Mental Health of Roofless and Squatter Population in North Catalonia

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S676-S676
Author(s):  
F. Calvo ◽  
C. Giralt ◽  
X. Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Public Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Mental Pathology ◽  
The City

IntroductionHomelessness is a phenomenon, which is hard to limit, as it contemplates different situations including roofless and squatters.ObjectiveTo determine the presence of these homeless categories in the city of Girona and examine the prevalence of diagnosed mental pathology and its principal socio-demographic characteristics.MethodsTransversal, observational and analytic study of the population of roofless people and squatters. The registers of the outreach street work team, the local police and the public shelter were used in order to detect the cases and their basic socio-demographic characteristics. The clinical record of the mental health and addiction public network was accessed to determine their diagnosis.ResultsDuring the 6 years of registers, 781 cases of people in situation of roofless and squatters were detected. In total, 83.2% (n = 630) of the cases were men and 16.8% (n = 131) women. The average age was 44.8 (ED = 11.2) and no differences were found regarding gender (Men = 45.3, ED = 11.0 vs. Women = 42.9, ED = 12.2; t = 1.7, df = 405, P = 09). However differences were found regarding origin (Immigrants = 42.2 years, ED = 10.3 vs. Natives = 46.8 years, ED = 11.4; t = -4.2, df = 402, P < .001). A total of, 52.9% of the cases (n = 412) displayed diagnosed mental pathology and 15.8 (n = 123), dual pathology.ConclusionMental pathology is more prevalent among this typology of homeless people than in general population, as other studies prove.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals TEACHING SCIENCES AND BIOLOGY FOR DEAF INDIVIDUALS: INVESTIGATING THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING PRACTICE IN REGULAR CLASSROOMS OF A MUNICIPALITY IN THE STATE OF PARANÁ

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (26) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Lucken Bueno Lucas ◽  
Renan Guilherme Pimentel ◽  
Simone Luccas
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Sign Language Interpreters ◽  
Public Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inclusion Process ◽  
Regular Classrooms ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
The City

The process of school inclusion for people with disabilities is a recent development, especially for the deaf individuals, so the study of how this inclusion process occurs and the teaching of Sciences/Biology for these individuals is still incipient. The objective of this work was to investigate how science/biology teaching takes place for deaf students in the city of Cornélio Procópio-PR and what difficulties are encountered by the students, teachers, and sign language interpreters in the scenario of school inclusion. To reach this goal, we interviewed teachers and interpreters who work in elementary and middle schools of the public network that attend deaf students in Cornélio Procópio. The results of the interviews demonstrated that all those involved in this process face difficulties, the interpreters indicate language as an obstacle to the interpretation of Sciences and Biology classes, since Brazilian Sign Language presents a deficit of lexicons in relation to the Portuguese Language. On the other hand, the main difficulty for the teachers is the lack of preparation to work in classes which include deaf people, jeopardizing not only their interaction with the students, but also the teaching of Sciences and Biology. 

Wandering Abroad: Ethnographic Journeys in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Kiddey
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Local Police ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Church Volunteers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

I agreed to meet Punk Paul on Stokes Croft at around 8 a.m. Paul was exactly where he said he would be—behind the bin next to The Big Issue office. In his early forties, Punk Paul was everything a punk should be—a devout follower of punk bands across the UK, he sported a blue Mohican (when bathroom facilities and soap rations permitted), army issue boots and a battered leather jacket covered in ‘anti-fa’ (anti-fascist) symbols. Paul fashioned the rest of his clothes from whatever he was given by church volunteers and picked up along the way. His distain of authority was firm but friendly. ‘Evening officer,’ he could often be heard saying, with a wink, to local police who regularly busted him for drinking in ‘no drinking zones’. ‘Could you spare a few shekels for an old sea dog? I’m trying to get together a pirate ship to sail off the end of the earth!’ ‘I have to pay Abdul £10.03,’ Paul said, as I approached. Abdul, Stokes Croft’s kindly but long-suffering newsagent, let some homeless people, including Paul, have beer on tick. We walked the short distance from the post office to Abdul’s shop and I waited outside with my dogs while Paul paid his debt. He was holding a can of Tennant’s lager when he reappeared. ‘It’s sort of a constant debt that I have with Abdul!’ He grinned before leading the way down City Road, Brighton Road, and onto Wilder Street. ‘You have to see this place! If you want to see what homelessness is really like in this country . . . this city could be any city, if you ask me. You have to see this place!’ We continued down Wilder Street until we reached a semi-derelict building. Through peeling paint it was possible to read ‘Bristol Transmissions’ above the long-ago boarded-up shop window. ‘It’s known as “The Black House”,’ Paul said, pushing the door. A padlock had been smashed off. Inside, there were two downstairs rooms, both hugely decayed with missing floorboards.

Owning the brand of psychiatry

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S740-S740
Author(s):  
A. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Information ◽  
Zealand College ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Promotion Campaigns

In Australia and New Zealand, conversations around mental health are playing out in the public space with increasing frequency. Mental health promotion campaigns and organizations are embraced by mainstream and other forms of media, and supported by government. Whilst public knowledge of mental illness is increasing, the profile of psychiatrists as leaders and medical experts in mental illness is a more difficult brand to sell. With a somewhat tarnished history behind us, the modern evidence-based practice of psychiatry is not always at the forefront of public impression. Furthermore, in Australia, more than half of the population (56%) is unaware that psychiatrists have undertaken medical training as a doctor. This presentation will outline Royal Australian and New Zealand college of psychiatrists (RANZCP) action to improve community information about psychiatry, psychiatrists and treatment experiences.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Impact on personal growth and environment conservation self-perception in a volunteering program with adults with severe mental illness (SMI)

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. s280-s281
Author(s):  
D. Cabezas Sánchez ◽  
A. Ramírez Macías ◽  
J. Sáiz Galdós
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Green Area ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Introduction“Viaje del Parnaso” is a volunteering project developed at the Day Center Aranjuez2 (CD2) for helping adults with SMI to get a satisfactory and responsible occupation through their implication in a volunteering work in the community, while involved in the maintenance of a green area in the city of Aranjuez.Objectives/aimsThe aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the project on the volunteers’ lives in terms of personal growth and environment conservation and compare its results with non-volunteers also attended at the CD2.MethodsThe project was carried once a week during 45 weeks. 11 volunteers participated on the project, plus 5 non-volunteers were considered as cuasi-control group. The instruments applied were an item on “environment conservation” and 2 subscale items of “Personal Growth” from the Ryff Scales of psychological well-being. Measures were applied at baseline, 6 and 12 months after.ResultsSignificant differences were found on the environment conservation item between volunteers at baseline and 6 months after (P < 0.05). Results also revealed a significant difference (P < 0.05) between volunteers and non-volunteers at both variables (“environment conservation” and “Personal Growth”) in baseline and 6 months after treatment.ConclusionsThe data from this study suggest that a volunteering program seems to be an effective intervention for bringing about improvements in well-being of people with SMI, and also for increasing their environmental awareness. These improvements may also help to change the stigma of SMI reinforcing mental health patient's contributions to society.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals The Association between Ground Floor Features and Public Open Space Face-To-Face Interactions: Evidence from Nantou Village, Shenzhen

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 4934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirna Zordan ◽  
Gianni Talamini ◽  
Caterina Villani
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Adjacent Area ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Ground Floor ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Open Space ◽  
The City

With face-to-face interaction proving beneficial for mental health, there is still a paucity of research on the correlation between ground floor features (GFFs), defined here as the features of the ground floor of buildings overlooking a street, and public open space face-to-face interaction density (POSFTFID), defined as the density of human face-to-face interactions in the public open space (POS) adjacent to each building. Is there a correlation between GFFs and POSFTFID? This study aims to answer this question gaining empirical evidence from a Chinese village in the city (ViC). Behavioural mapping and statistical analysis were employed and the following GFFs were tested: Ground floor area, indoor visible space, presence of stairs, POS adjacent area, and land use. Results show an association between POSFTFID and: (1) The area of the POS adjacent to each building, (2) the degree of visibility (ratio of indoor visible space to total internal space) of the ground floor, (3) the presence of stairs. Moreover, food appears to be an important attribute fostering social interaction. Results can provide insights on future implications in urban design strategies and planning policies aiming at enhancing mental health conditions in contemporary cities.

Mental Health, Public Space, and the City: Questions of Individual and Collective Access

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hester Parr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

In recent revisionings of disablement and geography, conceptions of the body, of devinney, and of the social construction of difference have been interrogated. The author argues that it is important not to neglect a critical geography of mental health in this broader rewriting of disability and ableism. Empirical examples are drawn from research in Nottingham, UK. These examples show how people with mental health problems access the public realm through individual (and often disruptive) use of urban spaces, possibly as strategies of resistance to imposed medical identities. In the second half of the paper the author documents a more collective political process occurring through ‘user movements’ which have facilitated patient power and patient influence in the places of therapy spread across the city.

Narratives of city exposure: Incarnations of the street person in Zanta: The Living Legend and The Dregs

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942097789
Author(s):  
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Street Dwellers ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The City

This article examines the rationale for definitions of the homeless in the public imagination and the kind of discourses used to create a physical, psychological, and moral distance between the domiciled and the destitute. In a society where the worthy individual is tied to an ideal of entrepreneurial, rational, homed, successful consumer, and where public space is solely destined for the unobstructed consumption of the privileged, street dwellers are naturally seen as a threat to the economic, social, and moral order as well as a visual blemish: an obstacle to safety and wellbeing. Drawing from a number of sociological, urban, and narrative studies on the survival tactics of homeless people, and especially from Nicholas Blomley’s (2010) insights about street mobility and Leon Anderson’s (2017) classifications of stigma management, this article describes how subjects defined as pathological, dangerous, or pitiful, negotiate street restrictions and create their own standing within a revanchist city. These individuals feature in two comic books published in Canada, Zanta: The Living Legend (2012) and The Dregs (2017), whose originality lies in the heroic role the street person assumes, a legitimate searcher for meaning that sees what most people overlook. In their different format as non-fiction comic and serialized fictional comic we find the expressive visual and narrative potential of the genre and become witnesses of the tribulations of two characters whom the world may consider as deranged but are, however, able to enhance their self-esteem, dismantle ideologies behind assumed notions of respectability, and actively contribute to the city as a place of encounter with difference.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic, hygienic, and sanitation factors in reducing diarrhea in the Amazon

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katiuscia Shirota Imada ◽  
Thiago Santos de Araújo ◽  
Pascoal Torres Muniz ◽  
Valter Lúcio de Pádua
Keyword(s):  
Family Health ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cow’S Milk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public Network ◽  
Cow's Milk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Family Health Program ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the contributions of the socioeconomic, hygienic, and sanitation improvements in reducing the prevalence of diarrhea in a city of the Amazon. METHODS In this population-based cross-sectional study, we analyzed data from surveys conducted in the city of Jordão, Acre. In 2005 and 2012, these surveys evaluated, respectively, 466 and 826 children under five years old. Questionnaires were applied on the socioeconomic conditions, construction of houses, food and hygienic habits, and environmental sanitation. We applied Pearson’s Chi-squared test and Poisson regression to verify the relationship between origin of water, construction of homes, age of introduction of cow’s milk in the diet, place of birth and the prevalence of diarrhea. RESULTS The prevalence of diarrhea was reduced from 45.1% to 35.4%. We identified higher probability of diarrhea in children who did not use water from the public network, in those receiving cow’s milk in the first month after birth, and in those living in houses made of paxiúba. Children born at home presented lower risk of diarrhea when compared to those who were born in hospital, with this difference reversing for the 2012 survey. CONCLUSIONS Sanitation conditions improved with the increase of bathrooms with toilets, implementation of the Programa de Saúde da Família (PSF – Family Health Program), and water treatment in the city. The multivariate regression model identified a statistically significant association between use of water from the public network, construction of houses, late introduction of cow’s milk, and access to health service with occurrence of diarrhea.

scholarly journals Régimen jurídico de la policía local de Melilla

Aldaba ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Antonio Jesús García Alemany
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Public Employee ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Police ◽  
The City

El artículo realiza un estudio del sistema de fuentes jurídicas aplicables actualmente al Cuerpo de Policía Local de la Ciudad de Melilla, haciendo especial referencia a las particularidades que tras la aprobación de la Ley Orgánica 2/1995 de 13 de marzo que aprueba el Estatuto de Autonomía de Melilla inciden en su régimen jurídico. El autor pretende ayudar a conocer la dificultosa aplicación legislativa y reglamentaria que conforman el ordenamiento regulador de este instituto armado de naturaleza civil resaltando la potestad reglamentaria que cuenta la Ciudad para configurar su estatuto policial fundamentalmente derivada, además del propio Estatuto de Autonomía, de la aprobación del Estatuto Básico del Empleado Público.The article makes a study of the system of legal sources currently applicable to the Local Police Corps of the City of Melilla, making special reference to the particularities that after the approval of the Organic Law 2/1995 of March 13 approving the Statute of Autonomy of Melilla affect its legal regime. The author intends to help know the difficult legislative and regulatory application that make up the regulatory order of this armed institute of civil nature highlighting the regulatory power that the City has to configure its fundamentally derived police statute, in addition to the Statute of Autonomy itself, the approval of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee.

scholarly journals O TEMA VACINAS EM LIVROS DIDÁTICOS DE CIÊNCIAS NATURAIS: UMA ANÁLISE SOB A ÓTICA DA HISTÓRIA DAS CIÊNCIAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 681-699
Author(s):  
Clara Virgínia Vieira Carvalho Oliveira Marques ◽  
Maria Anita Pinto Soares
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Public Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Instructional Needs ◽  
Systemic Network ◽  
The City

Resumo: A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar de forma qualitativa a abordagem histórica dada ao tema “vacinas” nos discursos científicos e pedagógicos apresentados em livros didáticos de Ciências utilizados no Ensino Fundamental – II. O percurso metodológico baseou-se em análise de conteúdo, buscando identificar e interpretar o discurso textual de livros do 7º ano utilizados em uma amostragem de escolas da rede pública da cidade de Codó – Maranhão, pontualmente da zona urbana. Fundamentou-se a discussão com base no caminho metodológico proposto nos trabalhos de Mohr (1995) e Vidal & Porto (2012), com as devidas adequações nos critérios de interesse desta pesquisa. Nessa ótica, foram construídos três blocos de análises organizados em uma rede sistêmica suscitando as questões norteadoras da pesquisa que se pautaram nas seguintes vertentes: Perfil dos Personagens, Perfil dos Fatos e Feitos e Perfil da Função Social. Os resultados mostraram que o conteúdo “vacinas” está presente em todos os livros analisados, porém a abordagem histórica ainda é rasa, não sendo, portanto, satisfatória quando se pensa em explorar a potencialidade dessa vertente para a promoção de uma educação para a saúde destinada a estudantes em formação, para atender as necessidades instrutivas de pessoas socialmente críticas e participativas.Palavras-chave: Vacinas. Livro Didático. Ensino de Ciências. História da Ciência. Abstract: The present research aimed to qualitatively analyze the historical approach given to the theme "vaccines" in the scientific and pedagogical discourse presented in science textbooks used in Elementary Education - II Stage. The methodological course was based on content analysis, seeking to identify and interpret the textual discourse of 7th grade books used in a sample of schools in the public network of Codó - Maranhão, specifically from the urban area of the city. The discussion was based on the methodological path proposed in the works of Mohr (1995) and Vidal and Porto (2012), with the appropriate adjustments in the criteria of interest of this research. From this point of view, three blocks of analysis were constructed in a systemic network, raising the questions guiding the research that were based on the following aspects: Profile of the Characters, Profile of Facts and Facts and Profile of the Social Function. The results showed that the "vaccines" content is present in all the books analyzed, but the historical approach is still shallow and therefore not satisfactory when considering the potential of this aspect for the promotion of a health education aimed at to students in training to meet the instructional needs of socially critical and participatory people.Keywords: Vaccines. Textbook. Science Teaching. Science History.

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