I n 2012, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) teamed up with the de Beaumont Foundation to cofund the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), which now comprises 20 city and county health departments across the country, including in the 10 largest metropolitan areas. Two additional large metropolitan health departments were invited to join the BCHC in 2014. Together, these 20 health departmen...

culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...

This article aims to illustrate the role of culture for individual development throughout the life span. First, theoretical approaches how culture affects the ontogenesis is presented, starting from early anthropological to recent eco-cultural and culture-informed approaches. Then, culture-specific conceptualizations of development over the life span are discussed, focusing on development in ch...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the literature relevant to understanding culturally informed oncology research, particularly as it relates to health-related quality of life. DATA SOURCES Published articles and books. DATA SYNTHESIS A cultural perspective to the prevailing theory and research methods used in oncology research with respect to quality of life is imperative. A multidimensional and...

Trade-offs among life-history traits are often thought to constrain the evolution of populations. Here we report the disappearance of a trade-off between early fecundity on the one hand, and late-life fecundity, starvation resistance, and longevity on the other, over 10 yr of laboratory selection for late-life reproduction. Whereas the selected populations showed an initial depression in early-...

BACKGROUND Australia is a culturally and ethnically diverse country. Within such diversity there will be differing beliefs systems about death and dying. This may be a challenging prospect for health professionals. OBJECTIVE This article discusses how cultural diversity may impact care and provides some strategies for the general practitioner when considering the provision of end of life care...

Artist Howard Boland arrived for his 2012 exhibit at the headquarters of London’s newspaper The Guardian toting Erlenmeyer flasks, plastic tubing, and glowing bacteria. Boland was eager to set up his exhibit “Stress-o-stat.” He hit a snag. Although Boland had followed safety protocols, security staff took one look at the biohazard symbols on his project materials and ejected him from the premis...

I want to start this paper from the premise that both academics in cultural and media studies, and left-wing political theorists and activists have found the everyday culture of the people in capitalist societies particularly difficult to study either empirically or theoretically. In this paper I wish, then, to interweave two lines of theoretical inquiry: one into the culture of everyday life w...

Traditionally, faculty role and workload are shaped by academic culture, including values and incentives that tend to be in large part discipline related and institutionally driven. Teaching, research, and service are the common tripartite “assignments” for faculty, with weights, distributions, and definitions of terms being more institutionally specific than discretely generalizable (Moore and...