Essays about: "low-income people"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 88 essays containing the words low-income people.

  1. 21. Bridging the gap between food production and consumption : how alternative food networks forage the Berlin Foodscape

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Magdalena Knobel; [2021]
    Keywords : alternative food networks; foodscape; local food; inclusion; participation; urban food policy;

    Abstract : Venturing into bridging the gap between food production and consumption, metropolitan Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are increasingly gaining momentum in the Global North. Nevertheless, people interested and participating in these initiatives form a rather homogenous group of highly educated and better-off consumers. READ MORE

  3. 22. Income, Insurance, and Happiness in China: Evidence from CHIP2013

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yanni Shen; [2020-07-10]
    Keywords : Subjective Well-being; Income; Insurance; Ordered Logit Model;

    Abstract : By using the data from China Household Income Project 2013 (CHIP2013), an empirical analysis is made on the relationship among income, insurance and subjectively reported well-being (SWB) of Chinese people. The ordered logit model esimates suggest that both income and insurances relate to SWB positively. READ MORE

  4. 23. Digital transformation of healthcare services in developing countries : An exploratory research of healthtech opportunities in Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) markets

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Amanda Rundqvist; Amanda Von Schinkel; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The development of new technologies within healthcare open up for important and valuable opportunities for businesses as well as for individuals. Mobile health is one of the most important digital innovation, since patients get the opportunities to self-manage diseases and to receive healthcare services from specialists wherever and whenever. READ MORE

  5. 24. Needs and requirements for the development and application of safe and cost-efficientmedical technology in low resource settings

    University essay from KTH/Medicinteknik och hälsosystem

    Author : Linda Maria Nummisalo; [2020]
    Keywords : Bangladesh; Medical Devices; Health Care;

    Abstract : Growing populations and especially the growing proportion of elderly in the developing countries in South Asia pose an increasingly higher pressure on the health care systems in these countries. For example, in Bangladesh, a part of the pressure is currently eased by the unofficial health care workers called village doctors but with the cost of wrong diagnoses and unnecessary medications leading to excess use of e. READ MORE

  6. 25. Japanese encephalitis in small-scale pig raising in rural Cambodia : Seroprevalence, reproductive disorders and disease awareness

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Ellinor Henriksson; [2020]
    Keywords : Japanese encephalitis; JE; Japanese encephalitis virus; JEV; Cambodia; pig; swine; vaccination; seroprevalence; reproduction; disease knowledge; mosquito-borne diseases; prevention;

    Abstract : Japanese encephalitis (JE) is endemic in several Asian countries, including Cambodia. It is a neurologic disease caused by the mosquito-borne virus JEV, which infects a wide range of vertebrate hosts. In humans, infection is usually subclinical, but one out of around 250 infected people develop acute encephalitis. READ MORE