Much has been written concerning ethno–cultural constructs and their application to the behavioral health treatment of Latinas(os). Perhaps because of the inherent complexity of attempting to describe ethno–cultural beliefs and treatment implications while avoiding stereotyping and overgeneralizing, writings in this area often begin with brief descriptions of select cultural values. Often what ...

This study uses content analysis and visual representation methods to explore how multiculturalism is displayed on the websites of agencies providing social care for the aged. These agencies use strategically planned texts to portray multicultural categories of inclusion, diversity and individuality; and emphasize the text referents through ethno-related pictures as universal equivalence symbol...

In the article authors on basis of materials, consider issues preserving cultural traditions Russian population Middle Volga region, namely revival Pentecost church-ale in 20–21 centuries example national center Aksubaevsky district Republic Tatarstan. The experience accumulated over thirty-year history holiday has not yet become an object study scientists, which determines relevance our work. ...

A 21st-century growth in prevalence of extreme right-wing nationalism and social conservatism Australia, Europe, America, certain respects belies the positive impacts online, new, alternative forms global media. Cross-national ‘far-right activism’ are unconfined to their host nations; individuals organisations campaign on basis ethno-cultural separatism, while capitalising internet-based afford...

When Christianity came to Australia, with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, it came as the religion of the Europeans. After the new penal colony had survived the crises of the first few years, the British gradually extended their control over the whole continent. Thus they established in this country the dominance of European culture. In fact they were determined that this ‘new’ country w...

Personal naming practices exist in all human groups and are far from random. Rather, they continue to reflect social norms and ethno-cultural customs that have developed over generations. As a consequence, contemporary name frequency distributions retain distinct geographic, social and ethno-cultural patterning that can be exploited to understand population structure in human biology, public he...

BACKGROUND Conflicts during communication in multi-ethnic healthcare settings is an increasing point of concern as a result of societies' increased ethno-cultural diversity. We can expect that conflicts are even more likely to arise in situations where difficult medical decisions have to be made, such as critical medical situations in hospital. However, in-depth research on this topic is rather...

The article presents ethno-cultural education of the valuing attitude to healthy lifestyles and health promotion students in university Yakutia. study aims at values tolerance, awareness its importance for modern person, whose life activities involve lifestyle educational environment university. reasonably indicates need take into account peculiarities regarding value organizations. results cou...

Ethno-medicinal research in district Kathua was conducted during the period 2010 to 2012. The objective of the research was the assessment and preservation of cultural and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants of the area. A checklist of the ethno-medicinal flora has been produced which includes 139 species belonging to 117 genera and 69 families. Information on the medicinal uses gathered ...