Environmental factors affecting self-management of chronic hepatitis B from the patients' perspective.

Aims And Objectives: To explore factors affecting self-management experiences of patients with chronic hepatitis B within their social and cultural environments.

Background: Many cases of hepatitis B are not detected until they are in end-stage liver disease. Despite an increasing trend of indicating a lack of health awareness as the reason, studies have rarely referred to the personal, social and cultural environmental constraints from patients' perspectives.

[Attachment theory and baby slings/carriers: technological network formation].

Healthcare providers recognize the important role played by attachment theory in explaining the close relationship between mental health and social behavior in mothers and their children. This paper uses attachment theory in a socio-cultural context to ascertain the mechanism by which baby slings/carriers, a new technology, produced and reproduced the scientific motherhood. It further applies a social history of technology perspective to understand how baby carriers and attachment theory are socially constructed and historically contingent on three major transformations.