scholarly journals Providing a Smart Healthy Diet for the Low-Income Population: Qualitative Study on the Usage and Perception of a Designed Cooking App (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faustine Régnier ◽  
Manon Dugré ◽  
Nicolas Darcel ◽  
Camille Adamiec
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Low Income Population ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low Income Groups

BACKGROUND Health behaviors among low-income groups have become a major issue in the context of increasing social inequalities. The low-income population is less likely to be receptive to nutritional recommendations, but providing cooking advice could be more effective. In this domain, taking advantage of digital devices can be a bonus with its own challenges. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop and deploy NutCracker, a social network–based cooking app for low-income population, including cooking tips and nutritional advices, aiming at creating small online communities. We further determined the usefulness, perceptions, barriers, and motivators to use NutCracker. METHODS The smartphone app, designed jointly with beneficiaries of the social emergency services, was implemented in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Magny, (Paris region, France). Once the app became available, 28 subjects, living in the neighborhood, tested the app for a 6-month period. Logs to the app and usages were collected by the software. In total, 12 in-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted among the users and the social workers to analyze their uses and perceptions of the app relative to their interest in cooking, cooking skills, socioeconomic constraints, and social integration. These interviews were compared with 21 supplementary interviews conducted among low-income individuals in the general population. RESULTS NutCracker was developed as a social network–based app, and it includes cooking tips, nutritional advice, and Web-based quizzes. We identified barriers to uses (especially technical barriers, lack of knowledge in the field of new technologies and written comprehension, and search for real contacts) and motivators (in particular, good social integration, previous use of social networks, and help of children as intermediaries). Cooking skills were both a barrier and a lever. CONCLUSIONS Targeting the low-income groups through a cooking app to promote healthier behaviors offers many advantages but has not been fully explored. However, the barriers in low-income milieu remain high, especially among the less socially integrated strata. Lessons from this intervention allow us to identify barriers and possible levers to improve nutrition promotion and awareness in deprived areas, especially in the time of social crisis.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL INCLUSION AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Bincy George ◽  
K.T. Thomachan
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Low Income Groups

This paper examines women empowerment associated with financial inclusion. Financial inclusion is delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast sections of disadvantaged and the low-income groups. The various financial services include access to saving, credit, insurance, bank account etc. The access to financial services helps women in their social and economic development. It is noted that access to financial service through financial inclusion do have impact upon the social and financial empowerment of women leading to their overall empowerment.

scholarly journals Theoretical aspects of the housing contract

2020 ◽  
pp. 411-414
Author(s):  
Taisiia Barilovska
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Lease Agreement

The article highlights the features of the residential lease agreement and its types. Particular attention is paid to the residential lease agreement, the subject of which has been individually owned by citizens. Subject to the Constitution of Ukraine the right to housing is one of the most important human rights, therefore, the state must protect this right. Modern legal regulation of housing relations proceeds from the fact that housing is a need of the citizens, which becomes a problem for the citizens themselves, although the solution of the housing problem is still proclaimed as one of the priority areas of the state policy. Constantly rising housing prices, declining volume of its construction, low incomes – it all leads to the fact that the purchase of an apartment or even a room remains just a dream, impossible even in the distant future, for most Ukrainians. Public housing has not yet fulfilled its function of providing constitutional social guarantees for housing rights, primarily for low-income groups. The objective reason for the slow progress in it is the protracted and deep economic crisis in Ukraine, the actual refusal of the state to fulfill its earlier commitments to improve the citizens’ housing conditions, as well as a radical change in Ukraine’s housing policy. It is necessary to create socially acceptable mechanisms aimed at encouraging citizens with sufficient income to improve housing conditions at the expense of the housing market and at implementing new principles for providing social housing to and using it by low-income groups who need better housing conditions. The analysis of the social residential lease agreement shows that it is a legal institution on the edge between the fields of civil and administrative law. In a broader sense, the social residential lease agreement is an important element of the system of social protection of citizens, and in this context it can be characterized as some obligation of the state to guarantee a life-long right to housing. The question is only how one can integrate a legal institute, taken from the former socialist legal system, into an existing legal system. In the course of the research, the concept of the "residential lease agreement" has also been revealed, the types of residential lease agreements have been examined, the features of this agreement as an object of private property and the procedure for rendering services under the agreement have been clarified.

Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Lees
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

New Trends in Interaction of Developed and Developing Countries in Innovation Sphere

2012 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
A. Eroshkin ◽  
M. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Adaptive Nature

The economic and innovative rise of the developing states stimulated a deep restructuring of the existing system of international relations in science and technology sphere. As the article points, one of the main manifestations of this trend can be seen in the transformation of global innovation strategies of transnational corporations. The world’s largest TNCs, mostly based in the industrial nations, have begun to transfer growing segments and parts of their R&D programs to the developing countries in order to take advantage of their increased research capacity. As a result, the nature of the projects being implemented there by the TNCs is changing. Historically, the TNCs’ local R&D activities were of adaptive nature. Namely, the stress was made on modification of the products and services offered by the TNCS globally to the specifics of local markets. Currently, a growing number of transnational corporations are implementing the large-scale programs in the developing countries aimed at designing new types of products, including those targeted at the low-income groups of consumers that make up the bulk of the population in developing countries.

scholarly journals A 32 Year old Female with Recurrent Chest Infections with Dizziness

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
Sakib Aman ◽  
Palash Kumar Biswas ◽  
Forhad Uddin Hasan Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Septal Defect ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Septal Defect ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is associated with repeated chest infections. Repeated chest infections, in turn, can lead to bronchiectasis and vice versa. In this case a 32 year old female presented to us with repeated chest infections. Upon thorough examination and investigation, she was found to have both ASD along with bronchiectasis. It also shows the devastating consequences of having two serious illnesses can have on a patients life, specially in low income groups. J MEDICINE 2021; 22: 155-156

scholarly journals ZINC NUTRITION IN CHILEAN PREGNAT TEENAGERS OF LOW INCOME GROUPS

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-823
Author(s):  
Vb Martin ◽  
Cd Castillo ◽  
V Gattás ◽  
F Castillo ◽  
M González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Zinc Nutrition

The Mode Choice of the Residents in Suburban Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 1030-1032 ◽  
pp. 2459-2462
Author(s):  
Hang Luo ◽  
Yun Hong Shao ◽  
Bi Jie Ding ◽  
Shu Yue Wu
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mode Selection ◽  
Land Development ◽  
High Income ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

In recent years, with the expansion of urban space in China, large-scale land development and commodity residential construction lead to urban land expanding continuously, the residents especially low-income groups in suburban area face more problems, such as commuting costs increase, transportation accessibility reduce. The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the travel choices between high-income and low-income residents in suburban area, using the structural equation modeling to analyze how the social and economic attributes, public transport accessibility and commuting time influence on traffic mode selection, and contribute to public transportation development for low-income group in suburban area. The result of the research shows influence of different factors involving the traffic mode selection between low-income groups and high-income groups.

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