3 research outputs found
Impact of Play-Based Strategies on Enhancing Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) for Dengue Prevention among School Children in an Urban Area of Bangalore North
No full textDengue fever is a significant public health issue in India, particularly in urban locales like Bangalore North, where children are notably susceptible. This quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of play-based strategies in improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) concerning dengue prevention among 60 school children aged 10 to 16 years at Silicon International Public School. Data collection was conducted using a structured KAP questionnaire through pre-test and post-test evaluations. Play-based interventions, which featured interactive activities, were utilized to enhance awareness and promote preventive behaviors.The results indicated that 70% of participants had low KAP scores in the pre-test, with only 8.33% achieving good scores. In contrast, post-test results revealed that 75% of participants achieved good KAP scores, with none classified as poor. A paired t-test (t = 17.945, p < 0.05) confirmed a significant improvement in KAP levels. Chi-square analysis also discovered associations between KAP scores and factors such as place of residence, previous exposure to dengue, participation in health programs, and preventive measures
The 'forgotten workforce': a study into the effects of working part-time unsocial hours upon secondary wage earners within hospitality and retail
No full textThe expansion of trading hours especially within hospitality and retail has allowed a previously restricted segment of the nation's workforce an enhanced opportunity to participate in employment outside traditional working hours. Focusing upon mothers who adopt employment outside of the conventional working day, this study examines the consequences of accepting such employment and considers what influence this type of employment has upon the individual, their partner and their family. Despite the growing numbers, this vulnerable sector of the workforce often fails to attract a high priority of public or academic attention with the majority of policy initiatives (both company and government) being directed toward full-time employees.To document the effect of working part-time unsocial hours this research undertook interviews with eighty six individuals from a national supermarket chain and a restaurant group with a further twenty three follow-up interviews one year later. The data gathered documents the reality of paritime unsocial hours working (often involving emotional labour ) and examines the effect this form of employment has upon work performance. The analysis continues with an assessment of the effect such working has upon the lives of the individuals concerned and discusses the importance of partner support for coping with the problems associated with part-time unsocial hours work. The study concludes with practical suggestions that employers can adopt to improve welfare at work. It recommends government initiatives together with legislative changes designed to protect this vulnerable sector of the workforce from exploitation
Multimedia and the Hybrid City: Geographies of Techno cultural Spaces in South Korea
No full textThe purpose of this research is to explore how multimedia technologies such as the Internet, satellite TV, cable TV and mobile phones, combined with people's everyday practices, produce the hybrid city where the boundaries between binary territories are blurred; and to offer implications for understanding our everyday lives and cities. Here, multimedia technologies are crucial triggers by which the boundaries between binary categories such as time/space, actual/virtual, human/machine and so on are blurred. And, cities, where urban locales are connected to electronic networks and human bodies are wired to electronic machines, are locations where such boundary-blurring processes occur intensively. I call such a city the 'hybrid city' where we can observe various geographies of technocultural spaces formed by multimedia technologies. In this epistemological context, I investigate cities in South Korea, a country that is one of the most 'wired' to electronic networks in the world. My argument is that the hybrid city, composed of global-local networks, actual- virtual circuits, centripetal-centrifugal vectors and human-machine hybrids, cannot be explained as a singular and consistent space, but rather as multiple and complex spaces. This is because the hybrid city itself exists in between different categories or territories. That is, the hybrid city does not exist as A or B, but instead in between A and в which are deterritorialised towards each other through a-parallel evolution or co-evolution, and thus it can be seen as fractal and fluid. In this sense, the hybrid city can be defined as not a 'being', but 'becomings' always in motion through the continuous 'dis/appearances' or 'dis/connections' of heterogeneous networks. In Latour's, Deleuze and Guattari's and Haraway's terms, the hybrid city is not only composed of a number of actor-networks, rhizomes or cyborgs, but also a kind of actor-network, rhizome or cyborg itself. That is, the hybrid city is the 'middle kingdom' in Latour's terms
