Ethics in Food Advertising to Children in India—A Parental Perspective

Marketers are seen to bombard children with advertisements for unhealthy foods using sophisticated promotion techniques that have serious negative effects on health and overall well-being of children. So parents try to mediate children’s exposure to media content and call for governmental regulations in an attempt to shield them. The extent to which they mediate further determines whether they contemplate food advertisements as being ethical or unethical. Therefore, the present study tries to uncover the antecedents to ethical versus unethical perceptions of Indian parents about food advertisements directed at children. No study, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, has been conducted so far in India in this regard. Using binary logistic regression with mothers, it is found that the mothers who view food advertisements as unethical report their children to watch fewer hours of TV during weekdays and hold negative attitudes toward advertising to children. These mothers, however, do not feel that the government needs to impose restrictions on food advertisements aired on TV since they themselves indulge in mediation of TV advertising as a general parenting responsibility. The implications of the article are finally discussed.     

Quality of life improvements after sports injury

Traffic accidents and their health consequences are a major public health problem in industrialized countries. In addition to being the first cause of death of children up to the age of 14 years, they are also responsible for considerable morbidity. Persistent lesions and more or less disabling sequelae are the lot of a certain number of causalities. In this study, we took stock of all of the information about functional impairment following injuries sustained in traffic accidents that is available in Belgium. We described the ‘itineraries’ of traffic accident patients and identified the potential sources of data. We then analyzed the available and accessible data. Our study shows that we do not have any directly usable data in Belgium that can yield a measure of the public health impact of traffic accidents in terms of temporary and permanent disabilities. Very partial information exists in the country's various institutions and insurance companies, but this information is not suitable for use in a public health approach aimed at quantifying the importance of a health problem and its course over time. We do not feel that the country's main disability measurement tool (BOBI), which is used notably by the insurance companies, attuned to the everyday reality that is experienced by people whose functional abilities have been reduced in the wake of a traffic accident. Given this lack of data, priority should be given to initiating the routine collection of such information or at least to quantifying post-traffic accident disabilities by following up a cohort of traffic accident victims.     

学龄儿童手机界面设计方案研究

通过对学龄儿童手机用户特征进行调研和分析,得出设计原则的理论依据。进而从界面信息构架、布局设计、图标设计三个方面对学龄儿童手机界面提出设计构想,以满足学龄儿童用户的生理和心理需求。     

农村留守儿童犯罪原因及对策研究

农村留守儿童作为一个特殊的群体。由于家庭教育缺位或失当、学校德育工作滞后或缺失、农村不良环境的催化和青少年时期的个性特征致使他们成为犯罪的高危人群。这一问题近年来巳呈严重化发展趋势。而社会未对此给予足够的关注。为此。应加强对农村留守学生犯罪问题的研究，找出其存在的原因，以便对症下药，让农村留守儿童健康的成长。     

依附理论视野下的留守儿童边缘化危机与健康成长研究

依附理论是分析非西方欠发达国家及其边缘化危机的一种范式。运用依附理论框架对留守儿童边缘化危机进行分析发现：社会转型是留守儿童边缘化危机浮现的宏观背景，体制分割是留守儿童边缘化危机加剧的中观设置，社会化偏差是留守儿童边缘化危机突显的微观环境。通过转换发展模式，破解二元对立社会结构；创新社会设置，消解二元分割教育体制；优化社会化环境，矫正留守儿童社会化偏差等措施，才能化解留守儿童边缘化危机。     

农民工子女社区服务的行动研究——以成长向导计划为例

以行动研究的方法,探讨农民工子女社区服务模式。评估农民工子女在社区成长方面的需求,结合成长向导模式和合作服务机构的实践智慧,实践农民工子女社区服务,改进成长向导服务模式,通过不断反思获得农民工女子社区健康成长服务的最大效益。