Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the living rooms of potential travellers, also destinations that would otherwise have been difficult to find, such...

BACKGROUND The South-southern zone of Nigeria is one of the zones in the country that has reported consistent high prevalent rates of HIV/AIDS pandemic in the last decade. In spite of bio-medical reasons adduced for the spread of the pandemic, socio-cultural factors may be major issues in the access to both prevention and treatment services especially for women. Hence, this study investigated t...

The issue addressed in this paper focuses on the design and implementation of an advanced information system for Cultural Organizations, which serves as a platform for the exploitation through e-Commerce web services and, in parallel, the protection of copyright and digital rights management of the cultural content. The main components of the information system are: (a) Digital Image Library, w...

BACKGROUND Due to the enormous migration as the result of war and disasters during the last decades, health systems in Europe are faced with various cultural traditions and both healthcare systems and healthcare professionals are challenged by human rights and values. In order to minimize difficulties in providing healthcare services to patients with different cultural backgrounds, cultural com...

The ecosystem services approach has been proposed as a powerful tool for the analysis of coupled social-ecological systems. This approach is particularly useful for the evaluation of cultural landscapes, which represent the joint evolution of humans and nature across an extended time span. Transhumance is a customary practice of mobile pastoralism, involving the regular seasonal migration of li...

BACKGROUND The terms 'cultural safety' and 'cultural competence' are used widely in indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse health contexts. They form the basis for effective patient centred care and the professional advocacy role of the general practitioner. OBJECTIVE This article discusses the concepts of cultural safety and cultural competence. A checklist of cultural competen...

This paper describes an evaluation of a non-profit human service organization's attempts to provide culturally sensitive services. Systems and constructivist theoretical perspectives are used to examine the problematic of providing effective and meaningful counseling and educational services to Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrant clients The two models of achieving cultural sensitivity—cultural ...

As a concept, organizational culture is multifaceted and it has been studied in fields ranging from social anthropology to industrial-organizational psychology (Schein, 2010) defined as the set of beliefs, values, behavioral patterns, and assumptions shared by members of an organization (Cooke & Rousseau, 1998; Jacobs & Roodt, 2008; Scott, Mannion, Huw, & Marshall, 2003). Researchers in a varie...