Dealing with Food Insecurity (FINS) is a challenge causing stress at many levels—national, household, and individual. The conceptual framework of the Sociotype has been developed as a summary ecological construct to organize the multiple, dynamic, reciprocal inputs from the environment ...
food groups, and ADDI. Model 1 showed the associations between household wealth and maternal education and each outcome after adjusting for child’s age and sex only, and Model 2 additionally adjusted
A socioecological model to address childhood obesity in Aboriginal populations would focus on the numerous environments at different times in childhood that influence weight status, including prenatal, sociocultural, family, and community environments. Importantly, for Aboriginal children, obesity ...
Using an ecological framework ( Bronfenbrenner, 1979 ), and the specific concepts outlined in the "Six-C's Model" of contributors to child overweight and obesity by Harrison et al. (2011) , this chapter reviews recent evidence linking the dynamics of food consumption to socialization practices,...
This paper determines the influence of agroecological, land-elevation and socioeconomic factors in the raising of different types of livestock in Bangladesh using nationwide sub-district level data from two Agriculture and Livestock Censuses of 1996 and 2008, by applying a simultaneous equations model....
Maintaining the relevance of public health within the wake of the Affordable Care Act: How the socio-ecological model might just save us from the medical m... Maintaining the relevance of public health within the wake of the Affordable Care Act: How the socio-ecological model might just save...
This model was selected because it incorporates other common models, such as the social-ecological, social determinants, and related models, and has been used in several other studies of multimorbidity resilience [71, 103]. Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the circumstances and non-medical...
There has been a global focus in the last two decades on the realization of the contribution of smallholder agriculture to food security in the midst of scenarios of climate change and eco- nomic and energy crises, leading to the con- cepts of food secur...
The project applies detailed socio-ecological methodologies to examine the outcomes/impacts of land use and agrarian change processes in multi-functional landscapes, and the subsequent implications for conservation, livelihood, and food security. Specifically, the research focuses on land use impacts in ...
Organic cotton relies on ecological processes and the use of natural resources to sustain the production system, unlike conventional cotton, mainly characterized by massive utilization of synthesis chemicals. In West Africa, where rural livelihoods are particularly vulnerable, organic cotton is expected to...