Historically, child care, in much of Africa, was a communal responsibility especially through the practice of kinship fosterage. However, as a result of recent socioeconomic changes, there is some evidence to suggest that a shift is taking place in community perceptions about the continuing benefit of kinship fosterage for children in particular.
Archive for June 2012
The end of life and the family: hospice patients’ views on dying as relational
Reflections on an Unsuccessful Experiment with Anti-bullying in a Budapest School, Hungary
What do I Think of Others in Relation to Myself? Moral Identity and Moral Inclusion in Explaining Prejudice
The dark side of technologies: Technostress among users of information and communication technologies
Retrospective evaluation versus population norms for the measurement of baseline health status
Systematic review of methods used in meta-analyses where a primary outcome is an adverse or unintended event
The incidence of admissions for schizophrenia and related psychoses in two cohorts: 1875–1924 and 1994–2010
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
Effect of editors’ implementation of CONSORT guidelines on the reporting of abstracts in high impact medical journals: interrupted time series analysis
From Central to Marginal? Changing Perceptions of Kinship Fosterage in Ghana
UK and EU average at-risk-of-poverty rates for total population: 2005-2010
2011 National Healthcare Disparities Report
Sleep: Multi-Professional Perspectives
This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions relating to sleep from different disciplines in one comprehensive volume. The contributors explore the history of sleep, both in literature and in science, and consider its sociological aspects. Sleep problems, sleep quality and the effects of drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol on sleep are discussed, together with the importance of sleep for daytime performance and the science of the human body clock. Medication and polysomnography (the measurement of sleep) are also explored, along with how sleep can be affected by medical and psychiatric conditions.