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Risk narrations and perceptions in the COVID-19 time. A discourse analysis through the Italian press
2020
This paper explores how the risk related to the pandemic of COVID-19 was managed, narrated and perceived in Italy during the lockdown phase, from February until June 2020. To reach this aim, the study provides a discourse analysis of three main level: the official institutional discourses declaimed by the government and the health authority; the risk narration spread through the diaphragm of the Italian press, and specifically through two of the most-read newspapers in Italy (Repubblica and Corriere della Sera) and their related weeklies (Venerdì di Repubblica and Sette); finally, the diverse reactions and perceptions to the risk coming from the most affected and most vulnerable subjects, c…
Gestione dei migranti, emergenza sanitaria e sicurezza pubblica: verso un diritto amministrativo del nemico?
2022
The article aims to verify whether in some provisions of the law and in the consequent administrative measures, above all in terms of public security, there are signs of that binary logic which characterizes the theory of the criminal law of the enemy elaborated by Jakobs, also evaluating what are the consequences and what possible remedies to consider in the face of such a possibility.
Ethics in Emergency Medical Services – Who Cares? An exploratory analysis from Australia
2008
Due to the complexity, stressfulness and often the life threatening nature of tasks that ambulance professionals have to deal with every day, ethical decision making in Emergency Services is a daily challenge. An Australian Association of Ambulance Professionals undertook a project of research to identify the individual ethics profile of members and their perspective on organization ethics and ethical conflict to better understand apparent conflict in ethical values between members and their employer organization. Due to the exploratory nature of this study two types of data (quantitative and qualitative) were gathered through a self-administrated questionnaire of members and semi-structure…
La normativa emergenziale in materia di obbligazioni e di contratti
2020
Il saggio esamina le principali disposizioni in materia di obbligazioni e di contratti introdotte dalla normativa emergenziale al fine di fronteggiare la pandemia di Covid-19 e tenta di ricondurle a sistema. Più nel particolare, molte delle norme esaminate, a dispetto della loro natura eccezionale, non fanno che applicare istituti del diritto generale delle obbligazioni e dei contratti, come l’impossibilità definitiva o temporanea, la risoluzione per impossibilità, la revisione volontaria del contratto etc. Di particolare interesse - anche per l’impatto applicativo - si rivelano le questioni relative alla gestione dei rapporti contrattuali di durata e ai riflessi delle misure restrittive de…
A methodological look at the controversy about the influence of salt intake on cardiovascular risk
2012
Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of premature death and disability. They represent an extraordinarily strong financial burden upon health-care systems in ‘‘developed’’ countries. Elevated blood pressure is a major cause of cardiovascular disease. There is much evidence that cardiovascular risk increases from normal blood pressure (i.e., from 115/75 mmHg upwards) [1]. Overwhelming evidence shows that reducing salt intake from 9–12 g/day to 5–6 g/day lowers blood pressure [2]. Blood pressure is a surrogate endpoint, but may be related to a reduction of morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular causes. Thus, intensive support and encouragement to cut down on the intake of salt in …
Leveraging National Auditing Criteria to Implement Cybersecurity Safeguards for the Automotive Emergency Response Vehicles : A case study from Finland
2017
A modern Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) is a combination of emergency services and functional mobile office on the wheels. The mobile office is aiming to leverage the benefits of fixed office while moving on the wheels. Researchers have observed that emergency response personnel including Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAs), Police and border guards, could be on the duty while having possibility to use same services compared to fixed office. On the one hand, demand of mobile office has significantly improved the emergency response services. On the other hand, emergency vehicle designers should rethink the demand of users. This resulted into modern standard emergency response vehicle with t…
Dialoghi digitali. La comunità professionale si confronta sulle esperienze in tempo di COVID
2020
La crisi pandemica ha avuto un impatto diretto e indiretto nella sfera di azione dei servizi sociali. La gestione della emergenza causata dal Covid-19, nelle diverse fasi in cui è articolata, ha coinvolto i professionisti dei servizi sociali in un contesto in cui, per la prima volta, una situazione di trauma e di crisi a livello collettivo (Aydin, 2017) ha investito l’intero territorio nazionale, comportando sfide senza precedenti in Italia dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale. Insieme allo spiazzamento iniziale, la pandemia ha reso ancora più evidenti le disuguaglianze e le ingiustizie sociali, ha investito direttamente i servizi sociosanitari, le relazioni tra i cittadini e tali sistemi, le co…
Emergenza e post-emergenza: percorsi e prospettive del servizio sociale
2012
In the emergency situations occurred up to today, both at national and international level, very different professionals cooperate: some of these are now perfectly stored in the collective imaginary (doctors, firefighters, logistics experts, law enforcement, etc..), while others (community leaders, educators or social workers) have not yet been fully integrated into the network of the protagonists of the emergency. This mean that social workers - on several occasions and in a more or less structured and recognized ways - have been shown to possess extraordinary skills in this field; experience on the ground, in fact, shows how their contribution can be relevant and constructive already in t…
A questionnaire to measure the extra-pulmonary symptoms of asthma
2021
Background: Research into the effects of asthma treatments on the extra-pulmonary symptoms of severe asthma is limited by the absence of a suitable questionnaire. The aim was to create a questionnaire suitable for intervention studies by selecting symptoms that are statistically associated with asthma pathology and therefore may improve when pathology is reduced. Methods: Patients attending a specialist asthma clinic completed the 65-item General Symptom Questionnaire (GSQ-65), a questionnaire validated for assessing symptoms of people with functional disorders. Lung function (FEV1%) and cumulative oral corticosteroids (OCS) calculated from maintenance dose plus exacerbations were obtained …
Decomposing issue patterns in crisis communication: the case of the lost airliner
2018
This research explores the relation between a crisis and public discussion on related issues. In organisational crisis communication, a singleissue strategy is often proposed. Such a strategy, however, may not be adequate in more complex crises where the crisis lifecycle is likely to encompass shorter lifecycles of issues that generate media attention. Decomposing the online crisis debate into a pattern of issues supports understanding of public perceptions, and hence of crisis response and communication. This is investigated through an analysis of Facebook posts prompted by the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014. The analysis shows that during the life of the crisis a variety o…