Search results for "Empowerment"
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Women’s empowerment and child mortality: the case of Bangladesh
2018
Proposed use of a conversational agent for patient empowerment
2021
Empowerment is a process through which people acquire the necessary knowledge and self-awareness to understand their conditions and treatment options, make informed choices and self-manage their health conditions in daily life, in collaboration with medical professionals. Conversational Agents in healthcare could play an important role in the process of empowering a person but, so far, they have been seldom been used for this purpose. This paper presents the basic principles and preliminary implementation of a conversational health agent for patient empowerment. It dialogues with the user in a "natural" way, collects health data from heterogeneous sources and provides the user wit…
The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Radiology Field: What Is the State of Doctor–Patient Communication in Cancer Diagnosis?
2023
Simple Summary Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly used in radiology to improve diagnostic procedures over the past decades. The application of AI at the time of cancer diagnosis also creates challenges in the way doctors should communicate the use of AI to patients. The present systematic review deals with the patient's psycho-cognitive perspective on AI and the interpersonal skills between patients and physicians when AI is implemented in cancer diagnosis communication. Evidence from the retrieved studies pointed out that the use of AI in radiology is negatively associated with patient trust in AI and patient-centered communication in cancer disease. Background: In the past…
Sfide e opportunità dei care leavers. Ipotesi di progettualità
2021
Il capitolo affronta il tema dei care-leavers, alla luce di una ricerca di carattere antropo-pedagogica condotta in Italia e in Romania, al fine di riflettere sulle modalità di avvio all'adultità e di raggiungimento dell'empowerment da parte di giovani in uscita dalle comunità/servizi residenziali.
Improving Communication in Risk Management of Health Information Technology Systems by means of Medical Text Simplification
2019
Health Information Technology Systems (HITS) are increasingly used to improve the quality of patient care while reducing costs. These systems have been developed in response to the changing models of care to an ongoing relationship between patient and care team, supported by the use of technology due to the increased instance of chronic disease. However, the use of HITS may increase the risk to patient safety and security. While standards can be used to address and manage these risks, significant communication problems exist between experts working in different departments. These departments operate in silos often leading to communication breakdowns. For example, risk management stakeholder…
Indagine antropo-educativa dei bisogni dei minori “fuori” famiglia e dei care leavers
2021
This chapter offers an anthropoloigcal and pedagogical perspective from the results obtained within the European project “Children for children wellbeing: strengthening national child care system to guarantee equal rights for all children ", of which the University of Palermo was a partner, aimed at children in care and care leavers.
El microcrédito como instrumento de empoderamiento y de lucha contra la pobreza de la mujer: el caso de la mujer senegalesa de Ziguinchor.
2014
El presente trabajo presenta el panorama socioeconómico de la región senegalesa de Ziguinchor y aborda los retos de empoderamiento de las mujeres y la reducción de la pobreza a través de la concesión de microcréditos. Para ello se han realizado entrevistas en profundidad a mujeres de escasos recursos económicos beneficiarias de un programa nacional de microcrédito. El trabajo se apoya también en diversos estudios e investigaciones que tratan la cuestión. La hipótesis de partida es que el microcrédito permite a las mujeres adquirir recursos económicos que les ayuda a sacar a sus familias de la pobreza y favorece su empoderamiento. This paper presents the socioeconomic landscape of the Senega…
Rethinking Civil Society in Development: Scales and Situated Hegemonies
2016
Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving social cohesion. In line with spatial assimilation theory there is a normative assumption that people interact with those living nearby. From interviews on neighbourhood qualities and locations valued by Oslo residents of Turkish, Somali and Polish backgrounds, we raise questions about the validity of two assumptions: that most immigrants want to live in the same neighbourhoods as co-ethnics; and that they want to live close to co-ethnics because they do not want to integr…
Transformative Teaching and Learning Through Engaged Practice : Lecturers’ and Students’ Experiences in a University and Underserved Community Partne…
2018
peer-reviewed The Community Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership and Lifeskills (CWell) program is a two-year community-driven program developed in partnership between an underserved-community in Limerick City, and staff at the University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. This paper explores the transformative teaching and learning experiences that arose throughout the duration of the progam for the lecturers and students. Data were collected through interviews and focus groups with lecturers and students involved in the program. Students supported the notion of “learning differently” and focused around prior learning and attitude to learning, learning about learning and impact of learning. Lecturers…
Community Participation in Urban Suburbs: The Italian Case of Z.E.N. Slum of Palermo
2015
Based on Kurt Lewin’s Action Research theory, the paper focuses on an Action Research project issued in Southern Italy, in the disadvantaged suburb of Palermo (Sicily), called Z.E.N., sadly famous as a dangerous and “criminogenic” urban slum, in order to stimulate social participation and to develop social change. The principal goal was the empowerment of ordinary inhabitants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.