Intercultural mediation was developed to solve problems between western (Belgian) health professionals and Turkish, Moroccan and Italian clients. The need for intercultural mediation in Belgium ...Health Care was measured by asking intercultural mediators to complete a questionnaire about situations in which language, culture, social-economic and personal circumstances cause difficulties. Results show that the profession ‘intercultural mediator’ continues to be important in improving the quality and accessibility of the Belgian health care for ethnic minorities. Even if clients speak Flemish fluently, there are still difficulties between health professional and client caused by culture, social-economic and personal circumstances.
Draws on three plus years of ethnographic data -- participant observation, interviews, diaries, informal discussion, & life history -- with 70 mothers & grandmothers to describe the attitudes & ...practices of mothers in the Dominican Republic regarding child care, child health, & government primary health care (PHC) initiatives. Dominicans' perceptions of child care are discussed in the context of their more general views on health & illness & in terms of their social, economic, & gender arrangements. It is concluded that PHC efforts have substantially failed not only because they conflict with cultural beliefs, but also because they fail to accomodate social & economic factors (eg, sources of female status) & do not account for interactions between the cultural & social in health practices. 27 References. Adapted from the source document.
AFKORTINGENBKI Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde W.H.O. World Health Organization. Newell, K.W. (ed.), 1975, Health by the people, Genve: W.H.O. Paul, B., 1955, Health, culture and ...community; Case studies of public reactions to health programs, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pillsbury, B., 1982, 'Policy and evaluation perpectives on traditional health attendants', Social Science and Medicine 16-21, pp. 1825-34. Wellin, E., 1955, 'Water boiling in a Peruvian town', in: B. Paul (ed.), Health, culture and community; Case studies of public reactions to health programs, pp 1\-103, New York: Praeger. rWerner, D., 1977, Where there is no doctor; A village health.care handbook, Palo Alto: Hesperian Foundation. . . -
This paper reports on an ethnographic study in Cartagena, Colombia. Over a seven-month fieldwork period, 35 men and 35 women between 15 and 60 years of age discussed the social context of HIV/AIDS ...through in-depth interviews, life histories and drawing. Participants considered the transgression of traditional gender roles as prescribed by machismo a major risk factor for HIV infection. In addition, they integrated public-health concepts of risk groups with these long-standing constructions of gender roles and sexuality-related stigma to create the notion of 'AIDS carriers'. The bricolage between machismo, public health and sexuality-related stigma that participants created and consequent preventive measures (based on an avoidance of sex with people identified as 'AIDS carriers') was a dynamic process in which participants were aware that changes in this particular interpretation of risk were necessary to confront the local epidemic.
Active restacking from mixtures of colloidal dispersions of delaminated layered double hydroxides (LDH) having different chemical compositions was investigated as a route for the formation of new ...nanostructured materials. Three nitrate-based layered double hydroxides (MgAl−NO3, MgGa−NO3, and CoAl−NO3) were delaminated in formamide. The colloidal dispersions were then mixed two-by-two and subsequently restacked into three new materials: MgAl−MgGa−CO3−res, MgAl−CoAl−CO3−res, and CoAl−MgGa−CO3−res. Various X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) techniques were combined with high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) to investigate the potential nanostructuring of the new materials. X-ray diffraction experiments showed that MgAl−MgGa−CO3−res is a two-phase mixture with one MgAl−CO3 based phase and one MgGa-CO3 based phase, whereas the powder patterns of MgAl−CoAl−CO3−res and CoAl−MgGa−CO3−res indicated that the samples are single phases. HAADF-STEM and EDXS studies showed that the nanosheets of the delaminated CoAl−NO3 and MgGa−NO3 were mixed down to the nanometer scale in the restacked CoAl−MgGa−CO3−res, supporting that the sample is a single phase. In situ high temperature XRPD experiments confirmed that CoAl−MgGa−CO3−res is not a simple mixture of two segregated CoAl−CO3 and MgGa−CO3 phases but a new nanostructured material with LDH-type structure consisting of two chemically different brucite-type layers. Furthermore, the in situ XRPD experiments showed that the thermal development of the restacked CoAl−MgGa−CO3−res and a coprecipitated and anion-exchanged MgCoAlGa−CO3 is different.
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