scholarly journals Egypt: Encourage journalists to cover reproductive health

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
The Press ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Regular Flow ◽  
Evaluation Sheet

To raise public awareness of reproductive health (RH) issues, the Population Council’s Frontiers project and the Futures Group’s Policy project jointly organized four press briefings and provided background materials to key journalists from Arabic newspapers and magazines. From May 1999 to June 2000, project staff worked closely with 20 Egyptian journalists, including editors of women’s pages and senior editors. The press briefings covered youth, marriage patterns, contraceptive technology, and menopause. The press kit prepared for each briefing contained fact sheets, reference materials, a contact list of key experts, and an evaluation sheet. To assess RH reporting and track coverage resulting from the intervention, project staff monitored eight major Arabic newspapers and nine magazines daily. All articles on RH were coded according to their topic, length, and use of research findings. As noted in this brief, after Egyptian print journalists attended briefings on RH issues, their reporting of these issues improved. Health agencies can improve coverage of RH issues by providing a regular flow of accurate information to a broad range of journalists.

scholarly journals Indonesia: Train journalists to write about reproductive health

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Training

After government control over the media was liberalized in 1998, Indonesian journalists had a new mandate to explore new issues and foster public debate. Several studies had found evidence that women’s health worsened from 1997–99, yet media coverage of this topic was limited. To increase press coverage of reproductive health (RH) topics, the Population Council conducted an 18-month media project in collaboration with the State Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and other key agencies. The project focused on improving RH knowledge and reporting skills among 22 print journalists. Project staff monitored RH coverage in 22 major newspapers, magazines, and tabloids. After Indonesian journalists received background information and training on RH issues, the quality of their coverage improved. However, as noted in this brief, continued efforts are needed to provide media representatives with ideas for news stories and feature articles and training in use of research findings.

THE INFLUENTS OF ISLAMIC SYMBOLISMS TOWARD THE DECISION OF CONSUMPTION BUYING OF THE FOOD PRODUCTS (A SURVEY CONDUCTED BY A STUDENT OF THE FACULTY OF SYARIAH IAIN MANADO)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syarifuddin Syarifuddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Data Analysis Technique ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Simple Regression

AbstractThis study was conducted to the influents of the Islamic symbolisms toward the decision of consumption buying of the food products. This is a quantitative research. A survey was also involved in this research. Data are also collected through questionnaire to gain an accurate information. Data analysis technique used was a simple regression. The research findings show that Islamic symbolisms have significant influents toward decision to buy food products. That is, t value of p significant is < 0,005 (0,000 < 0, 05) while R square is 0,273 or 27,3 %. In conclusion the influents of Islamic symbols toward the decision on buying have influents as of 27, 3 %. Keywords: Islamic Symbolism, Decision on buying, food products.

Common issues related to children’s environmental health in the Asia-Pacific region

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Brittany A. Trottier ◽  
Daam Settachan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Children’S Environmental Health ◽  
Research Findings

AbstractThis summary reports on the outcomes and common issues faced among the countries represented at the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on Children’s Environmental Health, a meeting that was held at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, and which focused on cross-cutting issues and commonalities among countries/regions, discussion of lessons learnt, exploring opportunities for policy-relevant research collaborations, and reviewing available educational tools to help translate research findings into tangible outputs. The common children’s environmental health issues faced by countries in the Asia-Pacific region include indoor and outdoor air pollution; unregulated and inadequate waste management; chemical and infectious agents in water used for drinking and cooking; hazardous pesticide use; and climate change and extreme weather events. The meeting participants agreed there is a need for multisectoral involvement in each country to develop frameworks and guidelines, raising public awareness of risk, and managing exposures in order to tackle these common issues. Networking will allow countries to learn from each other and enhance their efforts to protect not only the health of children, but also that of the rest of the population at risk.

scholarly journals PrEP in the press

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jones ◽  
Luke Collins
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
The Press ◽  
Trial Basis ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Political Spectrum

Abstract This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic representations of the users of PrEP within three leading British newspapers from across the political spectrum between 2014–18. We find that users of PrEP are most frequently positioned as ‘men who have sex with men’ or ‘gay men’, a representation that we argue limits public awareness of HIV itself, and of available HIV prevention. Furthermore, while the most left-leaning newspaper in our corpus focuses on the human benefit of PrEP, the most right-leaning newspaper takes a moralistic stance which frames gay men as risk-taking and therefore less deserving of healthcare funding than other groups. We therefore argue that certain representations of PrEP’s beneficiaries are implicitly homophobic, and that most representations are unhelpfully restrictive.

scholarly journals 3D MAP SYSTEM FOR TREE MONITORING IN HONG KONG USING GOOGLE STREET VIEW IMAGERY AND DEEP LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol V-3-2020 ◽  
pp. 765-772
Author(s):  
M. Li ◽  
W. Yao
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Urban Trees ◽  
Depth Image ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Urban Tree ◽  
Tree Detection ◽  
Street View

Abstract. In densely built urban areas such as Hong Kong, the positive effect of urban trees is to help maintain high environmental and social sustainability for the city while unmanaged trees lead to negative effects such as accidents, outbreaks of pests and diseases. The public awareness of urban tree population has been increasing and preserving all the benefits offered by trees, a continuous monitoring concept would be required. In this work, an efficient 3D map system for tree inventory in Hong Kong is presented to the based on automated tree detection from publicly available Google street view (GSV) panorama images. First, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based object detector and classifier – YOLOv3 with pretrained model is adopted to learn GSV images to detect tree objects. GSV depth image has been utilized to decode depth values of each GSV panorama image and will provide accurate information to calculate the tree geographic position. A “field of view” filter was designed to remove duplicated tree detection within the overlapped areas followed by spatial clustering applied to further increase the tree localization accuracy. The average distance between the detected trees and ground truth data was achieved within 3 meters for selected roads used for the experiment. Second, a 3D Map platform prototype for facilitating the urban tree monitoring and management was developed. Currently, there is no true 3D platform for interpreting the results of tree records in Hong Kong city areas. With the help of webGL technology, contemporary browsers are able to show 3D buildings, terrain and other scene components together with the obtained tree records in an open source 3D GIS platform, the level of visualization is enhanced as all the detected trees are placed on the 3D digital terrain model. Consequently, it is easy for end-users to know the actual position of the trees and their distribution.

scholarly journals Criminal Law Protection of Reproductive Health: Current Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
E. L. Sidorenko
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The subject of the research is the specifics of the criminal law protection of reproductive health in the Russian legislation. The topic was chosen due to the increasing dynamics of crimes related to limitation on the reproductive rights of women and men and unauthorized manipulation of the human genome. Despite the growing need for providing a regulatory framework for this kind of relationships, the system of their criminal law protection is only beginning to take shape, therefore, a necessity arises to revise traditional approaches to the protection of the individual. Therefore, the purpose of the paper was to understand the system of criminal law protection of reproductive health in terms of its compliance with trends of medical practices and dynamics of socially significant diseases based on both traditional principles of scientific analysis and the results of applying sociological methods of data processing, which made it possible to identify the most significant directions of the Russian criminal policy development. Moreover, the critical analysis method was used in the research that showed the inconsistency of the system of criminal law prevention of criminal abortions, contamination with socially significant diseases and illegal use of the human genome. Based on the research findings, an author’s model of criminal prevention of attacks on reproductive health has been built and its systemic assessment is given. It is concluded that the legislator is inconsistent in assessing the attributes of an unlawful abortion; the accounting of contamination with certain socially significant diseases is inadequate; the laws prohibiting the use of the human genome need to be included into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The conclusions formulated in the paper have practical importance and can be taken into account by the legislator in the reform of the current criminal legislation.

Home Care for Children Dying of Cancer

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Ida M. Martinson ◽  
Gordon D. Armstrong ◽  
Dorothy P. Geis ◽  
Mary Ann Anglim ◽  
Evangeline C. Gronseth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Children With Cancer ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Nursing Services ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Home Care Nurses

Hospitals have traditionally provided the setting for the treatment of children with cancer, including those in the terminal stage of their illness. However, when treatment that requires hospitalization has been discontinued and the child's cancer is still not under control, then the wisdom of continued hospitalization is questionable. If the care that is required by the patient could be provided as effectively by the parents and by nurses at home, then it would be reasonable to make a home care option available to the families who desired it. The possible advantages of such home care would be improved satisfaction of the child, better adjustment to the situation by the family, and reduced cost. It is more comforting to the child to be in familiar surroundings with the parents at hand during the terminal stages of his or her illness. Most of the specialized and expensive sive facilities provided by the hospital are no longer needed by the child. The preliminary findings from a research project dealing with home care of children with cancer are reported in this article. The feasibility and desirability of the home as an alternative to the hospital for children whose death from cancer was impending were examined. Administration of the home nursing service was at the time of the study separate from existing nursing services. Home care nurses were hired on an hourly basis and were recruited from hospitals and public health agencies. Two project staff nurses oriented the home care nurses to the special functions that they would serve, and also provided consultation and some of the actual home care.

Special Investigate Techniques for Human Trafficking Investigation in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Negesse Asnake Ayalew
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Investigative Techniques ◽  
Document Review

The police have the responsibility to balance public protection from harm by respecting the human rights of suspects during prevention and investigation. However, it is difficult to achieve absolute balance because it is determined based on the police because the process or model of crime control, especially in the case of special investigative techniques, is a confidential investigation of serious crimes based on the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, and adequate protection. The purpose of the doctrinal article evaluates the role of special crime investigation techniques for human trafficking in Ethiopia. Data is collected through document review and interviews with crime investigators, intentionally and in direct contact. Qualitative research and descriptive design. The collected data is analyzed thematically. Research findings that there are some special investigative technical provisions in FDRE criminal justice policies, human trafficking and smuggling of migrant proclamations. However, this legal basis is not as comprehensive as specific types of investigation techniques, who did it and for how long, the requirements for doing this were not answered. Therefore, the House of Representatives must make a law covering all specific investigative techniques for human trafficking in Ethiopia. The Attorney General must also create public awareness about it.

Where to find accurate information on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder? A study of scientific distortions among French websites, newspapers, and television programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 684-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Ponnou ◽  
Héloïse Haliday ◽  
François Gonon
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
The Press ◽  
Lay Public

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is the most frequent mental disorder among school-age children. This condition has given rise to a large mediatic coverage, which contributed to the shaping of the lay public’s perceptions. We therefore conducted two studies on the way attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was portrayed in the TV programs and the lay-public press in France between 1995 and 2015, but the growing part played by the Internet required an additional study to analyze and compare the scientific material which is available to the French lay public depending on the source of information used. We studied the 50 first French websites dedicated to attention-deficit/hyperactivity as indexed by Google® search engine using a structured quantitative content analysis for the web. We illustrate our results with excerpts derived from the websites. The conceptions of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder available on the Internet are essentially biomedical and comprise an important level of scientific distortion. Findings concerning other mass media such as television programs and the press also demonstrate massive and systematic distortions caused by the role of experts and the pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, the most consulted media present the highest level of scientific distortions.

scholarly journals Misinformation Inoculation and Literacy Support Tweetorials on COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
S. Scott Graham
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Literacy Support ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Significant Uptake

Many expected federal public health agencies to provide timely and accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic. That did not happen. In response, physicians and epidemiologists have explored new ways to educate the public about COVID-19 and protect against misinformation. One genre that has received significant uptake is the tweetorial, threaded tweets that educate followers on technical matters. This article builds on prior genre studies of the tweetorial to explore how #MedTwitter and #EpiTwitter communities have refashioned the emerging conventions of the tweetorial as part of efforts to protect the public from COVID-19 misinformation.

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