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Disparities in antenatal care service utilization among food secure and food insecure women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia
Getachew Bitiro Kotiso, Desta Erkalo Abame, Tefera Belachew, Meseret Tamrat, Dejene Ermias Mekango
Corresponding author: Desta Erkalo Abame, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia
Received: 24 Jul 2019 - Accepted: 10 Oct 2020 - Published: 24 Dec 2020
Domain: Maternal and child health
Keywords: Food security, antenatal care, Gombora, Hadiya, Ethiopia
©Getachew Bitiro Kotiso et al. Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Getachew Bitiro Kotiso et al. Disparities in antenatal care service utilization among food secure and food insecure women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia. Pan African Medical Journal. 2020;37:377. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.37.377.19862]
Getachew Bitiro Kotiso1, Desta Erkalo Abame2,&, Tefera Belachew3, Meseret Tamrat3, Dejene Ermias Mekango3
1Hadiya Zone Misha, District Health Office, Southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 2Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia, 3Department of Population and Family Health, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
Desta Erkalo Abame, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia
Introduction: little is known about antenatal care (ANC) utilization difference among food secure and food insecure household pregnant women and factors contributing to inequities in antenatal care use in developing country including Ethiopia. To determine the disparities in the utilization of antenatal care that exists between pregnant women in food secure and food insecure household women.
Methods: a community based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, southern Ethiopia. Data were collected from February 25th to March 25th, 2015, using a pre-tested structured questionnaire. Pregnant women were selected by a simple random sampling method. The data were entered using EpiData 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was done to compare antenatal care utilization among food secure and insecure household women at 95% confidence interval (CI). Statistical tests were done at a level of significance of p<0.05.
Results: two hundred sixty-seven (34.5%) of the respondents received at least one antenatal care visit on current pregnancy. Forty-nine-point one percent of food secure and 23.3% of food insecure household women utilized ANC from health professionals. Factors associated with antenatal care utilization included being from a food secure household (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]=2.54; 95%CI: 1.79-3.59), having attained secondary or higher education (aOR=3.76; 95%CI: 2.32-6.1), good level of knowledge of antenatal care (aOR= 2.42; 95%CI 1.34-4.33) and being from a wealthy household (aOR=2.10; 95% CI: 1.34-3.28).
Conclusion: this study showed a significant variation in the use of ANC in food secure and food insecure household pregnant women. Interventions to improve ANC utilization should prioritize women from poor socio-economic and low educational background.
Inadequate access and under-utilization of modern healthcare services are major reasons for poor health in developing countries. This inequality in the health and well-being of women in the developing world is a growing concern [1]. Antenatal care is one of the most key indicators for controlling maternal morbidity and mortality. In most of the developing countries, women do not receive appropriate ante-natal care during pregnancy particularly in places where the women health status is poor through counseling on nutrition, birth preparedness, delivery care and family planning options. ANC is a good opportunity for identifying high risk of pregnancy; improve the outcome of pregnancy and birth for both mother and child [1-3].
Ethiopia is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a markedly the high maternal mortality ratio. More than half a million maternal death related to pregnancy and childbirth could be saved if they were provided with access to antenatal care and skilled attendants at birth as well as appropriate modern technology to deal with emergency obstetric care situations when needed [2]. In most of the developing countries women do not receive appropriate antenatal care during pregnancy [3]. Even though ANC services in Ethiopia were provided free of charge in all government health institutions, only thirty-four percent of pregnant mothers received antenatal care from a skilled provider. In the rural area 63.1% women did not attend ANC at all. This shows very low utilization of antenatal care in national level and rural area [4].
For more than 20 years, Africa has struggled with hunger and food insecurity. Food security is a situation "when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" [5]. Despite the general worldwide reduction in food insecurity, Africa´s food security and nutrition situation is growing worse [6]. Globally, certain groups of people including women of reproductive age are more vulnerable to food insecurity than others [7]. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2009 report households during economic crises used different coping strategy by changing dietary habit as eating fewer meals, eating lower-quality foods, shifting health expense and reduced use of health services in a poor country of Armenia, Bangladesh and Zambia and in Ghana [8]. In a study conducted in Zimbabwe, 2841 (32.8%) pregnant women were food insecure and 1518 (17.5%) pregnant women were food insecure with hunger. Also, 62% food insecure (FI) women with hunger were more likely to never have attended ANC compared with food secure women [9]. Food insecurity has played a large role in slowing progress on the health millennium development goals (MDGs), especially for children and mothers. About half of pregnant women in developing countries suffer from anemia. Malnourished pregnant women are more likely to give birth to underweight babies, who are more likely to die before their fifth birthday [8,10].
It has been evident that in food insecure situations health care services tend to be forfeited as people make gaining access to food their primary activity and use different coping strategies. Although ANC is a free service, there are indirect and opportunity costs that could deter pregnant women from using the service in food insecure situations. Demographic and socio-economic characteristics influence women´s ANC utilization. These include women´s education, husband´s education, pregnancy intention, age of women at pregnancy and parity, family size and maternal occupation, husbands occupation, wealth index, knowledge on timing (right gestational age), frequency of ANC and interval between visits, were predictors for utilization of ANC. However, all reviewed pieces of literature were not showed about the association between antenatal care utilization and the food security status of pregnant women. But a few studies showed that food insecurity affects health care utilization. However, there is no study documented the association between food insecurity and ANC service use in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area. Therefore, this study might contribute evidence based facts to fill the gaps identified.
Study setting and design: the community based comparative cross sectional study was conducted in Gombora district, southern nation nationality and people region, Ethiopia. Gombora, one of the rural districts in the Hadiya zone, is located in the southern region of Ethiopia. Gombora district is one of 17 districts found in the Hadiya zone and its capital town which is Hebicho town. The district located at 32 km southwest from the zonal capital town of Hosanna. The data collection period was from Feb 25th to March 25th, 2015.
Study population and sampling: the study subjects were 796 pregnant mothers from 12 kebeles of Gombora selected by simple random sampling technique. Sampling frame was taken from health posts family folder. Then based on the population size, proportional allocation was done. Finally, households with pregnant women were selected by randomly using research randomizer online and 796 pregnant women interviewed in their home. The sample size was calculated by using Epi info version 7 for two population proportion assumptions; the proportion of ANC users among a proportion of food secure women=41% and proportion of ANC users among proportion of food insecure women=29% (mini Ethiopian demographic health survey (EDHS, 2014)) power 80%, margin of error of 0.05 with two-sided and, 95% confidence interval to reach 528 pregnant mothers. After the finite population correction, 10% non-response rate and 1.55 design effect were considered to obtain the final sample size 796.
Data collection: the questionnaire was prepared in English, translated to the local language Hadiyyisa and back-translated to English separately by two individuals to ensure consistency. The data were collected using a pretested questionnaire. The questionnaires were prepared to assess socio-demographic characteristics, utilization of ANC and food insecurity. The data were collected with eight data collectors and three supervisors, who were qualified with a diploma in nursing and BSc. in public health. The data collectors and the supervisors were trained for two days on the questionnaire; approach to the interviewees, details of interviewing techniques then interviewed the respondents in Hadiyyisa language. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (World Food Summit, 1996). Characteristics of the household food insecurity were assessed by using the standard nine question item Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) questionnaire by food and nutrition technical assistance three (10). All "yes" responses were coded as one (1) and "no" responses were coded as zero (0) and then for each question frequency was asked and coded as (a), rarely (once or twice in the past four weeks) (b), sometimes (three to ten times in the past four weeks) (c), often (more than ten times in the past four weeks) responses we resumed to produce an index of household food insecurity. The index had an adequate internal consistency (Crone Bach´s alpha=0.80) and calculate the household food insecurity access category for each household. Finally food secure and mildly food insecure were grouped under food secure and moderately food insecure access and severely food insecure access households were grouped as food insecure. Data collection was supervised and data checked for consistency and completeness. Incomplete and unclear questionnaires were returned to interviewers to be completed.
Statistical analysis: the data were entered in double, checked for missing values and outliers and analyzed using SPSS for windows version 21.0. Means and proportions were compared by household food security status using Chi-square tests. First, bivariate analyses were carried out and results were presented using proportions, means and crude odds ratios. Hence variables with p-value<0.25 in the bivariate analysis were taken as candidates for multivariate analysis. Then the multivariable logistic regression model was performed to isolate the independent effect of food insecurity on ANC attendance after adjusting for potential confounder. The results were presented using adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Statistical significance will be declared at P-value<0.05.
Ethical considerations: ethical clearance was obtained from, Jimma University, Institute of Health Sciences the Institutional Health Research Ethics Review Committee. A formal letter of permission and support were written to the Gombora district health office. All the study participants were informed about the purpose of the study, their right to refuse and they were also told that the information obtained from them would be treated with complete confidentiality and do not cause any harm except losing a few times. Then, written and signed informed voluntary consent was obtained from all study participants before data collection.
The overall response rate of the study subject was 97%. Six hundred thirty-three (81.8%) of the respondents were in the age group of 25-34 with the median age of 29 ± 5.48 years. Of 774 pregnant women, 262 (34%) of them were found in the middle tertiles of the household´s wealth index, 257 (33.2%) in the lowest tertiles and the highest/third tertiles 225(32.8%). From the food insecure household women 183 (41.1%), 153 (34.4%) and 109 (24.5%) were composed at lowest, middle and third wealth index groups respectively. Among the pregnant women, 438 (56.6%) were from food insecure households and 336 (43.4%) were from food secure households. Among the food insecure household women, 53 (12%) were mildly food insecure, 205 (46.8%) were moderately food insecure and 180 (41%) were severely food insecure households (Table 1).
ANC utilization: among the study participant, 237 (30.6%) had at least one antenatal visit during this pregnancy from skilled health professionals (doctors, nurses, midwife) and 30 (3.9%) of the mothers were received ANC care from health extension workers (HEW), while 507 (66.5%) had none. Only 12% (n=32) had the .recommended 4 or more ANC visit from skilled professionals. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of women have not done their first ANC visit according to World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation (less than 4 months of pregnancy). The mean duration of pregnancy at the first visit is 6 months (Table 2).
Prevalence of ANC utilization among food secure and food insecure: as Table 3 shows the household food security and utilization of ANC, 165 (49.1%) of the food secure women attended ANC service during the current pregnancy. However, only 102 (23.3 %) of food insecure women had attended ANC service. One hundred and seventy-one (50.9%) from food secure households and 336 (76.7%) from food insecure households were not utilized ANC at all. From moderate food insecure household women (N=205) only 41 (20%) and from severely food insecure household women (N=180) only 36 (20%) attended ANC service.
Reason for attending ANC service among food secure and food insecure women: from those who attended ANC service 37.6%, 53.9%, 35.8%, 34.5% from food secure and 46%, 41.2%, 35.3% and 23.5% of food insecure household mothers visited a health institution because of fear of problem, to take the vaccination, to have a healthy child and to take iron for anemia prevention respectively, while 61 (22.8%) of the mothers visited a facility for a regular checkup (Table 4).
Factors affecting the use of ANC services: as shown in Table 5, factors associated with antenatal care utilization included being from a food secure household (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]= 2.54; 95%CI: 1.79-3.59), having attained secondary or higher education (aOR=3.76; 95%CI: 2.32-6.1), good level of knowledge of antenatal care (aOR= 2.42; 95%CI 1.34-4.33) and being from a wealthy household (aOR= 2.10; 95% CI: 1.34-3.28).
In this study, almost seven in ten women did not attend antenatal care during their current pregnancy. Even among the users of ANC, only 12% of women made their first antenatal visit according to WHO recommendation (less than four months of pregnancy) and only 12% of women attended four and more antenatal care services during their current pregnancy. Also, 88% of the women started using antenatal care services later than the recommended time by WHO. They started mostly in their second and third trimester of pregnancy, which is in agreement with the findings of other studies in Ethiopia [11-16]. The reason for this low ANC4 attendance might be late initiation/booking, lack of knowledge on the correct time when to start ANC and on the advantage of early initiation of ANC. The overall utilization of ANC on this study from skilled health worker was 30.6%, which is line with the report from the south region (35.9%) and with the rural coverage report of EDHS-2016 (35%) but lower from Yem special district, southwestern Ethiopia study (40%) of mothers had ANC visit [17,18].
In the current study, we found that more than half (56.6%) of women were living in food insecure households in the month during the survey. ANC attendance was significantly lower (23%) among food insecure pregnant women when compared with food secure household pregnant women ANC utilization which is 49%. Only 20% of women from moderately food insecure household and severely food insecure household women attended ANC service. Pregnant women from food secure household were more likely to use antenatal care compared to those from food insecure household, which is consistent with the study done in Zimbabwe [9]. Other studies were done in Armenia and America also revealed that food insecurity reduces health service utilization [8,19]. The reason for the low utilization of antenatal care among food insecure household women might be giving their attention to the coping strategy for food rather than going to seek care from the health institutions. it might also be opportunistic cost like travel time and due to food shortage they skipped meals or reduce meal size then they become weak to walk to health facility on foot to receive ANC.
Wealth is one of the determinant factors affecting antenatal care service utilization. Those women living in the highest wealth index were utilizing antenatal care service more likely than counterparts, which is supported by the study done in Ethiopia and India [15,20,21]. The possible reason might be women didn´t go to spend the entire day at the health center for their check-ups because of the indirect cost (travel time) and they may go to the market to earn a daily living. The observed association between educational status and ANC utilization is consistent with other reports [3,11-16,22-26]. Hence, education might enhance female autonomy, the ability to make decisions about their health and the increased chance of accessing information.
Another predictor of ANC utilization was the knowledge of mothers, which is supported by several studies done in Ethiopia [11,16]. As mothers have better knowledge, this may increase understanding and acceptance of the ANC service utilization further. Intended pregnancy is encouraged to attend ANC services, which is in line with a study conducted in Yem special district and Mekelle, Ethiopia [18,27]. The possible explanation is that those mothers who had intended pregnancy might have a good awareness about the advantages of antenatal care services utilization.
This study showed significant variations in the utilization of antenatal care among food secure and food insecure household pregnant women. Also, this study found that low utilization of ANC services in the study area. This study also identified several factors correlated with ANC utilizations. Levels of education, food insecurity, unintended pregnancy and knowledge and wealth index were potent predictors of ANC utilization. The government should give emphasize to those women living in food insecure household to achieve the planned maternal health goals. It must simultaneously help women and providers understand the determinants of ANC utilization at the facility, community and individual levels. Also, health care providers should focus on behavioral change communications (BCC) at grass-root levels.
Antenatal care is a crucial indicator for controlling maternal morbidity and mortality even though the situation of antenatal care service utilization is low in developing countries;
Studies have been undertaken in various countries on the factors related to antenatal care service utilization and these studies reviewing antenatal care service utilization have used various indicators.
We found the disparities in antenatal care utilization among food secure and food insecure household pregnant women; thus, there was significant variation in the use of ANC in food secure and food insecure household pregnant women;
This study showed the association between food insecurity and antenatal care service use in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area;
There was low utilization of antenatal care services particularly for food insecure household pregnant women in the Gombora district, southern Ethiopia.
GBK, DEA, TB and MT: initiation of the study, design and analysis; GBK, DEA TB, MT and DEM: assisted with the interpretation of data and writing of the manuscript. All the authors have read and agreed to the final manuscript.
We would like to thank Jimma University´s Institute of Health, for funding this research. Our gratitude goes to supervisors, data collectors, study respondents and Hadiya Zone Health Department and Gombora District for facilitating the study.
Table 1: socio-demographic characteristic of the women among interviewed women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia, 2015
Table 2: antenatal care utilization from skilled professionals and health Extension workers in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia, 2015
Table 3: percentage distribution of antenatal care utilization from skilled health workers among food secure and insecure household women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia, 2015
Table 4: reason for attending antenatal care among food secure and food insecure women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia, 2015
Table 5: association of antenatal care utilization and household food insecurity status and other factors in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia, 2015 (n=774)
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Table 2: antenatal care utilization from skilled professionals and health Extension workers in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia 2015
Table 3: percentage distribution of antenatal care utilization from skilled health workers among food secure and insecure household women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia 2015
Table 4: reason for attending antenatal care among food secure and food insecure women in Gombora district, Hadiya zone, south Ethiopia 2015

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If you love waterfalls or just fancy for a swim in beautiful natural pools, Affenschlucht in Winterthur is a real hidden gem in Switzerland not to miss!
About a year ago when I found a blog post about Affenschlucht waterfalls I was dreaming to have a swim in these natural swimming pools so badly! As we lived in Bern, with over 2h drive to the waterfalls I knew I have to keep dreaming for a while. Now when I finally got to see the place for real, it was worth all the waiting!
How to get there: The waterfalls don't have an official parking lot but we have seen cars parked right by the main road across the waterfalls. To put on GPS, Weiachstrasse 9, 8413 Neftenbach. It depends from what direction you are coming but you need to drive a few meters further or a stop few meters before the given address!
By bus: It seems as there is bus nr 665 from Winterthur railway station at the platform P. You should get out at Haltenreben and from there walk about 5 minutes to Affenschlucht. Once you step out of the bus you will see a gas station Tamoil, from that gas station turn right and follow the main road.
You will walk pass by a bridge but continue walking further on the main road for about a minute or two and you will see stairs to your left, the stairs will lead you down to the beautiful Affenschlucht!
We were camping just a few km away but we still managed to come too late for having the whole place for ourself! We arrived around 10am and there were already too many people for my taste! But it was on a sunday and it was over 25 degrees already early in the morning so I guess it was our own fault for not coming earlier! Keep that in mind people if you happens to pass by here!
Mind the people, Affenschlucht waterfalls remain incredibly beautiful with many swimming holes and spot enough for everyone to have their own pool!
Affenschlucht waterfalls is one of those places where is more beautiful in real life than on the pictures!
There was no way I wouldn't jump into that water! It was cold for about 10 seconds then all I could do was enjoying the fresh water! But I have to admit that Mirabelle was whining extra much that morning for anything and everything! Sign.
It was really cool that you can easily get under the waterfalls, the water pouring down on you, plus there were stone benches where you can sit. The water was quite shallow and it was easy to walk around but please be careful as it can be slippery!
Lac Bleu in Arolla is the bluest lake in Switzerland?
Wow, what a wonderful place. Stunning scenery!
It really is a beautiful place but I think some of the visitors don't respect it. By the end of summer there's usually loads of trash there, such a shame!
Ohh what a shame? normally in Switzerland people ate good with collecting their trash after them.


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Shaquille O'Neal won't have to kiss Steve Kerr's feet (with cheese) after all
Shaquille O'Neal arrives at the 2019 NBA Awards on June 24 in Santa Monica.
(Etienne Laurent / EPA/Shutterstock)
By Chuck SchilkenStaff Writer
July 16, 2019 10:10 AM PT
Shaquille O'Neal once said he would kiss the feet of any coach whose team made it to the NBA Finals in four out of five years.
Seems like an odd thing to promise — and that's not even considering that Shaq added that the lucky coach's foot would have "cheese on it" and that this bizarre ritual would be performed on TV's "Fear Factor."
That was after Phil Jackson had led O'Neal and the Lakers to the finals four times in five years (2000 to 2004). Shaq was simply saying, in his own way, that no one would ever repeat that feat (pun intended).
"It'll never be done again," O'Neal told ESPN at the time.
In other words, he never had any intention of ever kissing anyone's feet, with or without any kind of dairy product on top of them.
But now it's 2019, and Jackson's accomplishment hasn't only been matched, it's been surpassed. Steve Kerr has taken the Golden State Warriors to the finals in each of the last five seasons.
Fortunately for Shaq, Kerr doesn't seem all that into the idea of the big man slobbering all over his toes. He tweeted the old clip of O'Neal promising to pucker up and wrote: "Hey @SHAQ, I'm going to do us both a favor and pretend that @D_West30 didn't send this to me this morning."
Hey @SHAQ, I'm going to do us both a favor and pretend that @D_West30 didn't send this to me this morning. pic.twitter.com/oFhpTPYjOo
— Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) July 16, 2019
Kerr may have let him off the hook, but Shaq is a man of his word. He responded: "I guess I'll c u in fear factor, and make sure it's kraft cheese."
Chuck Schilken
Chuck Schilken is a multiplatform editor and sports writer for the Los Angeles Times.


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Q: Efficiently stylizing and appending new dataframes to existing csv I need to log important information in a human readable format for an app.
The three biggest requirements are as follows:

*

*The info should be logged in a single CSV/excel file.

*A human should be able to read the CSV/excel file efficiently,
which implies that important rows should be colored.

*It should be fast and memory efficient

I have found many ways of satisfying requirement 1, 2 and 3. But never all at the same time.
For point 1, I can use Append existing excel sheet with new dataframe using python pandas or How to add pandas data to an existing csv file?
For point 2, I can use Color formatting excel file row in python
If I want to accomplish point 1 and 2 at the same time, I can use a slightly modified version of Append existing excel sheet with new dataframe using python pandas (by using df.style.apply right before the to_excel() call). But since the excel file is read at each iteration, the result is slow.
Similarly, How to add pandas data to an existing csv file? satisfies point 1 and 3, but not point 2, as it would seem like colors do not work in the same way for to_csv() (at least not when saving to a file). to_excel(), on the other hand, colors the rows correctly but doesn't take the mode='a' argument which gives to to_csv() its efficiency.
Here is a minimum reproducible example corresponding to point 1 and 2 at the same time. As you will see if you run the code, the time taken per iteration quickly increases.
from os.path import isfile

import pandas as pd
from openpyxl import load_workbook
from time import time

def highlight_idx(x, idx):
    if x.name == idx:
        return ['background-color: red'] * len(x)
    return [''] * len(x)

def append_df_to_excel(filename, df, sheet_name='Sheet1', selected_idx=None, startrow=None,
                       truncate_sheet=False,
                       **to_excel_kwargs):
    # Excel file doesn't exist - saving and exiting
    if not isfile(filename):
        df.style.apply(lambda x: highlight_idx(x, selected_idx), axis=1).to_excel(
            filename,
            sheet_name=sheet_name,
            startrow=startrow if startrow is not None else 0,
            **to_excel_kwargs)
        return

    # ignore [engine] parameter if it was passed
    if 'engine' in to_excel_kwargs:
        to_excel_kwargs.pop('engine')

    writer = pd.ExcelWriter(filename, engine='openpyxl', mode='a')

    # try to open an existing workbook
    writer.book = load_workbook(filename)

    # get the last row in the existing Excel sheet
    # if it was not specified explicitly
    if startrow is None and sheet_name in writer.book.sheetnames:
        startrow = writer.book[sheet_name].max_row

    # truncate sheet
    if truncate_sheet and sheet_name in writer.book.sheetnames:
        # index of [sheet_name] sheet
        idx = writer.book.sheetnames.index(sheet_name)
        # remove [sheet_name]
        writer.book.remove(writer.book.worksheets[idx])
        # create an empty sheet [sheet_name] using old index
        writer.book.create_sheet(sheet_name, idx)

    # copy existing sheets
    writer.sheets = {ws.title: ws for ws in writer.book.worksheets}

    if startrow is None:
        startrow = 0

    # write out the new sheet
    df.style.apply(lambda x: highlight_idx(x, selected_idx), axis=1).to_excel(writer, sheet_name,
                                                                                startrow=startrow,
                                                                                **to_excel_kwargs)

    # save the workbook
    writer.save()

for i in range(100000):
    df = pd.DataFrame({'A': ['2', '3', '4'],
                       'B': ['5', '6', '7']})
    start = time()
    append_df_to_excel("out.xlsx", df, selected_idx=1)
    print("time taken for iteration:", time() - start)

I have tried many other ways of doing things. But as I said earlier, I haven't been able to satisfy all 3 points so far.

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Editor: Little, Brown
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Book Summary:
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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Author: Andy Seed
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Editor: Penguin
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I've never felt so hopeful about what I don't know." —Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.
Download or read Think Again book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. There are multiple format available for you to choose (Pdf, ePub, Doc). #1 New York Times Bestseller "THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I've never felt so hopeful about what I don't know." —Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Editor: Harper Collins
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Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Quill Edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with the author, and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life.
Download or read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. There are multiple format available for you to choose (Pdf, ePub, Doc). Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Quill Edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with the author, and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life.
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New road plans divide residents in Collin County – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Although plans are not yet final, TxDOT hopes a new freeway will ease traffic on Highway 380 from Prosper to McKinney. Road expansion plans have divided the people of Collin County.
While TxDOT was the lead proponent of the Blue option for the US-380 bypass this month, the C route will force more than 20 homeowners and 35 business owners to move.
The 16-mile blue alternative will begin at a new location at Coit Road and US-380, extend east and connect to the old US-380 FM 1827. In Figure 2-10: Blue option, made by parts A, E and C.
"So, the pieces are all the options in the puzzle room. And then the colors are the opportunities for that portion of the corridor," TxDOT spokeswoman Madison Schein said. "So you'll hear letters from people talking about a short segment of this whole project."
According to TxDOT, the decision was made based on public input and the final draft of the agency's environmental impact study.
"We've come up with a preferred option since listening to everybody do the analysis, and that's going to be longer on the US 380 alignment," Schein said. ."
But those who live in Class C feel blind.
"Betrayed. We've been doing this for years, talking to TxDOT," said Gordon O'Neill. O'Neill has lived on the same property in Collin County for more than 30 years. "(TxDOT) chose option D, which would have missed us and gone to the bottom of the river where there are no houses."
O'Neill lives about 15 minutes from downtown McKinney.
"My wife and I moved to this farm in 1984," O'Neill said.
For more than 20 years, he has devoted much of his time and resources to teaching blacksmiths to local Boy Scout troops.
"They want to come and do metal work every year," O'Neill said. "I think they came three times last year to do metal works."
He started with a private forge. Over the years, O'Neill has added more equipment to allow each troop to practice.
"It was great," O'Neill said. "And now that Scouting is co-organized, I have a troop that comes from Fort Worth every year. About half of their team are girls. And now it's just opening up a new career opportunity, a new craft opportunity, a new way for all kinds of kids to explore creativity.
If TxDOT moves forward with Section C of Blue Option, the house will be demolished along with the blacksmith shop.
"Last week we finally got an email from TxDOT saying the Highway 380 bypass is coming through our house and it's going to take our house, garage, storage shed and blacksmith shop," O'Neill said.
A total of 22 homes and 35 businesses were evacuated.
"It would completely destroy the peace and quiet that we have now, which is why I moved to this urban area," said Karen Smith.
Smith built the Tara Royal Equestrian Center in less than a decade. Her center has a show jumping arena, an indoor arena, 31 paddocks and currently 48 horses, including the McKinney Police Mounted Patrol.
Smith said the proposed highway would cut off her driveway and create noise that would hurt her business.
"I will have to close my business. I mean, you can't have a horse barn with a freeway going through the top," Smith said.
While the city of McKinney will discuss the issue during a work session Tuesday afternoon, a final decision will be made by TxDOT after the public meetings.
The first in-person hearing is scheduled for Feb. 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Collin County Courthouse Central Jury Room at 2100 Bloomdale Road, McKinney.
A virtual meeting will be held on February 16 for those unable to attend in person. Click here to access that meeting.
The second meeting will be on February 21st from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm in the Rhea Mill Baptist Church gymnasium at 5733 N. Custer Road in McKinney.
Click here to review the Draft Environmental Impact Study.
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Sunday Musings – 27 January 2019
Date: Jan 27, 2019Author: hcgordon62 0 Comments
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day
A time to remember and remind the younger generations of the atrocities of the Second World War.
It is estimated that six million members of the Jewish faith were brutally slaughtered during World War II as well as millions of other ethnic minorities including gypsies and the disabled.
Shortly after coming to power the Nazis began a propaganda campaign against mentally and physically disabled Germans. They did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the pure 'Aryan', that is physically fit with an obedient mind to serve the Reich.
In addition, the Nazis viewed disabled people as a 'burden' on society, and said that they were 'unable' to work and 'drained resources from the state' and sadly these comments can be heard today.
As early as July 1933, the Nazis passed a law that allowed forced sterilisation of 360,000 men and women, who were deemed likely to produce 'inferior' children to prevent "hereditary diseased offspring".
On July 14, 1933, the German government instituted the "Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases." This law called for the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, including mental illness, learning disabilities, physical deformity, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, and severe alcoholism.
With the law's passage the Third Reich also stepped up its propaganda against the disabled, regularly labeling them "life unworthy of life" or "useless eaters" and highlighting their burden upon society.
The law allowed forced sterilisation of 360,000 men and women, who were deemed likely to produce 'inferior' children to prevent "hereditary diseased offspring".
A diagnosis of "feeblemindedness" provided the grounds in the majority of cases, followed by schizophrenia and epilepsy.
Forced sterilization in Germany was the forerunner of the systematic killing of the mentally ill and the handicapped. In October 1939, Hitler himself initiated a decree which empowered physicians to grant a "mercy death" to "patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health." The intent of the so called "euthanasia" program, however, was not to relieve the suffering of the chronically ill. The Nazi regime used the term as a euphemism: its aim was to exterminate the mentally ill and the handicapped, thus "cleansing" the "Aryan" race of persons considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society.
The idea of killing the incurably ill was posed well before 1939. In the 1920s, debate on this issue centered on a book co authored by Alfred Hoche, a noted psychiatrist, and Karl Binding, a prominent scholar of criminal law. They argued that economic savings justified the killing of "useless lives" ("idiots" and "congenitally crippled").
Economic deprivation during World War I provided the context for this idea. During the war, patients in asylums had ranked low on the list for rationing of food and medical supplies, and as a result, many died from starvation or disease. More generally, the war undermined the value attached to individual life and, combined with Germany's humiliating defeat, led many nationalists to consider ways to regenerate the nation as a whole at the expense of individual rights.
In 1935 Hitler stated privately that
"in the event of war, [he] would take up the question of euthanasia and enforce it" because "such a problem would be more easily solved" during wartime.
War would provide both a cover for killing and a pretext–hospital beds and medical personnel would be freed up for the war effort. The upheaval of war and the diminished value of human life during wartime would also, Hitler believed, mute expected opposition. To make the connection to the war explicit, Hitler's decree was backdated to September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland.
For instance, after the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Nazis murdered thousands of seriously ill Poles in hospitals.
The experience gained as a result of the euthanasia programme was also put to use from 1941 as the Nazis sought to murder the Jews of Europe.
Systematic Killing of the Handicapped Five handicapped prisoners photographed at Buchenwald concentration camp for propaganda purposes. 1938 – 1940 Hartheim Castle was a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria
Fearful of public reaction, the Nazi regime never proposed a formal "euthanasia" law. Unlike the forced sterilizations, the killing of patients in mental asylums and other institutions was carried out in secrecy. The code name was "Operation T4," a reference to Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address of the Berlin Chancellery offices where the program was headquartered.
Physicians, the most highly Nazified professional group in Germany, were key to the success of "T-4," since they organized and carried out nearly, all aspects of the operation. One of Hitler's personal physicians, Dr. Karl Brandt, headed the program, along with Hitler's Chancellery chief, Philip Bouhler. T-4 targeted adult patients in all government or church-run sanatoria and nursing homes.
These institutions were instructed by the Interior Ministry to collect questionnaires about the state of health and capacity for work of all their patients, ostensibly as part of a statistical survey and were responsible for at least 70,000 deaths.
The completed forms were, in turn, sent to expert assessors physicians, usually psychiatrists, who made up "review commissions." They marked each name with a "+," in red pencil, meaning death, or a "" in blue pencil, meaning life, or "?" for cases needing additional assessment. These medical experts rarely examined any of the patients and made their decisions from the questionnaires alone. At every step, the medical authorities involved were usually expected to quickly process large numbers of forms.
The doomed were bused to killing centers in Germany and Austria walled-in fortresses, mostly former psychiatric hospitals, castles, and a former prison — at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Grafeneck, Bernburg, Hadamar, and Brandenburg. In the beginning, patients were killed by lethal injection. But by 1940, Hitler, on the advice of Dr. Werner Heyde, suggested that carbon monoxide gas be used as the preferred method of killing. Experimental gassings had first been carried out at Brandenburg Prison in 1939. There, gas chambers were disguised as showers complete with fake nozzles in order to deceive victims — prototypes of the killing centers' facilities built in occupied Poland later in the war.
To a certain extent both the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany protested against the euthanasia programme. In July 1941 a letter from the Catholic bishops was read out in all churches, declaring that it was wrong to kill.
Opposition to the programme increased amongst the Catholic population of Germany. During July and August 1941, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, a Catholic Bishop issued three sermons condemning this practice; he sent a telegram of the third sermon to Hitler calling on him to "defend the people against the Gestapo". This third sermon was also reproduced and sent all over Germany to families, and even to German soldiers on the Western and Eastern Fronts.
Fearing a public uprising across Germany, Hitler ordered a stop to the killings.
The Murder of the Handicapped
However, the policy continued in one way or another through to 1945.
Between the middle of 1941 and the winter of 1944-45, in a program known under code "14f13," experienced psychiatrists from the T-4 operation were sent to concentration camps to weed out prisoners too ill to work. After superficial medical screenings, designated inmates Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, Germans, and others were sent to those "euthanasia" centers where gas chambers still had not been dismantled, at Bernburg and Hartheim, where they were gassed.
At least a further 250,000 disabled people are believed to have died between 1941 and 1945.
Wartime, Adolf Hitler suggested, "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill." and the murder of the disabled continued until 1945.
It is important not to repeat the mistakes of history, yet further genocides have continued worldwide, including in Rwanda and Bosnia.
You would think that society would have learned from the past reader but a quick search on Reddit shows a darker side to society.
The developmentally disabled are a burden on society
I believe severely mentally disabled people are nothing but a burden and a waste of everyone's time.
The Bundestag voted in November 2011 to erect the memorial in honor of the victims of the Nazi's so-called euthanasia program – code-named T4 – for Germans who were not considered "useful," such as those who were physically handicapped, or psychiatric patients deemed unworthy to live.
At the unveiling of the memorial in Berlin, the then German culture minister, and Klaus Wowereit stated:
"We often forget that even today, around 10 percent of the people in our country live with mental or physical disabilities,"
"Our society has a social responsibility to these people… No life is unworthy.
You have our solidarity, our encouragement and our empathy.
You have the right to an equal life in our society.
Because only by caring is our society worth living in."
In 21st Century Britain reader, everything has changed, or has nothing really changed…
It's been a quiet week, a time to rest and recharge the batteries before the challenges that lie ahead.
The rights of people living with Dementia, under the United Nations Conventions and therefore International Law, will play an ever increasing role in advocacy in 2019 and beyond.
Decisions will more and more be challenged under these Conventions.
The decisions of so called "Best Interest Meetings" will be challenged more and more to show that their decisions comply with the United Nations Conventions and International Law.
CCG's and Health Trusts will be challenged when they do not provide equal services between conditions.
The services that are provided for conditions such as Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes etc, must be provided equally for Dementia under the United Nations Conventions and International Law.
Legislation such as the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill will be challenged where they have the potential to remove peoples rights under the United Nations Conventions.
As will transport companies who fail to provide adequate assisted travel and the lack of reasonable adjustments under the Equalities Act 2010.
Around the UK, there are small pockets of good practice.
But generally, everything has changed and nothing has changed.
The need to challenge rights abuses and learn from the lessons of the past is even more pressing.
Dementia and other Disabilities will no longer sit at the back of the room silently and passively as everything about us, is without us.
The lessons of the past, should not haunt all our futures.
Peter Berry's 82nd Weekly YouTube Video
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BBC Video How to talk about disability without being awkward.
"Above all, we need to change the way we do dementia in this country."
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The Olympics officials have confirmed that skeptical and doubtful activity found on Olympics systems during the opening ceremony of 2018 winter games. The PyeongChang organizers have confirmed it as a cyber-attack and said that someone endangered internet and TV services during the parade of athletes. A spokesman Sung Baik-you said that everything had been resolved and secured by the 9th. He indicated that they have discovered the cause of the attack. The PyeongChang organizers discussed with the International Olympics Committee and decided not to disclose the source of the attack. Their statement points out the alleged attack connected to Russia. It is because Russia has been banned to participate in the Winter Olympics due to its doping program.
The security investigators had discovered some evidence that Russian-based hackers can interrupt the games as retaliation. Russia tried to head off allegations in the past by claiming that the Western press will manage "pseudo-investigations", but without any evidence. The recent claim will carry limited weight due to Russia denied all attacks despite any proof. Russian-backed hackers were found in leaking the files of athletes following the 2016 summer games in Rio. It is important that North Korea is only 50 miles from PyeongChang. But, it will not try to disrupt games because its athletes are contesting alongside South Korea. 2018 winter games will be used to offer a summit between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in.


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