Over the past 40 years issues of environment and hunger have received international focus due to wide scale reports of famine and the resulting death of thousands of Ethiopians. Since the mid 1980's, sustainable agricultural development has been tied to the reversal of environme…
"222" Result
Sort By:
Youth violence is a significant problem in America. Many policy makers support out-of-home placement of youth presenting anti-social behavior. This position paper examines many risk and protective factors implicated in youth anti-social behavior. Additionally, media's involvemen…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, county governments throughout Washington State established poor farms for the provision of the poor and infirm. Poor farms were institutions of poor relief (the poorhouse) and institutions of agricultural production (the coun…
This dissertation explores the forerunner of the modern senior citizens' lobby, the Townsend Old Age Pension Movement, a large and politically powerful national organization that emerged during the Great Depression and for the first time brought older Americans together to agita…
Extensive efforts have been made to find operational metrics of food security and its geographical variation in the West African Sahel since the catastrophic famines of the 1970s and 1980s. Food insecurity has been estimated using many different types of data, including satellit…
This study demonstrates the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human security in Nigeria, focusing on three conceptual frameworks of human security namely economic security, family security and community institutions (that is the military and education sectors). I specifically ex…
Partner violence is a widespread problem with consequences reaching far beyond the immediate family members. It has devastating effects on the victims, their children, their families, and their communities. Researchers have long studied the economic, situational, sociopsychologi…
In 2001, the Thai Ministry of Public Health launched new universal health insurance a 30 baht scheme—a flatfee 30 baht (US 0.65) Universal Health Card (UC) subsidized by the government to extend health insurance to the poor. The purpose of this study was to describe the perceive…
This study has used the Jewish community and its philanthropy to explore the formation, persistence, and evolution of ethnic groups. It analyzes several organizations assisting immigrant and indigent Jews with arrival, settlement, work, education, and preservation of civil right…
This graduate thesis has been associated with a research initiative funded by the World Bank called “Reaching the Poor” which examines how well “Health, Nutrition and Population (programs) are reaching disadvantaged population groups, and (explores) ways of reaching those groups…
This study reviews the experiences of workforce development organizations in Singapore and Penang, Malaysia. On the basis of the similarities in population and workforce size, the study argues that lessons can be learned from the two places which can be applied to U.S. regions. …
Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been advocated as a means of providing primary health care to under-served populations in developing countries since the late 1960's. These community based workers are usually volunteers who receive basic training in health education, antenat…
En effet, le micro-crédit destiné aux femmes est présenté par les grandes institutions internationales du développement, dont la Banque mondiale, comme un outil de lutte contre la pauvreté. Mais les discours sur la pauvreté et sur le micro-crédit émis par la Banque mondiale et p…
The rational comprehensive approach to planning has proven unable to reduce urban poverty due either to the exclusion or to the inappropriate inclusion of indigenous knowledge in planning practice. As an alternative, this dissertation analyzes (1) the capacity of local residents…
The global trend of economic liberalization is yielding unexpected results. Instead of increasing cross-national uniformity and the development of formal civil and political organizations, international interdependence has been accompanied by the rise of a plethora of ascriptive…
The World Health Organization has used maternal mortality ratios as an indicator of progress in human rights and women's rights. There are several variables that may affect women's access to healthcare such as employment, motivation, perception, cultural values, education, relig…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes and opinions of Arab Americans toward welfare and to find out if their attitudes and opinions were culturally motivated. Less than 1 percent of Arab Americans are known to use welfare. Available information suggeste…
In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work is to shed light on long-term care decisions in general and to inform State policy decisions which partly govern in…
Following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1978, Russian soldiers not only killed more than 2 million innocent Afghans, burned their crops and bombed their houses, they inhumanely targeted farm infrastructures which had no military importance. Before withdrawing in 1989, t…