4th group reflection

Own definitions about sexuality

• We discussed about the sexuality that´s not happening in the relationship, also in the situation when you are in the relationship. In addition the people in the "swinger"-clubs or even the person's own personal sexuality and fantasies. We think it´s a wider phenomenon.
• Also cultural differences affect to the personś sexuality; fe. restricting rules against women's right to decide for their own body.
• Discussion about sexual presuring within youth. 
• How different genders  and age groups react differently in situations, also how to be good rolemodel. Also the athmosphere in the male/female work surroundings.
• Moral and behaviour in the youth and situations where you have been treated unfair and how to react. 

Pre-assignment

• In Lithuania health care workers are ashamed to talk about these things with the patiens, and usually their are referred to the specialist fe. gynecologist. Also these things are not discussed in schools.
• In Denmark, Finland and Sweden this is brought out in schools and during health care studies the problems to take these things into discussion with your patient, are considered. 

Day 3

Resilience // Capacity of couples and families to promote their health

Topics we discussed:

Child in need of a role model

• Cultural differences between countries
• Maybe there should be "Parents day" instead of Mother's and Father's day.
• Gay couples should have someone from the opposite sex (close relative or friend) to spend time with the kid, so the kid could get an example how it is common for his/her gender to react/live.

Sexual health

• Sexual education classes in different countries
• What different countries do with teenagers getting pregnant
• HIV - prevention in different countries
• Separate classes for teenage mothers, support groups.

Health care systems

• How the governments are funding
•  Dental care differences

Reflection:

• Resilience is to adapt or individuals coping strategies. Transition is rather to get from one state to another. You need resilience to cope with transition.
  There is something good coming out of bad things. For example good athletes or sportsmen have alcohol abusive parents, because of that  they have done some sports to cope with what is going on at home.
• Resilience of a person you can predict from a one's behaviour towards others in a common situation.  Building trust with a therapist, cause people don't usually open up to a stranger.
  From a family's perspective is a family humoristic or not, how they react to a situation (take it with humor, even the hard situations).
• Dandelion child - expression in different languages.
• Using jokes and humor in our work, experiences with that. 
• Screen resilience - questionaries, does a person have hobbies, comparing  previous situations, personal experience how he/she has coped, contact relatives to ask about a person.

Discussion day 2

Nursing interventions to reduce violence:

• Routinely ask if one has experienced violence
• If violence seems to happen a nurse should contact social workers
• Arranging support groups for families with disabilitied children, also educating people about disabilities 
• Volunteer programmes to support children/ families
• Detecting adolescents self-violence
• Parents are interviewed if there´s bigger probability to violate your child
• Clear & common guidelines to nurses in every field concerning the matter ->teaching them during studies & promoting them in workplaces
• In Estonia the interventions to these cases are more holistic and family centered, than for example in Sweden or Finland->Good 

Discussions about....

• Sharing thoughts and habits between countries is important in purpose of creating equal health conditions. However, each country's culture should be respected and not involved in an aggressive/ dominative way. 
• It is hard to change all the determinants of health. For example, the culture or religion might not be able to be changed, but people's living conditions and social interactions may be more easily improved.

We were using the gapminder to examine the correlations between suicides and economy, children mortality and fertility rate amongst our countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania & Sweden).

Something we noticed was the highest suicide rate in Lithuania, where the income per person was also the lowest. We explained that by the reduce in economy following the independence.

Also we were examining the women's average age at the time of their 1st marriage. In each of our countries the average age has been increasing. This does not have any visible correlation with children's mortality, wherease it correlates with education level and time spend studying. 

We got very surprised with the statistics because some of the results were opposite to our expectations.

Question to ask:

• Which one has the strongest effect on childbirth and fertility age: culture, religion, economy or education level? 

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