Old-New Challenges? Poverty and Menstruation: Young Girls and Women in the Mirror of Disadvantaged Situation

Disadvantaged situation means not just a kind of negative social phenomenon, but its effects manifesting on the economic and social fields are also significant. Regarding its complexity, a holistic view is necessary to approach it, and explore the developed situation, define solution proposals, promote a better quality of life and finally, to monitor prevention processes and revise the proposals if necessary. In case of disadvantaged situation, the involvement of children and women requires special attention in all aspects. The Creative Region research group launched its various research in the multi-stage research of the Higher Education Institutional Excellence Program (in Hungarian: Felsőoktatási Intézményi Kiválósági Program, FIKP) started in 2018 on the University of Miskolc, in which the staff of the Faculty of Health got the opportunity to conduct the comprehensive health mapping of the rural population with the involvement of 25 settlements. Based on the results of the FIKP research, it has been supported from more approaches that disadvantaged situation and deprivation can significantly determine the health behaviour, health consciousness and future life prospects of people living there. The comprehensive research examined the characteristics of the health status of people living in disadvantaged settlements along different dimensions. Getting to know the mental health of young girls and the issue of menstruation days among both them and the adult female population were essential elements of the research. During data recording in 2018 with student girls under the age of 14, we experienced in a high number that the girls’ mental well-being was not ideal, and this also manifested in mild to moderate depression at more of them. The presence of domestic violence affecting them is also not negligible in the region. Our research performed in 2019 also supports that anxiety and the feeling of shame appear strongly among young girls on menstruation days as well, and a certain level of the omission of menstruation hygienic products can also be experienced in the region. Data collection performed in 2020 focused on the adult female population in which we experienced the similar phenomena as in case of young girls. In connection with showing the direction of the areas to be improved and defining the promoting prevention health promotion advice, we should have had to strive for adapting to the population’s demands and the professionals’ flexibility which support the more favourable acceptance of the proposals. The significance of individual care, individual competence improvement and personalized counselling and help is indispensable.

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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18084258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (8) ◽

pp. 4258

Author(s):

Caradee Yael Wright ◽

Candice Eleanor Moore ◽

Matthew Chersich ◽

Rebecca Hester ◽

Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Human Health ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Systems Approach ◽

Health Sector ◽

Well Being ◽

World Health ◽

Economic Policies ◽

Comprehensive Health ◽

African Context

The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across multiple sectors. This short communication presents the context in which adaptation to protect human health has been addressed to date and argues for a holistic, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and systems approach going forward. Such a novel health-climate approach requires broad thinking regarding geographies, ecologies and socio-economic policies, and demands that one prioritises services for vulnerable populations at higher risk. Actions to engage more sectors and systems in comprehensive health-climate governance are identified. Much like the World Health Organization’s ‘Health in All Policies’ approach, one should think health governance and climate change together in a transnational framework as a matter not only of health promotion and disease prevention, but of population security. In an African context, there is a need for continued cross-border efforts, through partnerships, blending climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and long-term international financing, to contribute towards meeting sustainable development imperatives.

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Validity and reliability of the Self-Care Activities Screening Scale (SASS-14) during COVID-19 lockdown

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ◽

10.1186/s12955-020-01607-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Martín Martínez ◽

Elkin O. Luis ◽

Edwin Yair Oliveros ◽

Pablo Fernández-Berrocal ◽

Ainize Sarrionandia ◽

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Keyword(s):

General Population ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Self Care ◽

Internal Validity ◽

Well Being ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽

Health Consciousness

Abstract Background In a context where there is no treatment for the current COVID-19 virus, the combination of self-care behaviours together with confinement, are strategies to decrease the risk of contagion and remain healthy. However, there are no self-care measures to screen self-care activities in general population and which, could be briefly in a lockdown situation. This research aims to build and validate a psychometric tool to screen self-care activities in general population. Methods Firstly, an exploratory factor analysis was performed in a sample of 226 participants to discover the underlying factorial structure and to reduce the number of items in the original tool into a significant pool of items related to self-care. Later a confirmatory factor analyses were performed in a new sample of 261 participants to test for the fit and goodness of factor solutions. Internal validity, reliability, and convergent validity between its score with perceived stress and psychological well-being measures were examined on this sample. Results The exploratory analyses suggested a four-factor solution, corresponding to health consciousness, nutrition and physical activity, sleep, and intra-personal and inter-personal coping skills (14 items). Then, the four-factor structure was confirmed as the best model fit for self-care activities. The tool demonstrated good reliability, predictive validity of individuals’ perception of coping with COVID-19 lockdown, and convergent validity with well-being and perceived stress. Conclusions This screening tool could be helpful to address future evaluations and interventions to promote healthy behaviours. Likewise, this tool can be targeted to specific population self-care’s needs during a scalable situation.

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Is it possible to build an effective program to promote the health and well-being of employees in the workplace in the Russia?

10.33920/med-03-2108-04 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 46-56

Author(s):

Ivan Aleksandrovich Rybakov

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Well Being ◽

Ministry Of Health ◽

Comprehensive Health ◽

Effective Program ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Health And Well Being

In 2019 The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation together with experts of the National Research Center of Therapy and Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has developed programs to strengthen the health of employees, which include behavioral medicine practices aimed at changing lifestyle and correcting risk factors. Scientific evidence shows the effectiveness of such programs, and new components of programs aimed at improving the well-being of employees can increase the effectiveness of preventive measures. In this article, we will review the domestic and international experience of using comprehensive health and well-being promotion programs to improve the health of employees in Russia.

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Socio-Cultural and Economic Impediments of Inequality in Provision of Educational Right to Female: A Case of Southern Punjab (Pakistan)

International Journal of Human Resource Studies ◽

10.5296/ijhrs.v2i1.1210 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 122 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tehmina Sattar ◽

Ghulam Yasin ◽

Saima Afzal

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Economic Status ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Well Being ◽

Education Sector ◽

Quality Education ◽

Cultural Patterns ◽

Average Life Expectancy ◽

Female Population

Abstract:Inequality in provision of educational right to girls is the leading rationale of their exclusion from the mainstream. If the marginalized sections of the society such as minorities, disabled and girls are given education as their indispensable human right then this will escorts towards their social inclusion in education sector. Enrollment ratios of girls lag far behind than boys at all levels of education in Pakistan. Worldwide literacy rates for adult men far exceed from women. Education enhances labor market productivity and income growth, yet educated women have beneficial effects on social well-being of the family. The social benefits from women's education ranges from fostering economic growth to extending the average life expectancy among female population. Despite these facts the issue of educational right for girls has been denied in the educational policies of Pakistan since 1947. In Pakistan women have to face biasness in acquiring quality education. Gender discrimination is explicit from Economic Survey of Pakistan (2010) where the men are 65% literate and the women are 45% literate. In Southern Punjab (Pakistan) rigid cultural patterns, poverty, prejudice, stereotypic expectations from girls education, restricted movement of girls, precarious traveling and lack of female teachers confines the girls from acquiring quality education. The respondents (N=600) were interviewed from affiliated schools (n=100 out of N=520) from BISE through multistage sampling technique from Multan and Khanewal districts. The results of the research illustrated that parental preference to boys education, rigid cultural patterns, cost of schooling (direct and indirect) and low socio-economic status of the parents were the foremost determinants of social exclusion of girls from education sector of Southern Punjab (Pakistan). Despite these determinants family size, prejudice, patriarchal structure of society, limited involvement of girls in decision making process and rigid values allied with girls education are the major constraints that restricted the access of girls from education sector of Southern Punjab (Pakistan).

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Development of Personal Wellness Information Model for Pervasive Healthcare

Journal of Computer Networks and Communications ◽

10.1155/2012/596749 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Antto Seppälä ◽

Pirkko Nykänen ◽

Pekka Ruotsalainen

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Well Being ◽

Information Model ◽

Hospital Environment ◽

Holistic View ◽

Pervasive Healthcare ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Personal Wellness ◽

Centered Care ◽

Mental Well Being

Pervasive healthcare and citizen-centered care paradigm are moving the healthcare outside the hospital environment. Healthcare delivery is becoming more personalized and decentralized, focusing on prevention and proactive services with a complete view of health and wellbeing. The concept of wellness has been used to describe this holistic view of health, which focuses on physical, social, and mental well-being. Pervasive computing makes it possible to collect information and offer services anytime and anywhere. To support pervasive healthcare with wellness approaches, semantic interoperability is needed between all actors and information sources in the ecosystem. This study focuses on the domain of personal wellness and analyzes related concepts, relationships, and environments. As a result of this study, we have created an information model that focuses on the citizens’ perspectives and conceptualizations of personal wellness. The model has been created based on empirical research conducted with focus groups.

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Estimation of stature from the foot and its segments in a sub-adult female population of North India

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research ◽

10.1186/1757-1146-4-24 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Kewal Krishan ◽

Tanuj Kanchan ◽

Neelam Passi

Keyword(s):

Adult Female ◽

North India ◽

Female Population

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Patriarcavirus, feminist dystopias and COVID-19: reflections on the phenomenon of gender pandemics

Feminismo/s ◽

10.14198/fem.2021.38.14 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 359

Author(s):

Almudena Machado-Jiménez

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Discrimination ◽

Well Being ◽

Female Empowerment ◽

First Year ◽

Value System ◽

Female Population ◽

Control Female ◽

Female Bodies ◽

Patriarchal Power

This essay examines contemporary feminist dystopias to study the phenomenon of gender pandemics. Gender pandemic narrative allegorises possible aftermaths of patriarcavirus, unleashing many natural disasters that force global biopolitics to hinder gender equality. The main objective of this essay is to explain how gender pandemics are appropriated in patriarchal utopian discourses as a pretext to control female empowerment, diagnosing women as diseased organisms that risk the state’s well-being. Moreover, the novels explore the interdependence between biology and sociality, portraying the acute vulnerability of female bodies during and after the pandemic conflicts, inasmuch as patriarchal power arranges a hierarchical value system of living that reinforces gender discrimination. Particularly, the COVID-19 emergency is analysed as a gender pandemic: the exacerbated machismo and the growing distress in the female population prove that women are afflicted with a suffocating patriarcavirus, which has critically gagged them in the first year of the pandemic.

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Secured Vehicle Safety System using GSM Technology

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.f1167.0486s419 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (6S4) ◽

pp. 832-836 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Focal Point ◽

Well Being ◽

Vehicle Safety ◽

Security Framework ◽

Remote Communication ◽

Active Systems ◽

Automated Vehicle ◽

Region Data ◽

The Web ◽

Area Data

A smart helmet is a kind of defensive headgear utilized by the rider which makes bike driving more secure than previously. The principle reason for this keen protective cap to give well being to rider.Here I proposed a work which is endeavor to plan a propelled vehicle’s security framework which utilizes GSM to avert burglary and to decide the area of vehicles. Now a daysburglary is going on the stopping or in some shaky spots. The wellbeing of the vehicles is incredibly fundamental. The point of the vehicles security framework is used to utilizes the remote communication innovatively for the car situations. The principle focal point of this undertaking is to ensure the stealing of vehicle. This is finished with the assistance of GSM modem and circuit which comprises of ARM 7 TDMI microcontroller, transfer and venture down transformer. The framework will be enacted simply in the wake of wearing the head protector or else the client can't ready to get to the vehicle. To achieve Automated Vehicle Location our system uses to transmit the area data continuously, Active systems are produced. Progressing vehicular after system joins a gear device introduced in the vehicle and a remote Tracking servers. The infowas conveyed to Tracking server utilizing GSM/GPRS modem on GSM mastermind by using SMS or utilized direct TCP/IP association with Tracking servers thruGPRS. Following servers in like way has GSM/GPRS modem that gets vehicle region data by techniques for GSM system and stores info into databases. This info is available to embraced clients of the systems by techniques for sites over the web.

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Medicinal Plants and Gyneco-obstetric Disorders among Women in the South East of Morocco

Current Women s Health Reviews ◽

10.2174/1573404815666191206112518 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 2-17

Author(s):

Mohamed Eddouks ◽

Morad Hebi ◽

Mohammed Ajebli

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Field Work ◽

Phoenix Dactylifera ◽

Rosmarinus Officinalis ◽

Herbal Remedies ◽

Lepidium Sativum ◽

Use Value ◽

Origanum Vulgare ◽

Important Species ◽

Region Data

Background: Phytotherapy is used in developing countries to treat several gynecoobstetric disorders. Objective: This study aimed to collect information on herbal remedies traditionally used for the treatment of gyneco-obstetric disorders in the southeast region of Morocco (Tafilalet). Methods: Field work was undertaken as an ethnopharmacological survey involving 980 women, 60 herbalists and 20 midwives in 6 different areas of the Tafilalet region. Data was compiled using a semi-structured questionnaire via face-to-face interviews. Three quantitative ethnopharmacological indices (the use value (UV), informant consensus factor (ICF) and fidelity levels (Fl)) were calculated. Results: A total of 115 species of plants, belonging to 47 families were identified in this study. The most important species according to their use value were Rosmarinus officinalis (0.40), Lavandula angustifolia (0.35), Origanum vulgare (0.22), Cinnamomum cassia (0.18) and Phoenix dactylifera (0.15). Among the obstetric disorders, the highest ICF values were recorded for menstruation (0.95), female infertility (0.9), and maintenance of pregnancy as well as well-being of fetus (0.87). The analysis showed that the highest Fl value for menstruation was found for Origanum vulgare. (94.07 %) followed by Rosmarinus officinalis (87.29%). For female fertility, the highest Fl value was found in Phoenix dactylifera (77.50%) followed by Lepidium sativum (77.17%). Conclusion: This explorative survey emphasizes the need to preserve and document the traditional healing practices for managing gyneco-obstetric disorders and the valorization of this potential could be important for the improvement of women reproductive health.

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