Search results for "Professional"

Sexuality and Cancer in the Aged/Aging Population

2017

Cancer as a special topic in the senior group is not much discussed in the professional literature, and the same goes for sexuality in old age. That apparent accumulation of taboos does not offer justice to the reality of many aging patients and their partners. There are several arguments to pay proper attention to sexuality in the group of aging cancer patients.

The gap between behavioral risk status and willingness to change behavior among healthcare professionals

2018

Aims: This study explored behavioral health risk factors among healthcare professionals and investigated the at-risk persons’ satisfaction with their health habits and ongoing change attempts. Methods: The study was based on a cross-sectional web-based survey directed at the nurses and physicians ( N = 1233) in Finnish healthcare. Obesity, low physical activity, smoking, and risky alcohol drinking were used as behavioral health risk factors. Results: In all, 70% of the participants had at least one behavioral risk factor, and a significant number of at-risk persons were satisfied with their health habits and had no ongoing change process. Good self-rated health and good self-rated work abil…

Coauthorship Networks and Institutional Collaboration in Revista Española de Cardiología Publications

2007

The aim of this study was to analyze the patterns of investigator and institutional collaboration in papers published in the Revista Española de Cardiología.Details of coauthorship and institutional collaboration involved in articles published in the Revista Española de Cardiología in the period 2000-2005 were recorded and a collaboration index was derived. Collaboration networks were identified using the TextToPajek and PAJEK software tools.Of the 980 papers analyzed, 95.1% had been authored by two or more individuals and 51.43% involved institutional collaboration. The overall collaboration index was 6.23 (standard deviation [SD] 3.1). There was a significant statistical relationship (P.0…

Psychosocial risks at work and occupational health

2012

Los cambios que han ocurrido en las últimas décadas sobre los procesos laborales y el diseño del trabajo son de carácter sociodemográfico, económico, político, y tecnológico. Estos cambios han originado nuevos riesgos psicosociales en el trabajo que afectan a la salud y la calidad de vida laboral, pues incrementan los niveles de estrés de los trabajadores. El objetivo del estudio es presentar este tipo de riesgos, sus consecuencias, y algunas recomendaciones para promover la salud en el trabajo como estrategia para mejorar la salud pública de la población. El estudio se estructura en cinco puntos en los que: (1) se presenta el concepto de factores y riesgos psicosociales en el trabajo, (2) …

Employers’ perceptions of young higher education graduates’ employability in Belarus

2022

This paper explores the employability of young Higher Education (HE) graduates in Belarus, from the point of view of employers. Graduate employability can be defined by six items: starting a job; learning at work; performing work tasks; improving professional prospects; improving personal development; and developing entrepreneurial capacity. The FOSTERC database contains representative information on 261 employers in 2018 derived from an employer questionnaire. The questionnaire includes a specific section, which asked about 24 competencies associated with obtaining a job after graduation, and the competency levels required by employers. The responses to these questions allow analysis of e…

REDU : revista de docencia universitaria

2012

[ES] José Gimeno Sacristán, pedagogo erudito, pensador crítico, es un adelantado a su tiempo, prueba de ello es que ha participado en los procesos de resignificación de la realidad educativa en el Estado español. Recientemente investido como Doctor Honoris Causa en las Universidades de San Luis (Argentina) y Málaga (España), ha sido profesor en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, en la de Salamanca y, desde 1981, en la de Valencia. Esta entrevista refleja su mirada crítica y reconstruye su biografía profesional. Las dimensiones tratadas nos permiten conocer sus inicios como docente, sus reflexiones sobre los referentes y principios que han participado en la definición de su pensamiento, s…

Primary stroke prevention worldwide:translating evidence into action

2021

Abstract: Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability worldwide and its burden is increasing rapidly in low-income and middle-income countries, many of which are unable to face the challenges it imposes. In this Health Policy paper on primary stroke prevention, we provide an overview of the current situation regarding primary prevention services, estimate the cost of stroke and stroke prevention, and identify deficiencies in existing guidelines and gaps in primary prevention. We also offer a set of pragmatic solutions for implementation of primary stroke prevention, with an emphasis on the role of governments and population-wide strategies, includin…

2018

ABSTRACTThis study takes a narrative perspective to examine teachers as writers and autobiographical creative writing as a way for promoting teachers’ professional development. In a creative writin...

Hückel’s Professional Career in National Socialist Germany

2009

When the National Socialists took over the government in early 1933, Huckel was a lecturer of “chemical physics” at the Wurttemberg polytechnic (Technische Hochschule) in Stuttgart, at the peak of his productivity as a researcher and a teacher. On May 8, 1933 he submitted the fourth and final part of his opus magnum on the quantum theory of unsaturated and aromatic compounds to the editorial offices of Zeitschrift fur Physik.He was planning to offer a number of different courses that academic year, from April 1, 1933 to March 31, 1934.In addition he intended to continue the “Seminar on atomic physics,” that he had been offering annually since the academic year 1931/1932 together with the fu…

The professional report in initial teacher training in France. Le «mémoire professionnel» dans la formation initiale des enseignants en France

2007

07086; International audience; While the IUFM (University Institutes for Teachers' Training) are going to become part of universities, this article questions one of the bases validating the teachers' training: the professional report. This assessment concerns exercising teachers in having a critical mind towards their practical experience, because its purpose is to prepare teachers to adapt to the different types of pupils they are going to teach. This is the reason why the Government can only define this assessment briefly, even if they want to have better control over the teachers' training. To be precise concerning this assessment, the Government has to trust the teachers' trainers' cont…