Official Brochures Research Articles

Counseling parents about child feeding: a qualitative evaluation of French doctors and health/childcare professionals' experiences and perception of a brochure containing new recommendations.

Parents are crucial in establishing their children's eating habits, and doctors and health/childcare professionals (HCCPs) can provide meaningful and trusted guidance on feeding, especially in the 0-3-year-old period. With the upcoming release of the official brochure containing the new child feeding recommendations in France, this study aims to: (1) assess professionals' practices and perceptions regarding their communication with parents on child feeding and (2) evaluate their perception of the draft of the new brochure. A 15-page draft brochure (without pictures) containing updated child feeding recommendations for children 0-3 years old was developed by Santé publique France (the French public health agency). Online semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals (n = 21), including 13 pediatricians and general practitioners (doctors) and eight healthcare or childcare professionals (HCCPs) two weeks after they were provided with this draft brochure to read. The interview guide was developed and piloted with other professionals (n = 3) prior to these interviews. Interview data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically using an inductive approach. While doctors and HCCPs mostly communicate orally with parents, both acknowledged that the brochure might be a helpful supplement, especially for HCCPs to legitimize their advice to parents. For doctors, giving the brochure to parents may help provide systematic advice and save time during consultations. Professionals serving parents of lower socioeconomic status would prefer a supplement with less text and more illustrations. In general, the messages were perceived to be easily understandable but providing detachable cards to distribute according to the child's age would facilitate information dissemination and might be more useful to parents. Professionals reported that lack of training, the circulation of contradictory information, and language barriers were common challenges. French professionals welcomed the new official brochure as a means to spread updated child feeding recommendations. However, this brochure could be modified and specific tools developed to better adapt to professionals' needs of communication with parents and to facilitate the relay of information. Providing updated and consistent information to parents should be considered a priority for public health stakeholders toward increased adherence to new recommendations.

Lessons learnt from implementing change in newborn bloodspot screening processes over more than a decade: Midwives, genetics and education

ObjectiveTo explore midwives’ roles and education requirements in newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) for genetic conditions, as programs and supporting education evolve over time. BackgroundNBS processes are evolving and will continue to evolve with new genetic and genomic technologies. Midwives have a critical role in facilitating NBS, as they are the primary healthcare professional to interact with parents at the time of collecting the bloodspot. As new consent processes and genomic technologies are incorporated into NBS, midwives need to stay up-to-date with these changes, so that parents can make an informed decision about having the test and future use of the DNA sample. Research design/settingWe used a cross-sectional approach to analyse midwives’ knowledge and behaviour in 2005/6 and 2016, with changes in NBS processes and education introduced in 2011. FindingsWe found midwives’ NBS knowledge improved in 8/18 areas after a 10-year period, mostly related to process changes, but there was also an increase in misconceptions regarding which conditions are screened. Areas of significant improvement were not consistently explained by participation in continuing professional development (CPD). We found midwives used official brochures and NBS collection cards to guide discussions with families. Changes to the NBS collection cards, together with the content of CPD materials, aligned with the significant improvements and deficits we observed. When considering potential changes to future maternity care that incorporates emerging genomic technologies, midwives indicated the main barrier was their lack of knowledge; the majority (60.3%) reported supervision support to attend genomics CPD. Key conclusionsChanges in NBS practice should be implemented through multifaceted programs that include education sessions and procedural prompts. The NBS collection card should be seen not just as a legal consent document but also as an educational tool. Implications for practiceAs NBS programs evolve through the addition of conditions screened for or changes to technology or consent processes, multiple strategies should be applied to upskill midwives to ensure they can best support parents to make informed choices.

The Dictator's Photo Albums: Photography under the Metaxas Dictatorship

The Dictator's Photo Albums: Private and Public Photographs in the Metaxas-Dictatorship The Greek authoritarian «Fourth of August Regime» (1936–1941) focussed in its propaganda on promoting the dictator Ioannis Metaxas as father, grandfather and «First peasant» and while in foreign policy the close ties to the Balkan Entente was advertised, the transfer of ideas from the European fascist regimes was negated. By examining 57 photo albums preserved today in the Hellenic Parliament Archives the article discusses photo albums as a source for the interpretation of the Metaxas dictatorship and as a source for the history of photography in Greece. It examines the private photo album aesthetics and its use in three official brochures with an exceptional high amount of photographs: Fourth of August 1936–1938, Fourth of August 1938–1939 and Four Years of Government by I. Metaxas, 1936–1940. The article's main argument is, that due to their photo album aesthetic the propaganda brochures were invoking the intimacy of a family album.

Marketing Istanbul as a culinary destination

Abstract This study investigates whether and how Istanbul, Turkey is marketed and promoted as a culinary destination. Based on a critical literature review, a research framework was developed, and official brochures and websites for Istanbul, Turkey, were content-analyzed. The research findings suggest that although Istanbul has rich culinary resources and offers many domestic and international cuisines, the city is not well marketed and promoted as a culinary destination. This is one of the first studies discussing how far a leading urban destination in a developing country is not successfully marketed and promoted as a culinary destination. Based on the research findings, this study offers specific theoretical and practical implications on how Istanbul and similar destinations can better utilize their unique culinary resources.

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

‘Two hundred ninety‐four’: Remediation and multimodal performance in tourist placemaking

We offer here a multimodal discourse analysis of a range of verbal (writing and speech), nonverbal (movement and gesture) and technological (photography and video) resources used by tourists at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In doing so, we pin‐point the recycling and layering of mediatized representations (e.g. guidebooks and official brochures), mediated actions (e.g. climbing the Tower or posing in front of it), and remediated practices (e.g. posting a YouTube video of oneself climbing the 294 steps to the top of the Tower). Through this kind of empirically‐based examination of tourists’ discursive and embodied performances – their ways of talking about and behaving in spaces – we witness how people never simply visit places but are always actively shaping and making these places. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is, therefore, as much an emergent production of the tourist imagination as it is a pre‐existing, lop‐sided construction of stone.

The attraction of islands: travellers and tourists in the Cyclades (Greece) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Islands have long acted as projection surfaces of ever-changing desires. Tourism organisations have drawn most vigorously upon the paradise metaphor in an attempt to position modern island holidays at the forefront of our minds – regardless of an island's location. Tracing the most recent history of our island-longing and illuminating the use of the island metaphor by tourist organisations is the aim of this article. A short account of the history of tourism in Greece (especially the Cycladic Islands) provides the backdrop to an in-depth picture and text analysis of nine official English and German tourist guides to the Cyclades, as well as the English-speaking version of the official Cyclades website. Images and text are coded according to pre-determined themes and contrasted with each other. Investigating islands from the perspective of tourists and tourist organisations, it becomes apparent that the official brochures draw on established island tropes and stereotypical island imagery as a means to attract travellers, and thus follow a long-established pattern of what Western culture considers unique for island locations. Dissonances, however, are emerging as our longing for island locations is contradicted by our need for ease and speed of access, thus negating the sought-after quintessential ‘islandness’.

Level of Congruency in Photographic Representations of Destination Marketing Organizations' Websites and Brochures

ABSTRACT The primary objective of this study is to assess the level of congruency in the photographic representations of two promotional materials offered by Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) located in the U.S. northeastern corridor. The promotional materials selected for analysis are the official brochures that the tourism organizations send to consumers upon request and their respective, official Websites. The results show that with the exception of a few variables there is a low level of congruency between the pictures presented on both media.

The Olmsted Brothers and Richard T. Crane, Jr at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Incomplete information and misattributions have distorted the reporting of the history of the gardens at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Since 1949 the Trustees of Reservations, the nation's oldest conservation organization, has presided over this estate (figure 1). Its conservatorship has produced a few studies, including Peter Hornbeck's Historic Landscape Preservation and Maintenance Policies and Procedures Jor the Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial Reservations Castle Hill (Trustees of Reservations, 1977) and, in 1984, an engineers' structural report for the estate's buildings and two of the gardens. One academic essay by Eleanor Pope, ‘Castle Hill gardens and grounds’ (a paper for the Radcliffe Seminars, 1981), relied on Hornbeck. In 1992 the Trustees published an official brochure, but it, like the works that preceded it, parroted hearsay, all but ignoring the Olmsted correspondence at the Library of Congress and altogether omitting the records of the architects of the original house, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.1 These reports consistently give false attributions for two out of the five garden areas. They reiterate Sidney Shurcliff's claim in his privately printed memoir, Upon the Road Argilla (Boston, 1958), that his father Arthur Shurcliff designed the now-defunct maze. On the other hand, they mistakenly give the Olmsted Brothers credit for laying out part of the ‘Grande Allée.’2

The Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial

I read with interest the editorial by Kelman1in the December 1993 issue of theArchivesregarding the Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial (IONDT), but noticed some misleading information. Kelman stated that the IONDT is a clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Md. The official brochure sent to ophthalmologists around the country states that the National Institutes of Health is the sponsor and that care costs will be billed to insurance coverage. The patient is responsible for any other charges beyond what the insurance covers. We all know that, in a clinical trial, more complete and frequent testing is done compared with the standard of care given in a private office. Who should pay for clinical trials? Dollars are becoming more scarce for research in all fields of medicine. Is it ethical to bill an insurance company for a surgical procedure that has not been