Opportunities for the Peruvian blueberry due to the seasonality of imports from the United States, 2014-2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Ricardo Cosio Borda ◽  
Carlos Guerra Bendezú ◽  
Vivian Romaní Franco
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Seasonal Behavior ◽  
Consumer Country ◽  
Seasonal Indices ◽  
Autumn And Winter

Exports are of vital importance because they not only generate income for the exporting country, they also boost the economy, improve the working conditions of the inhabitants in the productive areas and, consequently, their quality of life and opportunities for progress. The United States is a consumer country of blueberries, however, its period of minimum production occurs in the seasons of autumn and winter, generating a local market shortage and given the inverse seasonal behavior of Peru, as our country enters the stations of spring and summer, with periods of maximum production of blueberry, an opportunity arises to meet that demand. The objective is to analyze the opportunities generated for blueberry exports due to the existence of contrary seasons between Peru and the United States. The study was descriptive of longitudinal type, not experimental. The population was conformed by the importers companies of blueberries the United States, the variable was analyzed import. The results show the existence of seasonal indices in the importation of blueberries from the United States of Peru in two periods, first from the month of January to the month of April (they are lower and on average less than 100%) and after the month from August to December (higher rates and on average greater than 100%). In conclusion, there are opportunities for blueberries due to seasonal imports from the United States, generated by counter-season conditions with Peru.

Remembering RIC Pfeffer, Celebrating His Work

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-236
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Working People

This speech was given in a homage celebration to Ric Pfeffer on the occasion of his retirement. The article pays tribute to Ric's life and work, showing how his commitment to improve the life and working conditions of the population of the United States led him to stand up to many powerful forces that determined the nature of awards and visibility in this country. The article concludes that it is because of people like Ric Pfeffer that the quality of life improves for working people, even though the Establishment of this country, responsible for most of what is wrong, marginalizes and ignores them.

A Review of Studies of the Association of Vision-Related Quality of Life with Measures of Visual Function and Structure in Patients with Glaucoma in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-276
Author(s):  
Naira Khachatryan ◽  
Maxwell Pistilli ◽  
Maureen G. Maguire ◽  
Angela Y. Chang ◽  
Marissa R. Samuels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Visual Function ◽  
The United States ◽  
Related Quality

What is Happening in the United States? How Social Classes Influence the Political Life of the Country and its Health and Quality of Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 002073142199484
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Race And Gender

This article analyses the political changes that have been occurring in the United States (including the elections for the presidency of the country) and their consequences for the health and quality of life of the population. A major thesis of this article is that there is a need to analyse, besides race and gender, other categories of power - such as social class - in order to understand what happens in the country. While the class structure of the United States is similar to that of major Western European countries, the political context is very different. The U.S. political context has resulted in the very limited power of its working class, which explains the scarcity of labor, political and social rights in the country, such as universal access to health care.

scholarly journals Anxiety- and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of China and the United States

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jin You ◽  
Qian Lu ◽  
Michael J. Zvolensky ◽  
Zhiqiang Meng ◽  
Kay Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Chinese Patients

Purpose Literature has documented the prevalence of anxiety and its adverse effect on quality of life among patients with breast cancer from Western countries, yet cross-cultural examinations with non-Western patients are rare. This cross-cultural study investigated differences in anxiety and its association with quality of life between US and Chinese patients with breast cancer. Methods Patients with breast cancer from the United States and China completed measures for anxiety (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and quality of life (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast). Results After controlling for demographic and medical characteristics, Chinese patients reported higher levels of trait and state anxiety than US patients. Although there was an association between anxiety and quality of life in both groups of patients, the association between state anxiety and quality of life was stronger among Chinese patients than among US patients, with the association between trait anxiety and quality of life the same between the two cultural samples. Conclusion These findings suggest that anxiety and its association with quality of life among patients with breast cancer varies depending on cultural context, which reveals greater anxiety and poorer quality of life among Chinese patients compared with US patients. This suggests greater unmet psychosocial needs among Chinese patients and highlights the need to build comprehensive cancer care systems for a better quality of life in Chinese populations.

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