It serves as a cultural predictor only in that CBS will soon be ransacking its vaults for skits from "The Garry Moore Show".
The author, Avi Tuschman, who earned a doctorate in evolutionary anthropology at Stanford and now works at the Inter-American Development Bank, contends that "the best cross-cultural predictor of left-right voting and party affiliation" is revealed by a 22-item test developed by Robert Altemeyer, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Manitoba.
To determine the acceptability of childhood HPV vaccination and examine demographic, cultural, and psychosocial predictors of vaccine acceptance.
Logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify predictors for cultural competence.
Therefore, the specific aims of this study were to 1) evaluate cross-cultural skillfulness and significant predictors of skillfulness among providers, and specifically, 2) compare cross-cultural skillfulness between physicians and nurses.
The findings are consistent with studies, which showed that socio-cultural factors are important predictors of skilled delivery.
To test the effect of confounders inherent to a cross-cultural comparison, additional predictor variables added to the model were country of origin, publishing language, size, presence of an international editorial board, and extent of international authorship (defined in Table 1).
Organization type, birth place, Gender, and in-service training were among major predictors identified for cultural competence.
The major predictors identified for cultural competence in the logistic regression model were: the organization type in which health professionals work, birth place, gender, and in-service training.
Tragically, the growing rate of Indigenous youth suicide is a major crisis in the Kimberley and it is findings such as these that demonstrate how Indigenous languages, as a marker of cultural continuity, are a strong predictor of health and wellbeing.
