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Journal articles on the topic "Socio-demographic characters"
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Goyal, Shweta. "Socio-Demographic Characters and Cervical Cytology: A Descriptive Study." Indian Journal of Pathology: Research and Practice 7, no. 7 (2018): 884–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijprp.2278.148x.7718.12.
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Pacheco Salles, Fagner Luiz, Murylo Feitanin Basso, and Alexia Leonel. "Smartphone use: implications for musculoskeletal symptoms and socio-demographic characteristics in students." Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation / Rehabilitacion Interdisciplinaria 4 (January 2, 2024): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.56294/ri202472.
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Introduction: smartphone use has substantially increased in the past decade, becoming an important part in population's usual activities, but the relationship between smartphone addiction, smartphone use, and neck disability in adults remains uncertain. The objective of this study: (1) investigate the association between neck disability and smartphone use time with socio-demographic characteristics, musculoskeletal symptoms, and smartphone addiction among university students; and (2) assess the association between smartphone addiction with socio-demographic characters, musculoskeletal symptoms. Methods: 228 students (74 males and 154 females; average age 29.41 years old) were enrolled in the study. Participants answered questions about sociodemographic characteristics, smartphone time use, smartphone addiction (SAS-SV), musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and upper limb, and neck disability (NDI). Results: individuals with neck disability were associated with, gender, general health, presence of neck and shoulder pain, and smartphone addiction. More time spent on smartphones was associated with some socio-demographic characteristics, the presence of shoulder pain, and smartphone addiction. Conclusions: smartphone addiction was associated with lower age, higher educational level, neck disability, and smartphone time use in students.
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Mahapatra, Mousumi Singha, Swati Alok, and Jayasree Raveendran. "Financial Literacy of Indian Youth: A Study on the Twin Cities of Hyderabad–Secunderabad." IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 6, no. 2 (2016): 132–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277975216667096.
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A person’s capability to manage financial matters has become important in today’s world. Availability of different types of sophisticated financial products coupled with the complexity and increased uncertainty of the economy and financial markets have generated a strong move to measure and study financial literacy among investors. The present article aims to analyze the status of financial literacy of college students with three identified antecedents, namely, socio-demographic characteristics, parental influence and attitude towards financial planning. A sample of 425 students from various colleges of the Hyderabad–Secunderabad region was studied to understand the role of the identified antecedents on financial literacy. The results of logistic regression analysis support the hypothesis that financial literacy of Indian college students is influenced by their socio-demographic characters, parental influence and their attitude towards financial planning. While both socio-demographic and parental influences have a positive impact on financial literacy, attitude towards financial planning is observed to have a negative impact.
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Shikha and Kumar Singh Manish. "Prevalence of Anaemia in View of Socio-Demographic Profile of Adolescent Girls in Urban Area of Patna District, Bihar, India." International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 14, no. 6 (2022): 627–33. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13626429.
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<strong>Objectives: </strong>Anaemia is a major health problem of adolescent girls in developing country. In this present study, we evaluate the prevalence of anaemia in view of Socio-demographic profile of adolescent girls in urban area. <strong>Methods: </strong>A detailed history was performed which included socio demographic details, history of any chronic illness, socio-demographic characters, menstrual history and presenting complaints. By venipuncture of anti cubital vein, 2 mL of venous blood was drawn and collected in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) vacutainers under aseptic precautions. The collected blood samples were analysed in the Department of Pathology by five‑part automated cell counter (Beckman Coulter AC T diff 2). For interpretation of anaemia, the cut‑off point for haemoglobin (Hb)gm% was taken as< 12 g/dL), moderate (7 to < 10 g/dL), and severe (<7 g/dL) [6]. Sociodemographic status was estimated by modified B. G. Prasad’s classification. Socio-economic status classified as: class II-upper middle class, class III- lower middle class, class IV- upper lower class, class V- lower. <strong>Results: </strong> Out of 200 adolescent girls, anaemia was found in 148(74%) girls. most of the anaemic girls 55(78.57%) were in age of 10-12 years. Most of the anaemic girls 64(32%) belonged to lower middle socio-economic status. 64(32%) anaemic girls belonged to lower middle socioeconomic classes. Majority of anaemic girls 111(75.51%) lived in nuclear family. Parents [fathers: 79(77.45%) and mothers: 78(68.42%)] of most of the anaemic girls had primary education. BMI of most of the anaemic girls 83(73.45%) was <18.5. Menarche was seen in 136(68%) girls. Most of the anaemic girls 119(87.5%) had attained menarche. <strong>Conclusions: </strong>Prevalence of anaemia is high in adolescent girls who belongs to a lower middle and lower socioeconomic status. Anaemia is more common in age 10-15 years followed by girls with menarche, lower BMI and family illiteracy. Thus, anaemia is a major health issue in adolescent girls. Hence, regular health check-up camp must be organised in school and Mohalla, in urban as well as rural area for awareness and prevention of anaemia in adolescent girls. So that, proper diagnosis and prompt treatment can be made.
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Akter, S. Pondit C. Salam MA and Rashid MM. "Contribution of fish to animal protein consumption in daily diet." International Journal of Natural and Social Sciences 8, no. 4 (2022): 08–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6349079.
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A comparative study was under taken to know the availability, composition and contribution of fish, beef, mutton, chicken, egg, dal, milk, vegetable, shak and fruits to human health in Bangladesh Agricultural University campus and near-by villages in Mymensingh sadar Upazilla. Data were collected purposively from the four group of people like teachers, officers, poor people and male and female students of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh using individual questionnaire interview, key informant interview, focus group discussion (FGD) and individual case study. Secondary data from the Government and non-government organizations and published materials were collected for this study. The data showed that the fish consumption was found to be average 26.76 Kg per capita per year in the study area. Consumption of other protein rich food such as meat, egg and milk were found to be 7.71 Kg, 138 no., and 18.24 liter per capita per year, respectively. Average per capita intake of fish, meat, egg and milk were 73.31 g, 21.12 g, 0.38 no. and 49.97 ml per day respectively. Ninety nine percent respondents of all groups preferred dry fish. The intake of animal protein in the form of fish, egg and milk had increased significantly in the region due to availability, comparatively cheap than the other protein sources and financial ability of the respondents. Among the sources, fish was found to be contributed more in protein consumption than meat, beef, mutton, milk and egg. Protein contribution of fish was 59%. On the other hand, protein contribution of meat, egg and milk were 23.83%, 9.14% and 7.95%, respectively. The study revealed that the expenditure for food was the major part of the total expenditure of the respondent's family, teachers, second class officers, poor people and students spent about 50.23%, 57.22%, 81.29% and 52.76% of the total expenditure on food items, respectively. However, food consumption pattern is closely related to the respondent's income level, their food preference and a1so their educational status.
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Singh, Neetu, and Jyotsna Singh. "Effect of socio demographic and personal factors on infertility and its association with mental health and social support in North Indian population." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 7, no. 12 (2018): 5088. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20184972.
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Background: Motherhood is a bliss in women’s lives and thus infertility is considered as a social stigma. In present study, we measure the effect of socio-demographic and personal factors on infertility as well as the status of social support and mental health in infertile women.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study comprising 90 infertile women and 90 women in the control group, conducted at Ram Prakash Gupta Memorial Mother and Child State Referral Centre of RMLIMS, Lucknow, India. The questionnaires used were Socio-demographic and personal characteristics, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) to assess mental health, Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (PSSQ). To determine the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics, personal characters, mental health, and social support with infertility, Chi-square test was used.Results: Age, education, and occupation had statistically significant (p<0.05) relation with infertility, high BMI, and caffeine intake also had the significant adverse effect on fertility outcomes (p<0.05). Infertility patients had poor mental health status (higher mean GHQ-12 score 20.8±4.2) and poor perceived social support (lower mean PSSQ score 29.7±7.0).Conclusions: In present study, the socio-demographic factors, lifestyle factors, social support and mental health status is associated with fertility outcomes. Their modifications have the potential to improve reproductive performances. A structured programme of education, social support, and counselling by specialist health professionals should be formulated to improve the quality of life as well as fertility outcomes in infertile patients.
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Abda, Rezhna, and Shahla Alalaf. "Prevalence rate, perinatal outcome and causes of obstructed labour A hospital based study." Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences 28, no. 2 (2024): 148–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15218/zjms.2024.15.
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Background and objective: Obstructed labor is a serious intrapartum emergency especially seen in women deprived of modern healthcare delivery. It could be one of the major reasons of morbidity and mortality for both the mother and the newborn. This study was aimed at determine the rate, causes and perinatal outcomes of women who have obstructive labor during delivery. Methods: A cross-sectional study that was conducted on 150 delivering women having obstructed labor at Maternity Teaching Hospital, Erbil city, Kurdistan Region, Iraq from 1st of March 2021 to 1st of March 2022 The rate, socio-demographic characters (age, parity, smoking, antenatal care, residency, education level, gestational age), causes like (malposition, malpresntation, cephalo-pelvic desorption) and perinatal outcomes were recorded. Results: of 9137 labor, 150 were obstructed labor; the total rate was 1.6% during the period of the study. There was no statistically significant associated between socio-demographic characters like age, smoking, gestational age, residency, education level, antenatal care and obstructed labor except multiparity that has significant association. There was a significant association between the causes like cephalo-pelvic disproportion, malposition, malprsentation, sized baby and having fracture to spine and pelvis or trauma and obstructed labor. Also there was no statistically significant associated between Apgar score and admission to neonatal intensive care unit. Conclusion: Obstructive labor is common during labor. Malposition was most common the cause of obstructive labor and parity has association with it too. Neonatal morbidity and mortality are dependent on the type of presentation.
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Pandve, HarshalT, Gayatri Pathak, and VinayakV Shelat. "Socio-demographic characters, clinical profile and laboratory parameters in malaria cases due Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax: A comparative study." Journal of Medicine in the Tropics 16, no. 2 (2014): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2276-7096.139056.
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Faridullah, Didar Ahmad, Hina Shabbir, et al. "Socio-demographic characters, distribution and transformation of iodine in soil, plant and wheat grains at District Diamer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan." Environmental Geochemistry and Health 40, no. 2 (2017): 777–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-017-0023-6.
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Tenali, Ravi Kumar, Naveen Kumar Badri, Jithendra Kandati, and Munilakshmi Ponugoti. "Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in cases of diarrhoea among school children attending a tertiary care hospital: a two year study." International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics 5, no. 3 (2018): 873. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20181505.
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Background: Globally every year 1.7 billion cases of diarrhoea are registered as per the WHO report 2017. Intestinal parasitic infections [IPI] are one of the top ten major public health problems in developing countries with an estimated prevalence of 30-60% in developing countries compared to 3% in developed countries. School age children are the common vulnerable group with the highest prevalence and infection intensities. The objective of the present study is to study the prevalence of parasitic infections in school children as a causative factor for diarrhoea and associated risk factors involved with relation to their hygiene and socio demographic characters.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted for a period of two years from January 2015 to December 2016 and stool specimens from the children aged 5-18 years suffering from diarrhoea were screened for parasitic infections following standard guidelines and as per the ethical committee guidelines. The socio demographic characters, risk factors and hygienic characters of the cases were noted from the parents or guardians or children in a separate predesigned questionnaire sheet. Data was analyzed using SPSS software version 13 and P value<0.05 was considered significant.Results: T The prevalence of parasitic infections in the Present study was 22.95% and males were more common. 8-11 years was the most common age group and mean age was 11.6±1.8 years. Statistically significant association was found with hand washing before meals, socio economic status, and method of hand washing after defecation. Entamoeba histolytica was the major parasitic pathogen followed by Ascaris lumbricoides. Other parasites were Giardia lamblia, Ancylostoma duodenale, Cryptosporidium, Isospora, Enterobius and Trichuris trichura. Conclusions: There is lack of awareness regarding dog bite and its management among the rural population.
Books on the topic "Socio-demographic characters"
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Family in Slovakia in figures and commentaries: Influence of socio-demographic processes and some legislative provisions on the development and character of the family in Slovakia. Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1995.
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Joshi, Ruchi, and Abilash Kasi. "A Study on Character Strengths and Environmental Ethics Among the Youth of Tamil Nadu as Trailblazers of Climate Change Warriors." In The Climate Change Crisis and Its Impact on Mental Health. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3272-6.ch003.
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Climate change is one of the most concerning modern-day issues. The answer to whether industrialization, urbanization, and technical progress have improved our quality of life is susceptible to prejudiced and subjective perspectives, but they have harmed nature can be established with certainty. The study was done among a varied sample of college students in Tamil Nadu, India, and investigated the subtle interaction of socio-demographic characteristics, gender, character traits, and their impact on mental health, moral character, and environmental ethics. The study employs a correlational research design that makes use of self-report measurements such as the Environmental Ethics Scale (EES) and the Global Assessment of Character Strength Scale (GACS). Semi-structured interviews are used to acquire qualitative insights into participants' thoughts on climate change and potential solutions. The findings show a strong relationship between EES and GACS. The findings also emphasize the importance of socio-demographic characteristics including area, family structure, and socioeconomic level in establishing environmental values, underlining the need of taking cultural and economic issues into account when interpreting study findings and devising solutions. Finally, research advances our understanding of the complex relationships between socio-demographic factors, gender, mental health, personality traits, and environmental ethics, emphasizing the need for tailored interventions that take into account the unique needs and characteristics of various subgroups.
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Long, Paul, and Saskia Warren. "‘An area lacking cultural activity’: researching cultural lives in urban space." In Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344995.003.0006.
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Focussed on the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham, this chapter explores the specific ways in which individuals are situated by intermediation practices, policy imperatives, discourses and imaginaries as cultural consumers, participants and sometimes producers. In tandem with the attention afforded its demographic diversity, levels of deprivation Balsall Heath has been an object of cultural policy initiatives seeking to engage disadvantaged and ‘hard-to-reach’ communities. The chapter first outlines the particular socio-economic character of the area and discusses the method of walking interviews that was employed to engage with residents. The method does not offer am exhaustive picture of cultural engagement, conceived instead as a means of ‘thinking with’ participants within a local landscape of social, material and religious relations that shape individual agency.
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ARAÚJO, CÍNTIA. "INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE IN THE THIRD SECTOR: GENDER AND RACE IN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS." In CRITICAL DIALOGUES ON PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES Thinking about the Aftermath Challenges. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.55658/gpcds-criticaldialoguescovid19-chapter11.
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After decades of struggles and mobilizations carried out by social, feminist and black movements, in addition to those by organized sectors of civil society, we have seen the consolidation of public legitimacy and a greater appreciation of inclusion and diversity. In this scenario, academics, professionals and other actors in society have intensified efforts to understand gender and racial inequalities, even fostering a (re)construction of these very concepts. Throughout the 1990s, and with greater intensity in the 2000s, the public sector adopted a series of practices focused on social and racial inclusion and the fight against violence and racism, which resulted in a more institutional attitude towards these themes on the part of organized sectors of civil society. Nevertheless, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) still reproduce some Brazilian socio-demographic inequalities of gender and race, configuring the daily life of part of the third sector. The worsening inequalities due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and global socio-economic crises, such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, accentuate the complexity of the challenges to be faced by CSOs in the coming years in order to implement inclusive governance practices. Thus, my objective was to understand how CSOs have acted to ensure a more diverse composition of their teams and to develop inclusive internal processes. I adopted mixed methods as a research methodology and divided the study into two phases. First of all, I carried out exploratory, qualitative research through a workshop with people involved with CSO work and leadership as well as with gender and race movements in order to help define the research scope. An online survey was, then, carried out in which 590 responses were collected. Research findings show that CSOs are aware of inequalities faced by minority groups and are open to implementing actions to foster an increase in the participation of women and black people in CSO workforce. However, most actions have an ad hoc character, neither focusing on long term effects, nor oriented towards strategic goals. Consequently, the efficacy of these actions is superficial and insufficient to deal with such structural problems as the narrowing of opportunities of career for these minority groups, especially for black people. It shows that CSOs have a long and challenging journey to implement real inclusive governance, as they are still unable to include minority voices in their decision-making positions. This research undoubtedly offers an unprecedented and detailed diagnosis of the inclusive governance of Brazilian CSOs and the actions and policies they have implemented to value diversity and combat violence and discrimination.
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Budanov, Vladimir. "METAPHYSICS, ONTOLOGY AND SCENARIOS OF THE GREAT ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRANSITION." In SCIENCE AND HUMAN PHENOMENA IN THE ERA OF CIVILIZATIONAL MACROSHIFT. Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/vgb-76-157.
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The paper considers the ontological and metaphysical specifics of the beginning of a unique global transition to a post-technogenic civilization, called the Macro-shift. All social, political, economic institutions and cultural practices are going through a crisis phase, and people’s worldview and values are radically changing. Ethics becomes the main behavioral parameter of order, as it always happened in the era of trials, and the revival of the tradition of inner life is almost the only factor in human adaptation to external chaos, without loss of human appearance. The metaphysics of the Macro-shift, which distinguishes it from the previous crisis epochs, is connected not only with the general planetary character, but, first of all, with the completion of the pre-singular development of human history. The demographic planetary singularity is already being overcome by slowing the growth of the number of people. We acutely feel other forms of singularity as the acceleration of all processes in all forms of social, cultural, economic and informational life, immersing us in a super-complex reality. The singularity itself, when the multithousand- year-old laws of the development of the socio-technoanthroposphere should change, falls in the middle of the XXI century and has no analogues in past history. This does not allow us to build predictive models of the future, creating a time of hyperdeterminacy. It turned out that the singularity coincides with the stage of completion of the historical cycle of the development of human cognitive abilities. It is also shown that Artificial Intelligence is not only a catalyst for ultrafast changes, but also a possible tool for passing the super-complex singular phase of the Macro-shift. The genesis of the phenomena of digitalization and AI as the results of the co-evolution of natural, social, virtual and technical umwelts in the process of successive information revolutions is considered. In this connection, the problem of existential challenges in the anthroposphere, the problem of demarcation of the areas of responsibility of natural and artificial intelligence, the problem of post-critical rationality and the coexistence of human-machine hybrid forms of life is raised.
Conference papers on the topic "Socio-demographic characters"
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Shyngysbaeva, S. K. "QUALITY OF LIFE AND REGIONAL CHARACTER OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT." In УСТОЙЧИВОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ: ТЕОРИЯ И ПРАКТИКА. Сибайский институт (филиал) федерального государственного бюджетного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования "Башкирский государственный университет", 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56363/9785604860908_172.
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Díez Bermejo, Ana, Iván Rodríguez Suárez, Lucas Álvarez del Valle, and Agustín Hernández Aja. "DETECCIÓN E INTERVENCIÓN DE LA VULNERABILIDAD URBANA EN ESPAÑA." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Grup de Recerca en Urbanisme, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.11990.
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The subject of the research is the tools for detecting and/or intervening in urban vulnerability in the Spanish territory within the framework of public policies on neighbourhood regeneration and the framework of urban agendas. The aim is to characterise and analyse them in relation to a series of parameters described in the methodology. The starting hypothesis is that currently existing tools have different approaches and dynamics, establish different scopes and scales of intervention and operate with different indicators that present different dimensions of urban vulnerability (socio-demographic, socio-economic, residential, subjective, urban framework, environmental) in the detection and/or urban intervention, there is no consensus on the indicators of detection and/or intervention of vulnerability in our territories. Keywords: urban vulnerability, urban policies, urban regeneration, Spain El tema de la investigación son las herramientas de detección y/o intervención de la vulnerabilidad urbana en el territorio español dentro del marco de las políticas públicas en materia de regeneración de barrios y del marco de las agendas urbanas. El objetivo es caracterizar y analizar las mismas en relación a una serie de parámetros que se describen en la metodología. La hipótesis de partida es que actualmente las herramientas existentes tiene diferente enfoques y dinámicas, establecen diferentes alcances y escalas de intervención y operan con diferentes indicadores que presentan diferentes dimensiones de vulnerabilidad urbana (sociodemográfica, socioeconómica, residencial, subjetiva, marco urbano, ambiental) en la detección y/o intervención urbana, no existe consenso en los indicadores de detección y/o intervención de la vulnerabilidad en nuestros territorios. Palabras clave: vulnerabilidad urbana, políticas urbanas, regeneración urbana, España.
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Bortolotto, Susanna, Cristiana Achille, Elisabetta Ciocchini, and Maria Cristina Palo. "The rural founding villages of the Italian Agrarian Reform in Basilicata (1950-1970): urban planning and 'modern' vernacular architecture to the test of contemporaneity. The case of Borgo Taccone (MT)." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15113.
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The contribution aims at providing an overview on urban planning and on 'modern' vernacular architecture of the rural founding villages built during the Agrarian Reform (1950-1970) in Italy, in the inland areas of Basilicata Region. In particular there are settlements not yet sufficiently known, in which the important of inventorying the considerable built heritage must be the objective of a necessary, urgent safeguarding. With the 'Agrarian Reform' (Law 841/1950), the Italian government carried out a redistribution to settlers of the lands of uncultivated or abandoned large estates. The purpose was to increase productivity in the reformed areas, as long as a better profitability of labor and an adequate 'social equity'. As a consequence, new villages were created that had to fulfil the task of reorganizing rural centers of socio-economic concentrations, able to reconstitute environments similar to the agglomerations from which the laborers, once employed in the latifundiums, came. Among the numerous centers built in Basilicata, Borgo Taccone is representative of this system of agrarian colonization of the Lucanian territory. The settlement, in which the modern construction techniques were broadly experimented, is the service center for farmers living in farmhouses in the surrounding funds and for this reason it was equipped with core services such as the church, the school, the post office, the clinic, cinema/theater, etc. After an initial period of demographic expansion, in the seventies the ‘Borgo’ began to depopulate and is now in a state of abandonment and decay. Despite this, this settlement, surrounded by agricultural land in a well-preserved landscape, still retains a strong formal character in both its urban and architectural layout. The contribution traces the physical, social and cultural transformation line that led this rich asset to the contemporary world, outlining a possible future cultural theoretical debate on its safeguard and sustainable enhancement.