scholarly journals MODERN AND TRADITIONAL OXYTOCICS IN GESTATIONAL PERIOD MANAGEMENT AMONG BAMOUN IN WEST CAMEROON: A PARADOX OF “INCOMPATIBILITY”

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Manouere Sodetou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Obstetric Care ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Gestational Period ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Biomedical System

The management of obstetric health is a delicate issue in Cameroon where the use of obstetric care takes into consideration several parameters such as socio-cultural, economic, and medical ethical constraints. As a result, populations are divided between the biomedical obstetric care system and the traditional one. This implies a diversification of therapeutic routes. As a result of advances in biomedicine and obstetrics, the biomedical system has taken over the monopoly of expertise in this field. However, through traditional methods, means, and elements of nature, people in developing countries are investing in the quest for health. The field of obstetrics is no exception to this approach whereby Africans, especially the Bamoun, seek solutions to their health problems. However, this approach is, according to the biomedical obstetric system, its prerogative, because it is the only one to hold the secrets and cogs of a sensitive and complex practice. Faced with two «incompatible» medical cultures that still covet the same object that is obstetric health, can we not think of a possible complementarity between these two systems of care? Through a study on the use of modern and/or traditional oxytocics during the gestational period in Bamoun women from West Cameroon, this work aims to analyse the reasons for the «supposed» incompatibility between these two care systems and highlight the failures or limitations and benefits of oxytocics on a case-by-case basis in these care systems. This article is also interested in exploring the possibility of complementarity between these two care systems in terms of gestational period management from modern and traditional oxytocics. For this reason, individual interviews have been used to collect data in certain rural and urban areas of the Bamoun region to enable the objectives to be achieved.

scholarly journals A Call for Change in the Public Education System in Nova Scotia

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. CI64-CI92
Author(s):  
Barbara-Ann Hamilton-Hinch ◽  
Jessie-Lee D. McIsaac ◽  
Mary-Jane Harkins ◽  
Sherry Jarvis ◽  
John C. LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
African Descent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Black Learners ◽  
Nova Scotian

The United Nation’s International Decade for People of African Descent and Nova Scotia’s Ministry of African Nova Scotian Affairs recognize that students of African descent continue to experience inequities. As previous studies indicate, parents of Black learners identified that many educators lack knowledge and experience in understanding students of African descent.This study explored student achievement from the perspective of parents of children of African descent attending public schools in Nova Scotia. Participants included individual interviews and focus groups with parents from rural and urban areas. Based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory framework, a thematic analysis of the data was conducted, a dominant storyline related to the families’ experiences in school and subsequent themes emerged: we are treated differently; we don’t feel connected; we know there are challenges: the resistance of parents; and we deal with injustices but persevere. These findings provide recommendations to improve the educational success for Black learners. Keywords: African Canadian, academic achievement and success, Black students, education, schooling challenges, students of African descent

scholarly journals “I see a drawing. I think it is. . .” Investigating visual ‘literacy’ among adult learners in KwaZulu-Natal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Arbuckle
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Health Education Materials

This article reports on a research project in KwaZulu-Natal which investigated how Zuluspeaking adults who attended literacy classes interpreted illustrations from health education materials. Individual interviews were conducted in rural and urban areas, where participants responded to a range of pictures in order to assess the effectiveness of different approaches to communication. The research intended to discover whether dated guidelines on illustrating for readers with limited education are still useful, and to offer insights to guide the future practice of illustrators in similar contexts. Patterns of interpretation were observed which suggested different levels of interpretation of the illustrations, revealing ways in which participants made and expressed meaning from what they saw. These levels correspond with semiotic theories of visual communication. Semiotic approaches to visual analysis provide tools with which to explore the construction of meaning. In this way the article theorises visual interpretation in the context of health education materials designed for audiences with limited education

Management of minor ailments in primary schoolchildren in rural and urban areas

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
J A Cantrill ◽  
B Johannesson ◽  
M Nicholson ◽  
P R Noyce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Primary Schoolchildren ◽  
Minor Ailments

Classroom Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Elida Kurti
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
General Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Intellectual Level

This paper aims to reflect an effort to identify the problems associated with the educational learning process, as well as its function to express some inherent considerations to the most effective forms of the classroom management. Mentioned in this discussion are ways of management for various categories of students, not only from an intellectual level, but also by their behavior. Also, in the elaboration of this theme I was considering that in addition to other development directions of the country, an important place is occupied by the education of the younger generation in our school environments and especially in adopting the methods of teaching and learning management with a view to enable this generation to be competitive in the European labor market. This, of course, can be achieved by giving this generation the best values of behavior, cultural level, professional level and ethics one of an European family which we belong to, not just geographically. On such foundations, we have tried to develop this study, always improving the reality of the prolonged transition in the field of children’s education. Likewise, we have considered the factors that have left their mark on the structure, cultural level and general education level of children, such as high demographic turnover associated with migration from rural and urban areas, in the capacity of our educational institutions to cope with new situations etc. In the conclusions of this study is shown that there is required a substantial reform even in the pro-university educational system to ensure a significant improvement in the behavior of children, relations between them and the sound quality of their preparation. Used literature for this purpose has not been lacking, due to the fact that such problems are usually treated by different scholars. Likewise, we found it appropriate to use the ideas and issues discussed by the foreign literature that deals directly with classroom management problems. All the following treatise is intended to reflect the way of an effective classroom management.

Literacy and Education: Fifth Release From the 1961 Census of Pakistan (Review Article)

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-442
Author(s):  
Jamila Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Age And Sex

This review of the Literacy and Education Bklletin1 of the 1961 Census is fourth in the series of review articles published in this journal2. The Bulletin under review forms a part of the interim report on the characteristics of the population of Pakistan. It gives information on the number of illiterate and literate persons by age and sex for rural and urban areas on division and district basis; illiterate and literate.population in selected cities and towns; and the educational levels attained by the literate population by age and sex for divisions and districts. Relevant statistical notes and statements precede the tables in the Bulletin. The objective of this review is to describe the meaningfulness and significance of literacy statistics. To this end, a distinction is made between formal and functional levels of literacy. Comparisons of the 1951 and 1961 census figures are undertaken to indicate the progress of literacy and education during the past decade with reference to the effect of intercensal rate of population growth on such progress. Certain questions regarding the reliability of data are raised, which emphasize the need for caution in the interpretation of literacy statistics.

MULTI - DIMENSIONAL ROLE OF A PHARMACIST IN HOSPITAL: A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Singh S ◽  
Virmani T ◽  
Virmani R ◽  
Geeta . ◽  
Gupta J
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Drug Product ◽  
Hospital Pharmacist ◽  
Therapeutic Monitoring ◽  
Direct Patient Care ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban

The objective of this study was to point out multi-dimensional role of a pharmacist with a special emphasis on the hospital pharmacist. Apharmacist is a person who is involved in designing, creating or manufacturing of a drug product, dispensing of a drug, managing and planning ofa pharmaceutical care. They are experts on the action and uses of drugs, including their chemistry, pharmacology and formulation. Theprofessional life of a hospital pharmacist might seem insignificant as compared to that of doctors, but actually they are highly trained healthprofessionals who plays important role in patient safety, patient compliance, therapeutic monitoring and even in direct patient care. With thepassage of time and advancements in health care services and pharmaceuticals, the role of a hospital pharmacist has become more diversified. Toa career, a hospital pharmacist must possess a diploma/degree in pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy college and must be registered with thestate pharmacy council of their respective region. In this study, we have assessed the behavior, communication skills, qualifications of thepharmacist, prescription handling ability and other factors to evaluate the diversified role of hospital pharmacist and their comparison withpharmacists practicing in rural and urban areas. Current surveys show that the pharmacists are not practicing as per the standard due to lack ofproper guidelines and watch over their practicing sense. The rules and guidelines prescribed by the Food and drug administration (FDA) andIndian pharmacopeia commission (IPC) were not followed by the pharmacist.

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