Browsing by Subject "Inequalities"

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    La desigualdad en el consumo familiar : diferencias de género en la España contemporánea (1850-1930)
    (Murcia : Universidad de Murcia, 2014) Borderías Mondejar, Cristina; Pérez-Fuentes, Pilar; Sarasúa, Carmen
    Economic Theory has recently revised during last years the following two basic ideas on the economic working of families: i) family income is the sum of the individual income of each of its members (income pooling); and ii) all family members living in the household have equal access to family resources. Unequal access to family resources among women and men, as well as among elderly, adults and children, is now understood as an input. For instance, women ate less food and of worst quality than men. But it is also understood as an output: women had poorer health, higher epidemic mortality and were smaller than men because they had received less food and poorer medical care. Inequalities in intra-family consumption are currently drawing the attention of academics and international agencies but it is not yet in the Economic History agenda. In this paper we look at some of the resources consumed by Spanish families in the 19th century: food, alcoholic beverages, clothes and shoes. Medical topographies, our main source, suggest that gender inequality structured access to family resources, and that this inequality had a strong impact on the health and well-being of family members.
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    Exploring the psychometric properties of the questionnaire on family members adapting to an older adult’s admission to a nursing home (CAFIAR-15) in a Colombian sample
    (MDPI, 2021-12-23) Martín-Carbonell, Marta; Riquelme Marín, Antonio; Fernández-Daza, Martha; Ortigosa Quiles, Juan Manuel; Méndez Mateo, Inmaculada; Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos; Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia
    Abstract: Institutionalization to a nursing home can be one of the most significant and traumatic events in a senior’s life, and for their family. For this reason, it is especially important to have validated instruments that evaluate the family member’s adaptation to admitting the senior to a nursing home. The study included 139 family members recruited equally in two types of institutions (lowincome nursing home (LINH) vs. high-income nursing home (HINH)). A sociodemographic questionnaire with questions to study antecedents and conditions for care and the Questionnaire for Admitting an Older Adult to a Nursing Home (CAFIAR-15) were used. Examining the communalities indicated that four of the five items in factor 3 presented communalities lower than 0.30 and differences in the factorial structure of the CAFIAR-15 were found. There were differences in the antecedents and conditions for care between the relatives of the older adults at LINH and HINH. Cultural differences and differences between LINH and HINH may be the basis for flaws in the conceptual validity of the CAFIAR-15 in the Colombian sample.
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    Prevalence of Sports Practice among Mexican Adults in 2002 and 2014
    (Murcia: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2020) Ortiz Hernández, Luis; Ayala Hilario, Carolina; Ayala Guzmán, César Iván
    Theaim of our study was to know the change over time of sports practice prevalence in Mexican adults and its socio-demographic correlates.We analyzed the Mexican National Survey of Time Use (ENUT) conduc-ted in 2002 and 2014; which is based on a representative sample of Mexican adults. Through a questionnaire, it was inquired if people practised sport in the previous week of the interview and the time spent to do it. The in-dependent variables were sociodemographic characteristics. We found that the prevalence of sports practice increased between 2002 and 2014 (from 15.8% to 29.3%). Being single or having a high socioeconomic position was associated with a higher probability of sports practice. Men and city dwe-llers had higher probabilities of practice sport compared with their counter-parts; although these differences tended to decrease. We conclude that the prevalence of sports practice in Mexico has increased, but it remains low. We identified groups with lower probabilities to practice sport in which efforts can be focused to promote active lifestyles.
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    Research on vulnerable people and digital inclusion: toward a consolidated taxonomical framework
    (Springer, 2022-02-02) Pérez Escolar, Marta; Canet, Fernando; Comunicación; Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación
    The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused a worldwide health crisis, but it has also deepened existing inequalities, and “has exacerbated the vulnerability of the least protected in society” (United Nations, 2020). Nowadays, there are many population groups that would be regarded as vulnerable. In daily life, citizens deal with a wide range of issues—social injustices, social marginalization and lack of impartiality—due to many reasons: culture, class, ethnicity, race, ideology, religion, gender, etc. To respond effectively to this problem—as the United Nations proposes in the goal 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—we first need to understand and clearly define the phenomenon of vulnerable people, and how digital inclusion could represent an asset to help vulnerable people to bridge inequalities. There is no commonly agreed typology framework, and specific categorization criteria as a basis to assist the further investigation of the area. Our work is focused on filling this gap. In doing so, our contribution is twofold. First, we conduct a systematic review of the literature (N = 331 studies) providing an overview of the overall definitions, trends, patterns, and developments that characterize the research on vulnerable people and digital inclusion. Second, we propose a taxonomy to frame the phenomenon of vulnerable people and digital inclusion. The categorization criteria can promote and support further multidisciplinary research to study and explore the relation existing between vulnerable people and digital inclusion.
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    Troubleshooting tourism and leisure as development process in Mozambique
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de publicaciones, 2025) Chiundila Vico, Verónica Cecílio; Azevedo, Francisco Fransualdo de; Vico, Roberto Paolo; Ricci Uvinha, Ricardo; Departamentos
    This article examines the development of tourism and leisure in Mozambique, highlight-ing inequalities that affect its practice. Using a qualitative approach based on literature, docu-mentary and field research, it finds that tourism stimulates corporate expansion, reinforcing the commodification of leisure and ties of dependency. It thus generates unequal relations, benefiting hegemonic stakeholders through this condition imposed on different economic and social realities. A more endogenous and solidarity-based development of tourist territo-ries is required.