Sentences with phrase «about social barriers»

The work is essentially a transparent wall, and it addresses timely questions about social barriers, the obstruction of free movements and architectural and social constructs of exclusion.

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Social Media doesn't understand about architectural barriers, or distinguish between countries or beliefs, it just spreads everywhere.
He points out that if social media is to achieve its real potential in India, then the industry needs to bridge the regional language barrier and add to the English - speaking market, which as he rightly points out is limited at about 200 million.
Take a listen to the 115th episode of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for a deep dive into this topic and hear case studies about brands that are putting up barriers and brands that are tearing them down and making the decision to be human, own their mistakes and put relationships and long term customer value and loyalty first.
Mothers also mention concerns about remaining independent, dividing care equally with the father, and reluctance to feed in public, proving that many social and cultural barriers still exist.
FATHERS MATTER A NEW project has been established by Family Rights Group to identify and address barriers that prevent fathers, whose children are involved with social services, to care for and be involved in decisions about their children.
Six good practice «taster sessions» from our conference At the Fatherhood Institute's Engaging fathers as partners conference in central London on Thursday 11 November 2010: Martin Clement, team manager from the Children in Need service at Islington Children's Services talked about the «Breaking down barriers» project, which is attempting to bring fathers to the fore in social work practice.
• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers
«We need to remove every possible social barrier so babies can get the nutrition they need and women can go about their lives,» said Orentlicher, a physician as well as a Democratic legislator.
Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
«We have worked closely with disability organisations and across government to bring about change in legislation to break down social and institutional barriers so people can enjoy fuller, enforceable right,» he said.
It's all about economic egalitarianism, lowering barriers to entry, etc. «and the pressures of accommodating to Conservative priorities in economic and social policy.»
When people talk about the promise of social media, they often praise tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for their ability to connect people, to remove barriers, to let us tell our own stories unfiltered and unmediated — to show us as we are.
The Second World War changed all this; the imminent collapse of civilization tended to break down social barriers, and sex education became more about avoiding syphilis, gonorrhoea and the like.
Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»
Sheila Roberts: Filmmaker Dee Rees assembles a powerful ensemble cast in «Mudbound» to bring to life Hillary Jordan's international bestseller about two families living in rural Mississippi following WWII who face the harsh realities of farming and the brutal social barriers of the Jim Crow South.
A Little Chaos should be about a lowly but talented young woman's penetration of the gender and social barriers of the 17th century but in essence it is a formulaic love story.
Drawing attention to them will make him more self - conscious about the disorder and create a social barrier between him and other students.
Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.
Training of participants of different locations and states in one place has advantages that resulted in experience and ideas exchange about darfur issues and it created awareness of the importance of shared roles of women and men in peace building and conflict management also it helped in clear the social barrier that hindered political participation of women in Darfur.
National education charity Future First — which works to break down barriers caused by social mobility issues — has partnered with Greenergy, the UK's leading road fuel supplier and Europe's largest manufacturer of biofuel from waste, to inform state school students about the skills necessary to succeed in the energy and fuel industry.
Research suggests that EL families» socioeconomic status, lack of social connectivity, language barriers, differing cultural perspectives about family engagement in education, and lack of familiarity with U.S. school procedures are all factors that constrain EL families» awareness of school options and opportunities.
Language barriers and the absence of a social media presence resulted in a lack of knowledge about their rights to refuse the test.
The most wonderful thing about kite flying is that it defies social barriers.
Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.
The authors don't say much about it, other than a hopeful note at the end that their quantification of the benefits of such a transition «should reduce social and political barriers to implementing the roadmaps.»
McEwin offered stories and examples to illustrate the disabling effects of social and economic barriers, which often result in the exclusion of people with disabilities from decision making about personal expression, social participation and reproduction.
Six main themes were identified from the qualitative analysis; physical changes, lifestyle improvements, social and emotional well - being, perceptions about the features of the program that worked and perceived barriers to the program and changes for the future.
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