This cross-sectional study examined potential demand-side barriers to women's use of basic health services in rural southern Egypt (Upper Egypt). Face-to-face interviews with a structured questionnaire were carried out on 205 currently-married women, inquiring about their use of health facilities: regular antenatal care (ANC) during the last pregnancy and medical treatment services when they su...

background: one of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. the aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in iran.materials and methods: this study was a conventional content analysis. participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...

Don’t we all want an inclusive workplace? I was reflecting on this past spring season and the many months filled with various cultural interfaith holidays. The facilities where work held celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day Easter, staff put a lot of effort into decorating organizing festivities. It so beautiful to see residents smiling, laughing, interacting each other staff, wondered how we, fa...

As current digital libraries are becoming more complex, the facilities provided by them will increase and the difficulty of learning associated with the complexity of using these facilities will also increase. In order to produce usable and useful interactive systems, designers need to ensure that good design features are incorporated into the systems, taking into consideration end-users' needs...

BACKGROUND India is a major contributor to the global burden of leprosy and tuberculosis (TB), which adversely affects the poorest tribal communities. Despite prioritisation by disease control programmes, programme performance for leprosy and TB in tribal communities continues to be a challenge. In addition to access to services and infrastructural limitations, socio-cultural concepts of illnes...

INTRODUCTION Babies born before arrival at a health facility have a higher risk of neonatal death and their mothers a higher risk of maternal death compared with those born in-facility. The study explored the reasons for mothers giving birth before arrival (BBA) at health facilities and their experiences of BBA. METHODS A qualitative research design was used. Individual and focus group interv...

in the present era, the cultural heritage of the nations is taken into consideration, and has found great significance in several aspects. this importance has enforced the nations to enact their particular laws in cultural heritage domain; among the rest, the ownership of historic-cultural monuments. these laws lead to the restriction of private ownerships in many cases. in the first glance, it...