Integrating tradition and change

Integrating Navajo tradition into maternal-child nursing.

Karen J. Satz, R.N., M.S. is a Nurse Practitioner in maternal and child health on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. standing and incorporating that culture’s beliefs, values, and attitudes into their nursing care is an essential component of quality health care. Nurses on the Navajo Ki*servirtion are practicing within a distinct cultural group. Although many cultural groups coexis...

Tibet: Landscape of Tradition and Change

Tibetans view the environment as an interrelated balance upon which humans and nature coexist. Overconsumption of resources is discouraged, and the taking of life is forbidden by Buddhist practice. However, as traditional people meet the modern world, checkerboard patterns are carved into forested mountain slopes, pollution runs freely in once pristine waters, erosion lays grasslands bare, and ...

Science and values. Patterns of tradition and change

interest, based as it is on the writings of Quintus Serenus, Pseudo-Apuleius and Sextus Placitus. But there are several unusual items rarely encountered elsewhere, such as the fascinating ceremonies for the cure of falling-sickness, for counteracting spells cast on people by means of wax images, and for preventing mice from destroying the grain harvest. On the whole the editor has treated the t...

Climatic Change and The Initial Middle Missouri Tradition

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...