scholarly journals Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marc Grau Grau ◽  
Hannah Riley Bowles
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
National Conversation ◽  
Work And Organizations ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThe aim of this chapter is to explain the motivations for launching an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. This volume stemmed from a Meeting of Experts from three sectors: Health and Wellbeing, Social Policy, and Work and Organizations. This chapter illuminates the unique learning opportunity afforded by coming together to examine the differential and common struggles across these three fields to support engaged fatherhood. The chapter is divided in four parts covering (1) the urgency and importance of supporting fatherhood engagement, (2) the benefits of studying and supporting fatherhood engagement from a cross-sectoral perspective, (3) the main contribution of each chapter in this volume, and (4) our grateful acknowledgements of the many people who made this collaboration possible.

Effects of Cigarette Smoking in Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lana Lan Chan
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Physical Consequences ◽  
Health Canada

First-hand cigarette smoking is known to result in adverse health effects in adults, influencing wellbeing physically and mentally. The most prevalent physical consequences are cardiovascular diseases, cancer of the throat and oral cavities, diseases of the bowel, eye, respiratory system, and reproductive system. Arguably, direct effects of tobacco smoking have been said to affect mental aspects of wellbeing such as depression, mood, and anxiety disorders. Undoubtedly smoking comes with many negative effects, but with implementation of smoking cessation strategies, it is possible to strengthen the overall health and wellbeing of smokers. As such, Health Canada recognizes the many health benefits associated with smoking cessation, by delivering health-promoting campaigns that strongly urge, it is not too late to quit.  

PLANCTation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Amalie Karlsen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Oxygen Generation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Many

‘PLANCTation’ – The story about Aurelia Oline Ebeltoft is a story about how the power and ingenuity of female leadership and large-scale collaboration can help find solutions to the health and existential problems created by severe global environmental change. With a focus on solving air-pollution and its consequences for people’s health and lung function, Aurelia’s invention of PLANCTation – an algae farm for oxygen generation – has given people and planet a new lease on life. Algae farming is, in fact, being increasingly explored for a variety of health and environmental benefits, so this story is incredibly close to some very real developments. Woven into, however, is also a sense of getting fed up with resistance to change and a call to take responsibility, as people and healthcare professionals. To recognize and open ourselves to the many different possibilities to contribute to people’s health and wellbeing and take action.

The Many Facets of PISA

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
David C. Berliner
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Instructional Techniques ◽  
International Program ◽  
Pisa Data ◽  
National Attitudes ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cross National

Trying to understand PISA is analogous to the parable of the blind men and the elephant. There are many facets of the PISA program, and thus many ways to both applaud and critique this ambitious international program of assessment that has gained enormous importance in the crafting of contemporary educational policy. One of the facets discussed in this paper is the issue of the comparability of the cognitions elicited by items across national and linguistic cultures. Valid interpretations of PISA results cannot proceed without assurance that items across nations are interpreted in the same way. A second facet examined is the association of PISA with economic outcomes for nations, still an unsettled area of importance. A third facet discussed is the search in PISA data for universally applicable instructional techniques, a possible will-o-the-wisp. A fourth facet examined is the differences in cross-national attitudes toward the PISA subjects and how those affect test scores. Given these many facets of the program, a fifth facet that is arguably the most important of all the issues associated with PISA is discussed, namely the interpretation of PISA scores.

Authentic Movement and the Relationship of Embodied Spirituality to Health and Wellbeing

2017 ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Avstreih
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Authentic Movement ◽  
True Self ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Directed Movement ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Embodied Spirituality ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the possibility of a relationship between spiritual practices and some of the many facets of wellbeing. It considers the distinction between religion and spirituality with reference to the literature. It discusses Authentic Movement, an inner-directed movement process rooted in the intersection of dance/movement therapy and Jungian depth psychology, and the concept of embodied spirituality in which the relationship between the mover and the witness is explored. In particular, it explores the relationship of this practice to health and the increased sense of wellbeing that stems from a direct experience of the sacred, which supports a deepening sense of connection to one’s true self.

scholarly journals Religious Diversity and the Challenge of Social Inclusion

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bouma
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Cross National

As societies have become religiously diverse in ways and extents not familiar in the recent histories of most, the issues of how to include this diversity and how to manage it, that is, questions about how to be a religiously diverse society have come to the fore. As a result religion has become part of the social policy conversation in new ways. It has also occasioned new thinking about religions, their forms and the complexity of ways they are negotiated by adherents and the ways they are related to society, the state and each other. This issue of <em>Social Inclusion</em> explores these issues of social inclusion in both particular settings and in cross-national comparative studies by presenting research and critical thought on this critical issue facing every society today.

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