The presence of mental distress during pregnancy and after childbirth imposes detrimental developmental and health consequences for families in all nations. In Zambia, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed a more comprehensive approach towards mental health care, recognizing the importance of the mental health of women during the perinatal period. The study explores factors contributing to mental distress during the perinatal period of motherhood in Zambia. A qualitative study was conducted in Lusaka, Zambia with nineteen focus groups comprising 149 women and men from primary health facilities and schools respectively. There are high levels of mental distress in four domains: worry about HIV status and testing; uncertainty about survival from childbirth; lack of social support; and vulnerability/oppression. Identifying mental distress and prompt referral for interventions is critical to improving the mental health of the mother and prevent the effects of mental distress on the baby. Strategies

A brief questionnaire was developed to obtain information for eight independent variables, namely, clarity of school goals (for computer-implementation), availability of adequate funding, availability of required equipment and materials, organizational arrangements, adequate staff training, school income, school size and school location, and for 10 measures of computer-implementation. The questionnaires were mailed to the principals from the selected schools in November, 1991. A total of 209 responses were received ...

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Multicultural and Gender Studies (MCGS) prepares students for a diverse workplace and society by providing knowledge, skills, and strategies for appreciating and understanding cultural practices, contributions, identities, and gender roles. All programs include research and hands-on experiences that help students make connections between scholarship and activism. The BA in Multicultural and Gender Studies provides an interdisciplinary approach to cultural analysis within and across cultural groups in the United States, with emphasis on the role of class, race, and gender in shaping cultural identities. The General Option in Multicultural and Gender Studies includes work in the theory and practice of cultural analysis; cross-cultural and interethnic study; study of the role of gender in culture; and close analysis of a particular cultural group. The Women s Studies Option in Multicultural and Gender Studies is based on a combination of multicultural and gender studies courses and courses focused ...

Hello. Im developing a gopher hole on the delivery of mainstream health care to diverse cultural groups in the United States. Through Veronica Ive found a number of course listings and a program or two, but not as much as Id hoped. Since the primary audience of our gopher is the faculty, staff and students in the College of Medicine and Schools of Nursing and Allied Health, Im really looking for discussion, analysis, research, etc. on the factors and nuances that mainstream health care providers must take into account when serving patients from cultural traditions outside the mainstream USA medical traditon. Descriptions of working programs would also be useful. Does anyone here know of ftp-able or other electronically available sources on the subject? Has anyone written something on the topic that could be posted on a gopher? Im sending this request to many geographic- and ethnic-specific lists, and I apologize for any duplication. Since Im not a member of your list, reply to me ...

Community health workers (CHWs) the world over help to alleviate the shortages of health workers in the health sector. They are involved in the delivery of health services to the community and constitute the first point of contact on health-related issues in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The performance of CHWs is often hampered by various factors. The purpose of the study was to investigate the socio-cultural factors influencing the performance of CHWs in Soy Sub-County. Based on the study, this paper explores the influence of CHWs level of education and knowledge on their performance in Soy Sub-County. A correlation research design was used in the study with systematic sampling method being used to identify the respondents. In total, 98 respondents were given questionnaires to fill. Qualitative data was also collected from 7 heads of community health management team (CHMT) using key informant interviews. The collected data was then presented using frequency distribution ...

The best way of checking the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide is an approach that addresses the relationships between the medical aspects of the disease, its consequences for development and the socio-cultural factors that contribute to its transmission, said du Guerny. FAO and UNAIDS will undertake a series of joint activities, including integrated prevention programmes that will help spread information, especially to young men and women, about HIV vulnerability, risk reduction and sustainable rural development.. AIDS cripples agriculture and rural communities. FAO has focused on the crippling effects AIDS is having on agriculture and rural communities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. There, nearly 23 million people, about 63 percent of the worlds total, are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Labour-intensive farming systems with low levels of mechanization are particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, because of its high death rate among working-age people. In addition, those afflicted ...

With a headline that would be more appropriate at The Onion, one cant help feeling that the British Broadcasting Corporation was having a slow news day.. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this article is that, amusing headline aside, one would expect there to actually be some form of new information unearthed by the study, even if the usefulness of this information isnt immediately apparent to the layman.. However, when presenting the finding that the relaxation of sexual inhibitions post-alcohol intake was a more marked changed amongst the female subjects than the male, the conclusion reached was that this could be explained by …differences in blood alcohol concentration between males and females with the same alcohol intake, differences in tolerance due to differences in previous levels of alcohol consumption or by socio-cultural factors. So, really narrowing it down there.. And just in case you were planning to use this article as evidence in your favour, perhaps during a conflict ...

Analyzing ICT and Development: Thailands Path to the Information Economy: 10.4018/jgim.2011010101: This study uses Trauths (2000) Influence-Impact Model as a sensitizing device to examine the influence of four key socio-cultural factors -policy

This article reports research into associations between students cultural background and their perceptions of their teachers interpersonal behaviour and classroom learning environment. A sample of...

In 1995 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a research project on cultural aspects of development and Nordic-African relations. One of the aims was to contribute to providing other images of Africa than the negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. Another was to encourage cultural aspects of change in Africa, and the dynamics of cultural production itself. It is indisputable that negative images of Africa increasingly dominate everyday reporting and therefore public opinion too. The generalised pessimistic pictures are in stark contrast to what those of us have experienced who have had the opportunity to visit Africa and work there. It was important not only to encourage alternatives to stereotypes and generalisations, which portrayed Africans as helpless victims, but also to try to understand how and why, and to what extent these images had developed. This was the theme of the first conference organised within the new project on culture, coordinated by ...

Interdisciplinary study of the humanities, from the 14th century world to the present, including literature, philosophy, music, art and history. Crucial themes of continuing importance, such as justice, duty, the concept of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society, will be examined in both Western and non-Western cultures. The course will emphasize

This enquiry week in collaboration with Axor / Hansgrohe focused on the relevance and value of water in connection with cultural, social, health and wellness-related and everyday rituals. Based on the function of water, the elements role for structuring everyday life, planning and awareness at the interface of water, man and nature were analysed. The perception of water influenced by cultural backgrounds and disciplines is reflected in various formats of rituals. The power over and the use of water includes economic and cultural aspects on a global level, raising the questions: What are todays rituals for water in everyday life? What is the relationship between space - ritual - water? Are new typologies needed, such as new bath houses or shared bathrooms? Does water in rituals change our perception of space on all scales, from the private to the public? And can water act through rituals as a socio-cultural platform and innovation for urban lifestyles?. ...

ABSTRACT. This broad ranging discussion examines the clinical encounter and deconstructs psychological and cultural context and implications, finally honoring the comprehensive awareness that the clinician requires for best practice in encountering mortality. Clinicians engage client disease and dying presentions, and ultimate mortality. Communicating mortality openly or subliminally is not always conscious. Mortality awareness can produce stress and untoward behaviors. Psychological mortality avoidance, citing Kierkegaards existential paradox, and the death (in both senses) of Joseph Campbells cultural hero illumine socio-cultural elements including the elusive good death, sequestration of death from society, and the concept of managing death in volume. Cultural diversity awareness and the concept of transcendence clarify outlier and hybrid cultural client presentations demanding maximal clinician flexibility. Mortality Salience Theory predicts contracted world view when confronted with ...

Being in the business of advising countries or their leaders in different places of the world, with often very different belief systems and cultural backgrounds, requires to be as neutral as possible; otherwise, such advising work would no longer provide an impartial and useful view of the world and its many problems.. Being in the business of advising countries or their leaders in different places of the world, with often very different belief systems and cultural backgrounds, requires to be as neutral as possible; otherwise, such advising work would no longer provide an impartial and useful view of the world and its many problems.. Nevertheless, certain events of late make me break with tradition of neutrality and raise my voice in protest against dire collective human failure to recognize that the 18th and 19th century and its many misconceptions are over and that we need to do things very differently in the 21st century, if our global society entertains any hope of moving even beyond this ...

The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), established in 1997, has been conceived as a Pan-African centre for creating research networks in Africa and its Diaspora.. CASAS undertakes the supervision, coordination and management of research work focusing on the economic, social, historical, political and cultural aspects of the development problematique in Africa.. Cultural issues and their relationship to development, and selected basic research on the structure of African society are particularly important areas of interest to the centre. In this respect, CASAS carves out a niche which is distinct from the areas of interest of other similar research bodies in Africa.. As its name implies, its research ventures are intended to be at the scientific cutting-edge of knowledge on African society, and in each instance, CASAS will deploy some of the best available African expertise and scholarship for the work on hand.. While providing relevant expertise for research which is of ...

Under a new law known as SB 277, beginning January 1, 2016 exemptions based on personal beliefs, including religious beliefs, will no longer be an option for the vaccines that are currently required for entry into child care or school in California. Most families will not be affected by the new law because their children have received all required vaccinations. Personal beliefs exemptions on file for a child already attending child care or school will remain valid until the child reaches the next immunization checkpoint at kindergarten (including transitional kindergarten) or 7th grade. ...

HISP-S 411 SPAIN: The Cultural Context 3credits) CULTURE / ELECTIVE Prerequisite: One course from S324, S328, S331, S333, S334. What images or stereotypes of Spain and its cultures do we have and how do they deviate from reality? What defines culture and cultural production? How does the process of learning about a foreign culture take place? How can we foster the development of cultural learning in Bloomington/our own community? This course examines our notions of Spain and seeks to build a more complex understanding of contemporary Spanish culture. In addition, we will explore and analyze the process of cultural awareness. To accomplish these two goals, traditional classroom learning will be paired with service learning: as S411 students learn about Spanish culture they will, in turn, teach elements of it to Bloomington-area preschoolers. The teaching component will provide both active and reflective ways to grasp cultural learning. This course is based on the philosophy that in order to ...

One of Ugandas prominent young artists with a strong desire to provoke change in Ugandan society is Stacey Abe Gillian. She eagerly explains her dream: If there was magic… I would turn trees blue and make them talk! I would transform Ugandan women to be free from the cultural values and stereotypes that marginalize them. I am ready to make a change, no matter how long it takes! I dont want to break down existing Ugandan cultural traditions but neither do I want to be held back by them; our society needs to be challenged. I want to encourage women to believe in their skills and educate men so we can rid ourselves of gender inequalities. Gillians art installations mainly highlight the strength and fragility of the female mind faced with questions of sexuality and identity, gender misconceptions and urban cultural self-expression.. ...

Managing a project schedule seems like a straight-forward and explicit task. But when the concept of time is introduced, developing and managing a project schedule becomes greatly complicated, primarily because time is shaped by cultural influences. This paper examines how culture can affects a multicultural project teams orientation to time, and in turn, shape the teams project performance. In doing so, it defines two types of orientation to time--monochronism and polychronism, looking at each orientations cultural significance. It compares the advantages and disadvantages of each orientation, noting the key differences between mono-chronic people and poly-chronic people. It also discusses how project managers can develop approaches to work with these orientations to time, noting the values that shape each orientation. It then details eight lessons that the authors learned from working in cultures--and with individuals--that embraced different orientations to managing time and to building

People talk a lot about finding the meaning and story in data. I believe the DataFRAMES (like the ones used in Data Science programming languages R and Python) and the mental FRAMES within which we hold beliefs are intimately connected. DataFRAMES hold in-time instances of certain categorizable events. But they are limited; they can never have ALL the information. (Even Google cant have next weeks data.). Beliefs are the same way. We cant ever have ALL the information. So we form beliefs to guide us until we get more information. Then we update those beliefs. (For the Subjective Bayesians reading this, isnt that basic the idea of a priori and a posterior? That probability quantifies a personal belief?). (Not coincidentally, this is also the basic structure of most agency creative briefs. What belief does the customer currently have? What belief do we want them to have? What information do we want to give them to change / update their current belief?). The famous Kaggle Titanic ...

The Caribbean on a whole brings to you a unique ethnic and topical collection of foods mix together with herbs and spices. These Caribbean recipes have evolving throughout the years due to the various cultural influences in the art of Caribbean cooking. Caribbean people love food and music. These foods are spicy or mild reflecting the taste of the individual. Some dishes are delicate in taste, subtle in flavor, reflecting years of cross cultural influences ...

The Caribbean on a whole brings to you a unique ethnic and topical collection of foods mix together with herbs and spices. These Caribbean recipes have evolving throughout the years due to the various cultural influences in the art of Caribbean cooking. Caribbean people love food and music. These foods are spicy or mild reflecting the taste of the individual. Some dishes are delicate in taste, subtle in flavor, reflecting years of cross cultural influences ...

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NOTE: Entries are number of clusters of cultural variants expected and rate of possible cultural change. Multiple rates reflect influence of individual innovators (e.g., change will be slow unless a prestigious individual introduces the variant). (a) A direct function of the number of family members present in the population. (b) A direct function of the social clustering within the population. Homogeneity of a culture is expected only under particular combinations of social norms and social models; it is not the rule. The more rigid the social constraints, the more homogeneous the cultural system of a population. We might expect social pressure to be greater in small and highly structured societies than in very large and loosely organized ones. Egalitarian societies will generally be less rigid, as in chimpanzees and some human hunter-gatherers, and probably less homogeneous. At the same time, in a huge modern Western society many cultural variants can survive side by side in most domains. ...

Home to close to 60 per cent of the worlds population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent. It is also extremely diverse, physically and culturally. Asian countries and regions have their own distinctive histories, cultural traditions, religious beliefs and political systems, and they have often pursued different routes to development. Asian populations

This article focuses on the inter-subjective aspects involved in the care of psychosocial crises of adolescents, their representations and developments. A qualitative research was developed from a psycho-sociological perspective by constructing life story narratives of adolescents treated at a Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents (CAPSi). It was based on the theoretical contributions of René Kaës on group and cultural aspects of the crisis, as well as its relation to adolescence. Life narratives, constructed through in-depth interviews with adolescents, close relatives, and CAPSi caretakers depict crisis as a surprise, as violence and estrangement, an episode that must be forgotten, denied, silenced, and medicalized ...

The study of diseases in biblical times tended to focus on behaviour, performance and social relations of the ill. It could not be undertaken without a proper understanding of the sociocultural context and of key cultural factors such as kinship, social networks, power, and authority, and thus involved sociocultural research rather than medical research. It would not focus on the individual as the primary source of concern or as an economical issue, but would strive to encompass the relation between the individual s illness and the community as a whole. This concept heightened the awareness of any irregularity or illness in an individual within a community since the individual was very much dependent on the values and opinions of other members of his community, and their own evaluation of this individual. This inevitably affected others such as family, neighbourhood and village. These interested parties would therefore be involved in the healing process. For example, biblical leprosy (which is ...

It is only in retrospect that I have begun to think of my father, Adrien Baillargeon as a superhero and a socio-cultural icon. In his time, the words had not yet come of age. Nevertheless, the words superhero and socio-cultural icon fit him to a tee long before he became a professional wrestler. At first, the image of a superhero was more in the French Canadian tradition of the legendary Paul Bunyan (Stevens 2001). At 65

2) Im very surprised by the reluctance of lit profs in the article in embracing the teaching of cultural aspects of the language. It seems to me that there is a huge (possibly covert) assumption that the study of lit is at least partly the study of culture when we look at how its done in an English dept. The dept there at least has the luxury that the majority of the students are familiar with the culture of the language of instruction. ...

Ancient population expansions and dispersals often leave enduring signatures in the cultural traditions of their descendants, as well as in their genes and languages. The international folktale record has long been regarded as a rich context in which to explore these legacies. To date, investigations in this area have been complicated by a lack of historical data and the impact of more recent waves of diffusion. In this study, we introduce new methods for tackling these problems by applying comparative phylogenetic methods and autologistic modelling to analyse the relationships between folktales, population histories and geographical distances in Indo-European-speaking societies. We find strong correlations between the distributions of a number of folktales and phylogenetic, but not spatial, associations among populations that are consistent with vertical processes of cultural inheritance. Moreover, we show that these oral traditions probably originated long before the emergence of the literary ...

Cultura de Tanzania (es); culture de la Tanzanie (fr); Cultura da Tanzânia (pt); culture of Tanzania (en); Utamaduni wa Kitanzania (sw); cultuur van Tanzania (nl) cultural aspects of society in Tanzania (en) Cultura na Tanzânia (pt); culture de la tanzanie (fr); cultuur in Tanzania (nl ...

JAC…the only thing that I will disagree with you on… is pulling a gun on an unarmed trespasser…..it is done all the time here and I would even do it. Land in Texas is sacred, like football. Texans have fought for land over the years dating back to the 1700s. I have no fault with people buying land if they can. Does the fault lie with the people with the money or the land bureau that sells public land? If I had the millions to buy land in the west, I would do it….if it was for sale. If I bought land in the west, I would probably fence it off as it would be private. That said, I would try to be a good neighbor as much as I could. But private property is just that…private. I would probably leave hiking trails open, but would most likely close hunting. If it was cattle country, I would probably fence off pastures and raise cattle and I would, most likely, post no trespassing signs off the hiking trails. I do not pretend to understand the cultural aspects of public land in your area but I ...

Lets say we have three different phases in the anarchist movement. The first phase was in the 80s, and it was characterised by Eastern philosophies, Western philosophies, psychedelic views, all combined and non-puritan. It was not differentiated. But this all changed in the mid-90s when the movement Italianised, so to speak. It began to copy the Italian model, to differentiate itself and distance itself from its cultural aspects, saying the only way to be effective was to be militant. It adopted a more objective and materialistic view. The major influences during the 90s were the Italian autonomia, to a lesser extent things like Green Anarchy from the American movement, and very much so the Situationist International and the new formulation of metropolis, the capitalistic centres as metropolis, the places where the spectacle is more actively formulated. The German underground and punk rock also had an influence, and these were not so tolerant of other approaches. In the 80s it was easier to ...

Behavioral Studies Standard 1- Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior. Benchmarks: Understands that cultural beliefs strongly influence the values and behavior of the people who grow up in the culture often without their being fully aware of it, and that people have different responses to these influences; Understands that punishment for unacceptable social behavior depends partly on beliefs about the purposes of punishment and about its effectiveness; Understands that socal distinctions are a part of every culture, but they take many different forms; Understands that people often take differences to be signs of social class; Understands that the difficulty of moving from one social class to another varies greatly with time, place, and economic circumstances; Understands that heredity, culture, and personal experience interact in shaping human behavior, and that the relative importance of these influences is not clear in most ...

The questions are divided into four parts: (1) questions voted as the top four most important problem areas for the field; (2) biology-centric problem areas; (3) modeling-centric problem areas; and (4) mechanisms of industrial-academic collaborations. The collaborations topic was set in its own category because it involves both biology and modeling questions, but also because it largely emphasizes cultural aspects in bringing industry and academia together rather than research questions per se ...

Darllen yn Cymraeg People of African and Caribbean descent originate from around 2000 different ethnic groups with a range of over 2000 languages and multiple cultural traditions. Black History Wales explore the interventions, educational achievements, innovative contributions and celebrate and share this rich heritage through the Arts here in Wales. How to respect my ethnic…

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Paul Follows theres a few words that give me difficulty like that. Faith and belief are also words that I have trouble with Processing. so I use substitutes that are a bit more logical. ...

Heres an interesting addition to the Archive - donated by Paul Moloney, a Funeral Programme for long time [and founder?] Communist Party of Ireland member, Seán Nolan [Pauls great uncle] who died in 1988. This sort of material which gives a sense of the broader cultural aspects of membership of the Irish left is of…

Every so often, I get hit in the face with two facts. First, Americans (even poor Americans) are unbelievably rich. Second, Americans (as a group) utterly lack a cultural tradition that teaches us how to eat a healthy, frugal diet.. The first time this really struck me was about twenty years ago. I was listening to a radio story about people whod risen from humble beginnings to become successful entrepreneurs. One guy, taking about a time his family had gone through a rough patch where money was tight, said, I can tell you, there were a lot of days we at bologna for lunch, and then bologna again for dinner.. My first thought was, Only in America do the truly poor eat meat twice a day. My second was, Why doesnt anyone teach people how to create a healthy, frugal diet? My third was, Oh, yeah--they do. Its called the four food groups--of course they thought they had to serve meat at every meal.. Since then, weve moved beyond the four food groups. Today we teach the food pyramid and ...

Epilepsy article. At least four people e-mailed me to tell me about this article in the New York Times, which describes a newly-rediscovered, high-fat diet that is often more effective than drugs to in controlling epilepsy. I beg to differ with the authors opinion, and mainstream conventional wisdom, that the saturated fat content in this diet is dangerous. Doctors also dont know how it works; Id like to point them toward some theories having a lot less to do with genetics and a lot more to do with gut flora (check out Natasha Campbell-McBrides lecture where she talks about epilepsy: http://www.lifeisapalindrome.com/content/part-two-gaps-and-autoimmunity-... , and scroll down about halfway).. ----. Just finished Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Sandorkraut Elix Katz. Short, to-the-point, humorous, and filled with recipes. Whats not to like?. One point I took home is that, when it comes to food, rotten is a relative term--and it is a product more of cultural tradition than food ...

This Famous People and Cultural Diffusion Lesson Plan is suitable for 9th - 12th Grade. Young scholars use the internet to identify cultural traditions throughout the world. In groups, they examine each culture and determine the effect they had on life in the United States.

By Michael Pickering. Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation to the lives of those people, and relates them to the cultural tradition and practice of which they…. Paperback - 2017-09-26 ...

Jill Ettinger is a Los Angeles-based journalist and editor focused on the global food system and how it intersects with our cultural traditions, diet preferences, health, and politics. She is the senior editor for sister websites OrganicAuthority.com and EcoSalon.com, and works as a research associate and editor with the Cornucopia Institute, the organic industry watchdog group. Jill has been featured in The Huffington Post, MTV, Reality Sandwich, and Eat Drink Better. www.jillettinger.com.. ...

Tourism has many benefits, such as providing jobs to the community, preserving cultural traditions that are at risk of extinction, fostering a sense of ide

There have been lots of secondary challenges confronted by the corporation which was a hurdle for the corporations achievements; Consequently, they need to be resolved. For starters, cultural variation was a large situation amongst workforce of Cirque Du Soleil as They can be from a variety of cultural backgrounds and they should make adjustments based on the Canadian existence. In addition to that, teaching was also a Human Useful resource challenge that people from all around the planet felt challenges in bending In keeping with the requirements of Cirque Du Soleil. Even further, corporate society of Cirque Du Soleil happens to be among the list of key challenges. To unravel that, performers are trained for virtually 6 months; They are really specified empowerment to give their views and ideas with regards to the effectiveness ...

301.00). These data, taken into account together with the low educational level of the women that were included in this sample, support that an adherence of 57% on an 18-month interval is a significant achievement.. Moreover, some cultural issues that might play a role here should be mentioned. First, there might be a cultural difference in understanding the effect of preventive and early detection interventions (22, 27, 28), especially in a country such as Brazil where there is no structured breast cancer screening program; thus, women are historically not used to undergoing regular mammography or other early detection measures. Second, certain cultures are more fatalistic about cancer and perceive fewer benefits from screening (29), which is, in the authors perception, an important issue in Brazil, especially in lower socioeconomic classes. Finally, in many of these women, concerns about their own healthcare are frequently neglected because of more urgent needs, such as childcare and ...

Beliefs are often conditional, qualified, and uncertain. And some of our beliefs are certainly beliefs about probabilities. But the fact that our beliefs are often conditional, qualified, and uncertain doesnt mean that the content of those beliefs is conditional, qualified, and uncertain. It is my attitude of belief that is qualified, not the content.. So when I believe (with less than 100% certainty) that what Caesar said is true, what I believe (again with less than 100% certainty) is that what Caesar said is true. Its not that I accept (with 100% certainty) some prediction with explicit error margin attached or some other probabilistic statement.. This doesnt do anything to settle debates over the substance or usefulness of the concept of truth. As Dan mentions, there is a large literature on the debate between deflationists about truth and their opponents. And as for the ineliminability of the concept, one quick response to Roderick would be I agree with what Caesar said. You have ...