Past Achievements and Future Trends

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Predicting Mothers' Intentions to Limit Frequency of Infants' Sugar Intake: Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior1

“…This much is recognized in the Health Belief Model (Becker, 1974) by the inclusion of "perceived barriers" to health care. Similarly, the Health Action Model (Tones, 1979), in which intentions are regarded as central in decisions about behavior, includes "appropriate environment and conditions" and "relevant skills and knowledge" as factors that modify the link between intention and behavior.…”

Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe

“…Furthermore, historical reconstructions of the lived familial life showed that other forms of living together existed long before they would become recognized or socially accepted. 7 Feminist and LgBTIQ+ scholarship challenged traditional family studies to redefine family by un-othering non-conforming families, to bring gender consciousness to family research, to model intersectionality across the structural level, and, most importantly, to apply research in order to alter family life. 8 It can be claimed that such challenges helped what Foucault termed "subjugated knowledges," locally known and differentially applied practices, incapable of unanimity, unqualified or disqualified by the dominant system of truths, 9 to gain new ground and become emancipated from their subjugated status.…”

Body height as a measure of the standard of living: Europe, America And Asia

“…This brings to mind the analogy with historic demographics which at the end of the 1950s, thanks to the meeting of the professional demographer Louis Henry with the historian Gustav Fleury also fl ourished, becoming one of the most dynamically developing areas of social history. 48 Time will tell whether historic anthropometry will play as great a role as historic demography played in its time. Whatever the result, the example shows that crossing the boundaries of narrow specializations and joining of forces of representatives of seemingly distant sciences has a great future.…”