Not much is known about the demographic situation of Ethiopia. In the absence of a national census and vital registration system, demographic data is still scanty. The sources for the available data and their limitations ...

This study is a social psychological examination of how modernization impacts the religious beliefs of individuals. A social construction of knowledge model is used to predict that exposure to modernization will lead to a ...

The obesity epidemic has been consistently observed in both developed and developing countries. Despite the recognized deleterious effect of obesity on many chronic diseases and health conditions, the social determinants ...

Alternative food movements are promoted as solutions to environmental and social problems in the context of neoliberalism in the Unites States. Scholarly literature is divided over whether alternative food movements are ...

Factors which affected the delivery of high quality surgical care to individual patients who received biliary surgery in a stratified random sample of 17 U.S. hospitals were investigated in this study. A causal model was ...