lives and has this resulted in increased labor participation (a problem explored for rural Dominican women as well as for Jamaican and Barbadian women) or in the migration to metropolitan centers, with its psychosocial consequences (an issue raised for Puerto Rican women living in the United ...
Growth retardation is associated with changes in the stress response system and behavior in school-aged jamaican children. In the developing world, 39% of children <5 y old are short for their age (stunted, defined as height-for-age less than -2 SD of National Center for Health... C Lia...
Gender, Division of Unpaid Family Work and Psychological Distress in Dual-Earner Families Epidemiological studies have only recently begun to address the consequences of unpaid family work (ie., housework and child rearing) for mental health. Al... W Tao,BL Janzen,S Abonyi - 《Clinical Practice...
Social Construction of Barriers or Challenges to Parenting: Black Jamaican Fathers’ and Mothers’ Perspectives Article 29 February 2024 Parent Perspectives on Child Health and Wellbeing in Same-Sex Families: Heteronormative Conflict and Resilience Building Article 09 January 2017 Lived Experiences of...
Rubin and Kelly International Journal for Equity in Health (2015) 14:87 DOI 10.1186/s12939-015-0227-2 RESEARCH Open Access A cross-sectional investigation of parenting style and friendship as mediators of the relation between social class and mental health in a university community Mark Rubin* ...
Internationally, there is a wealth of research suggesting that many children and young people experience mental health problems. However, the evidence from low- and middle-income countries and developing nations is generally limited. This scoping review
HH Vorster - 《Health Sa Gesondheid》 被引量: 53发表: 2010年 Assessments of the effects of nutrition on mental development and behavior in Jamaican studies. Methodological issues and problems in studies of the effects of protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) and child development are discussed with ...
The aim of this paper was to review and summarize research on prevalence of health risk behaviours, their outcomes as well as risk and protective factors among adolescents in the English-speaking Caribbean. Searching of online databases and the World Wid
(2007,2008) conducted studies for Jamaican population, considering different groups and sub-groups, examining the determinants of health and well-being. He found that well-being is a function of psychosocial, biological and demographic variables (Bourne2007,2008). Despite the contribution of the ...
a higher social class were expected to have experienced more authoritative and less authoritarian parenting styles; these parenting styles were expected to lead to greater friendship and social integration at university; and greater friendship and integration were expected to lead to better mental health...