Public Perception about Social Work Profession

Public Awareness about The Anaesthesiology Profession: A Conference Survey Of Campus People, Southwest Nigeria

Introduction: There exist very scanty literatures on public awareness on the anaesthesiology profession amongst the Nigerian populations. This study aims to determine the level of awareness of the anaesthesiology profession among a population of tertiary school students, academic and non-academic staff members who were attending a South-western Nigerian zonal conference. Methods: Data obtained...

[The public image of nursing: a profession to learn about].

Nursing is a profession that has suffered from public stereotyping for a long time. It has been viewed historically as a female profession, under the orders of doctors and without its own field of competence. Major changes have occurred in the discipline over the last decade that directly affect the profession. As a result, this review of the literature has tried to identify the image of nursin...

What is social about social perception research?

A growing consensus in social cognitive neuroscience holds that large portions of the primate visual brain are dedicated to the processing of social information, i.e., to those aspects of stimuli that are usually encountered in social interactions such as others' facial expressions, actions, and symbols. Yet, studies of social perception have mostly employed simple pictorial representations of ...

Public health, nursing and medical social work.

Public Health Becomes a Profession *

The prevention of illness and premature death and the promotion of health has attracted able minds from the beginning. Public health as a cause has always offered substantial though often intangible rewards. It has become a profession in itself, offering essential satisfactions to thousands of people who devote their careers to this cause. It is astonishing how this cause has gradually amalgama...