Health and Wellness
Changes in Relationships in Family, Neighborhood, and Lifestyle in Traditional Craft Villages
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Van Chi Dinh
Industrialization and modernization are day by day causing a slow but deep changes in the culture of traditional craft villages. Changes in relationships of family and neighborhood tend to decrease cohesion more than before, even in some places there are the conflicts arising as a result of the conduct of traditional crafts, damaging community cohesion. In addition, in the lifestyle of traditional craft village many change in the tendency to form the necessary qualities that industrial society requires. These changes are consistent with the rules of social development. The purposes of this study is to clarify the changes in relationships in family, neighborhood, and lifestyle in the traditional Vietnamese craft villages today. Methodology involved giving questionnaires to 1,400 people and interviewing twenty-two people in seven traditional Vietnamese craft villages.
Homegrown Safety: Community Participation and Violence Prevention
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Briana Taylor
Recent political discourse argues that the International Community needs to take a firmer stance on ending gender-based violence (GBV) as a consequence of war. Yet the existing literature suggests that governmental policy prescriptions are less effective than grassroots programs and local policy initiatives at reducing GBV. Causes and implications of GBV in conflict are unique and depend on conflict specificities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of legal deterrence (i.e. the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, hereafter PSVI) and community based GBV prevention programs. The analysis uses secondary data to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs in terms of ending violence and creating attitudes of gender equity. Both short-term and long-term outcomes from multiple community prevention initiatives suggest that it is important to look at the cultural and relational contexts in the region. The paper finds the common thread for success between various community-based prevention programs through a comparative case study analysis and will be supplemented by content analysis. The research seeks to add to the literature about the “psychology of violence”; it is important to discover the generalizable causal threads for violence in order to encourage prevention. Based on this analysis, future policy research and proposals should seek to receive input from the affected community to create initiatives that are successful on the local level.
Making the Links in a New Direction: Certificate Program for Medical Students
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Carlyn Seguin
Making the Links (MTL) is a unique certificate program for undergraduate medical students at the University of Saskatchewan, which combines academic courses with in-community learning experiences (practicums) and exposes the students to health issues in the context of an urban underserved community in Saskatoon or Regina, rural/remote and Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and international communities globally. MTL has been operating in the College of Medicine since 2005 and has undergone significant evolution from a student organized and funded collection of Global Health experiences, to a formally offered Academic Certificate in Global Health in 2011. In 2019, the MTL leadership began a comprehensive program review to assess how several factors have impacted the program and to work with stakeholders to direct the program into the future. This paper discusses the review, which allowed us to see where MTL is currently positioned to educate undergraduate medical students and highlight opportunities for where the program should focus in the future. As the need for socially conscious health professionals continues, so to will experiential learning permeate health sciences education. MTL is one program that is evolving with the environment in order to be responsive to the needs of underserved communities by offering future physicians experiences that will help shape their future practice.
