Islam and Health Policies Related to HIV Prevention in Malaysia
Islam and Health Policies Related to HIV Prevention in Malaysia

Author: Sima Barmania

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 3319689096

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This salient text presents a culturally aware public health approach to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia, a country emblematic of the Muslim world's response to the crisis. It explores complex interactions of religion with health as a source of coping as well as stigma and denial, particularly as Islam plays a central role in Malaysian culture, politics, and policy. At the heart of the book, a groundbreaking study analyzes attitudes and behaviors toward prevention among diverse people living with HIV, faith leaders, and government health officials. From these findings, readers gain insight into how health professionals, policymakers, and organizations can create appropriate prevention programs in Malaysia, with implications for other Muslim countries. This timely volume: Situates Malaysia and the Asian Pacific region in the context of the HIV epidemic. Analyzes ways Islamic beliefs can shape perceptions of HIV and prevention policy. Reviews a unique study of stakeholder opinions and practices regarding HIV. Discusses the consequences of Islamic rulings on sex outside marriage. Offers recommendations for effective HIV prevention practice and policy. Islam and Health Policies Related to HIV Prevention in Malaysia is of immediate relevance to researchers studying HIV prevention, social aspects of religion, sexuality, and sex education. Policymakers in health promotion and health education as well as graduate students in sex education, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies should also find it useful.

Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics

Author: Mehrunisha Suleman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0429575424

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This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts. It presents a rich sociological account about the ways in which debates and questions involving Islam within the biomedical research context are negotiated - a perspective which is currently lacking within the broader bioethics literature. The book tackles some key understudied areas including: role of faith in moral deliberations within biomedical research ethics, the moral anxiety and frustration experienced by researchers when having to negotiate multiple moral sources and how the marginalisation of women, the prejudice and abuse faced by groups such as sex workers and those from the LGBT community are encountered and negotiated in such contexts. The volume provides a valuable resource for researchers and scholars in this area by providing a systematic review of ethical guidelines and a rich case-based account of the ethical issues emerging in biomedical research in contexts where Islam and the religious moral commitments of Muslims are pertinent. The book will be essential for those conducting research in low and middle income countries that have significant Muslim populations and for those in Muslim-minority settings. It will also appeal to researchers and scholars in religious studies, social sciences, philosophy, anthropology and theology, as well as the fields of biomedical ethics, Islamic ethics and global health..

Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Author: Jensine Andresen

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2022-03-09

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1527579255

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What are the implications for human society, and for our institutions of higher learning, of the discovery of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on and around Earth? This book explores this timely question from a multidisciplinary perspective. It considers scientific, philosophical, theological, and interdisciplinary ways of thinking about the question, and it represents all viewpoints on how likely it is that an ETI is already operating here on Earth. The book’s contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines in their formal training and later vocations, and, upon reflection on the book’s topic, they articulate a diverse range of insights into how ETI will impact humankind. It is safe to say that any contact or communication with ETI will not be merely a game changer for human society, but it also will be a paradigm changer. It makes sense for human beings to prepare themselves now for this important transition.

Teaching Secondary Biology 3rd Edition
Teaching Secondary Biology 3rd Edition

Author: The Association For Science Ed

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2021-06-18

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1510462899

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Enhance your teaching with expert advice and support for Key Stages 3 and 4 Biology from the Teaching Secondary series - the trusted teacher's guide for NQTs, non-specialists and experienced teachers. Written in association with ASE, this updated edition provides best practice teaching strategies from academic experts and practising teachers. - Refresh your subject knowledge, whatever your level of expertise - Gain strategies for delivering the big ideas of science using suggested teaching sequences - Engage students and develop their understanding with practical activities for each topic - Enrich your lessons and extend knowledge beyond the curriculum with enhancement ideas - Improve key skills with opportunities to introduce mathematics and scientific literacy highlighted throughout - Support the use of technology with ideas for online tasks, video suggestions and guidance on using cutting-edge software - Place science in context; this book highlights where you can apply science theory to real-life scenarios, as well as how the content can be used to introduce different STEM careers Also available: Teaching Secondary Chemistry, Teaching Secondary Physics

Addysgu Bioleg yn yr Uwchradd (Teaching Secondary Biology 3rd Edition Welsh Language edition)
Addysgu Bioleg yn yr Uwchradd (Teaching Secondary Biology 3rd Edition Welsh Language edition)

Author: The Association For Science Education

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1398385840

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Enhance your teaching with expert advice and support for Key Stages 3 and 4 Biology from the Teaching Secondary series - the trusted teacher's guide for NQTs, non-specialists and experienced teachers. Written in association with ASE, this updated edition provides best practice teaching strategies from academic experts and practising teachers. - Refresh your subject knowledge, whatever your level of expertise - Gain strategies for delivering the big ideas of science using suggested teaching sequences - Engage students and develop their understanding with practical activities for each topic - Enrich your lessons and extend knowledge beyond the curriculum with enhancement ideas - Improve key skills with opportunities to introduce mathematics and scientific literacy highlighted throughout - Support the use of technology with ideas for online tasks, video suggestions and guidance on using cutting-edge software - Place science in context; this book highlights where you can apply science theory to real-life scenarios, as well as how the content can be used to introduce different STEM careers Also available: Teaching Secondary Chemistry, Teaching Secondary Physics

Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes
Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes

Author: Annette Scheersoi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 303000208X

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This book focuses on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas in museums to engage various audiences with – and in – contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing, such as biodiversity loss. From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of societies. In the simultaneously published book: “Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, Science Educational Aspects" the editors discuss the history of dioramas and their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience.

Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development
Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development

Author: Jo. M. Martins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 110896012X

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Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersections and interactions of health with a multitude of other systems and determinants. This book ambitiously takes on the challenge of presenting health systems as a coherent whole, by applying a systems-thinking lens. It focuses on Malaysia as a case study to demonstrate the evolution of a health system from a low-income developing status to one of the most resilient health systems today. A rich collaboration of multidisciplinary academics working with policymakers who were at the coalface of decision-making and practitioners with decades of experience, provides a candid analysis of what worked and what did not. The result is an engaging, informative and thought-provoking intervention in the debate. This title is Open Access.

Cultural Competence in Caring for Muslim Patients
Cultural Competence in Caring for Muslim Patients

Author: G.Hussein Rassool

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-05-07

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1350310999

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To meet the care needs of today's diverse patient community, healthcare professionals must learn to care in environments comprising different worldviews, communication styles and expectations. To meet this challenge, it is essential that they operate from a solid foundation of knowledge, based on high standards for cultural competence in nursing practice. Cultural Competence in Caring for Muslim Patients is designed for nurses and allied healthcare professionals. It offers a deeper insight into ways in which the Islamic faith is intertwined with patient care, and explores approaches with which to effectively address the varying healthcare requirements of a growing and diverse Muslim community. Following a clear and accessible format, the book discusses key issues including: - The identity and religious beliefs of Muslims - The ethical dimension in caring - Understanding the Muslim family system - Health considerations during fasting and pilgrimage (Hajj) What's more, case studies, activities and discussion questions throughout actively support learning and reflective practices. This insightful guide will prove a valuable asset for any nurse or healthcare professional looking to develop their understanding of how to deliver culturally compassionate and congruent care.

Rethinking MSM, Trans* and other Categories in HIV Prevention
Rethinking MSM, Trans* and other Categories in HIV Prevention

Author: Amaya G. Perez-Brumer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1351365487

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As the HIV epidemic moves into its fourth decade, it is clear that the global response has failed to adequately address the needs of a wide range of vulnerable populations and groups. Chief among these are gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, and transgender persons, who globally face the disproportional burden of HIV infection. This volume rethinks HIV prevention and health promotion for sexual and gender minorities – in both the industrialised societies of the West, as well as in the developing nations of the Global South. The chapters it contains offer a critical analysis of past and present HIV research employing categories to designate gay and other men who have sex with men, transgender persons, and/or other persons and communities with diverse gender and sexual identities. Contributors question the politics of many of the existing classifications and categories in HIV research and argue for a more sophisticated analysis of gender and sexual diversity in order to tackle the social and political barriers that impede the design of successful HIV prevention and health promotion approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Public Health.