scholarly journals Explaining the Increase in Female Mayors: Gender-Segregated Employment and Pathways to Local Political Leadership

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki TSUJI
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Fiscal Responsibility ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Mayoral Elections ◽  
Care Services

AbstractInternationally, Japan ranks very low in the number of women in political leadership roles. Since the 1990s, the number of women serving in the national and local legislative assemblies has increased, and since 2000, the number of women serving as governors or mayors has also gradually increased. In particular, the number of female mayors has grown significantly in recent years. This article attempts to clarify the reasons for the increase in female mayors by examining the careers of women elected since the early 21st century and four case studies that illuminate various pathways to power for female mayors. We suggest that Japan’s gender-segregated employment practices have inadvertently created a new pathway to local power for women, from housewife to civil society leaders, and ultimately to local politician. We consider issues such as supply and demand, and other background environmental factors that affect women’s candidacy within mayoral elections. Furthermore, through four case studies, we show that three of four women capitalized on their ‘outsider’ profiles in their mayoral elections through critiques of the previous mayors’ management. Moreover, all of the women made campaign promises on the expansion of care services and the realization of local fiscal responsibility.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brooker ◽  
Margaret Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Rational Method ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
Selection Of

The Conclusion points out that the preceding seven chapters’ examples and case studies have revealed some expected, and some unexpected conclusions. The six main cases revealed some expected uniformity in the leaders’ selection of rational methods. There was less uniformity, however, in the choice of the methods they emphasized, whether due to their personal preferences or to the circumstances they were facing. Two unexpected findings were the addition of a seventh appropriate rational method—learning—and the prevalence of dual-leadership teams. The conclusion goes on to suggest that this book’s theory and approach should be applied to versions of military leadership and to the political leadership of contemporary democracies.

Organizing across borders

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 643-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Holden
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Term Care ◽  
User Choice ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Organization Of Care ◽  
The Uk

Internationalized providers of care services face competing incentives and pressures relating to profit and quality. Case studies of corporate providers of long-term care in the UK demonstrate that their mode of organization has important implications for both user choice and the organization of care work. French Les fournisseurs internationalisés sont soumis à des pressions et à des incitatifs concurrentiels pour produire des profits et de la qualité. Des études de cas portant sur les fournisseurs institutionnels d'assistance à long terme au Royaume-Uni révèlent que leur mode d'organisation a d'importantes répercussions tant au niveau du choix des bénéficiaires qu'au niveau de l'organisation du travail d'assistance. Spanish Los prestadores transnacionales de servicios se enfrentan con incentivos que compiten entre sí y con la tensión entre calidad y ganancia. Se estudian unoscasos de prestadores de cuidados de larga duración en el Reino Unido. Estos demuestran que el modo de organización tiene consecuencias importantes, tanto para opciones abiertas al usuario como para la organización de los cuidados.

Increasing Pediatric Audiology Services via Telehealth

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Tommy Evans ◽  
Timothy Nejman ◽  
Erin Stewart ◽  
Ian Windmill
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Telehealth Service ◽  
Pediatric Audiology

AbstractTelehealth as a means to deliver health care services has been used by physicians for many years, but the use of telehealth in audiology, specifically in pediatrics, has been minimal. Barriers such as licensure, reimbursement, technology, and equipment have been cited as reasons for audiologists not participating in telehealth. However, the COVID-19 pandemic created the need for telehealth services to be widely used to safely increase access to healthcare, and emergent orders helped reduce previous barriers so that audiologists could participate in telehealth service delivery. This article details three cases where audiologists delivered telehealth services to children. These case studies demonstrate portions of the Division of Audiology Telehealth Program of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and how they increased access to hearing healthcare in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Health in Brazil: examples for the world

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malaquias Batista Filho ◽  
Anete Rissin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Rural Families ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Intervention Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
Demand For Health ◽  
Information Framework

In the year 2012, for the first time in the history of humanity, the urban population has exceeded the rural population. This change has been conditioned, in large part, by migratory flows in the direction of the field to the cities, singularizing the importance of the situation according to epidemiological, ecological, political, and social aspects. These issues are highlighted by the United Nations (UNICEF and WHO) especially considering the remarkable and growing relevance that the poverty condition of rural families exercises in this displacement, creating a remarkable adverse and conflictive environment, mainly in the health sector. This fact occurs because the infrastructure of urban services is not keeping up with the sprawls in the outskirts of the cities of medium and large sizes. These arguments, of universal character, assume a crucial importance in developing countries, as in the case of Brazil, Latin America, an Asian subcontinent and the greater part of Africa. It is a context that justifies the I Brazilian Workshop on the Health of Subnormal Urban Clusters (old slums) to be held in Recife, as a strategy to consolidate a basic information framework about the epidemiological scenario, the supply and demand for health care services in urban areas of poverty. With an propositional objective: establish an agenda for research and intervention models having as focus the priorities of health of these urban spaces submitted to socio-economic conditions of recognized vulnerability.

Information and computer technologies in media specialist preparation

2021 ◽  
pp. 026666692110491
Author(s):  
Nidal Al Said ◽  
Butheyna Zuheir Al-Rawashdeh
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Media Specialist ◽  
Media Specialists ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Key Skills

New information and computer technologies transform the social interaction and impose new demands for skills and thinking upon media specialists. The aim of this study is to determine the most effective set of information technologies, which can help media specialists develop competencies and thus stay competitive in the labor market. The research methodology is based on the overview of case studies concerning issues such as technology trends, human capital, and talent competitiveness. The qualitative analysis was performed in three phases – overviewing case studies, distinguishing trends and problem-solving. Analyzing data on skill supply and demand, the key skills needed to succeed in the workplace were identified. The results of the three-phase research revealed that the most important competencies needed to be in demand today are technology literacy, stress tolerance, and big data skills. The major finding of this study is that a media specialist needs to focus on learning throughout his life and gain hard and soft skills in the process.

Women Driven Mobility: Rethinking the Way the World Moves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Shaw ◽  
Katelyn Davis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Advocacy ◽  
The Way

Where do women fit into the automotive industry? In every possible space-including those they have yet to invent! As Katelyn Shelby Davis and Kristin Shaw demonstrate in Women Driven Mobility, women are in leadership roles in all aspects of the industry. Davis and Shaw seek bring awareness and reroute this through a series of case studies that feature women working in 11 vital pillars of the mobility industry: Awareness and community advocacy Design and engineering Funding Infrastructure Marketing and communications Mobility on demand Placemaking Policy and legislation Sustainability Talent and education Technology and innovation Foreword by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, State of Michigan

Bridging the Gaps with Nonprofits

2016 ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Laura Caccioppoli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Care Services

This chapter will examine how nonprofits are both bridging the gaps left behind from health policy, and are at the intersection of institutions, interests, and the policy process. Using cultural competency as a theoretical lens, the chapter will make use of the current literature, demographic trends, and other qualitative and quantitative data to situate three case studies. As the Affordable Care Act, and other health policies tout themselves as solutions to gaps in health care services for minorities, this chapter offers an overview and evaluation of these policies as well as an explanation of the role nonprofits have in filling necessary service delivery and advocacy.

Beverly LaHaye Defies Feminism

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-92
Author(s):  
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Political Leadership ◽  
Local State ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
Evangelical Women ◽  
Concerned Women For America ◽  
Conservative Women ◽  
Pastor's Wife ◽  
Conservative Protestants ◽  
Lobbying Group

In 1979, Beverly LaHaye founded Concerned Women for America (CWA), which would quickly become the nation’s largest lobbying group for conservative women. With chapters across the country, CWA has been responsible for mobilizing hundreds of thousands of conservative women to become active for conservative causes at the local, state, and federal levels. LaHaye began her career as a megachurch pastor’s wife and the author of marital and spiritual advice for evangelical women. When she turned her attention to politics, she used the language and networks of evangelical women’s culture to mobilize others. Her story demonstrates how even women who took on definitive political leadership roles had to negotiate persistent ambivalence within conservative evangelical communities, both about politics in general and about women’s roles within it. LaHaye’s relationship with Catholic activist Phyllis Schlafly also highlights the limits of ecumenical cooperation within the New Christian Right, even as that movement was defined by new alliances between conservative Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews.

Diffusion of diagnostic medical devices and policy implications for India

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Mahal ◽  
Anil Varshney ◽  
Srinivas Taman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Facilities

Objectives:This study describes the diffusion of advanced diagnostic devices in India and assess implications for efficiency in resource use and equity.Methods:Commodity-level import statistics, household survey data, and interviews with medical device sellers are used to assess the spread of diagnostic devices. Published qualitative evidence, case studies of diagnostic service providers, and cross-country analyses are used to identify the reasons underlying the spread of medical devices in India. Case studies of public and private providers and data from 150 hospitals in one Indian state are used to assess efficiency in resource use and the distributive impacts of diagnostic devices.Results:High-end medical device inflows rose during the 1990s, with both supply- and demand-side factors influencing this trend. Although our results suggest that the overall quantity of advanced diagnostics in India is not excessive, there is some evidence of inefficiency in public facilities and possibly unethical practices in private diagnostic facilities. The unequal geographical distribution of magnetic resonance imaging facilities, coupled with inefficient use of medical devices in public facilities suggests inequality in access.Conclusions:The study points to major regulatory gaps and health system inefficiencies and suggests ways in which these gaps can be addressed.

Five Case Studies on Tackling Real-World Problems as a Means to Increase Student Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-158
Author(s):  
Mark Patrick Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Content Standards ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Authentic Learning Experiences

Five case studies detail teachers and professors who use a real-world problem as the basis for planning and implementing a comprehensive unit of authentic learning experiences aligned with academic content standards, instructed with high levels of rigor, and assessed authentically to determine the extent to which students mastered the standards. The text details how the instructor works with students to identify a meaningful problem, aligns appropriate work products to standards and instructional activities, and adapts the plan to address varying student learning needs. A mixed methods approach used student achievement data, student and teacher interviews, and a student survey. Increases were seen in students' self-efficacy, as well as their abilities to collaborate, communicate both verbally and in writing, engage in higher order thinking, conduct research, apply knowledge to novel circumstances, justify opinions, and assume leadership roles.

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