The evolution of the socio-cultural and religious characteristics of cancer patients in Morocco: case of the National Institute of Oncology Rabat

Abstract Background In 2020, Morocco recorded more than 59,370 new cases of cancer and more than 35,265 cases of death (International Agency for Research on Cancer, Annual report Morocco, 2020). Cancer is always accompanied by socially constructed, differentiated, and contingent interpretations and practices according to the socio-cultural and religious characteristics of each region. The study aims at describing the evolution of the socio-cultural and religious aspects of Moroccan cancer patients followed at the National Institute of Oncology (NIO) of Rabat between 2010 and 2020. Methods We have prospectively studied all cancer cases diagnosed at the National Oncology Institute (NIO), Rabat in 2019. We have collected 1102 cases. The data collected was compared with the results of the study carried out in 2010 (1600 cases). Statistical analysis has been assessed by SPSS 20 software and the correlations between socio-cultural characteristics were examined using a chi-square test. Results From a socio-economic point of view, almost all patients claim that cancer is a costly disease as well as a disease that leads to a drop in income and the inevitable impoverishment of Moroccan patients. The illiteracy rate is still high; rising from 38% in 2010 to 42.80% in 2020. On the psychological level, damage to body image (alopecia, mastectomy, hysterectomy,) can lead to stigmatizing and harms the marital relationship. The number of patients experiencing divorce and marital separation that seems to occur following cancer pathology remains high, despite a decrease of nearly 50% between 2010 and 2020. Concerning the spiritual aspect, in the Arab-Amazigh-Muslim culture, the impact of the occurrence of cancer is very particular, and the repercussions are assessed differently depending on the degree of conviction. For practicing believers, cancer is considered a divine test and an opportunity to improve. In the Qur’an, God tests the best of his disciples to reward them The rate of practicing believers has evolved from 49% in 2010 to 85.50% in 2020.But for non-practicing believers, cancer is regarded as a divine punishment coming from outside. New behaviors reported by this research concern the use of “roquia”. This spiritual cure is considered as an anti-cancer remedy. It uses Allah’s words from the holy “qur’an”, his faires names and his attributes. 42% of patients use “roquia”. Concerning phytotherapy, there was an increase in the percentage of participants using medicinal plants and even the most harmful plants (Arestiloch, Euphorbia) from 26% in 2010 to 51.50% in 2020. Conclusion The precarious social level of cancer patients, the lack of social and medical coverage, illiteracy, and lack of knowledge of religion, as well as dissatisfaction with conventional medicine, may lead patients to the use of traditional medicine (medicinal plants, visit of “marabouts”, “roquia”). This can have a negative impact on the quality of access to oncology care.

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The Evolution of the Socio-cultural and Religious Characteristics of Cancer Patients in Morocco: Case of the National Institute of Oncology Rabat

10.21203/rs.3.rs-50765/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Fahd Elkhalloufi ◽

Saber Boutayeb ◽

Fouzia Mamouch ◽

Latifa Rakibi ◽

Sanae Elmajjaoui ◽

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Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Point Of View ◽

Healthcare Team ◽

Economic Point ◽

Chisquare Test ◽

To Come ◽

Almost All ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background: In 2018, Morocco recorded more than 52,783 new cases of cancer and more than 32,962 cases of death (IARC, 2018). Cancer is always accompanied by socially constructed, differentiated and contingent interpretations and practices according to the socio-cultural and religious characteristics of each region. The aims of this study is describing the evolution of the socio-cultural and religious aspects of Moroccan cancer patients followed at the National Institute of Oncology (NIO) of RABAT between 2010 and 2020.Methods: We have prospectively studied all cancer cases diagnosed at the National Oncology Institute (NIO), Rabat in 2019. We have collected 1102 cases. The data collected was compared with the results of the study carried out in 2010 (1600 cases). Statistical analysis has been assessed by SPSS 20 software and the correlations between socio-cultural characteristics were examined using a chisquare test.Results: from a socio-economic point of view, almost all patients claim that cancer is a costly disease as well as a disease that leads to a drop in income and the inevitable impoverishment of Moroccan patients. The illiteracy rate is higher than in subsequent studies 42.4%. On the psychological level, the damage to body image has a negative impact on the marital relationship. The number of female patients who are victims of spousal divorce and separation is very high. Damage to body image (alopecia) can lead to stigmatizing behaviour. Concerning the spiritual aspect, in the Arab-Berber-Muslim culture, the impact of the occurrence of cancer is very particular, and the repercussions are assessed differently depending on the degree of conviction. for practicing believers, cancer is considered a divine trial, but for non-practicing believers, cancer is regarded as a divine punishment coming from outside. New behaviours reported by this research concern the use of ROKIA as an anti-cancer remedy, 42% of patients use ROKIA.Conclusion: It is important to take these data into account in the therapeutic management of patients in order to better relieve them, which sometimes proves difficult for the healthcare team. The main relief seems to come from the deep religious beliefs that help.

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Pemolisian di Era Globalisme: Analisis Faktor Perubahan Lingkungan Ekonomi dan Perkembangan Terorisme

Jurnal Keamanan Nasional ◽

10.31599/jkn.v3i2.84 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ahrie Sonta

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Point Of View ◽

Strategic Analysis ◽

Economic Point ◽

The Impact

Policing is one of the final filter mechanisms in order to avoid the impact of globalizationentering Indonesia. Good policing can anticipate the dynamicof strategic environment before the bad impact happen in the society. Therefore, it is important for police to be able to conduct analyses on comprehensive strategic policing based on sectorial. For example, globalization, economy, and terrorism have specific chains and/or relationship pattern, in which the development influences the livelihood of Indonesia society. Indonesia Police has role to protect, assist, and serve society by giving priority on preventive functions before negative impact caused by the changes of strategic environmentoccurred. National strategic analysis is important to develop police capability by using humanity approach. This essay is to strategically analysethe comprehensive security through economic point of view including in the context of terrorism.

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Polysaccharide and Protein Films with Antimicrobial/Antioxidant Activity in the Food Industry: A Review

Polymers ◽

10.3390/polym12061289 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 1289 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ewelina Jamróz ◽

Pavel Kopel

Keyword(s):

Food Industry ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Food Products ◽

Active Packaging ◽

Point Of View ◽

Packaging Materials ◽

Protein Films ◽

Economic Point ◽

Antioxidant And Antimicrobial Activity ◽

The Impact

From an economic point of view, the spoilage of food products during processing and distribution has a negative impact on the food industry. Lipid oxidation and deterioration caused by the growth of microorganisms are the main problems during storage of food products. In order to reduce losses and extend the shelf-life of food products, the food industry has designed active packaging as an alternative to the traditional type. In the review, the benefits of active packaging materials containing biopolymers (polysaccharides and/or proteins) and active compounds (plant extracts, essential oils, nanofillers, etc.) are highlighted. The antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of this type of film has also been highlighted. In addition, the impact of active packaging on the quality and durability of food products during storage has been described.

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the oncologic care continuum: urgent need to restore patients care to pre-COVID-19 era

Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice ◽

10.1017/s1460396921000303 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Ernest Osei ◽

Ruth Francis ◽

Ayan Mohamed ◽

Lyba Sheraz ◽

Fariba Soltani-Mayvan

Keyword(s):

Cancer Care ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Negative Impact ◽

System Level ◽

Care Continuum ◽

Cancer Services ◽

Number Of Patients ◽

Prevention Programmes ◽

Screening And Prevention ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background: Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death, and it is estimated that over 18·1 million new cases are diagnosed annually. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted almost every aspect of the provision and management of cancer care worldwide. The time-critical nature of COVID-19 diagnosis and the large number of patients requiring hospitalisation necessitated the rerouting of already limited resources available for cancer services and programmes to the care of COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, the stringent social distancing, restricted in-hospital visits and lockdown measures instituted by various governments resulted in the disruption of the oncologic continuum including screening, diagnostic and prevention programmes, treatments and follow-up services as well as research and clinical trial programmes. Materials and Methods: We searched several databases from October 2020 to January 2021 for relevant studies published in English between 2020 and 2021 and reporting on the impact of COVID-19 on the cancer care continuum. This narrative review paper describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cancer patient care continuum from screening and prevention to treatments and ongoing management of patients. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted cancer care and the management of cancer services and patients. Nevertheless, the oncology healthcare communities worldwide have done phenomenal work with joint and collaborative efforts, utilising best available evidence-based guidelines to continue to give safe and effective treatments for cancer patients while maintaining the safety of patients, healthcare professionals and the general population. Nevertheless, several healthcare centres are now faced with significant challenges with the management of the backlog of screening, diagnosis and treatment cases. It is imperative that governments, leaders of healthcare centres and healthcare professionals take all necessary actions and policies focused on minimising further system-level delays to cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment initiation and clearing of all backlogs cases from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to mitigate the negative impact on cancer outcomes.

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An Overview of the Impact of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) In Nigeria

International Journal of Human Resource Studies ◽

10.5296/ijhrs.v8i4.13846 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 180

Author(s):

Ogbette, Afamefuna Samuel ◽

Idam, Macben Otu ◽

Kareem, Akeem Olumide

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Point Of View ◽

Police Force ◽

Control Measures ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Human Relations ◽

Police Service ◽

Service Commission ◽

Hard Drugs ◽

The Impact

This study examined the impact of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Nigeria. It solely depended on the secondary source for information. SARS is one of the Nigeria Police Force units that is saddled with the responsibility of fighting crime in the society; specifically, robbery and kidnapping. The impact was examined in two ways: Positive and Negative impact. From the positive point of view, SARS has been able to reduce robbery and kidnapping to an extent but unfortunately, people now use them as bodyguards to intimidate, suppress, and harass other people. From our findings, SARS tortures people mercilessly, extort, beat, kill and jail people who are not forthcoming with their demands. It was also discovered that, most of them lacks orientation on human relation which is a big gap the Nigeria Police Force need to cover by re-orienting them. Again, it was discovered that some of the personnel smoke and drink. They are often intoxicated while on duty, wielding sophisticated guns. From the study, the following recommendations were made: control measures should be put in place for SARS to be stopped from torturing people. They should equally be stopped from extorting, beating, killing (except in a battle ground) and framing people up just to be jailed. Investigative jobs as that of SARS should be exclusively for graduates in the Police Service. Again, the Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Police Service Commission need to often re-orient these officers on human relations. Finally, officers caught drinking or smoking (especially hard drugs) on duty should be properly dealt with to serve as a deterrent to others.

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WORLD EXPERIENCE: COMMERCIAL BANK CREDIT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH RELATIONSHIP

Acta Prosperitatis ◽

10.37804/1691-6077-2020-11-6-19 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 6-19

Author(s):

Davit Aslanishvili

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Large Scale ◽

Banking Sector ◽

Point Of View ◽

Bank Credit ◽

Main Function ◽

Economic Point ◽

Market Factors ◽

Credit Portfolio ◽

The Impact

This research focuses on the problem of large scale disproportion of success in the development of the banking sector and mostly unsuccessful development of the real sector of the economy. It should be noted that this disproportion is a subject of consideration in contemporary economic literature and our research is an attempt to broaden the issue and share ideas inside the international scientific circles. The main problem in the research is the impact of the banking sector's credit portfolio and the functioning of credit markets on the economic growth of the country. In this regard, it is very important to identify, study the macroeconomic stabilization and accelerated economic growth of the country and analyse the impact mechanisms of the credit market factors on economic growth. The conclusion that combines many of the research and opinions given in the survey can be as follows: From the economic point of view, the main function of banks is to increase the financing/lending of funds as the core point to increase investments in the economy. Thus, the development of the country in economic terms depends on the increase of investments. At present, it is in the hands of the banking sector whether to lead us to economic immobility or to accelerate the country's economic development through efficient allocation of resources.

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The Impact of Texting on Standard English: The Students’ Perspective

10.31235/osf.io/w2tcn ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jamal Kaid Mohammed Ali ◽

S. Imtiaz Hasnain ◽

M. Salim Beg

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Negative Attitude ◽

Point Of View ◽

Standard English ◽

Perceptions And Attitudes ◽

English Second Language ◽

Esl Learners ◽

The Impact ◽

Academic Year

Overindulgence in social networking, in general, and texting, in particular, is much in practice. It is cutting across various population boundaries and has almost assumed an endemic proportion. Its consequential impact on the standard language has acquired greater importance. This paper aims to determine the perceptions and attitudes of English Second Language (ESL) learners at Aligarh Muslim University towards the consequences of texting on Standard English. The data were collected through a five-point scale questionnaire from ninety students who were enrolled at Aligarh Muslim University during the academic year 2010-2011. The respondents completed a 16-item questionnaire. The students from which the data were collected were grouped according to their levels. The results indicate the negative impact of this new usage of the language in breaking the rules of English language and influencing their literacy. Moreover, the questionnaire results from respondents' point of view show that regardless of their heavy use of texting, most respondents have a negative attitude towards texting and they viewed it as a threat to Standard English.

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The Impact of Debt Burden on the Number of Suicides in the Russian Regions

Spatial Economics ◽

10.14530/se.2021.4.097-117 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 97-117

Author(s):

Svetlana Doroshenko ◽

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Olga Sanaeva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Unemployment Rate ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Generalized Method Of Moments ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Debt Burden ◽

Suicide Rates ◽

Number Of Patients ◽

The Impact

Population size is one of the most important parameters of national social and economic systems. This parameter is controlled by a variety of factors (components) that form ambiguous and complex feedback circuits. The most important issue is the study of the behavioral reactions of the population, which form certain parameters of the dynamics of the population. The authors consider only one behavioral reaction that seems to them to be important – the propensity for suicide, which ultimately leads to the formation of the suicide dynamics and which entails serious socio-economic and demographic losses. We put an emphasis on assessing the impact of financial parameters, namely households’ debt burden, on the suicide rates in the Russian regions. An econometric assessment of the influence of individual debt on the number of suicides among other socio-economic factors (unemployment rate, logarithm of GRP per capita, divorce rate, number of patients with mental disorders, average actual working week, number of alcoholics) was carried out for the regions among rural, urban populations and total. We use panel data for 80 Russian regions covering the period from 2005 to 2018. We apply the generalized method of moments (GMM) using Stata 14 statistical package. The empirical analysis demonstrates negative impact of the amount of individual debt on the number of suicides in the regions of Russia, which contradicts the results of similar studies conducted for developed economies. At the same time, some results obtained earlier in domestic and foreign studies have been confirmed, including an existence of a parabolic (U-shaped) dependence between the length of working hours and the suicide rates in the regions of the Russian Federation. In addition, there is a direct connection between an increase in the committed suicides and an increase in divorce rates and the number of patients with mental disorders. Moreover, we find out that the rise in unemployment rate and alcohol consumption leads to an increase in the number of committed suicides. This effect is especially perceptible among the people living in rural areas

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Towards a sustainable approach to wastewater treatment strategy for eutrophication abatement

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/20184500056 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 00056 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elena Neverova-Dziopak

Keyword(s):

Wastewater Treatment ◽

Aquatic Ecosystems ◽

Aquatic Vegetation ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Point Of View ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽

Economic Point ◽

The Public ◽

Treatment Technologies

Eutrophication is one of the consequences of the negative anthropogenic impact on aquatic ecosystems. It leads to the degradation of both sweet and marine ecosystems, constituting a kind of secondary pollution of waters, which disturbs all types of their use. Undertakings related to preventing the negative effects of eutrophication are mainly conducted towards reducing the loads of nutrients introduced into surface waters and controlling the entire conditions in aquatic ecosystems in order to limit the development of aquatic vegetation. The increasingly restrictive legal requirement regarding the content of nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater discharged into recipients enforces the application of expensive treatment technologies, and the public is becoming more aware of the rising costs of water and wastewater fees. In addition, wastewater treatment is a factor which has a negative impact on air quality due to greenhouse gas emissions and generates other environmental problems. The challenge for facilities, however, is determining which treatment alternatives will best meet their needs, both technically and financially, and to choose the most sustainable path. The problem of establishing a reasonable level of nutrient removal from wastewater, justified from an ecological and economic point of view is discussed in the paper.

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Restart tourism | build the future

Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes ◽

10.1108/whatt-10-2021-0138 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Rita Marques

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Great Influence ◽

Point Of View ◽

Political Community ◽

Data Systems ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Economic Point ◽

Content Type ◽

The Future ◽

The Impact

PurposeThis viewpoint aims to explore the question: How can we restart and monitor the path towards the tourism of the future?Design/methodology/approachThis paper identifies the progress made at scientific, institutional, political and technological levels, and how it is possible to foresee that we will enter in a new era of tourism indicators.FindingsA significant body of literature clearly demonstrates that tourism cannot be viewed simply from an economic point of view as it has a great influence on sociocultural and environmental dimensions. The impact of tourism and how to ensure its long-term success has been invoked for the last few decades, leading to the direct consideration of sustainability indicators in a wide array of scientific publications. However, despite significant advances, the lack of funding, lack of support or interest from the political community, bureaucracies or lack of methodological guidance and of technical skills along the entire value chain pose clear challenges to the development and adoption of wide data systems to support sustainable tourism policies.Originality/valueThe paper sheds light on the Portuguese position regarding the recovery of the tourism sector in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also highlights the commitment to knowledge and monitoring of sustainability in tourism, articulated at international level, and how this is essential in order to make progress and to overcome the challenges facing the sector. At the same time, it demonstrates how fundamental it is to identify solutions to boost the potential of tourism as an economic, social, environmental and cultural phenomenon.

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