Obesity is perhaps the oldest disease known. According to research from the Ministry of Health, "the percentage of people overweight surpassed for the first time, more than half of the population, with 51% of the population ...

Although most of the total population and the majority of the people living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean are in urban centres, poverty is, in relative terms, still a rural phenomenon in the region. The ...

Chile has undergone strong transformations in its rural and peri-urban space since the second half of the 20th century. Some studies analyze the spatial implications at the national and regional levels of rural instruments ...

Changes in rural areas began in the second half of the 20th century, influenced by the modernization of agriculture. In this way changes are inserted not only in the forms of production, but also in the paradigms of ...

No Brasil, estudar família é um desafio devido à grande diversidade cultural existente e a variedade de arranjos familiares. Dentro dessa perspectiva, pode-se falar em “famílias brasileiras” formadas por padrões econômicos, ...

No Brasil, estudar família é um desafio devido à grande diversidade cultural existente e a variedade de arranjos familiares. Dentro dessa perspectiva, pode-se falar em “famílias brasileiras” formadas por padrões econômicos, ...