Background In Ecuador, access to maternity services remains significantly lower amongst indigenous women compared with non-indigenous women partly due to cultural barriers [1]. A hospital in Ecuador where the indigenous rights movement is particularly strong implemented the Vertical Birth (VB) policy to increase indigenous womens’ access to maternity services by adapting services to the local c...

Not surprisingly, the state of the law varies considerably in different countries. We are indebted to the W.H.O. International Digest of Health Legislation for the information on nine European countries on which these notes are based, and must apologise in advance if our attempts to summarise this have led to any misconceptions. For facilities for studying the Digest we are indebted to the offi...

It is often assumed by universities that entry-level students possess the skills necessary to use computing facilities effectively. Yet computer literacy amongst Indigenous students remains unacceptably low. In this paper a design for a computer literacy course is presented which endeavours to affirm the cultural values and identity of Indigenous students. It does this by drawing on Indigenous ...

the purpose of the study was assessing rural tourism’s development barriers in soltanieh, zanjan province. a descriptive–correlation survey approach was used in this study. the study population consisted of local people, government experts and tourists. data was collected by eight section closed questionnaire. reliability and validity of questionnaire were determined by investigating the at...

Leisure and recreation facilities are strongly intertwined due to their mutual dependencies. Thus, they build up invisible networks. Leisure and recreation facilities are one of the imperative components for socio-cultural, psychological, and economic development. In the spectrum of sustainable development, it is not possible to initiate development process without strategically planning for le...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY We examined how organizational culture in nursing homes affects staff turnover, because culture is a first step to creating satisfactory work environments. DESIGN AND METHODS Nursing home administrators were asked in 2009 to report on facility culture and staff turnover. We received responses from 419 of 1,056 administrators contacted. Respondents reported the strength of...

This study investigates the impact of social and cultural factors on the patterning of western patterns in Isfahan city and presents some strategies to deal with it. The objectives of this study were: 1- Determining the effect of social and cultural factors on the patterning of Western models from the perspective of the children of martyrs and victims; 4) Determining the difference between the ...

education of library and information science (lis) has several problems that are caused by the changing nature of the discipline and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which lis departments function. the aim of this article is to enumerate and discuss some of the common problems of lis education in developing countries of asia and suggest solutions. we show that as asian developing c...