The essential nutrition actions explain nutrition through life cycle approach addressing women’s nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, optimal infant and young children feeding, nutritional care for sick children...The essential nutrition actions explain nutrition through life cycle approach addressing women’s nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, optimal infant and young children feeding, nutritional care for sick children and control of anemia, iodine and vitamin A deficiencies. Essential nutrition action has been implemented and resulted in positive outcome in less developed countries. However, the status of practice and associated factors were not studied in Ethiopia. Thus, institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the practice of essential nutrition actions in healthcare deliveries of Shebedino District, South Ethiopia. Quantitative data were collected though face-to-face interview with health workers and triangulated with data obtained through in-depth interview with health managers in the district and non-participatory observation of client-provider interaction in health facilities. Data were analyzed using SPSS16.0 software. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were undertaken. The study revealed that 61 (56.0%) health workers practiced essential nutrition actions. Seventy one (65.1%) health workers were trained on essential nutrition actions. The practice of essential nutrition actions was associated with career structure of the health workers (AOR = 6.79, 95%CI: 2.31, 19.98), essential nutrition actions knowledge of health workers (AOR = 6.87, 95%CI: 2.11, 21.51) and availability of monthly nutrition related report form (AOR = 4.95, 95%CI: 1.46, 16.81). The practice of essential nutrition actions was low. The factors affecting the practice were inadequate training and knowledge of essential nutrition actions, career structure of the health workers and availability of monthly report form. Training should be provided for health workers on essential nutrition actions;moreover, essential nutrition actions indicators should be included in monthly report forms of the health institutions.展开更多
Starting with a critique of so-called intercultural communication,the present paper contests and challenges the prevalent and dominant essentialist views of "culture".It is exposed that these views have a de...Starting with a critique of so-called intercultural communication,the present paper contests and challenges the prevalent and dominant essentialist views of "culture".It is exposed that these views have a detrimental underlying logic that is both destructive and self-destructive.Instead,the paper proposes a radically new idea of culture,a minimalist approach supported by insights gleaned from contemporary semiotic inquiry.In this approach,culture is defined as a biological instinct to acquire information through modeling,that is,learning by models.This instinct is at work,or is realized,in specific acts of such modeling,resulting in cultural practices and cultural artifacts.In the case of humanity,a cultural practice is anything a human does that can be modeled by another human and a cultural artifact is any object that humans make and can model.The paper argues it is imperative to keep in mind that when we deal with the "intercultural",we are only dealing with concrete yet different cultural practices or cultural artifacts.This is an effective way to completely refute essentialism.In a sense,the paper is meant to be a wake-up call,instead of a fighting talk.Its main objective is not to negate or obliterate the field of"intercultural communication",among others,but rather to save them from them-selvesa true and worthy field of"intercultural communication"is a field against essentialism,instead of an accessory to essentialism,whether the commission is"before the fact"or "after the fact".展开更多
文摘The essential nutrition actions explain nutrition through life cycle approach addressing women’s nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, optimal infant and young children feeding, nutritional care for sick children and control of anemia, iodine and vitamin A deficiencies. Essential nutrition action has been implemented and resulted in positive outcome in less developed countries. However, the status of practice and associated factors were not studied in Ethiopia. Thus, institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the practice of essential nutrition actions in healthcare deliveries of Shebedino District, South Ethiopia. Quantitative data were collected though face-to-face interview with health workers and triangulated with data obtained through in-depth interview with health managers in the district and non-participatory observation of client-provider interaction in health facilities. Data were analyzed using SPSS16.0 software. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were undertaken. The study revealed that 61 (56.0%) health workers practiced essential nutrition actions. Seventy one (65.1%) health workers were trained on essential nutrition actions. The practice of essential nutrition actions was associated with career structure of the health workers (AOR = 6.79, 95%CI: 2.31, 19.98), essential nutrition actions knowledge of health workers (AOR = 6.87, 95%CI: 2.11, 21.51) and availability of monthly nutrition related report form (AOR = 4.95, 95%CI: 1.46, 16.81). The practice of essential nutrition actions was low. The factors affecting the practice were inadequate training and knowledge of essential nutrition actions, career structure of the health workers and availability of monthly report form. Training should be provided for health workers on essential nutrition actions;moreover, essential nutrition actions indicators should be included in monthly report forms of the health institutions.
文摘Starting with a critique of so-called intercultural communication,the present paper contests and challenges the prevalent and dominant essentialist views of "culture".It is exposed that these views have a detrimental underlying logic that is both destructive and self-destructive.Instead,the paper proposes a radically new idea of culture,a minimalist approach supported by insights gleaned from contemporary semiotic inquiry.In this approach,culture is defined as a biological instinct to acquire information through modeling,that is,learning by models.This instinct is at work,or is realized,in specific acts of such modeling,resulting in cultural practices and cultural artifacts.In the case of humanity,a cultural practice is anything a human does that can be modeled by another human and a cultural artifact is any object that humans make and can model.The paper argues it is imperative to keep in mind that when we deal with the "intercultural",we are only dealing with concrete yet different cultural practices or cultural artifacts.This is an effective way to completely refute essentialism.In a sense,the paper is meant to be a wake-up call,instead of a fighting talk.Its main objective is not to negate or obliterate the field of"intercultural communication",among others,but rather to save them from them-selvesa true and worthy field of"intercultural communication"is a field against essentialism,instead of an accessory to essentialism,whether the commission is"before the fact"or "after the fact".
