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Use of health care services among Syrian refugees migrating to Norway: a prospective longitudinal study
2021
Abstract Background Understanding the differential utilization of healthcare services is essential to address the public health challenges. Through the migration process, refugees move from one set of health risk factors to another and can face multiple healthcare challenges along their journey. Yet how these changing risk factors influence refugees’ use of health care services is poorly understood. Methods A longitudinal survey assessing health care utilization of 353 adult Syrian refugees was conducted; first in a transit setting in Lebanon and after one year of resettlement in Norway. The main outcomes are the utilization of general practitioner services, emergency care, outpatient and/o…
Advance care planning in participative social work practice
2009
Advanced and anticipatory care planning (acp) are processes for finding out and recording clients’ preferences for care and treatment in the future, and distinct from professional care planning as part of care management in coordinating service delivery. Developing from palliative care practice in recording patients’ decisions to refuse treatment made in advance of possible mental incapacity at end of life, acp processes have recently extended to health and social care provision for long-term conditions. The process aims to engage clients, family members and informal caregivers in thinking ahead about managing difficult care situations. Research indicates that this increases clients’ satisf…
Aerosol properties of the Eyjafjallajökull ash derived from sun photometer and satellite observations over the Iberian Peninsula
2012
The Eyjafjallajökull ash that crossed over Spain and Portugal on 6e12 May 2010 has been monitored by a set of operational sun photometer sites within AERONET-RIMA and satellite sensors. The sun photometer observations (aerosol optical depth, coarse mode concentrations) and ash products from IASI and SEVIRI satellite sensors, together with FLEXPART simulations of particle transport, allow identifying the volcanic aerosols. The aerosol columnar properties derived from inversions were investigated, indicating specific properties, especially regarding the absorption. The single scattering albedo was high (0.95 at 440 nm) and nearly wavelength independent, although with slight decrease with wave…
Older Adults' Physical Activity and the Relevance of Distances to Neighborhood Destinations and Barriers to Outdoor Mobility
2020
Aim: To determine the relevance of features located close to home and further away, our aim was to study associations between older adults' physical activity and self-reported neighborhood destinations and barriers to outdoor mobility categorized by presence and maximal distance from home. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses comprising men and women 79–94 years old (57%) living independently in Central Finland (n = 185). Self-reported physical activity was categorized into lower (≤3 h moderate activity a week) and higher (≥4 h moderate or intense activity a week) activity. Assisted by interviewers, participants located on an interactive map destinations perceived to facilitate and barriers pe…
Living autobiographically: Concepts of aging and artistic expression in painting and modern dance.
2016
This article discusses the ways in which artists have incorporated or failed to incorporate the aging process of their bodies into their art. Using Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and the French painter Claude Monet as cases in point, we explore situations in which physical changes brought about by aging compromises artists' ability to engage with their artistic medium. Connecting Monet's oeuvre and Baryshnikov's dance performances to life writing accounts, we draw on John Paul Eakin's concept of "living autobiographically": In this vein, life writing research does not only have to take into account concepts of identity as they emerge from life writing narratives, but it also need…
Effect of Foreperiod Duration and Handedness on Simple and Choice Auditory Reaction Time Among the Older People
2017
Objectives Cognitive functions such as reaction time undergo change with aging. Given the importance of preparation in response to reaction time in various life situations, this study aimed to examine the effect of various foreperiods (0.5, 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 s), and handedness at the time of simple and choice auditory reaction time. Methods & Materials The current research followed a quasi-experimental methodology and was carried out using a self-made software. The study population comprised all old people living in Ahvaz City. Of them, 30 people were selected through purposive sampling method and allocated into two groups of right- and left-handed people. Each individual was randomly teste…
¿Por qué las cooperativas no dominan en los sistemas hortofrutícolas tradicionales? Una comparación entre España y Francia
2011
Este artículo intenta explicar las dificultades que enfrentan las cooperativas y otras formas colectivas para devenir las organizaciones dominantes en la comercialización de los productos en algunos sistemas agroalimentarios tradicionales. Se aduce como razón esencial la existencia en estos sistemas de una convención especulativa que condiciona el desarrollo de las formas colectivas. Esta hipótesis se construye a través del esbozo de un marco conceptual institucionalista y se ilustra mediante el análisis histórico de los sistemas citrícola de la Comunitat Valenciana (España) y de frutas y hortalizas de Provenza (Francia). Pese a las diferentes trayectorias que derivan del diferente marco in…
Agrupaciones de innovaciones en la difusión de innovaciones tecnológicas radicales y política económica: conceptualización y evidencia en la citricul…
2000
El doble objetivo de este artículo es contribuir al conocimiento del proceso de adopción-difusión de innovaciones tecnológicas radicales en la agricultura para informar el diseño de una política tecnológica que estimule dicho proceso. Con este fin, se construye un enfoque evolucionista ampliado que guía el estudio del proceso de difusión del riego por goteo en la citricultura valenciana. La interacción entre teoría y estudios de casos proporciona evidencia de la pertinencia de entender estos procesos de adopción-difusión en términos de agrupaciones de innovaciones ex-ante y ex-post que evolucionan en el tiempo y en el espacio. De tal modo que una política tecnológica regional de estímulo a …
Le commerce mondial et les exigences de normalisation : réorganisation locale et repositionnement global des systèmes agro-alimentaires. Le cas des a…
2007
L'évolution du commerce international et les exigences de standardisation ont conduit les systèmes agro-alimentaires à se réorganiser. Cet article éclaire trois aspects du processus de réorganisation de l'agrumiculture de la Comunidad Valenciana : la modification des relations inter-entreprises ; les évolutions au sein du système d'innovation ; l'intensification des interactions des opérateurs valenciens avec le secteur agrumicole d'Argentine et d'Uruguay. S'appuyant sur une approche évolutionniste et une méthodologie qualitative basée sur la réalisation d'entretiens personnels approfondis, l'article montre que cette réorganisation est le produit d'un processus social et ouvert qui dépend d…
La agricultura a tiempo parcial y la externalización de servicios agrarios como vehículo del cambio estructural
2010
El «ajuste clásico» ha sido interpretado frecuentemente como la senda racional y óptima de modernización del sector agrario. Esto ha llevado a considerar a la agricultura a tiempo parcial como un subproducto (ineficiente) del modelo clásico. Frente a este planteamiento, el artículo defiende la potencial contribución de la agricultura a tiempo parcial (y la externalización de servicios asociada a la misma) al proceso de innovación y de modernización de las estructuras agrarias. Se revisa críticamente la literatura adoptando una perspectiva microeconómica y territorial y esbozando un marco analítico que combina los enfoques de los costes de transacción y evolucionista. Utilizando información …