Do prisoners trust the healthcare system?

Background Individuals who are incarcerated have greater healthcare needs than non-justice-involved individuals, yet incarcerated individuals often report substandard care. There are disproportionate numbers of black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in prison, who, even in general society face greater obstacles to accessing healthcare and have worse health outcomes due to structural racism. Regardless of race, people with criminal justice involvement often report stigma from the non-carceral healthcare system. Providing sufficient healthcare in carceral settings themselves is complicated by lack of privacy and the inherent dialectic of prisons that restrict freedom and providers focusing on healing and health. Based on these adverse experiences, people who are incarcerated may have decreased distrust in the healthcare system, deterring individuals from getting adequate medical care. Methods In this exploratory study, health care system distrust was evaluated among 200 people who were incarcerated using the Revised Health Care System Distrust scale, a community-validated, 9-item measure comprised of 2 subscales (values and competence distrust). Results Distrust was moderately and positively associated with participant age (rs = 0.150, p = 0.034), with the second-oldest quintile (33 to 42-year-olds) reporting the highest level of overall and competence distrust. Participants identifying as Non-Latinx White reported higher competence distrust compared to Latinx and Non-Latinx/Non-White respondents. Conclusions These preliminary findings suggest that select groups of prisoners may be less likely to trust the healthcare system, highlighting an impediment to receiving adequate care while incarcerated. Further study of this topic is warranted.

Fruitful collaborations with religious and spiritual communities to foster mental health in general society: An international perspective

Collaborations between mental health professionals (including psychiatrists) and spiritual care professionals/members of faith communities have been recommended by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and several national psychiatric organizations – to help attain high quality and equitable mental health care. Nonetheless, some are concerned about potential harms of such collaborations. It is imperative that such collaborations be ethical and person-centred. The diverse range of individuals who might be regarded as members of spiritual/religious communities also leads to significant variations in how these collaborations may occur. While the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Mental Health and Faith Community Partnership has presented one such model of collaboration at the national level, this chapter endeavours to illustrate the diverse forms, levels, cultural and geographical contexts of how these collaborations may occur – through the perspectives of mental health and spiritual care professionals from Canada, Hong Kong and India. Implications from these examples are also explored.

Facebook News Sharing, Hostile Perceptions of News Content, and Political Participation

This study explored Facebook users’ hostile perceptions of shared news content and its relationship with their political participation. This study conducted an online experiment with a 3 (news slant: pro-attitudinal, neutral, counter-attitudinal) × 3 (news sharer: in-group, neutral, out-group) between-subjects design. This experiment was administered in the context of the abortion issue in South Korea. Consistent with the hostile media effect, the news slant (pro-attitudinal, counter-attitudinal) of shared news content was found to influence Facebook users’ hostile perceptions of shared news content. Out-group sharers also significantly affected their hostile perceptions of shared news content. However, in-group sharers did not. Furthermore, the effect of Facebook users’ hostile perceptions of shared news content on their willingness for political participation was moderated by their prior minority perception in the general society. Only for Facebook users with high levels of prior minority perception in the general society, their hostile perceptions of shared news content appeared to encourage their political engagement. The implications of these findings were discussed.

Flattening the climate curve

<p>With the arrival of COVID we have learned how to flatten the "pandemic curve" during the past year. Now it is time to finally flatten the global warming, climate change curve.</p><p>The scientific knowledge is clear and unequivocal, but we must now strengthen our scientific communication to the general population, to governments, to industry, and to the private sector, to drive changes to our social behaviour as individuals, workers, communities and general society.</p><p>We talk a lot about private and public partnership; we need also to include also the scientific community in this cooperation. All of society needs to know and understand the challenges, in order to drive changes in social behaviour that reduce greenhouse gases emissions.</p>

BOOK REVIEW: PEREMPUAN, MASYARAKAT PATRIARKI & KESETARAAN GENDER

This book was written to provide readers with information and data about the patriarchal system and gender equality. The author discussed the impact of the patriarchal system and how the patriarchal system corrupted the next generation over time. Facts about discrimination are also presented in it. The author also wanted to show the struggle of women in gaining gender equality. The general society is the audience of “Perempuan, Masyarakat Patriarki & Kesetaraan Gender”. The author hopes that the general society, especially young people, will understand the contents of this book and change the previously unorganized society's order. The oldster is not out of sight of the writer's attention because it also discusses and educates them. The author provided data in the form of statistics presented based on a survey conducted by the author, Such as the low SDGs due to early marriage and the percentage of children who have to drop out of school and get married. The author also reports on activities that have been carried out in order to achieve gender equality. It contains essential things, but we often underestimate them. Discrimination is often considered normal, even though it is hazardous and impacts the victim's psyche. People are not aware of this danger. The book “Perempuan, Masyarakat Patriarki & Kesetaraan Gender” makes us aware of our environment and wants to prevent things like that from happening.

Selfies in the public art gallery and copyright permissions

Public art galleries have traditionally prohibited visitors from photographing exhibited artworks. Today, however, photography in the gallery is invariably permitted and commonly encouraged, including visitors taking selfies. Copyright law and practice has generally responded to new techniques of reproduction, such as etchings and photographs, and how those technologies are used in commerce and general society. The selfie is a cultural phenomenon that invites re-examination of some areas of copyright law and practice, notably, permitted acts. Has copyright law, in particular freedom of panorama, kept pace with the phenomenon of selfies in the gallery? This article seeks to answer that question and also considers whether the photography policies of leading public galleries present better ways of engaging with the selfie phenomenon than does the current law.

COVID-19: A PROPHYLACTIC AND BASIC CURATIVE APPROACH THROUGH AYURVEDA

The article reviews basic prophylactic and curative approaches mentioned in Ayurveda classics. As the current scenario is worst across the nation due to severe covid outrage it becomes merely important to explore and tell general society about the way of living through Ayurveda. Ayurveda is a science of life and not only a curative science, several basic principles are mentioned in it which should be followed by everyone like Dicharya, Ritu- charya, Aahar Matra, Rasayan Sevan etc, these all can be the shielding protection from such infection to a great extent. Ayurveda doesn’t give much stress on naming any particular disease rather it focuses mainly on under- standing the pathogenesis through basic principles such as tri-sutra and treat it accordingly, this can frame a basic treatment approach also against this devil covid-19 which can be useful in treating mild cases easily and to a great extent. This paperwork in this regard. Keywords: Covid-19, Dincharya, Ritucharya, Aahar Matra, Rasayan Sevan, Tri Sutra.

Challenges of contemporary social work in Ghana

Social work is practiced all over the world with the primary aim of helping individuals and improving the welfare of the general society. Ghana is a multi-ethnic society with a multitude of different cultural practices that may affect social work interventions (implementation by practitioners and clients’ response). The main goal of this paper is to show how indigenous cultural practices in Ghana shape the way of supporting children, older people, people living with physical disabilities and mental health disorders, and the socially excluded. This paper relies on available literature and the first-hand account of the author. The extended family system where parenting, kinship, and identity includes the nuclear family as well as grand-parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws is prominent in Ghana, especially in rural areas. The positive aspect of this system as shown in this paper shows the merits in a collectivist approach to social welfare. However, some aspects of local cultural practices are shown to limit how vulnerable people have access to needed help. The article indicates the need to prepare social workers in such a way that their practice is adjusted to respond to local cultural practices in order to ensure more people have access to help and reduce the potential of rejection by people in local communities. It also contributes to the discussion on the merits of indigenization of social work.

Reproduction of Volcanic Rituals in Appealing for the Right to Live in Disaster-Prone Zones on Mount Merapi

In response to the Mount Merapi eruption in 2010, the government had conducted several disaster risk reduction programs. However, the programs had ironically threatened hamlets as communities regarding their rights to practice their local knowledge and live in their home ground. This study employed a qualitative method involving five hamlets from December 2019 until February 2020. The data were collected by employing participatory observation and depth interviews, involving the ritual organizers, participants, citizens, guests, and other audience. Spirited by ritual theory as political action, this research showed that the hamlets formulated volcanic ritual reproductions into three forms which were the delegitimation of the disaster risk reduction programs, the reinforcement of Kejawen identity, and the showing off the safety and prosperity. Those reproductions were recognized by the emergence of new ritual processions in the forms of parades, pilgrimages, offerings, and enhancements of ritual formalization and celebrations. Those reproductions positively impacted the literacy and recognition from both the government and general society that those hamlets have been living a safe and prosperous life in Merapi, even though they are located in disaster-prone areas.

Activism in the Digital Age

Social movements have been transformed in the last decade by social networks, where the dynamics of the social protests have evolved and have been structured and viralized through social media. They are no longer just conversations between activists that stay on social platforms. The cyberactivism that takes place on Twitter or Instagram can also play a significant role in general society by influencing government decision making or shaping the relationships between citizens. In this chapter, the authors explore the main activist movements that took place in social media in the last decade: Occupy, BlackLivesMatter, and MeToo. The proposed approach used in this study facilitates the comparison of each movement while focusing on the user-generated content in social media. This study suggests the presence of four major categories to frame the content generated by the activists. The chapter concludes with the identification of three different approaches to the research of a future research agenda that should be considered for the study of the social movements from the UGC theory framework.