BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to collect information regarding healthcare worker (HCW) vaccination policies in Utah family practice clinics. METHODS The study was conducted in Utah family practice clinics in the most densely populated counties in the state and was a cross-sectional descriptive design. Data were collected from 91 family practice clinic managers. Descript...

Many family caregivers of older adults suffer from a high burden of care and struggle with the balance of jobs and caregiving tasks. However, the United States is the only developed country without paid sick leave policies for all workers and their families. The purpose of this article is to review the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and empirical studies about paid sick policy, pro...

Traditional modes of communication, including songs, riddles, appelations, and proverbs, remain predominant in small African communities and should be given greater attention as a means of disseminating government policy on family planning. An examination of the folklore of the Akan, an ethnic group in Ghana, demonstrates both the power of traditional communication and its intrinsic stability ...

This paper gives a brief overview of China’s family planning policy which, although recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the ‘one-child policy’, it resulted from the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning the capability of the still largely closed and isolated Chinese economy to care for itself. We discuss the...