Head and neck malignancies comprise a heterogeneous group of malignancies that cause significant morbidity to those affected. These malignancies are associated with specific risk factors and ...exposures, some of which impact prognosis. The most common risk factors for developing head and neck cancers are tobacco and alcohol use. Marijuana and e-cigarettes, occupational exposures, and use of topical substances have also been linked to head and neck cancers. Human papilloma virus has been associated with oropharyngeal cancer. Such measures as oral hygiene, screening, smoking cessation, and vaccination are measures taken to decrease the incidence and morbidity of head and neck cancers.
Family and Eco-citizenship Lefebvre, Béatrice; Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha; Léger, Michel T
Enfances, familles, générations,
12/2023
Journal Article
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Research framework: Although the family is typically the place where socialization and learning begin, and where values, practices and cultures are handed down, the ways in which eco-citizenship is ...taught within the family remain underexplored in current research.Objectives : This introductory article, along with the other articles in this special issue, explores various aspects of the relationship between family and eco-citizenship.Methodology: This article is based on a partial review of the humanities and social sciences literature on the subject.Results: The introductory article and the texts that make up the special issue shed light on the ways in which family dynamics are changing, on children's and young people's involvement in environmental action, and on the role of institutions in the development of eco-citizenship.Conclusion : The social processes by which eco-citizenship is constructed, and the transformations that take place within families in response to eco-citizen actions, underline the need for practices and lifestyle changes that involve a diverse array of actors, including young people, their families, institutional bodies and policymakers. The scientific community needs to pay more attention to this issue, as literature on the subject is still scarce.Contribution : In addition to providing some insights into the relationship between the family and eco-citizenship, this article suggests avenues for research in cultural and international contexts, issues of social and environmental justice, and the roles played by media and digital technology in fostering eco-citizenship.
In Canada, the resettlement of thousands of war‐affected children every year poses new challenges to child and family services. Since young people arrive from multiple contexts either alone or ...accompanied by family or caregiver(s), after having endured significant trauma, stress, and adversity, conventional approaches to service delivery are seldom adequate. Drawing on anthropology of childhood literature, this paper calls for increased inclusion of young people's experiences and perspectives in reconfiguring psychosocial services. Interactive focus groups and in‐depth interviews with youth from war‐affected countries and service providers in Québec uncovered the ways that war alters family and how young people rely on both formal and informal support systems during resettlement. Young people and service providers reflected on inadequacies of current services in meeting the complex needs of youth while service professionals reported being ill‐equipped to support war‐affected youth. This paper posits that perspectives from the anthropology of childhood are critical in liaising between youth and professionals to provide services that build on a socioecological view of development, provide healing, and recognize the diversity of children and families’ kinship ties.
This study, based on research into a youth empowerment initiative in Canada, examines the transformational power of youth grants for marginalised youth and their communities. The positive changes on ...individual youth included increased confidence and skills, as well as strengthened social interactions between youth, and involved adults and organisations. To leverage grant impact, we identify the critical role of creating accountability at multiple levels, promoting sharing among grantees, and fostering allies and system thinkers. The evaluation points to the potential of grants for changing community's perception that youth are incapable of fostering community youth development.
Cet article s’intéresse à la manière de ré-« concilier » l’appui à l’entrepreneuriat en contexte autochtone à partir de l’étude du cas de StartUp Nations, un programme d’accompagnement en ...entrepreneuriat collectif pour les jeunes des Premières Nations au Québec. Basé sur une approche qualitative décoloniale permettant la mise en valeur de points de vue des personnes selon leur propre cadre culturel, cet article montre comment l’approche pédagogique et le contenu théorique du programme ont été adaptés. La démarche de ré-« conciliation » peut être résumée en six actions concrètes prises par StartUp Nations pour répondre aux besoins et aspirations des jeunes, ainsi qu’aux réalités des Premières Nations.
This article examines the nature of early adolescents' environmental involvement based on a study with 10-13-year-olds. Drawing from literal and metaphorical interviews, a visual survey and visual ...maps, the study points to the dimensions of environmental involvement: connectedness, engagement with the environment, questioning, belief in capacity, taking a stance and strategic action. Children's agency runs across the dimensions, as children intentionally and strategically figure their way through significant life influences, beliefs towards nature and age-defined barriers. Of interest is what the sources of environmental involvement are, as well as how a child interacts and engages in situations and with resources at hand. Along with awakening to the natural environment, children are discovering themselves and carving a place in the world.
This article explores the significance of cultural safety in view of the struggle over ancestral domain and modernity for Kelabit youth and elders in the state of Sarawak in Borneo, Malaysia. Our ...participatory case study points to the challenges to cultural safety caused by the external pressures of modernization and competing knowledge systems from downriver that are breaking down the leadership and decision-making processes to protect the land. We found that intergenerational community mapping and language revitalization provide a means for supporting cultural safety. Our applied research suggests that cultural safety benefits from being defined locally. Empowering youth and elders to harness, renew, and defend the potential of Kelabit identity and unity is part of recognizing that cultural safety needs to be constantly affirmed by its proponents. It is a process that demands to be actively grappled with and defined by community members at the individual and collective levels.
This paper presents Indigenous youths’ perspectives on well-being. Using Indigenous youth participatory action research with the Indigenous youth advisory committee of the Québec Youth Research ...Network Chair (Canada), community care emerged as the central feature of well-being and was then visually presented in the form of a postcard. We discuss the meaning given to community care, the factors that support it, and the role that a visual illustration can play in promoting change. The article is informed by the co-creation of the postcard, an online luncheon conversation, and several debriefing/reflexive sessions with the Indigenous youth co-authors. Emphasis is placed on cultural continuity, relational agency, and solidarity, offering an alternative point of view to the prevalent and damaging decontextualized, deficit-based, and individualized approaches to well-being.
This special issue aims to explore Canadian pedagogical and curricular practices in child and youth care and youth work preservice education with an emphasis on empirical and applied studies that ...centre students’ perspectives of learning. The issue includes a theoretical reflection and empirical studies with students, educators, and practitioners from a range of postsecondary programs in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The empirical articles use various methodologies to explore pedagogical and curricular approaches, including Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies, ethical settler frontline and teaching practices, the pedagogy of the lightning talk, novel-based pedagogy, situated learning, suicide prevention education, and simulation-based teaching. These advance our understanding of accountability and commitment to Indigenous, decolonial, critical, experiential, and participatory praxis in child and youth care postsecondary education. In expanding the state of knowledge about teaching and learning in child and youth care, we also aspire to validate interdisciplinary ways of learning and knowing, and to spark interest in future research that recognizes the need for education to be ethical, critically engaged, creatively experiential, and deeply culturally and environmentally relevant.
Foreword: Fostering cultural safety across contexts Natasha Blanchet-Cohen; Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao
AlterNative : an international journal of indigenous peoples,
09/2017, Letnik:
13, Številka:
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