scholarly journals Can social scientists be the change agents for diabetes prevention? Diabetes-related knowledge, attitude, and practice among social scientists

2013 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 032-036
Author(s):  
Raman Shetty ◽  
Biranchi Jena ◽  
Adibabu Kadithi
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
Be The Change ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Abstract Introduction:Diabetes is an emergency in slow motion in India. There is an urgent need of improving awareness and education on diabetes in the community and the social scientist working in the community health are the important group to make this happen. Objectives:To assess the prevalence of diabetes among the social scientists and measure their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) on diabetes. Materials and Methods:A delegate of social scientists attending a national conference on social science and health were screened for random blood sugar and a survey was conducted through a structured self-answered questionnaire on KAP in diabetes. Excel Microsoft Office 2010 package was used for descriptive analysis. Results:A total of 245 social scientists attended the conference; of them, 211 (86%) social scientists voluntarily participated in diabetes screening, and among them, 99 (47%) voluntarily responded on KAP questionnaire. Prevalence rate of diabetes among social scientists was found to be 9.5% and the study revealed that the knowledge was fair, attitude was positive, and practice was good among the social scientists working in the field of social health. Conclusion:The social scientists could be the Change Agents for the changing diabetes in the community through appropriate strategies involving them.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning among married women of reproductive age in a VDC of eastern Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Uprety ◽  
I S Poudel ◽  
A Ghimire ◽  
M Poudel ◽  
S Bhattrai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Modern Contraceptive ◽  
Contraceptive Methods ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Contraceptive use and fertility rates vary substantially among developing countries. An important factor, which affects the fertility of any population, is Contraceptive. Contraceptive use varies by age. Nepal over the past 15 years show an impressive increase in the use of modern contraceptive methods from 26 percent in 1996 to 43 percent in 2011. Objectives of the is to assess the knowledge, attitude regarding family planning and the practice of contraceptives among the married women of Dhabi VDC of Eastern Nepal. A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was done in Dhabi VDC. Total of 300 married women age 15-49 sample were taken from family planning center situated in Dhabi. Knowledge, attitude and practice on contraceptives were evaluated with the help of a predesigned questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was done by using SPSS 11.5 software to obtain frequencies and percentages. Out of 300 interviewed women, the mean age was 27.94 years, 98% had heard about Family planning method. Radio was the main Source of family planning information. Regarding the usage of contraceptive methods, about 79.3% had ever used and 63.3 had current using some sort of contraception, among the method used Injectables were the commonly used methods About 71% of married women other child in the further. Despite the knowledge of all family planning methods majority of the women used Injectables. Easily accessible and easily to use were the main reasons for choosing Injectables methods. 

scholarly journals New Frontiers in Halal Pharmaceuticals

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (SPL1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halim Basari
Keyword(s):  
Individualized Medicine ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improve Compliance ◽  
Prescribing Practice ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

It has been 20 years since the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) issued the first Halal certification to health supplements manufactured by CCM. Many innovative halal medicines were produced locally, since. However, halal medicines do not get much attention from the market, except by the Ministry of Defence, despite Malaysia being the world champion on the Global Islamic Economy Indicator for 5 consecutive years. Malaysia leads through its robust, comprehensive halal standards and extensive halal ecosystem. Muslims, in general, are unaware of Malaysia's halal achievement and hardly create demand for halal medicines. Studies also show a significant occurrence of medicine errors, while 50% of patients deliberately did not take their medicines. Medicine prescribing practice should be revamped using alternative perspectives to improve compliance and prevent unnecessary medication errors, namely personalized or individualized medicine, ethnocentricity, halalopathy, Muslim friendly hospitality, and Syariah compliant pharmacy practice. Healthcare practitioners and patients must enhance their Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards halal medicines. Religious beliefs, sentiments or ethnocentricity have formed the Social Norms and Values that play a vital role in the decision-making process of medicine-taking. Healthcare practitioners should empower patients to choose their ethnocentric medicines, thus improving their compliance, enhancing their therapeutic outcome, and also reducing unnecessary medicine errors.  

Why social scientists still need phenomenology

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110643
Author(s):  
Christopher Houston
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief ◽  
Do So ◽  
Critical Science

Pierre Bourdieu famously dismissed phenomenology as offering anything useful to a critical science of society – even as he drew heavily upon its themes in his own work. This paper makes a case for why Bourdieu’s judgement should not be the last word on phenomenology. To do so it first reanimates phenomenology’s evocative language and concepts to illustrate their continuing centrality to social scientists’ ambitions to apprehend human engagement with the world. Part II shows how two crucial insights of phenomenology, its discovery of both the natural attitude and of the phenomenological epoche, allow an account of perception properly responsive to its intertwined personal and collective aspects. Contra Bourdieu, the paper’s third section asserts that phenomenology’s substantive socio-cultural analysis simultaneously entails methodological consequences for the social scientist, reversing their suspension of disbelief vis-à-vis the life-worlds of interlocutors and inaugurating the suspension of belief vis-à-vis their own natural attitudes.

Imagination and Art

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Swedberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the role of imagination and the arts in helping social scientists to theorize well. However deep one's basic knowledge of social theory is, and however many concepts, mechanisms, and theories one knows, unless this knowledge is used in an imaginative way, the result will be dull and noncreative. A good research topic should among other things operate as an analogon—that is, it should be able to set off the theoretical imagination of the social scientist. Then, when a social scientist writes, he or she may want to write in such a way that the reader's theoretical imagination is stirred. Besides imagination, the chapter also discusses the relationship of social theory to art. There are a number of reason for this, including the fact that in modern society, art is perceived as the height of imagination and creativity.

Toward a Theory of State Intervention

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-205
Author(s):  
Ira J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

State intervention into the ownership, financing, and regulation of various industries and sectors of the capitalist economy is a phenomenon as old as capitalism itself. In the last 15 years this topic has become a focal point of vigorous interest among social scientists. Given the manifest problems to be found within current political-economic relationships, it is not surprising that a great deal of this attention has been focused on the contemporary scene. Nevertheless, a small number of works have undertaken the explanation of the historical development of state intervention. Unfortunately, the historian in search of explanatory guidance is confronted here with a series of less than comprehensive analyses which move at descriptive and explanatory cross-purposes. The first tasks of the social scientist or historian who wishes to address the development of state intervention therefore must be to classify and clarify the accounts which have been proposed.

Social Scientists and the Point IV Program

1950 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Farm Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Society

The role of the social scientist in the Point IV Program was discussed at a meeting sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Sociological Society, during the Annual Conference of the Sociological Society in Denver, September 8, 1950. Chairman of the meeting was Carl C. Taylor, Head, Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Perception of Consumer towards Halal Labelled Cosmetic Products in Selangor

10.31355/41 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 057-064
Author(s):  
Nursalwani Muhamad ◽  
Zul Ariff Abdul Latiff
Keyword(s):  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cosmetic Products ◽  
Cosmetic Product ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level ◽  
Body Care ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED WITH THE INFORMING SCIENCE INSTITUTE. Aim/Purpose...................................................................................................................................................................................................... This study aims to identify the level of perception level of consumer and the relationship between knowledge, attitude and practice toward consumer perception on the halal cosmetic product. Background........................................................................................................................................................................................................ Halal labelled cosmetic sector is expected to thrive in Malaysia. The consumption and expenditure among Malaysian consumers on cosmetic products in personal body care, beauty and wellness products are increasing rapidly over time. At the same time, government bodies have to make sure that manufacturers comply with Malaysia Halal and Sharia standards. Methodology....................................................................................................................................................................................................... Data was collected through a self-administered questionnaire where 100 respondents were randomly selected in the Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS) exhibition. The data were then analyzed by using descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation analysis. Contribution........................................................................................................................................................................................................ This paper studies the effect of knowledge, attitude and practice on the perception of consumer toward halal labelled cosmetic products in Selangor. This study is useful to fill the gaps in the Malaysian literature regarding the importance of knowledge and its relationship with the attitude and practice. Findings.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. From the results, the consumers are having a high level of perception of halal cosmetic products. Besides that, consumers have sufficient knowledge with the attitude towards the halal cosmetic products, which includes the ingredients that are lawful in Syariah law and can avoid sensitive skin and allergic problem. However, the consumers showed a moderate practice level on the halal cosmetic products as there are more prone to used products from overseas. The analysis of Pearson correlation on three variables has indicated that knowledge, attitude and practice of consumers are identical to the methods of halal cosmetic products. Recommendations for Practitioners................................................................................................................................................................. The government should promote the benefits of halal cosmetic products to consumers more often to change their perceptions about the halal cosmetic product in Malaysia. Recommendation for Researchers................................................................................................................................................................... More studies can be done regarding the behavior and intention of consumers concerning halal cosmetic products in other states in Malaysia. Impact on Society.............................................................................................................................................................................................. The findings can help consumers in understanding the benefits and advantage of halal cosmetic product toward health. Hence, all parties, including the government, policymakers and manufacturers, should encourage and grow consumer interest in halal cosmetic product by making it more accessible and available. Future Research................................................................................................................................................................................................ This study focuses on Selangor only and does not represent other states. Further research is required to generalize the findings of this study aimed at determining the effect of demographic factors on the behavior of consumers concerning halal cosmetic products.

Applied Anthropology Society Formed In Canada

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
The United States ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consulting Firms ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
French And English ◽  
The 1960S

Canada bears some similarities to, and yet in many respects is distinctively different from the United States of America. Composed of two linguistic communities, French and English, and demographically lop-sided, with the majority of its inhabitants living within 200 miles of the U. S. border, the nation presents questions for the social scientist with applied interests which while not unique, are not easily resolved by recourse to American models. Until fairly recently, the social sciences in Canada, and anthropology in particular, were only sparsely represented within and without academia. The 1960s were witness to a rapid growth pattern, with substantial recrutiment of social scientists from the U. S.A, Great Britain and Commonwealth countries such as Australia. The establishment in time of graduate programs led to the present situation, in which positions in Canada are increasingly being filled by persons with Canadian training. Many of these positions are in non-academic settings, such as museums, federal and provincial government agencies, private consulting firms and elsewhere. Many social scientists in Canada find themselves today in applied career patterns.

A Return to Innocence? The Social Construction of the Geopolitical Climate of the Post-Invasion Caribbean

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry B. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conception Of Man

Under what conditions may a social scientist legitimately pass judgment on the geopolitical climate of a region? The question is not easy to answer. First, it presupposes acknowledgement that there are value issues embedded in such judgments. Second, while a value-free attitude may indeed be attempted, such an attitude is difficult to achieve. All too frequently, evaluation of a region's “climate” is based on the values of the evaluator (and often without disclosure of this fact to unsuspecting readers).This is especially likely when the observer adopts a theoretical position, taking insufficient account of the tension between society and actors. Unfortunately, such theories give social scientists the false feeling that they have some sort of preferred cognitive vantage point. Theories which incorporate an “oversocialized conception of man” (Wrong, 196l) or, alternatively, an “overly psychological conception of society,” ignore the fact that people act and make decisions about those actions, both of which are based upon value-judgments, and which do not have a one-to-one correlation with any given social situation.

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