Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a major public health issue and a threat to the well-being of a mother and her offspring. As a growing concern in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper explores the ...knowledge, attitude, and practices of healthy expectant mothers towards GDM, and the content of GDM information delivered by prenatal nurses during Antenatal Clinic (ANC) in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. Semi-structured telephone interviews were employed with 22 participants comprising 20 pregnant women and 2 antenatal nurses. The results reveal that majority of the pregnant women were unaware of GDM as a particular health condition during pregnancy that poses a risk to both maternal and infant health and could lead to a long-term risk of developing the chronic condition of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). This low level of awareness was attributed to a lack of adequate information during prenatal clinic sessions. The findings from this study emphasize the need to enhance the quality of public health education offered to pregnant women during pre and antenatal clinical services emphasizing GDM as part of the overall global agenda on promoting maternal and infant health.
Purpose - Open and distance e-learning (ODeL) practices have substantial contributions to make in achieving societal development goals. The challenge however remains with enhancing skilling, training ...and educating professionals who will contribute to this progress. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how transformative education and training in global health can be undertaken through ODeL in increasing the quality, quantity and relevance of health professional education and training. Design/methodology/approach - This paper is based on a descriptive qualitative case study of the International Health and Development Course offered by the University of the Philippines Open University and is thus limited in its scope from other courses in the program. Findings - Transformative education and training through ODeL has the potential of increasing the quality, quantity and relevance of health professionals training. However more critical assessment of transformative learning outcomes is needed via rigorous methods of objectifying such outcomes. Achieving transformative health education and training requires rigorous engagement in constructivist-oriented experiential learning that allow learners to be accustomed to significant interactions achieved by involvement in problem-based methods accomplished through small group e-tivities in order to demonstrate applicability in the real work context. Originality/value - The outcome of this paper is relevant to institutions in Asia that offer ODeL-based global health programs through open knowledge systems in order to produce graduates who are more responsive to the evolving health needs amid twenty-first century global health challenges.
The sportification of kabaddi, a traditional Indian game, is manifested through the organization of certain rules and establishment of institutions that have enhanced its appeal as a global sport for ...both men’s and women’s teams in three forms of the game: the standard style, beach kabaddi, and circle-style kabaddi. The theory of sportification assumes that all sports tend to develop along similar patterns toward increased specialization, standardization, and rationalization. However, the sportification and internationalization of kabaddi can be conceived as a hybridization of both Western and non-Western ideologies through processes aimed at replacing old forms of discourse with new ones. The focus of this article, therefore, is to situate kabaddi’s sportification and internationalization, from a sociological perspective, within key conceptions of codification, rationalization, and institutionalization. The article significantly draws on the works of Weber, Marx, and Elias, and ends with a call for expansion of sociological inquiry in the study of traditional games which has, until now, largely been informed by discourses from sports science.
In resource-limited settings, national tuberculosis (TB) control programmes are highly dependent on external funds, which may pose a challenge to programme sustainability. There is a recognized need ...for developing guidance around sustainable programming of current TB control initiatives.
The aim of this study was to explore public health practitioners' perspectives on the sustainability of TB control initiatives in Pakistan at the primary health care (PHC) level.
Guided by an interpretive epistemology, online in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 public health practitioners who had experience as resource planners in the TB control programme in Pakistan. Thematic content analysis was employed to the textual data as the analytical approach.
Three themes were inductively derived from the thematic analysis: community involvement, stakeholder engagement and efficient use of the PHC system. Community involvement was a determinant in sustaining TB control initiatives. This was attributed to the nature of the disease and prevalent health seeking behaviour. Stakeholder engagement was associated with funding arrangements between public and private partners and considered important in how new initiatives can be made part of the routine structure. Overall, having an efficient PHC system was deemed critical in sustaining current TB control initiatives at the PHC level in Pakistan.
Fostering an enabling operational environment through regulations, supporting the utilization of existing resources, expanding the network of providers, inclusive planning, increasing spending on research and cost-effective testing are pivotal for sustaining the TB control initiatives.
Purpose
Open and distance e-learning (ODeL) practices have substantial contributions to make in achieving societal development goals. The challenge however remains with enhancing skilling, training ...and educating professionals who will contribute to this progress. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how transformative education and training in global health can be undertaken through ODeL in increasing the quality, quantity and relevance of health professional education and training.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on a descriptive qualitative case study of the International Health and Development Course offered by the University of the Philippines Open University and is thus limited in its scope from other courses in the program.
Findings
Transformative education and training through ODeL has the potential of increasing the quality, quantity and relevance of health professionals training. However more critical assessment of transformative learning outcomes is needed via rigorous methods of objectifying such outcomes. Achieving transformative health education and training requires rigorous engagement in constructivist-oriented experiential learning that allow learners to be accustomed to significant interactions achieved by involvement in problem-based methods accomplished through small group e-tivities in order to demonstrate applicability in the real work context.
Originality/value
The outcome of this paper is relevant to institutions in Asia that offer ODeL-based global health programs through open knowledge systems in order to produce graduates who are more responsive to the evolving health needs amid twenty-first century global health challenges.
This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and ...capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin’s and Fanon’s cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. This innovative and sophisticated work will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, gender and masculinities studies, sociology, political science, history, and critical race and racialization. Contributors: Katerina Deliovsky, Delroy Hall, Dennis O. Howard, Elishma Khokhar, Tamari Kitossa, Kemar McIntosh, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Watufani M. Poe, Satwinder Rehal, John G. Russell, Mohan Siddi.
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Philippines, resources for reproductive health were diverted to prioritize addressing the impact of inequities among vulnerable and marginalized groups in ...the country. Based on a systematic review of the literature, this article unravels intersections of Filipina women’s reproductive oppression, which have come to play in the current COVID-19 crisis in the country. The article draws from Foucauldian, feminist, and critical theories, arguing for praxis of reproductive justice in the Philippines by continuously employing agency against reproductive oppression in moments of crisis, including disease pandemics, and constantly contesting hegemonic discourses and ideologies on reproductive health and overall women’s rights.
Since the end of bipolarity in the early 1990s, the rise of new political and economic realignment has been challenging the monopolistic nature of the control of the international political economy ...mostly through trade, financial movements, and technological input by Western European powers, including the United States (Lumumba-Kasongo 2013: 120). Various types of political forces within this broad movement in most parts of the world are demanding the articulation of some forms of a multipolar world in political management of the world’s resources. It is the contention of Lumumba-Kasongo (2013) that this multipolar scenario opens up new options for economic
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