The modern Olympics are not only the largest sports phenomenon to date in the history of human society, but also a great social culture phenomenon in the history of human civilization [1]. A broad sense of Olympic culture is the sum of material and spiritual wealth created by the Olympics in practice. Material wealth, namely material culture, mainly refers to the transformation and development ...

A study of Baccalaureate nursing students was conducted to explore and describe undergraduate nursing students' experience of interaction with culturally diverse psychiatric patients. Thirty-seven nursing students participated in this research project. Sixteen of the students came from a predominantly black university and the other twenty-one students came from a predominantly white university....

Using a dialectic method of philosophic inquiry, the actual ethical, legal, and social situation associated with genetic testing of beryllium-exposed workers in Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities for markers of chronic beryllium disease is described. The cultural evolution of a caste system in a similar situation, and its social and biological implications, among uranium miners in ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the effectiveness of an occupation-based cultural heritage intervention to facilitate adaptation to relocation into long-term care (LTC) facilities as measured by quality of life, activity engagement, and social participation. METHOD We used a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design with pre- and posttests. Residents receiving the cultural intervention ...

Background Although skilled birth care contributes significantly to the prevention of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, utilization of such care is poor in mid- and far-western Nepal. This study explored the perceptions of service users and providers regarding barriers to skilled birth care. Design We conducted 24 focus group discussions, 12 each with service users and service provi...

Public spaces accessibility has become one of the important factors in urban planning. Therefore, considerable attention has been given to measure accessibility to public spaces on the UK, US and Canada, but there are few studies outside the anglophone world especially in developing countries such as Iran. In this study an attempt has been made to measure objective accessibility to public space...

BACKGROUND Pakistan's maternal mortality rate is high, and adequate and timely emergency services could prevent most maternal deaths. A woman's right to life-saving services of skilled health care providers in childbirth is undeniable. This paper examines factors restricting women's access to emergency obstetric care services in Pakistan. METHOD This cross-sectional survey on emergency obstet...

BACKGROUND The health seeking behaviour of a community determines how they use health services. Utilisation of health facilities can be influenced by the cost of services, distance to health facilities, cultural beliefs, level of education and health facility inadequacies such as stock-out of drugs. OBJECTIVES To assess the health seeking practices and challenges in utilising health facilitie...

the aim of this study was to investigate the problems of private sport clubs in shahr-e-kord city. this study used a descriptive method and it was conducted as a survey. the statistical population and sample were all managers and owners of private sport clubs of shahr-e-kord city (n=91). a questionnaire (21 items) which evaluated the problems of these sport clubs from different perspectives was...

introduction cultural or heritage tourism is a tool of economic development that leads to economic growth by attracting visitors from outside the host community through historic and heritage attractions of destinations. this is a human heritage as cultural traditions of each society and is considered as cultural tourist attractions. hence, yazd is an ancient city with archaic culture and also r...