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Health Cooperation in light of crises and sanctions in Developing Countries. (Case study in Syria)
3-32Views:108The methods, mechanisms, and plans for international health cooperation are still vague. However, many studies have confirmed that political affairs have great impacts on health bodies and organizations. Accordingly, the current study focuses on a special case which is the 13-year Syrian crisis, under the semi-collapse of the health system, foreign sanctions, and the unprecedented high demand for public health services. Hence, the problem can be expressed by the following question: Has health cooperation contributed to achieving social results during the Syrian crisis period under the increasing demand for health services? On the other hand, the study aimed to illustrate the reality of health cooperation (global, macro, micro) in the Syrian government areas, which suffer from external sanctions. Moreover, it aims to study, analyze, and predict the demand for health services in Syria (Latakia (using artificial intelligence models represented by the Facebook profit model and illustrating the social consequences of health cooperation in these areas. However, the descriptive analytical approach was used and artificial intelligence models were applied to analyze and predict data using Python. Accordingly, the study has an important set of results including: The economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian government during the current war have had a great impact on the economic situation in general, and the health sector in particular leading to a weak health system. Furthermore, the demand for health services in Latakia public hospitals increased significantly because of people displacement, in addition to high levels of poverty. Health cooperation in Syria has not resulted in effective social returns or to be able to encounter growing demand and minimize citizens’ burdens. Finally, artificial intelligence models are highly efficient and credible in predicting health demand, which contributes to the development of plans and strategies.
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Cooperation in the health sector and its social implications in light of the increasing demand for health services during crises a field study of health cooperation in the Syrian crisis
11-12Views:88Although health cooperation is not a modern concept, trends to study it increased significantly after the coronavirus pandemic. The methods, mechanisms, and plans for international health cooperation are still vague.
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Participation of an NGO in international scientific cooperations
192-193Views:94The AWCDH has set itself the goal of recognizing, understanding, fostering and honoring the need for women’s career development in the family and beyond. We help women find career opportunities by providing information, advice and training so that with their newfound knowledge, talent, and female values specific to them, they can make meaningful contributions to the business, academic and non-profit spheres.
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Domestic Violence and its Impact upon Reproductive Health during Corona Virus Pandemic among Women Attending Primary Health Care Centers in Baghdad City - Iraq
9-10Views:266Violence is widespread, affects women of all cultures globally, breeds in silence, it is an important cause of physical, psychological reproductive health problems.
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A cross sectional design was utilized to assess the types domestic violence and it's impacts of upon reproductive health during corona virus pandemic among women attending primary health care centers in Baghdad City - Iraq
A non-probability sample of (150) women who expose to violence was selected during the period from 26th Jun to 18th Mar. 2021. Data was collected by filling out the questionnaire, and the validity and reliability were determined through the pilot study, and descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used in analyzing the data.
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The results of the study revealed that most of the study sample were subjected to hitting (86%) and slapping (83%) during their daily lives, controlling their behavior (90%) and abuse or the use of force during sexual relations (75%), while preventing them from using some social networking sites(84%). According to the R/S, the result was psychosocial violence was high level, and physical and electronic violence was medium level, while sexual violence was low level, The study finding indicated that all study samples suffer from at least one impact of domestic violence on them during childbearing age, but most of the study sample considered psychosocial violence to be the most influential on their lives than others. The study recommends that women will be screened for any type of domestic violence during childbearing age. Incorporating domestic violence topics into education curricula, using social media, the availability of health services, and supporting the strengthening of cooperation between social agencies, justice and the police through law enforcement and research to promote and protect women's rights. -
Narratives of Senior Social Entrepreneurship in the Silver Economy
55-56Views:158The basic assumption of the paper is the recognition that the complexity of the challenges related to population ageing forces the development of cooperative links in the area of the silver economy between public policy entities representing various sectors. In other words, there is a need for more intensive and better-coordinated cooperation between organisations in the commercial sector, public sector, non-governmental sector, informal sector and social economy sector (e.g., cooperatives).
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Intergeneration cooperation in Kyrgyzstan: Babushka Adoption project
113Views:66Kyrgyzstan is a country in Central Asia with a population of 6.5 million. Projections suggest that by 2030, the proportion of Kyrgyz citizens aged 65 and over will be near 7%. According to United Nations criteria a population is classified “ageing”, when individuals aged 65 and over comprise more than 7% of the total population.
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Nordic Arctic cooperation in ageing: Policy analysis of age-inclusive outdoor spaces
23-24Views:121In the last decade, several various policy strategies have been adopted in response to population ageing in the Arctic. Governmental actions have yet to be evaluated in terms of their efficacy. By making an overview of specified policy actions, we define successes and failures on the way to building thriving age-inclusive communities in the Nordic region of the Arctic.
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International Cooperations of the Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary (AWCDH) - AWCDH’s participation in research within the frameworks of COST Actions in the field of Ageing
75-78Views:103Demographic change affects almost all spheres of society, so we consider it one of our priorities to deal with the situation of older women, the largest and fastest growing group within the world's population, including Hungary. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs women comprise 54 percent of those aged over 60 globally, rising to 62 percent of those aged over 80 years.
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The role of urban green spaces in the well-being of people with dementia and their carers
50-77Views:307The aim of our empirical research was to explore how walking in green spaces in urban neighbourhoods contributes to the well-being of people with dementia and their informal carers. The study involved 3 caregiver – care recipient dyads, with carers keeping diary entries of regular walks together for a month (April-May 2021). In addition to the diary writing, carers completed a quantitative questionnaire as part of their research, in which they assessed their own and their relative's mental and mood state and their interaction before, during and after the walk. Based on the assessments of the questionnaires received from the 39 walks, results showed significant improvements in mental state and mood for both carers and cared-for persons, as well as in the way their dyads interacted with each other as a result of the walk. This trend was also supported and explained by the textual content of the diary entries. Thus, our small sample study was able to demonstrate that in the case of the caregiver – care recipient dyads we studied, a walk in an urban green environment had a positive effect on the mood and mental state of both partners, as well as on their cooperation. The significance of our results is that they support the role of urban green spaces in health promotion among chronic patients and their informal caregivers in a national sample: walking in nature can thus be considered a low-cost, generally positive and relatively easy and accessible intervention with a high impact.
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Promoting active and healthy living through cooperation: Involving stakeholders in innovative projects
60-64Views:70The ageing of the population in Europe implies rethinking several socio-economic issues and promoting the creation of opportunities that allow people to age well. To develop successful solutions, bringing together the different stakeholders to a shared discussion is crucial.
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Social security and safety of older adults in Poland
9-11Views:190Poland’ population will be ageing at a fast rate in the coming decades. It is projected that in 2070 the Polish ratio between people aged 65 and over and those aged 15-64 years will be 62.6, the highest among EU-27 countries. Population ageing appeared in the public debate in Poland as a separate subject in the 1990s, following a negative natural population increase and the looming impact of the massive withdrawal of baby boomers from the labour market on the pension system. One of the reasons for older persons’ growing interest in retirement was pension system reforms planned by successive governments.
The announcement of the year 2012 as the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations (decision no. 940/2011/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2011) contributed in Poland to the emergence of a senior policy from a social policy and initiated major legislative, institutional, and organisational changes at the national, regional and local levels of government. It also inspired the redefinition of measures used hitherto in line with the evolution in the perception of older people from social care recipients to active members of their communities entitled to education and economic, social, civic and political activity. In 2013, the Senior Policy Council was established as a consultative and advisory body to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and then similar councils supporting regional and local authorities were organised.
In order to encourage greater activity among seniors, a special governmental programme was created in December 2013, which grants funds on a competitive basis to projects concerning social activities, education, and intergenerational cooperation submitted by informal and formal groups of seniors.
The national government’s key documents on senior policy, one for the period from 2014 to 2020 and the other spanning the years until 2030, are Resolution 238 of 24 Dec. 2013 by the Board of Ministers on the Adoption of Long-term Senior Policy in Poland for the Years 2015-2020 and Resolution 161 of 28 Oct. 2018 by the Board of Ministers on the adoption of Social Policy Towards the Older Persons 2030. Security-Participation-Solidarity. In 2015, the Polish Parliament passed the elderly people act, which requires institutions in charge of the well-being of older persons to monitor and report on their situation. The reports submitted by the institutions are used by the Ministry of Labour to compile and present an annual evaluation of the status of the older population in Poland.
The regional governments’ senior policy is reflected in their social policy strategies. The strategies’ operational goals started to address needs specific to older people since 2002, focusing in particular on improving their quality of life, developing round-the-clock care services, at-home care services, and rehabilitation services, and on reducing social exclusion and marginalization of seniors.
Social security and the safety of older adults are progressively improving in Poland, but the greatest progress has been made in the area of active ageing. Social care services for the elderly still require improvement, because the predominant family care model is inefficient in many ways due to:
- limited financing of care services by public institutions,
- the growing proportion of single elderly persons,
- the increasing number of people aged 85+ (the so-called double population ageing),
- social insurance disregarding long-term care to an elderly family member as an insurable risk,
- a lack of legislation allowing employed people to seek a long-term leave to give care to an older family member,
- the informal expectation that women who retire at the age of 60 years will take care of the oldest family members.
While neither the scale nor the quality of home care services given to older persons is regularly surveyed in Poland, it can be presumed that the scale of care services is insufficient and that they excessively burden families with a member in need of care. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of persons aged 65+ increased in Poland by over 1.5 million, the number of the users of attendance services and specialised attendance services by 29,000 (from 99,000 to 128,000), and the number of residences in homes and facilities providing assistance to aged persons by 7,000 (from 20,000 to 27,100.)