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2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-700
Author(s):  
Martin Skrydstrup
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tamil Women

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Related to Smokeless Tobacco and Areca Nut Cessation Among Dental Surgeons in Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruwan Duminda Jayasinghe ◽  
PR Jayasooriya ◽  
H Amarasinghe ◽  
PVKS Hettiarachchi ◽  
BSMS. Siriwardena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Smokeless Tobacco ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Tobacco Cessation ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Areca Nut ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Past

Abstract Background: Prevalence of smoking in Sri Lanka shows a gradual reduction whilst the use of smokeless tobacco and areca nut shows an increasing trend. At present adequate numbers of smokeless tobacco / areca nut cessation counseling programs are not being carried out in Sri Lanka. As the Dental surgeons could play a significant role in smokeless tobacco / areca nut cessation activities, capacity building programmes for dental surgeons on smokeless tobacco/ areca nut control were carried out. The study was planned to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices related to smokeless tobacco/ areca nut control among dental surgeons.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted. Two questionnaires were used to assess the improvement of knowledge and change of attitudes following programmes on smokeless tobacco / areca nut control. Results: There were 663 participants in the study. 27.1% of them had received formal tobacco cessation training in the past. Majority had a good knowledge on harmful effects of smokeless tobacco but not on areca nut. Their knowledge on the current legislation on smokeless tobacco control in Sri Lanka and carcinogenicity of areca nut was not satisfactory. Almost all agreed that proper counseling leads to patient quitting the habit, a formal training is necessary to conduct tobacco control activities and it should be the part of the regular treatment modalities. More than 80% of the Dental surgeons believed that they should support strict legislation. Almost 50% agreed on tobacco and areca nut free environment in their dental clinics. Most important factors leading to poor involvement in tobacco cessation activities were lack of expertise and inadequate educational material, not breach of patient privacy and lack of financial incentives. Surprisingly, 20.1% of the dental surgeons had consumed smokeless tobacco / areca nut products in the past and only a few were current users of tobacco and/or areca nut. Conclusions: Well planned workshops are efficient and cost effective in improving knowledge, practices and attitudes of Dental surgeons towards smokeless tobacco / areca nut cessation.

India's Second Freedom Struggle

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Michael Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Nations

During the Indian Emergency a cartoon appeared in a Sri Lanka newspaper that depicted two Gandhi-capped congressmen in conversation, one of them saying: "The thing I really miss is lecturing the Western nations on how to run a democracy." If there has been resistance in the past to Indian lectures, there is now widespread openness to learning from India's nineteen-month Emergency. There may be lessons for all countries that claim to be democratic.

Monastic Patronage and Temple Building in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Caste, Ritual Performance, and Merit

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFFREY SAMUELS
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caste Discrimination ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Lay Buddhists ◽  
Monastic Patronage

The current article examines temple building and shifting monastic patronage in twentieth and twenty-first century Sri Lanka. Drawing heavily on fieldwork conducted in two separate upcountry villages over the past five years, the author argues that far from passively accepting the failings of local monastics, lay Buddhists are actively and directly involved in shaping their own religious experiences. In examining closely numerous conversations centered on temple construction, this article pays particular attention to how notions about ideal ritual performance, caste discrimination, and merit-making provide lay donors with the needed impetus for building new monastic institutions and, thus, establishing a choice of temple patronage where little or no such choice previously existed.

Recent Economic Trends in Sri Lanka

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hooley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

While Sri Lanka is geographically closer to India, there are greater similarities in economic structure with many Southeast Asian countries. Sri Lanka is a small open economy. Foreign trade has always played a pivotal role in the functioning of the economy. Politically the country has exhibited a preference for democratic parliamentary forms of government, which are compatible with an underlying cultural individualism. There are important differences, however, in both the tempo and direction of economic growth over the past two decades, and these differences, along with the underlying policy strategies that produced them, are potentially instructive in any consideration of economic performance in the region.

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