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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Rural men"”.
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… The predictions for this study follow the argument that rural males, because masculinity is a more important feature of their identities, will overcompensate more when their masculinity is threatened. Data were collected through an experimental study. Thirty-eight male students were given …
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… The predictions for this study follow the argument that rural males, because masculinity is a more important feature of their identities, will overcompensate more when their masculinity is threatened. Data were collected through an experimental study. Thirty-eight male students were given …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
… public representation of them through government and media images. In response, the thesis argues for the need to address the men’s self-representation in the construction of their dislocated masculine identities. There is a specific focus on their gendered experiences within the family and …
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Barriers to help-seeking for mental health issues in young rural males
In New Zealand, poor mental health is a salient problem. We experience high suicide rates, and this rate increases when the lens of being young, rural, and male are applied. Traditionally, poor rural mental health has been something portrayed within the media as only applying to older farmers who …
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Osteoporosis: Perceived Health Beliefs and Preventive Behaviors of Men and Women 60 Years of Age and Older
… investigated the perceived health beliefs of rural men and women 60 years of age and older towards osteoporosis, and the relationship of those health beliefs to preventive behaviors of osteoporosis.<br> A positive relationship between perceived benefits of calcium intake and exercise, and …
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Changes in dietary intakes and cardiovascular disease risk factors in black South Africans from 2005 to 2015 : the PURE-SA-NW study
… Over the last couple of decades, the diets of rural and urban South Africans have been undergoing a rapid nutrition transition, changing from prudent traditional diets that have been typically low in fat and energy, to Westernised diets containing foods high in fat and energy. This shift in …
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Down Low Under the Big Sky
<p>Often synonymous with the rural environment is a sense of a heteronormativity and pervasive homophobia. Despite stories of gay men fleeing rural, conservative areas for larger, more accepting cities, not all men have chosen to leave. Some have chosen to quietly maintain their identity, modifying …
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Down Low Under the Big Sky
<p>Often synonymous with the rural environment is a sense of a heteronormativity and pervasive homophobia. Despite stories of gay men fleeing rural, conservative areas for larger, more accepting cities, not all men have chosen to leave. Some have chosen to quietly maintain their identity, modifying …
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Sexual citizenship : an analysis of gay men as sexual citizens in nonmetropolitan England and Ireland
… citizenship as it applies to the lives of gay men living in nonmetropolitan areas of Britain, and Ireland. Both countries have undergone dramatic social, legal and cultural changes over recent decades, and have witnessed profound and progressive shifts in public attitudes towards lesbian, gay …
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Essays in development economics
… changing the rules for social security for rural workers in Brazil. The reform consisted of a reduction in the minimum eligibility age for old-age benefits, an extension of benefit eligibility to workers who are not the heads of their households, and an increase in the minimum value for …
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Genetic and dietary determinants of Type 2 diabetes in a black South African population
… haemoglobin distribution after the adjustment of age, sex, BMI and fasting glucose for whole genome sequencing. The EPACTS software was used to conduct the single variant and gene-based association test using EMMAX to adjust for population structure using whole genome sequence data. …
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Examining health information source-selection, access, and use by men in rural areas of south-east Nigeria: mapping culturally appropriate health information provision.
… cultural perspectives and characteristics of rural communities; regarding both the content and the design of health information services. Considering the cultural aspects is important. However, there is little or no work that has considered the provision of health information that is …