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Peer reviewedHooks, Paul C.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1986
Reports use of social networking to recruit 64 Mexican-American children for an assessment of diet and exercise habits. Describes friendship, social, consanguineal, and coparenthood networks. Compares results of direct contact versus network contact. Discusses implications for recruiting ethnic groups for research. (LFL)
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Traits, Exercise, Information Networks
Peer reviewedAntropova, M. V.; And Others – Russian Education and Society, 1996
Presents the results of a study examining the health of Russian youth from the 1930s to the present. Although overall health has improved from the nadir of World War II, several disturbing trends have developed in post-Soviet society. Changing socioeconomic conditions have resulted in fatigue and poor diet. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Health, Child Welfare, Educational Research
Peer reviewedBoltvinik, Julio – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Critically evaluates the methodologies used in three recent studies on poverty in Latin America. Maintains that some studies measure the relative nature of nutritional poverty while others record the absolute nature of nutritional poverty (physical survival). Includes a comparative analysis of the studies' results. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Disadvantaged Environment, Economics, Foreign Countries
