Young women farm heads in Greek agriculture: entering farming through policy incentives
Abstract This work examines the entry of young Greek women into farming as heads of farmholdings under the relevant EU and national framework of incentives. The work is based on the analysis of available secondary information and mail-survey data secured from a sample of 128 young women established in farming during the period 1991–2000 in the region of Thessaly, Central Greece. Their responses to the system of incentives are examined initially as a whole group and then separately by focusing on two typological polar opposites, that is those women that are entering farming as a lifestyle and those entering for reasons of necessity. There is documentation of young women farmers’ use of the incentives and benefits derived there from and their assumption of a certain share in the decision-making power vis-a-vis their farmholding, the last-mentioned especially when the two typological groups are considered.
Health statistics - Key data on health 2002 (Data 1970-2001) Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,2002
Since 1990s, the European institutions have been discussing on the importance to establish a Health Indicators Monitoring System. This system would: undertake a “critical review of existing health data and indicators; develop appropriate methods for the collection of the progressively comparable health data needed to establish these indicators; develop a reliable system for the transfer and sharing of health data and indicators, essentially by means of the telematic interchange of data; identify methods and tools required for conducting analyses and producing reports on state of health, trends and determinants, and the impact of health-related policies” (according to the speech made by the European Commission representative, Mr. Frederic Sicard, during the former EUPHA Conference held in Rome, last November). These are the outcomes of the Health statistics — Key data on health 2002, issued on March 8th 2004 and prepared by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom, and the sector ‘Health and safety’, of Unit E.3 (Education, health and culture) of Eurostat, on behalf of the European Commission.
What Happened to Suicide Bombings in Israel? Insights from a Terror Stock Model
An analysis of three years of suicide bombing data in Israel reveals an increase in such attacks through March 2002 followed by a steep decline through the end of 2003. The authors propose a terror-stock model that treats the suicide bombing attack rate as a function of the number of terrorists available to plan and execute suicide bombings. The intent of Israeli tactics such as targeted killings and preemptive arrests is to reduce the capacity of terror organizations to commit attacks. When fit to the data, this model suggests that the targeted killing of terror suspects sparks estimated recruitment to the terror stock that increases rather than decreases the rate of suicide bombings. Surprisingly, only the deaths of suspected terrorists, and not Palestinian civilians, are associated with such estimated recruitment. Although Israeli actions have reduced the rate of suicide bombings over time, it is preventive arrests rather than targeted killings that seem more responsible for this outcome.