Healthcare in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-420
Author(s):  
SALLY DALTON-BROWN
Keyword(s):  
Green Party ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Senate Committee ◽  
Dying With Dignity ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gene Patenting

Abstract:No single issue has dominated health practitioners’ ethical debates in 2014 in Australia, but a controversial decision on gene patenting and the media focus on “Dr. Death,” euthanasia campaigner Dr. Philip Nitschke, have given new life to these two familiar (and global) debates. Currently a dying with dignity bill, drafted by the Australian Green Party, is under examination. The Senate inquiry into the bill received more than 663 submissions, with 57% opposed and 43% in support of the bill, which has now been referred to a Senate committee. Will this be another of Australia’s failed attempts to legalize euthanasia? The trial of Dr. Nitschke begins on November 10, 2014.

The United States Sees Language

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Senate Committee ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Media ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

In 1902, U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge led four senators from the senate committee on the territories into New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma territory. While New Mexico had operated in Spanish in its courts, schools, and politics for decades, Beveridge’s team exposed the rest of the nation to this Spanish language reality in their campaign to portray the territory as unfit for statehood. During the Senate subcommittee hearings, dozens of New Mexicans relayed their connection to both their United States citizenship and their use of the Spanish language. From census takers to court interpreters to principals, Spanish-speaking New Mexicans defended their use of Spanish. While the use of the Spanish language did not definitively delay statehood, the increased national scrutiny in the media of the language did result in a shift in territorial policies related to language that increasingly favored English in order to better conform to the country's expectations.

scholarly journals Media, Health & Health Promotion in Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Ann Luce ◽  
Vanora Hundley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

 It has been recognised that the media can affect our perceptions, views and tastes on a wide-range of issues. The mass media in it various forms (newspapers, television & radio, the internet and Twitter) and formats, have a far reaching influence through, for example news programmes, documentaries, advertising and entertainment. At the same time the media can also be seen as a channel for agencies responsible for public health to get their messages across to the population. Public health agencies are always searching for ways to disseminate health information and messages to their intended audiences. These are, of course, global concerns, but as both public health and the media are part of the society in which they operate there will be locally specific issues and considerations. To date most of the research into the media and public health has been conducted in high-income countries, and there has been very little research in Nepal on the interaction of public health and health promotion with the media.This overview paper highlights some of the key issues that public health practitioners, media editors and journalists, health policy-makers and researchers could consider.Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences Vol. 2 2016 p.70-75

Healthy Food Marketing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Karpyn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Food Marketing ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

This chapter is organized into two parts. It begins with a review of recent efforts to curb unhealthy marketing to kids and then moves on to discuss current efforts to apply marketing strategies for health promotion. The chapter discusses the ways in which changes in the media environment have affected food marketing to kids. Strategies to address healthy food purchases in the supermarket and in the school cafeteria also are discussed. The chapter concludes with reflections on the challenges that public health practitioners will likely continue to face as shifts in the ways we shop and spend our leisure time increasingly go online.

Between Grassroots Protest and Green Politics: The Democratic Potential of the 1970s Antinuclear Activisim

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Milder
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Antinuclear Movement ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

This article narrates the development of the antinuclear movement from the bottom up, showing how local protests initiated changes in Germans' ideas about democracy and public participation, precipitating the Green Party's emergence. The narrative begins with the pre-history of the 1975 occupation of the Wyhl reactor site in Southern Baden. It shows that vintners' concerns about the future of their livelihoods underpinned protests at Wyhl, but argues that the anti-reactor coalition grew in breadth after government officials' perceived misconduct caused local people to connect their agricultural concerns with democracy matters. It then explains how local protests like the Wyhl occupation influenced the formation of the German Green Party in the late 1970s, showing how the sorts of convergences that occurred amidst “single issue” protests like the anti-Wyhl struggle enabled a wide variety of activists to come together in the new party. Thus, the article argues that particular, local concerns initiated a rethinking of participation in electoral politics. Far from fracturing society, these local concerns promoted diverse new coalitions and shaped an inclusive approach to electoral politics.

‘It just seemed like your normal domestic violence’: ethnic stereotypes in print media coverage of child abuse in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Maydell
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
The Press ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ongoing Concern

Child abuse in New Zealand is a matter of ongoing concern for the government, public officials, health practitioners and wider society, with most information on the issue coming from mass media, which have played an influential role in forming public opinion. This study investigates the coverage of serious child abuse between November 2007 and November 2009 in three largest New Zealand newspapers: The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post and The Press. The analysis of 205 articles shows that three-quarters of the data described severe physical abuse and/or death, and one-quarter described sexual abuse. More than half of all media pieces (56%) represented reporting of ‘crime stories’, such as police and court reports, in addition to statistical data, recommendations and critique (44%). Two cases of Nia Glassie and the Kahui twins’ deaths were sensationalised by the media and were described or mentioned in 63 articles altogether. The dominant construction of child abuse as a ‘Māori issue’ was achieved through individual framing, focused on the personalities of the perpetrators and their inferred innate characteristics, such as being prone to violence and dysfunctional by nature, which were further generalised to Māori society as a whole.

scholarly journals Introducing Health Promotion Agenda-Setting for Health Education Practitioners

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T. Kozel ◽  
William M. Kane ◽  
Michael T. Hatcher ◽  
Anne P. Hubbell ◽  
James W. Dearing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Education Professional Development ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Setting Approach ◽  
The Media

Health professionals must continuously address health promotion issues using the latest strategies and research. Currently in health care, too often an underdeveloped and under supported agenda prioritizes problems, issues, and solutions. Further, an ongoing competition exists among issues due to an undocumented agenda-setting process to gain the attention of media, public, and policy makers. Agendasetting is based on the belief that the media influence what we talk about, rather than controlling what we think, and how often an issue appears in the media influences the policy agenda (Dearing & Rogers, 1996). If an issue is “salient” and receives frequent or expansive coverage by media, audience members will talk more about that issue than one that is not as salient. A Health Promotion Agenda-Setting approach works to specify and prioritize problems and alternative solutions for increasing media exposure and setting agendas for “sustained” courses of action, (Kozel et al., 2003). The crucial link between agenda-setting and the process of establishing effective legislation, policy, and programs has been researched. However, many health practitioners do not understand what agenda setting is, nor how to apply agenda setting within the field of health education. Professional development in Health Promotion Agenda-Setting offers health education practitioners new knowledge, skills, methods, and opportunities to strengthen practices that influence the public health agenda and transform health promotion leadership.

Day-to-day management of screening programmes for public health practitioners and managers

Screening ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Angela E. Raffle ◽  
Anne Mackie ◽  
J. A. Muir Gray
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Ovarian Cancer Screening ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

This chapter gives the reader an appreciation of main issues that public health practitioners regularly deal with in screening, and how to approach them. This needs management skills and an understanding of screening programmes. Typical problems include preventing screening from starting when there is no sound evidence base, dealing with provision of poor quality screening, implementing policy changes within existing screening programmes, dealing with legal challenges relating to screening, and coping with damage caused by commercially driven provision of screening tests where there is lack of evidence, lack of informed choice, and no provision beyond the initial test. Dealing with any of these matters can involve using the media, and the final section of the chapter gives advice about how to cope when the media spotlight turns on screening. Prostate cancer and ovarian cancer screening are both used as case studies in this chapter.

scholarly journals Strana svobodných občanů – čeští monotematičtí euroskeptici?

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Petr Kaniok
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
In The Beginning

When, in the beginning of 2009, the Party of Free Citizens was founded, it was believed that the main impulse for establishing a new political party was the generally positive approach towards the Lisbon Treaty adopted by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) a couple of months before. Thus, since its foundation, the media, commentators and political analysts have labelled the Party of Free Citizens as a single issue Eurosceptic party. This article challenges this prevailing evaluation of the Party of Free Citizens and subsequently confronts the party´s programs and press releases with three concepts – the concept of Euroscepticism connected with the work of Taggart and Szczerbiak, the concept of a single issue party developed by Mudde, and the concept of a niche party brought into political science by Meguide. The article concludes that while the Party of Free Citizens is undoubtedly a Eurosceptic party, both in terms of its soft and hard versions, its overall performance as a political entity does not meet the criteria of Mudde´s concept of a single issue party. As the Party of Free Citizens puts a strong emphasis on European issues (compared to other mainstream Czech political parties), it can, at most, be described as a niche party.

Using the scanning electron microscope for failure analysis of high density magnetic media

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
Evelyn R. Ackerman ◽  
Gary D. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
High Density ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Operating Environments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scanning Electron

Advancements in state of the art high density Head/Disk retrieval systems has increased the demand for sophisticated failure analysis methods. From 1968 to 1974 the emphasis was on the number of tracks per inch. (TPI) ranging from 100 to 400 as summarized in Table 1. This emphasis shifted with the increase in densities to include the number of bits per inch (BPI). A bit is formed by magnetizing the Fe203 particles of the media in one direction and allowing magnetic heads to recognize specific data patterns. From 1977 to 1986 the tracks per inch increased from 470 to 1400 corresponding to an increase from 6300 to 10,800 bits per inch respectively. Due to the reduction in the bit and track sizes, build and operating environments of systems have become critical factors in media reliability.Using the Ferrofluid pattern developing technique, the scanning electron microscope can be a valuable diagnostic tool in the examination of failure sites on disks.

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