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Impact of demographic factors on healthcare workers’ professional lives: Case of South Asia

This study explores the test group differences of age, gender income levels marital status in assessment of stress management skills among health care workers in hospitals of Pakistan. The study is a survey design conducted through purposive sampling. Sample of 400 health care workers were drawn from major hospitals. Stress management skills instrument (ISBF) was administered (Wirtz, 2012). The instrument has been cross-validated in Urdu language of South Asia (Ali &Kazmi, 2023). Age, gender and marital status differences significantly contributed to stress management skills in health care workers using descriptive statistics, t-tests and multivariate analysis of variance tests. Younger health care workers (18-39 years of age) managed stress better than the middle-aged health care workers (40-59 years of age); ( p=.006). The female healthcare workers managed stress better as compared to their male counterparts (p=.000). Unmarried healthcare workers exhibited greater stress-managed skills as compared to married healthcare workers (p=.000). Personal income levels do not carry a main effect for healthcare workers’ professional lives. The academic research is integral to have in the field of occupational health psychology and to make sure that healthcare workers across groups employ stress management skills for healthy well-being. Climate change is an alarming challenge that put at risk the very basis of our existence. The alteration in temperature, precipitation patterns, as well as other extreme weather events, have cascading effects on agriculture. Therefore, climate change adaptation strategies in agriculture are essential tool for ensuring food security and a sustainable future. This paper aims to appeal to the importance of the climate change problem and the urgency of implementing adaptation strategies from a specific country case example. In line with the intensively growing climate change adaptation discussions, the idea of the paper is to examine the relationship between climate change and agriculture, explaining the costs and benefits of the current and prospective adaptation practices in Azerbaijan, from a farmer to governmental point of view.