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Duracion del estudio: 6 semanas (Del 15 de Julio al 5 de Septiembre)

As the Salvadoran population's life expectancy increases, fractures among the elderly are also increasing. There is a dearth of data available on the incidence and cause of fractures in the elderly within developing countries including El Salvador. Inadequate knowledge about bone health and osteoporosis among the elderly is contributing to health issues in the aging population. The purpose of this study was to investigate incidence, knowledge, causes, and risk factors affecting elderly patients admitted for fractures at Hospital Zacamil in order to develop programs targeted to prevention. Study objectives included: 1) determine incidence, causes, and treatment of elderly fractures including hip fractures, vertebral fractures, and forearm fractures and related post-morbidity and/or mortality; 2) compare patient knowledge, cause, treatment of fractures and related post-morbidity and/or mortality among those aged 45 to 65 years with those over 65 years; 3) determine the level of knowledge and presence of risk factors for fractures and osteoporosis among patients including diet, exercise, and environmental risk factors and compare by gender. The research was approved by IRB prior to data collection. The methodology included a researcher-designed and validated survey administered to an accepting sample of 155 patients presenting with fractures to Hospital Zacamil between January 2008 and May 2008. The data were analyzed with SPSS software. Findings indicate that the incidence of fractures in the study sample and those in developed countries are similar. Knowledge and presence of risk factors are similar by age and gender within the study sample. The primary conclusion was that education is needed to prevent falls and osteoporosis. Recommendations for further research include recognition of culturally-specific factors in prevention education and further study of the methods of addressing prevention in the specified population and the outcomes of the educational intervention. / Ph. D.

A house composed of two bedrooms and two bathrooms sits in a landscape of towering pine trees, lush orange groves, and tall grasses. Approaching from the west, a stepped lava tock garden wall protects the terraces of gravel and grass that bound and hold the concrete walls of the house. Within these wall an architectural game of turning, pushing, pulling, and shifting begging to play out; found in the shadows of a corner, in the depths of a break, in the repetition of a joint. / Master of Architecture

Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 167-177. / Ph.D.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Montana, 2007. / Contents viewed on March 26, 2010. Title from author supplied metadata. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis grounds its examination of the maras of El Salvador in the historical past (1971-1992) rather than the present, which constitutes a departure from current scholarship on the subject. This thesis revises our current understanding of the emergence and development of maras in El Salvador through the recovery, insertion and examination of key local events, conditions, and historical actors of the 1970s and 1980s. From signifying friendship and camaraderie prior to the late 1980s, the maras increasingly became the target of public concern and Salvadoran security forces over the course of the 1980. By the late 1980s the maras increasingly became associated with criminal activity in Salvadoran society and popular culture. To document these changed conditions, this thesis relies extensively on previously untapped and ignored primary sources: newspapers and oral history interviews.

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Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, warum die Rücküberweisungen von MigrantInnen nach El Salvador seit 1980 bis zur jüngsten Finanzkrise so konstant und enorm angestiegen sind. Dabei werden Erkenntnisse aus der bisherigen Forschung zu Migration und Remittances insbesondere aus der Neuen Ökonomie der Arbeitsmigration einer kritischen Revision unterzogen und um entscheidende Punkte erweitert. Das Ergebnis ist ein synthetischer Erklärungsansatz für das Phänomen der Remesas nach El Salvador, der sich auf die Kernbegriffe Ungleichheit, Schuld und (Un-)Sicherheit bezieht. Unter Bezug auf das Konzept gesellschaftlicher Reproduktion werden Aspekte untersucht, die über monetäre und produktive Faktoren als Ursachen für Remittances hinausgehen. Der theoretische Rahmen der subjektfundierten Hegemonietheorie erlaubt es, die Dichotomie von Struktur und Handlung bei der Erklärung der Rücküberweisungen von MigrantInnen zu überwinden.