and cities of the developing world. Governments of most African cities are unable to provide the urgently needed sanitation facilities amongst other s…
Effective management of the excreta or faecal sludge (FS) emptying, transport and disposal mechanisms from the on-plot latrines in urban areas of many low-income countries is critical for the sustainability of urban sanitation. However the literature mentions the lack of an effe…
In biomedical terms, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder impacting several core areas of an individual’s development including the socio-communicative, the behavioral, and the sensory. A broader conceptualization of autism has emerged, spur…
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experience of low-income single mothers rising from the grips of poverty in Wilmington, DE. Over the past few decades, due to the increase in divorce rate and single mothers caring for childre…
Chapter 1 estimates the effect of traditional orphan adoption on the quantity and quality of children using data from Malawi. It address the potential problem of joint determination of both fertility and mortality by exploiting differences between the patrilineal and matrilineal…
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…