248 research outputs found
Prenatal development in rural South Africa: relationship between birth weight and access to fathers and grandparents
No full textBirth weight is an indicator of prenatal development associated with health in infancy and childhood, and may be affected by the family environment experienced by the mother during pregnancy. Using data from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, we explore the importance of the mother's access to the father and grandparents of the child during pregnancy. Controlling for household socio-economic indicators and maternal characteristics, the survival and residence of the biological father with the mother are positively associated with birth weight. The type of relationship seems to matter: married women have the heaviest newborns, but co-residence with a non-marital partner is also associated with higher birth weight. Access to the maternal grandmother may also be important: women whose mothers are alive have heavier newborns, but no additional benefit is observed from residing together. Co-residence with any grandparent is not associated with birth weight after controlling for the mother's partnershi
Literacy Events in Writing Play Workshops with Children Aged Three to Five: A Study of Agential Cuts with the Artographic Triple Dimensions as a Lens
No full textThe aim of this article is to explore how the multiple perspectives offered by an artographer’s lens contribute to three literacy events generated by writing play activities for children three to five years old. These events are part of a more comprehensive study of emergent literacy in writing play workshops, focusing on writing in different displays and with different writing tools. The artographer in the comprehensive study is Solveig Åsgard Bendiksen, also the first author in this article. The two other co-authors contribute with artographic methodology and with concepts from agential realism in the analysis of three literacy events. The intra-actions between the artographer, the children, the affects, the affordance of rich materials, and the context as performative agents in diffractive reading produced a number of findings concerning emergent writing literacy, especially concerning emergent cultural literacy
”Babes in the wood?”: Intertekstuaalisuus ja subteksti Solveig von Schoultzin novellissa ”Även dina kameler”
No full text”Babes in the wood?” – Intertextuality and subtext in the short story ”Även dina kameler” by Solveig von Schoultz
In my article I examine three central intertexts in the short story “Även dina kameler” (Even your camels) written by the Finland-Swedish author Solveig von Schoultz in 1965. The short story includes several, “odd” intertextual fragments, which all seem to point at a secret of some kind, hidden from the reader. In my analysis I use the definition of the term “subtext”, put forward by the literary critic Michael Riffaterre in his book Fictional Truth, in order to show how the mysteriousness of the text is constructed, how the intertexts build up the “subtext” of the short story and what the secret is that the story both hides and signals of. This way one gets a picture of how the seemingly plain and realistic text is actually built up in an effective and elaborate way and characterised by high textual density.
The analyzed intertexts all relate to certain topics: a mother, who is distant or dead, a woman’s identity and changes in it, and how words get or loose their meaning. All in all, the short story shows both on its explicit and hidden level how the death of the protagonist’s mother – the hidden secret of the text – has lead to the creation of a language of one’s own. The significance of language is, then, connected to loss. The strange words and allusions the woman protagonist uses also put forward the metalinguistic and poetic message of the story; the importance of language, and how language can both carry meanings, and become empty of meaning. In this way the story is even connected to the author’s own enterprise
Aesops Fabler
No full textThis slim book of some 24 pages was apparently a Christmas gift of the Bergen Faktorforening. In fact, Wiig had done a 1951 translation of Aesop 106 pages in length, illustrated by Johan Berle Reidar and published by J.W. Eides. I have found a copy available and have ordered it. I am delighted to find this book from Bergen and from a Bergen bookseller because I did not have time to seek out booksellers during our short stay there this summer. Strong endpapers offer a forest with a lion attacking, a squirrel (?) fleeing, and a donkey prancing. The Aesop of the cover and title page look to me as though they were in India. That cover has a background of green and gold for its line-drawing of the seated fabulist. In the book's first illustration, miller and son both are bent in dejection. I need a good Norwegian to tell me what happened to their ass! There are two strong, highly interpretative illustrations for OR and three for FG. Similarly, the artist takes two moments to picture in AD. The second pictures quite dramatically and minutely the ant biting the big toe of the hairy hunter. Is that Androcles in the last picture? Is there a text to accompany this picture? It is a feather in the cap of this collection that a rare book like this becomes available here. Online I could find only four copies. Two are in Denmark, one is in China, and the last is at the University of Southern California. This copy has a slightly musty smell.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: NorwegianLimited to 300 copiesOversatt av Hanna Wii
One-year trial of 12-hour shifts in a non-intensive care unit and an intensive care unit in a public hospital: a qualitative study of 24 nurses’ experiences
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One-year trial of 12-hour shifts in a non-intensive care unit and an intensive care unit in a public hospital: a qualitative study of 24 nurses’ experiences
Solveig Osborg Ose, Maria Suong Tjønnås, Silje Lill Kaspersen, Hilde Færevik
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Objectives The aim of this study was to provide recommendations to hospital owners and employee unions about developing efficient, sustainable and safe work-hour agreements. Employees at two clinics of a hospital, one a non-intensive care and the other a newborn intensive care unit (ICU), trialled 12-hour shifts on weekends for 1 year.
Methods We systematically recorded the experiences of 24 nurses’ working 12-hour shifts, 16 in the medical unit and 8 in the ICU for 1 year. All were interviewed before, during and at the end of the trial period. The interview material was recorded, transcribed to text and coded systematically.
Results The experiences of working 12-hour shifts differed considerably between participants, especially those in the ICU. Their individual experiences differed in terms of health consequences, effects on their family, appreciation of extra weekends off, perceived effects on patients and perceived work task flexibility.
Conclusions The results indicate that individual preference for working 12-hour shifts is a function of own health situation, family situation, work load tolerance, degree of sleep problems, personality and other factors. If the goal is to recruit and retain nurses, nurses should be free to choose to work 12-hour shifts
Am J Health Promot
No full textPurpose:To examine associations of adolescent sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake with parent SSB intake and parent- and adolescent-knowledge of SSB-related health risks.Design:Quantitative, cross-sectional.Setting:2014 SummerStyles survey.Subjects:990 parent and adolescent (12\u201317 y) pairs.Measures:The outcome was self-reported adolescent intake (0, >0 to 0 to <1, 651 to <2, or 652 times/d) and parent and adolescent knowledge of SSB-related health risks (weight gain, diabetes, and dental caries).Analysis:Separate multinomial logistic regression models were used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (aOR) for adolescent SSB intake 651 time/d (ref: 0 times/d), according to 1) parent SSB intake, and 2) parent- and 3) adolescent-knowledge.Results:About 31% of adolescents consumed SSBs 651 time/d, and 43.2% of parents consumed SSBs 652 times/d. Adolescent and parent knowledge that SSB intake is related to health conditions ranged from 60.7% to 80.4%: weight gain (75.0% and 80.4%, respectively), diabetes (60.7% and 71.4%, respectively), and dental caries (77.5% and 72.9%, respectively). In adjusted models, adolescent SSB intake 651 time/d was associated with parent intake 652 times/d (aOR=3.30; 95% CI=1.62\u20136.74), but not with parent or adolescent knowledge of health risks.Conclusion:Parental SSB intake may be an important factor in understanding adolescent behavior; knowledge of SSB-related health conditions alone may not influence adolescent SSB behavior.CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States2019-11-01T00:00:00Z29618222PMC6334294691
Migration and Obesity
No full textThere are over 230 million international migrants worldwide, and this number continues to grow. Migrants tend to have limited access to and knowledge about resources and preventative care in their communities of reception, but nonetheless they are often in better health by many measures compared with native-born people in their communities of reception and with the people they left behind at their place of origin. With time since arrival, however, immigrants’ health advantages often dissipate and they experience increases in health problems, especially obesity and diabetes, which are chronic diseases that are increasingly prevalent in the overall population as well and are associated with multiple co-morbidities and limitations. It may be that immigrants have specific health endowments leading to these health patterns, or that the processes involved in migration, including exposure to new environments, behavioral change, and stress of migration may also affect risks of obesity and other chronic conditions. Understanding the health patterns of migrants can be useful in identifying their specific health needs, as well as contributing to our understanding of how specific environments, changes in environments, and individual health endowments interplay to shape the long-term health of populations.</p
Lennart Nilsson's Fish-Eyes : A Photographic and Cultural History of Views from Below
No full textThis article examines the Swedish photo-grapher Lennart Nilsson’s wide-angle imagery in its production and circulation contexts from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. It focuses in particular on a sample of photographs, labelled “fish-eye” because of the specific nature of their distorted perspective, which he produced for magazines, books and films during this period. The aim is to shed light on how these pictures contributed to stimulating an alternative mode of spectatorship, the view from below, challenging the viewing position created by the traditional linear perspective of painting and photography. The author shows how an immersive and transparent experience of the images could exist side by side with its apparent opposite: the hypermediated experience of the same type of image. It is also suggested that Nilsson’s fish- eye photographs have been important in naturalizing a specific way of seeing foetal life in contemporary visual and media culture
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