Mr. Robert L. Deaux

Mr. Deaux, a former Air Force officer, discusses his hobby, gem cutting.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/1006/thumbnail.jp

Mrs. Evelyn Davis

Mrs. Davis talks about the depression, the Ford Plantation in Richmond Hill, and the hard times of those lean years. And there was times that you would wonder where the next meal was actually going to come from. It was just hard times.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/1005/thumbnail.jp

Mr. James E. Taylor

Mr. Taylor, a black educationalist, talks about the problems of getting a higher education for blacks. I\u27m afraid there is some disdain accorded to quote \u27Black Professionals\u27 unquote. Many people seem to engender a feeling of distrust.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/1024/thumbnail.jp

General Paschal N. Strong

A graduate of West Point at the age of 20, General Strong is a man of wide experiences, as an Army engineer, adventurer, and writer of stories. I wrote a lot of sports stories, a lot of sailing stories, a lot of mountain stories. I wrote about everything.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/1023/thumbnail.jp

Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland

First paragraph: Since 1997 the development of partnership working across the public sector has been one of the key themes of UK government policy (Balloch and Taylor 2001). One area where partnership working has had a major influence has been in the field of health and social care. Whilst a diverse range of partnership mechanisms have developed between health and social care (Dowling et al 2004), equally diverse is the policy approach taken by each of the devolved areas that constitute the UK (Exworthy 2001). Varying modes of decentralisation have allowed Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to promote the modernisation of health and social care to meet the needs of their respective populations (Greer 2004). In Scotland, this resulted from devolution and the setting up of a Scottish Parliament in 1999. Health and social care became devolved matters for the newly formed Scottish Executive

Sexual behaviour patterns in South Africa and their association with the spread of HIV: insights from a mathematical model

This paper aims to quantify the effects of different types of sexual risk behaviour on the spread of HIV in South Africa. A mathematical model is developed to simulate changes in numbers of sexual partners, changes in marital status, changes in commercial sex activity and changes in the frequency of unprotected sex over the life course. This is extended to allow for the transmission of HIV, and the model is fitted to South African HIV prevalence data and sexual behaviour data. Results suggest that concurrent partnerships and other non-spousal partnerships are major drivers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.AIDS/HIV, sexual behavior, simulation model, South Africa

Enacting Contextually Responsive Scholarship: Centring Occupation in Participatory Action Research with Children in India

Occupation-based scholars are striving to mobilize socially responsive scholarship to address occupational injustices from local to global scales. Moving forward involves expanding beyond Western, Anglophonic, female, able-bodied, adult perspectives on occupation, with critically informed participatory methodologies providing one key means to incorporate diverse perspectives on occupation and occupational justice. Drawing upon a participatory action research project with children with disabilities from rural South India, this paper puts forward an understanding of participatory action research as an occupational process (i.e., embodying a variety of occupations) and an occupation-based process (i.e., informed by an occupational lens). We forefront how ‘occupation’ was centered and mobilized within the process of this participatory action research. In addition, drawing on select study findings, we illustrate and discuss how participatory action research provided a forum to partner with the child co-researchers and collaboratively identify and critically analyse occupational injustices. Through this illustration and discussion of participatory action research as an occupation-based process and occupational process, we demonstrate its potential to be used to enact contextually responsive scholarship and praxis

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to high cholesterol in South Africa in 2000

Objectives. To estimate the burden of disease attributable to high cholesterol in adults aged 30 years and older in South Africa in 2000.Design. World Health Organization comparative risk assessment (CRA) methodology was followed. Small community studies were used to derive the prevalence by population group. Population-attributable fractions were calculated and applied to revised burden of disease estimates for the relevant disease categories for each population group. The total attributable burden for South Africa in 2000 was obtained by adding the burden attributed to high cholesterol for the four population groups. Monte Carlo simulation-modelling techniques were used for uncertainty analysis.Setting. South Africa.Subjects. Black African, coloured, white and Indian adults aged 30 years and older.Outcome measures. Mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and ischaemic stroke.Results. Overall, about 59% of IHD and 29% of ischaemic stroke burden in adult males and females (30+ years) were attributable to high cholesterol ( ≥ 3.8 mmol/l), with marked variation by population group. High cholesterol was estimated to have caused 24 144 deaths (95% uncertainty interval 22 404 - 25 286) or 4.6% (95% uncertainty interval 4.3 - 4.9%) of all deaths in South Africa in 2000. Since most cholesterol-related cardiovascular disease events occurred in middle or old age, the loss of life years comprised a smaller proportion of the total: 222 923 DALYs (95% uncertainty interval 206 712 - 233 460) or 1.4% of all DALYs (95% uncertainty interval 1.3 - 1.4%) in South Africa in 2000.Conclusions. High cholesterol is an important cardiovascular risk factor in all population groups in South Africa