This exploratory study aimed to obtain insight into field-level care providers' views on suffering and healing as well as existing obstacles and needs related to providing care to their clients. This research provides a "snapshot" for a better understanding of existing care systems in two post-conflict settings. By identifying existing approaches to care and the needs of the care provider community, this research might be useful in guiding psychosocial assistance programming in post-conflict settings. Utilizing a semi-structured questionnaire, 45 care providers were interviewed, including local health care practitioners, traditional/ spiritual healers, and humanitarian relief workers, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cambodia. This study found that the majority of care providers in both settings perceived poverty and violence as significant causes and consequences of human suffering and, at the same time, felt ill-equipped in addressing these issues and related problems. Other issues that hindered these healers in providing care included: limited government/institutional support; lack of training; material resources and funding. Study findings point to a new framework for developing effective interventions and the need for further emphasis on supporting care providers in their work, and most specifically, in identifying and responding to poverty and violence.

In 21st century the orientation of users to media (printed, electronic and online) reached the level where we can say that one of the key competencies of modern human is the ability to master media-mediated information. It is competence of selecting the appropriate amount of useful (and usable) information and its incorporation into the existing knowledge-system of users (which is the operating system in their everyday life). Therefore, in modern communication and information science more attention is paid to media literacy as a concept of tansformation of media-mediated cognition to knowledge. This paper deals with the concept of media literacy by placing in the context of lifelong learning and it highlights the competence of mastering the media, as one of the key mechanisms of protection against negative effects of media, but also increasing the usability of media effects by the user.

Introduction: Today’s lifestyle is characterized by increased intake of calories with reduced physical activity, which benefits a real epidemic of obesity in the population. The increase in the prevalence of hypertension in the population follows a significant increase in the prevalence of obesity. Parallel to the trend of increasing the number of older population with increased cardiovascular disease. The aim: The aim of our study was to determine the value of body mass index and determine the correlation of obesity and arterial hypertension. Material and methods: The study was conducted in family medicine Clinic of the Primary Health Care Center Zenica. Out of 600 patients of both sexes aged over 18 years, randomly are formed groups of 188 patients with hypertension and 189 patients without hypertension of the same gender and same age. The study included patients with primary or essential hypertension, and excluded patients with secondary hypertension, hypertension due to renal disease, pheochromocytoma, coarctation of the aorta, as a result of taking oral contraceptives, corticosteroids, and cocaine. We used the method of anthropometric measurements (body weight, body height from which is calculated the body mass index) measurement of blood pressure with the statistical data processing at the significance level of p <0.05. Results and discussion: The increased value of BMI in the sample with hypertension are present in much higher percentage (87.23%), compared to the tested sample without hypertension (60.10%). In patients with hypertension, the highest percentage (51.06%) of the respondents has the BMI in range between 25 and 30, then BMI in the range between 30 and 35 (25%). BMI of 35-40 have 6.38% of patients, and 3.72 patients BMI over 40. In patients without hypertension was significantly smaller percentage of respondents in the previous group (39.15%) with a BMI in the range 25-30, then BMI in the range between 30 and 35 (18.51%). BMI of 35-40 had 3.17% of respondents, and 1.05% of patients had BMI over 40. Correlation between groups of patients with and without hypertension compared to the value of BMI indicate the presence of strong positive correlation (Rho = 0.737). Correlation between groups of subjects with hypertension and without hypertension compared to triglycerides was statistically significant (Rho = 0.123).

In this work the corrosion behaviour of Ni-Ti (Nitinol) shape memory alloy was studied using different electrochemical techniques including open circuit potential (EOC), potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Samples made from nitinol alloy with diameter of 4 mm were used for microstructural and corrosion investigations. Testing solution was 0.9 % NaCl solution at pH=7.4, and temperature 37 °C. Microstructural analysis was performed by the optical and electron scanning microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS). High values of the oxide film resistance (Rox) and the low value of corrosion current density (icorr) indicated high corrosion resistance of Ni-Ti alloy, but relatively low value of breakdown potential (Eb) indicates the possibility of development localised corrosion attack on the alloy surface. Size of pits was from 10 to 100 m and surface inclusions were initiation sites for the pitting corrosion.