This is in agreement with Skovdal et al.'s (36) argument that socio-culturally rooted perceptions of 'real men' as strong, emotionally independent, tough, and fearless have a bearing on access and adherence to HIV treatment.
However, the similarities of these findings across these two countries probably suggest that programs targeting newborn health should consider such deep rooted perceptions in order to be successful.
Further, each step in the healthcare-seeking process was ascribed specific social meanings by the caregivers interviewed, and some of those related to a very broad spectrum of social aspects of which some touched upon deeply rooted perceptions of how parents and relatives are expected to behave during a health crisis.
In the literature on anti-immigrant attitudes, two broad explanations are offered: one rooted in perceptions of economic threat or economic burden (e.g., immigrants as free riders), and the other in perceptions of cultural threat (immigrants as irremediably other).
That's because when Lenine sang about alienation, he rooted those perceptions in Brazilian cultural realities.
Analysts argued that opposition to the war was rooted in perceptions fed by the news media, not reality.
But the African Union, which needs the West to finance its peacekeeping missions, yielded in the face of enormous American and European support for the southern Sudanese — support rooted in perceptions that southerners have long been Christian victims of Muslim persecutors.
"Instead, non-Chinese participants explicitly referred to foreign concerns rooted in perceptions of Beijing's intentions, and asked about how it might be possible to lessen foreign misperceptions that might exist in this regard if indeed the PRC's rise is as benign as its leaders claim".
Although contaminated injecting equipment is the immediate source, augmented by unprotected sexual intercourse, punitive approaches rooted in perceptions of drug injecting as illegal behavior are fuelling expanding epidemics, particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Methods utilized in community-based participatory research that are aimed at rooting out perceptions, for example focus groups, can assist in shaping survey tools, make sense of model results, help increase understanding of how residents view their neighborhood and environment as a potential influence on their health, and lead to better quantitative measures of neighborhood context (32, 33).
Many efforts have been devoted in addressing the core concepts on which this definition roots: perception and interaction of men and nature, but when coming to large (continental) scale assessments, the latter prevail on the former.
