Journal of Nursing, Social Studies, Public Health and Rehabilitati, 2012 (vol. 3), issue 1-2

INFANT MORTALITY IN THE RURAL SIDAMA ZONE, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA: EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTION OF KEY PREGNANCY AND POSTNATAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

Nigatu Regassa

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):51-61 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.005  

Objectives: This study is aimed at examining the contribution of selected pregnancy and postnatal health care services to Infant Mortality (IM) in Southern Ethiopia.Method: Data were collected from 10 rural villages of the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia, using a structured interview schedule. The 1,094 eligible women respondents were selected using a combination of simple random and multi-stage sampling techniques. The main outcome variable of the study (IM) was measured by reported infant deaths during the twelve months preceding the survey, and was estimated at 9.6% or 96 infant deaths per 1,000 births. Pregnancy and health care...

FAMILY CAREGIVING AT THE END OF LIFE CARE

Radka Šerfelová, Katarína Žiaková, Ľubomíra Ježová

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):62-71 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.006  

Aim: A study of the relationship between the burden of family caregivers, the overall life quality of caregivers and caregivers' satisfaction in providing care to dying patients.Methods: This quantitative prospective study used three standardised questionnaires as the means of data collection: Caregiver Strain Index - the assessment of the burden of a caregiver, Caregiver Quality of Life Index Cancer - identification areas of the life quality of a caregiver and FAMCARE - the assessment of the satisfaction with providing care. The research sample consisted of 263 caregivers providing care to dying patients.Results: The results...

COMPARISON OF TRANSPARENT POLYURETHANE FILM AND STERILE GAUZE AS DRESSING MATERIALS FOR CENTRAL VENOUS ACCESS

Ľubomíra Ježová, Katarína Žiaková, Radka Šerfelová

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):72-78 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.007  

Aim: The aim of our work was to detect differences in the use of semipermeable transparent film and sterile gauze in the incidence of infectious complications, tolerance to dressing material and dressing condition.Methods: To file the enrolled 256 patients with an established central venous catheter admitted to the intensive care unit; the site of the central venous access of 128 patients was dressed with sterile gauze, and 128 patients with semipermeable film. We used the method of observation and the results were recorded in the research protocol during the period of central venous catheter use. In processing the empirical data,...

INFLUENCE OF FEATURES OF CHILDREN SUITABLE FOR SUBSTITUTE FAMILY CARE ON THEIR ADOPTION AND PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE

Pavla Štochlová, Lucie Kozlová

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):79-89 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.008  

The article describes the situation regarding features of children and their placement in adoption and foster care in the Czech Republic. The introduction of the article offers theoretic grounds concerning activities of authorities of social-legal protection of children especially in connection with applicants for adoption and foster care. The aim of the research was to determine whether or not there is relation between age, ethnicity and health condition of children who are suitable for substitute family care and success of their placement in adoption and foster care in the Czech Republic. The quantitative sociologic approach was used in order to...

PROGRAMMES OF HELP TO PERPETRATORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - EXPERIENCE AND ATTITUDES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Ivana Šímová, Petra Zimmelová

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):90-100 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.009  

The article tries to react to a very current issue of help to perpetrators of domestic violence. Most organisations in the Czech Republic focus only on help to victims of domestic violence. The possibility of providing help to perpetrators of domestic violence still remains to be an unexplored area. Thus, the aim of the research was to map organisations in the Czech Republic that could provide such help, to find out what experience with perpetrators of domestic violence these organisations have had up to now, and what is their attitude to such help. The research results showed that help provided to perpetrators of domestic violence is considered to...

THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERIES IN PRENATAL ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY OF THE MIND

Helga Blazy

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):7-13 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.001  

COHERENCE: BRIDGING PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH

Rollin McCraty

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):14-38 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.002  

TINBERGEN'S FOUR QUESTIONS, BIOLOGICALLY USELESS BEHAVIOR AND HUMANISTIC ETHOLOGY

Miloslav Kršiak

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):39-42 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.003  

The Tinbergen's four basic ethological questions (regarding the function of a behavior in survival or reproduction, what stimuli elicit it, its ontogeny and evolutionary history) when applied to man solely from biological point of view seem to be often inappropriate. For example, what is the survival function of behaviors that have emerged in modern man such as burial, artwork, and religious behavior? These behaviors seem not to be essential for survival or the spreading one's own genes; instead they seem to be biologically useless. It could be revealing to employ Tinbergen's four questions to man with respect to biological uselessness, especially...

DISABILITY IN ACCIDENT INSURANCE

Libuše Čeledová, Rostislav Čevela, Martin Šimák

JNSS 2012, 3(1-2):43-50 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2012.004  

The upcoming amendment to Act No. 266/2006 Coll., on Employee Accident Insurance, which is to enter into effect on 1 January 2013, enshrines the migration of the accident insurance stock, currently provided for by the Kooperativa and Česká pojišťovna insurance companies, as well as the actual implementation of the employee accident insurance to the Czech Social Security Administration (CSSA) or, where appropriate, the respective District Social Security Administration (DSSA). According to the current legislative intentions, the decision-making concerning the benefits shall fall under the competence of DSSA's. The Assessment Service doctors shall assess,...