Mindfulness as a Path Towards Sustainable Lifestyle Change, Resilience, and Well-Being: Community, Social, and Environmental Factors

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Carrus ◽  
Angelo Panno
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Lifestyle Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyle

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Ecological Policy Compromises Human Well-Being and Giant Panda Habitat Conservation in Giant Panda National Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5013
Author(s):  
Dan Zhu ◽  
Degang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
National Park ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Giant Panda ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Habitat Conservation ◽  
Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity ◽  
Panda Habitat

Identifying how policy, socioeconomic factors, and environmental factors influence changes in human well-being (HWB) and conservation efficiency is important for ecological management and sustainable development, especially in the Giant Panda National Park (GPNP). In this study, we systematically analyzed the differences in the conservation status of the giant panda habitat and changes in HWB over 15 years in the GPNP, which includes six mountain sites, Minshan (MS), Qionglai (QLS), Xiaoxiangling (XXL), Liangshan (LS), Qinling (QL), and Daxiangling (DXL). Redundancy analyses were used to determine the factors contributing (policy, socioeconomic factors, and environmental factors) to HWB and giant panda habitat conservation (HC). In addition, using a structural equation model (SEM), we investigated the relationship between the aforementioned three factors and their direct and indirect effects on HWB and HC. The results indicated that there was spatiotemporal heterogeneity of HWB and HC in our study area. There was an increasing number of plant species as well as an increased number of giant panda in GPNP. Generally, HWB in 2015 showed an increasing trend compared with that in 2000. Socioeconomic factors (23.6%) have the biggest influence on HWB and HC, followed by policy (23.2%) and environmental factors (19.4%). Conservation policy had a significantly positive influence on HWB (0.52), while it negatively influenced HC (−0.15). Socioeconomic factors significantly negatively influenced HWB (−0.38). The formulation and implementation of policies to promote economic development will contribute to the protection of giant pandas and their habitat. Our results provide insight on the conservation status of the giant panda habitat, HWB, and factors influencing them in different mountain sites in the GPNP, as well as having implications for the future management of the GPNP.

scholarly journals Application of the non-infectious epidemiology bases to solve hygiene problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 1182-1187
Author(s):  
Nikolay V. Rusakov ◽  
Yury A. Rakhmanin ◽  
Ekaterina V. Rusakova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Scientific Justification

The efforts of various branches of medical science, among which hygiene and epidemiology are of leading importance, aim at preventing human diseases. They have much in common since they aim at studying the causes, mechanisms, patterns, and consequences of human diseases and scientific justification of ways to prevent them. Although there are already more than the extensive experience of their joint use to combat various health pathologies, epidemiological approaches and methods of relevant research in hygiene are not to be applied appropriately. In hygienic studies, somebody paid more attention to the investigation of the properties, characteristics, and features of various positive and, especially, adverse environmental factors than to their impact on human health, the development and registration of the resulting health or pathological processes, including the analysis of the features of the manifestation and course of environmentally caused diseases of the population. Since the health of the population is mostly determined by sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic well-being, this article highlights the need for interaction of these disciplines.

THE ECOLOGICAL FACTORS AND HUMAH HEALTH

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Javakhadze R. ჯავახაძე რ. ◽  
Turmanauli M. თურმანაული მ. ◽  
Kverenchkhiladze R. კვერენჩხილაძე რ. ◽  
Chikovani A. ჩიქოვანი ა. ◽  
Arabidze M. არაბიძე მ. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Global Problems

One of the actual global problems of mankind is an environmental pollution and its negative impact on a population’s health, that is the basis of existence of each human being and the entire state. The purpose of this article is to inform the public about the environmental factors affecting human health and its causes.As there is significant rise of ecological diseases, in many countries worldwide during the last years a great attention is paid to the legal side of environmental protection. Public well being is determined by ensuring its sanitaryepidemiological conditions,safe environment and disease prevention.

Addressing bullying behaviour by patients and families

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Renate Ilse ◽  
David Neilipovitz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Substitute Decision Makers

This article explores the ethical dilemma of maintaining patient experience and care team well-being when faced with coercive behaviour, specifically bullying by patients, families and substitute decision-makers, which is directed toward providers and health support workers. We discuss some of the contributing societal and environmental factors, the ethical implications for health leaders, and suggest some practical options for managing bullying situations in hospitals.

scholarly journals Tea for Well-Being: Restaurant Atmosphere and Repurchase Intention for Hotel Afternoon Tea Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 778
Author(s):  
Shin-Yi Lin ◽  
Chia-Chi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Repurchase Intention ◽  
Repurchase Intentions

Afternoon tea has become a popular leisure activity in Taiwan. Most hotels, restaurants, and cafes have started to provide an afternoon tea service in addition to their regular menus. Restaurant atmosphere research has largely focused on single environmental factors in upscale restaurants. Several studies have indicated that a restaurant’s atmosphere influences the degree of customer satisfaction, thereby affecting their well-being and repurchase intention. However, the relationships between a restaurant’s overall atmosphere, its degree of service performance, and customer well-being have rarely been explored. This study utilized the Mehrabian–Russell environmental psychology model to investigate the relationships between hotel restaurant atmosphere, service performance, customer well-being, and repurchase intention for afternoon tea services. The results indicated that a hotel restaurant’s atmosphere and service performance influence customer well-being, which can positively affect customers’ repurchase intentions.

Protective and risk socio-economic – environmental factors affecting mental health

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S572-S572
Author(s):  
M.I. Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Over all generic, biological, environmental and socio-economic factors are attributing towards mental health and well being of a person. But among these socio-economic – environmental factors play a great role. It is very important to understand socio-economic – environmental protective and adverse factors affecting mental health. There is very dynamic interaction between individual attributes like socio-economic circumstances and environmental factors. The dynamic interactions of all these three factors determine the final outcome and status of mental health social well being. So, for our professionals particularly and community in general, it is very important to have full knowledge about all these factors. Because lack of managing and integrating of socio-economic-environmental factors, we will not be able to deliver quality psychiatric/psychological services. Community at large will also be ignorant of it and will not be able to play their roles towards healthy mental health formation. Moreover, these socio-economic – environmental factors are within our reach and can be modified.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Hurricanes and their Environmental Effects in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Telisa Fears ◽  
Katrina Walls ◽  
Jeffalyn Johnson ◽  
Courtney Boston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Effects ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The U.S

Previous research concerning climate change in the United States clearly illustrates the necessity for observing how ecological systems are influenced by natural disasters (Staudinger et. al. 2013; Nelson et. al. 2013). Traditionally, ecology is concerned with the relationships between organisms (human and other living beings) and their environment (Tyler & Spoolman, 2013). Human understanding of how organisms are affected by, how they adapt to, and how they work to sustain their environment has become even more diverse in recent years (Staudinger et. al. 2013). This may be due to a number of environmental factors that have occurred in recent years. However, this paper seeks to examine the ecological effects of the wind factor. In particular, we address the ecological effects of hurricanes as it relates to (1) environmental outcomes and alterations among organisms in the United States, (2) the well-being and adaptation of human and organismic life (i.e. animals, plants, etc.) post Hurricane Katrina and Camille (3) and how hurricanes alter and transform health and restoration patterns in the U.S.

Deterioration of the Great Sphinx: an assessment of the literature

Antiquity ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (245) ◽  
pp. 853-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Selwitz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
The World

The well-being of the Sphinx is a concern of all peoples of the world. While deterioration of this venerable monument has occurred over most of its history when it was not covered, 20thcentury environmental factors appear to be hastening these changes. FIGIRE 1 shoivs the Sphinx as it was in 1850. This is the first knoivn photograph and it was taken by Masinie Du Camp. FIGURE2 was taken in November 1989 and shows modern efforts to protect the Sphinx against deterioration by cladding the paws and sides with masonry. Alteration is most apparent along the sides of the body where the sloughingoff of surface chips is a common phenomenon. By one estimate, loss of stone is occurring at the rate of about 30 cm a century.

Water and Heat Balance

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Karen Hammarlund
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Heat Loss ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Heat Balance ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Period ◽  
Well Being

As those involved in neonatal intensive care are well aware, water and heat balance play a very important role in the well-being of the newborn infant. While some aspects of water and heat balance have been studied extensively, others have been less elucidated. Recent studies have demonstrated that both insensible and sensible water loss depend on the maturity of the infant and that both environmental factors and the activity of the infant can have dramatic effects on both these modes of water loss. As heat loss is affected by the insensible and sensible water loss from the infant, the same factors also have implications for heat loss, but heat loss is also influenced by other factors. The aim of this article is to review some of the knowledge relevant to the fields of water and heat balance in the neonatal period.

Genetic and Environmental Correlations Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Humor Styles

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Vernon ◽  
Vanessa C. Villani ◽  
Julie Aitken Schermer ◽  
Sandra Kirilovic ◽  
Rod A. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Humor Styles ◽  
Environmental Correlations ◽  
Phenotypic Correlations

This article reports the first studies to investigate the genetic and environmental components of correlations between humor styles and trait emotional intelligence. In two independent adult-twin samples, significant phenotypic correlations were found between four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating) and five trait emotional intelligence (EI) variables (well-being, self-control, emotionality, sociability, and global trait EI). These observed phenotypic correlations were themselves found to be largely attributable to correlated genetic and correlated nonshared environmental factors.

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