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Can bureaucrats order public health? The case of Norway
2013
Introduction: The implementation of a new structural reform, the Coordination Reform, prioritizing a new public health agenda, was initiated to develop a more decentralized, integrated health care system in Norway in 2012. The same year, new health legislation was implemented and due to the new Public Health Act the responsibility for implementing a new public health agenda was decentralized to the local level. Historically, due to lack of funding – these issues have got low priority among local authorities. The new public health legislation reflects a shift in policy focus from treatment to illness prevention – where planning and partnership among primary end specialist health care, as wel…
Erratum to: ‘A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain’
2016
Public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives are extending around the world, especially in Europe, as an innovation to traditional public health systems, with the intention of making them more efficient.There is a varied range of PPP models with different degrees of responsibility from simple public sector contracts with the private, up to the complete privatisation of the service. As such, we may say the involvement of the private sector embraces the development, financing and provision of public infrastructures and delivery services.In this paper, one of the oldest PPP initiatives developed in Spain and transferred to other European and Latin American countries is evaluated for first time…
Measuring Acceptability of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Development and Validation of the A-IPVAW Scale
2018
Abstract: Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a major social and public health problem of global proportions. Public attitudes toward IPVAW shape the social environment in which such violence takes place, and attitudes of acceptability of IPVAW are considered a risk factor to actual IPVAW. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale measuring acceptability of IPVAW (A-IPVAW). To this end, a sample of 1,800 respondents was recruited via social media. A second sample of 50 IPVAW offenders was used for concurrent validity analyses. Following a cross-validation approach and using item response theory analyses, we found that the latent structure of the scale was one-…
Assessing Victim-Blaming Attitudes in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Development and Validation of the VB-IPVAW Scale
2018
ABSTRACT Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is the most common form of violence suffered by women and constitutes a serious public health problem of global proportions. Public attitudes towards IPVAW are key to understanding the social context in which this type of violence occurs. Victim-blaming attitudes are among those that reflect public tolerance and acceptability of IPVAW and are often used to explain or justify IPVAW. In this study we develop and validate a new instrument to assess victim-blaming attitudes in cases of IPVAW. A sample of 1,800 participants was recruited through social media and a second sample of 50 IPVAW offenders was used for validation purposes. Throug…
Relationship between pregnant women and their partners during COVID-19 and the role of accompanying persons during childbirth
2021
Objective: Although the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the presence of a support person, several hospitals in Latvia have restricted the presence of supporting persons due to COVID-19. This study was conducted to understand the importance of partnership and the role of the accompanying person in childbirth in the context of COVID-19 in Latvia.Methods: A mixed method study with sequential explanatory design was conducted from 26 July to 30 October 2020. The quantitative study consisted of a behavioral cross-sectional online survey with convenience sampling. The survey items, methods, and implementation were performed as part of the I-SHARE study carried out in 33 countries, with …
Construction of the client in physiotherapy student's practical learning sessions: a discourse analytic study
2008
In recent years, there has been a tendency to stress the active role and equal partnership of clients in social and healthcare. Moreover, research in the role of clients has attracted growing interest. Clinical education has been seen as an excellent arena for learning the distinctiveness of the interaction between the client and the professional physiotherapist by giving students the chance to participate in actual healthcare encounters. This study focuses on examining the construction of various client roles through interactions between participants in practical learning sessions that physiotherapy students took part in. These sessions were real professional physiotherapy encounters. Qual…
School of migrant children, an ethnography in an unregistered migrant school in Beijing
2012
This thesis discusses about the challenge of education for migrant children in the rapidly urbanized Chinese society. An ethnographic research was conducted in one of the unregistered migrant schools in Beijing. Through a triangulation of research methods of participatory observation, semi-structured and life history interview, as well as photography, the research, from emic perspectives, analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the migrant schools in education provision to migrant children, understands the gaps between policy commitments and on-the-ground delivery of public education provision, and raises a few policy recommendations of developing the migrant schools and improving educ…
Lukutuokiot lasten lukemissujuvuuden tukena
2014
Tämä tutkimus sijoittuu lukemisinterventioiden tutkimuskenttään. Tutkimuksen aiheena olleet lukutuokiot ovat kehitelty heikkojen lukijoiden lukemissujuvuuden tukemiseksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa tavoitteena oli selvittää kuinka lapset kuvailevat osallistumiskokemuksiaan koskien Lukumummi ja -vaari –toiminnan lukutuokioita. Vastauksia etsittiin siihen millaisia mielipiteitä lapsilla oli lukutuokioista, miten he kehittäisivät lukutuokioita jatkossa sekä minkälaisia vaikutuksia lapset kokivat lukutuokioilla olleen heidän lukutaidolleen sekä lukumotivaatiolleen. Yhdysvalloissa toteutetuissa aikaisemmissa tutkimuksissa on tullut esille, että partnerilukeminen, jossa aikuinen ja lapsi lukevat yhdessä…
Paving the way of systems biology and precision medicine in allergic diseases: The MeDALL success story
2016
MeDALL Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy; EU FP7-CP-IP; Project No: 261357; 20 (10) -2015 proposed an innovative approach to develop early indicators for the prediction, diagnosis, prevention and targets for therapy(.) MeDALL linked epidemiological, clinical and basic research using a stepwise, large-scale and integrative approach: precisely phenotyped children followed in 14 birth cohorts spread across Europe were combined with systems biology omics, IgE measurement using micro-arrays and environmental data(.) Multimorbidity in the same child is more common than expected by chance alone, suggesting that these diseases share causal mechanisms irrespective of IgE sensitisation(.) IgE …
Ģimenes izpratne mūsdienās konstitucionālajās tiesībās
2020
Darba tēma: Ģimenes izpratne mūsdienās konstitucionālajās tiesībās. Latvijas normatīvajos aktos ir salīdzinoši šaurs ģimenes jēdziena definējums, kas atrodams Civillikumā. Latvijas Republikas Satversmē noteikts, ka valsts pienākums ir aizsargāt ģimeni, taču tajā nav izskaidrots, kā saprast jēdzienu “ģimene”. Darba mērķis ir izpētīt paradumu un sabiedrības attīstības ietekmi uz ģimenes izpratni, atklāt šī jēdziena saturu, kā arī aplūkot citu valstu praksi un Latvijai būtisko Eiropas reģionālās cilvēktiesību sistēmas pieredzi ģimenes satura noskaidrošanā, kas nenoliedzami ietekmē arī ģimenes izpratni Latvijas konstitucionālajās tiesībās. Darbā tiek izskatīti ģimenes modeļi, kas pazīstami Latv…