scholarly journals Curt Tilmes Receives 2014 Charles S. Falkenberg Award

Eos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Science Information

Curt Tilmes received the 2014 Charles S. Falkenberg Award at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 17 December 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. The award honors a “scientist under 45 years of age who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet.”

scholarly journals Kevin Murphy Receives 2016 Charles S. Falkenberg Award

Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Geophysical ◽  
American Geophysical Union ◽  
Science Information

Kevin Murphy received the 2016 Charles S. Falkenberg Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The award honors an "early- to mid-career scientist who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet."

scholarly journals Benjamin Lee Preston Receives 2015 Charles S. Falkenberg Award

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Geophysical ◽  
American Geophysical Union ◽  
Science Information

Benjamin Lee Preston received the 2015 Charles S. Falkenberg Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The award honors an "early- to middle- career scientist who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet."

scholarly journals Neumann Receives 2018 Charles S. Falkenberg Award

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Science Information

Rebecca B. Neumann received the Charles S. Falkenberg Award at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held 12 December 2018 in Washington, D. C. The award honors “an early- to middle-career scientist who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet.”

scholarly journals Hook Hua Receives 2017 Charles S. Falkenberg Award

Eos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Geophysical ◽  
American Geophysical Union ◽  
Science Information

Hook Hua was awarded the 2017 Charles S. Falkenberg Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 13 December 2017 in New Orleans, La. The award is for “an early- to middle-career scientist who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet.”

The war against the homeless: Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless politics in San Francisco

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Sean Parson
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
The Public ◽  
Matrix Quality ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Chapter 4 discusses Mayor Frank Jordan’s (1992–1995) revanchist Matrix Quality of Life Program, which sought to enforce a broken-windows policing system in San Francisco. The impact of the policy was felt largely by the visible homeless in downtown San Francisco, who were regularly harassed and arrested by the police and forced out of the city. Because quality-of-life policing desires to sanitize the public space of disruptive and asocial behaviour, the public meals of Food Not Bombs near City Hall resisted the city’s attempt to criminalize homelessness. This chapter argues that the city attempted to construct the homeless as anti-citizens and exclude them from the political and physical spaces of the city.

scholarly journals How Much Do We Know? Assessing Public Knowledge, Awareness, Impact, and Awareness Guidelines for Epilepsy: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 794-807
Author(s):  
O.P. Musekwa ◽  
L. Makhado ◽  
A. Maphula ◽  
J.T. Mabunda
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Boolean Search ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
The Impact

Background: Epilepsy misconceptions are widespread; these influence the quality of life of people living with epilepsy (50 million people worldwide) and their families. Objective: The review’s objective was to highlight the public knowledge and awareness of epilepsy with an emphasis on its impact, gaps, and available guidelines for public awareness. Methods: The search databases included PubMed, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar using keywords, index terms as well as the Boolean search. Twenty-seven studies were included, which yielded three themes and six sub-themes. Results: Three themes emerged from the data: knowledge, beliefs, and awareness of epilepsy, the impact of epilepsy, and epilepsy awareness guide. From these themes, six sub-themes were established. Implications: Generally, people in Africa continue to hold misconceptions about epilepsy. This study shows that there is a need for further research examining the level of knowledge and awareness held in different contexts to develop a means to educate the general public as it has been revealed that there is generally inadequate knowledge and awareness of epilepsy. Furthermore, this study gathers knowledge that is now accessible as a threshold to much-needed research on epilepsy education, awareness and knowledge in Africa.

scholarly journals Health, Quality of Life, and Economic Impacts of Home Care Vouchers for Middle-Income Adults With Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Joanne Spetz ◽  
Jacqueline Miller ◽  
Connie Kwong ◽  
Laura Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Home Care ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Financial Stress ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Middle Income

Abstract The Support at Home pilot program provided financial support for the purchase of home care services by middle-income adults with disabilities in San Francisco to support aging in place. Enrollees had income below the area median and made copayments based on household income. The mixed-methods evaluation of the program incorporated administrative records, surveys of clients and comparison group members, surveys of unpaid caregivers, surveys of paid care providers, and focus groups with clients and unpaid caregivers. Outcome measures included the Older People’s Quality of Life Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, an adapted Burden Scale for Family Caregivers, and self-reported falls, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Analyses included pre-post chi-squared and t-test comparisons between client and comparison groups and multivariate regressions. An economic analysis was conducted to learn whether changes in costs associated with reduced health care utilization were greater than the costs of the program. Results indicated statistically significant positive changes in client ratings of personal and financial stress, but not in the composite quality of life score. There were statistically significant reductions in attendance at medical appointments, falls, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Similar changes were not found in the comparison group. The focus group data supported the findings regarding personal and financial stress and indicated that clients and their caregivers perceived quality of life benefits. The economic analysis indicated substantial cost savings from the program due to reduced use of medical services. Due to its positive impacts, San Francisco has made Support at Home a permanent program.

scholarly journals Quality of Life and Philosophy of Life Determines Physical and Mental Health: Status Over Research Findings From The Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, 1991-2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1743-1751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Isack Kandel ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Quality Of Life Research ◽  
Global Quality Of Life ◽  
The Individual

Quality of life (QOL) has over the past decade become an important part of health science and also increased public awareness. It has become increasingly apparent that illness is closely related to the individual perception of a good life, and therefore the exploration of indicators related to quality of life appears to be of broad importance for the prevention and treatment of diseases. Identifying, which factors constitute a good life may reveal an understanding about what areas in life should be encouraged, in order to enhance the global quality of life, health, and ability. In this paper we present results from studies initiated in 1989 to examine quality of life in relation to disease. The purpose of this presentation was to assemble the results from the study carried out in the years between 1993 and 1997, examining a total of 11.500 Danes, to show the association between quality of life and a wide series of social indicators.

Perceptions towards the quality of public services in Romania. Poor outcomes of public administration reforms?

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Claudia Petrescu ◽  
Flavis Mihalache
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform

Public services represent an important dimension of quality of society, as they create the contextual conditions for people to further their quality of life. Romanian public administration reform has brought about a constant institutional transformation, which has influenced both the specific features and the quality of the services. This article aims to analyse trends regarding the perceived quality of public services in Romania, in European comparative perspective, using the data of the European Quality of Life Survey (2003–2016). The article aims to understand the low satisfaction with public services in Romania against the background of the public service reform measures taken by government in this period. The article describes the context of Romanian public administration and public service reform, the most important public policy measures adopted and the most important challenges. The lack of vision in the public service reform, the partial introduction of reform elements, the permanent and, sometimes, conflicting changes are issues that may have influenced the way in which the population perceives the quality of public services. The decentralisation process of public services and the insufficient allocation of public funds for delivering such services at local level might have an impact on their quality and quantity perceived by the population. Keywords: public services; public administration reform; citizens’ satisfaction; New Public Management; New Weberianism.

scholarly journals Ecological Safety as a Forming Factor of the Public Quality of Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludmila V. Vedernikova ◽  
Alyona Yu. Levykh ◽  
Anton V. Zakharov ◽  
Svetlana A. Elantseva ◽  
Olga A. Povoroznyuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Ecological Safety ◽  
The Public
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