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Public health policies and alcohol-related liver disease
2019
Summary: Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) represents a major public health problem worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, the highest levels of per capita alcohol consumption are observed in countries of the European Region. Alcohol consumption is also alarmingly increasing in developing countries. ALD is one of the main contributors to the burden of alcohol-attributable deaths and disability. In the United States, severe forms of ALD such alcoholic hepatitis have increased in the last decade and in the United Kingdom, three-quarters of liver-related mortality results from alcohol consumption. Besides genetic factors, there is strong evidence that the amount of alcohol co…
Główne problemy integracji imigrantów z Ukrainy i propozycje rozwiązań w oczach przedstawicieli instytucji województwa opolskiego
2020
The article presents the results of qualitative research conducted as a part of the conference titled Diagnosis of Needs and Problems Related to the Integration of Foreigners in the Opole Region, which took place in Opole on May 21, 2019. The research was conducted using a deliberative workshop method. The participants of the workshop were representatives of important institutions of the Opole Voivodeship who face the problem of a large number of immigrants from Ukraine. The participants were divided into thematic working groups: culture and religion, health care, public safety, the labour market and education. The article focuses on general problems that affect the functioning of immigrant…
L2 motivation in focus : the case of Finnish comprehensive school students
2017
The aim of this study is to explore whether latent classes, i.e. subgroups of students, representing specific motivational profiles can be found among learners of different foreign languages (L2s) ...
‘Health in All Policies’ and the Urge for Coordination: The Work of Public Health Coordinators and Their Impact and Influence in Local Public Health …
2022
Building heavily on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, Norway implemented the Public Health Act in 2012 to reduce social inequalities in health. Local public health coordinators (PHCs) at municipal levels were seen as tools to provide local intersectoral public health work. In this study, we examine factors related to intersectoral agency and if intersectoral work is understood as relevant to securing social justice in local policy outcomes. A national web-based survey in 2019 of all Norwegian PHCs (n = 428) was conducted with a response rate of 60%. Data were analysed through multiple linear regression, hierarchical regression modelling and structural equation modelling. Neither f…
Renta de emergencia familiar en Gandia
2011
Sensible ante la situación económica y de nuevas necesidades emergentes, el Ayuntamiento de Gandia, como principal promotor de políticas sociales, considera necesario integrar dentro de sus iniciativas para promover la igualdad, la solidaridad y la mejora de la calidad de vida, un recurso económico para paliar las distintas situaciones en las que se encuentran familias sin ingresos debido a que los adultos integrantes de la unidad familiar se encuentran en situación de desempleo. Se impulsa, como respuesta a estas nuevas necesidades, una prestación de carácter periódico denominada Renta de Emergencia Familiar (REF) que viene acompañada de un conjunto de actuaciones de carácter municipal dir…
From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams : The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010
2020
While state-owned enterprises (SOEs) used to be considered obsolete tools for governmental intervention in the economy, in recent years governmental intervention in the business sector has re-emerged as a topic of debate. However, scholarship on the changes in and the modernisation of the SOE model is limited. In this article, we examine how the Finnish state’s ownership policy adapted to the requirements of economic globalisation between the 1970s and the 2010s. We show that the attitude towards globalisation was pragmatic and aimed at safeguarding the competitiveness of domestic companies. The state-owned company system was gradually adapted to meet new needs, losing most of its original …
Odnawialne źródła energii w zrównoważonym rozwoju
2017
W artykule starano się udowodnić, iż rozwój energetyki w kierunku zwiększenia udziału odnawialnych źródeł energii (OZE) wpisuje się w realizację koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju. Wyzwaniami dla ludzkości dzisiaj jest równy dostęp do wszelkiego rodzaju dóbr: energii czy wody, w celu zapewnienia odpowiedniego standardu życiowego. Rabunkowa gospodarka surowcami spowodowała głęboką dewastację środowiska naturalnego. Konsekwentne wdrażanie polityki ekologicznej (w tym OZE) w ramach zrównoważonego rozwoju stanowi gwarancję bezpieczeństwa energetycznego oraz podejmowania przez podmioty gospodarcze działań w zakresie ochrony środowiska.
Kotimaisten tiedelehtien avoimuuslinjaukset keskitetysti SHERPA/RoMEO-palveluun
2017
Toward a stage theory of the development of employees’ information security behavior
2020
Existing behavioral information security research proposes continuum or non-stage models that focus on finding static determinants for information security behavior (ISB) that remains unchanged. Such models cannot explain a case where the reasons for ISB change. However, the underlying reasons and motives for users’ ISB are not static but may change over time. To understand the change in reasoning between different antecedents, we examine stage theorizing in other fields and develop the requirements for an emergent theory of the development of employees’ ISB: (1) the content of stages based on the stage elements and their stage-specific attributes; (2) the stage-independent element explaini…
Recent Anti-Mafia Strategies: The Italian Experience
2008
We often tend to think of criminal policies as essentially repressive. At first sight this assumption seems to apply straightforwardly in the case of policies against organized crime, especially those targeted at mafia type organizations. However, experience shows that these criminal organizations can be fought successfully also by means of measures which are not in themselves repressive, albeit they aim to favour repression in the last resort. Together with direct repressive measures, in the Italian case we indeed register a wide variety of other policies addressing civil society and public administrations, and only indirectly the mafia. Indirect strategies, therefore, are aimed at the rei…