A Framework for Optimizing Technology-Enabled Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Care and Education: The Role of the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Greenwood ◽  
Fran Howell ◽  
LaurieAnn Scher ◽  
Gretchen Yousef ◽  
Joanne Rinker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Cardiometabolic Health ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Healthcare Environment ◽  
Health Care Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Improve Health

Purpose The purpose of this article is to present a framework for optimizing technology-enabled diabetes and cardiometabolic care and education using a standardized approach. This approach leverages the expertise of the diabetes care and education specialist, the multiplicity of technologies, and integration with the care team. Technology can offer increased opportunity to improve health outcomes while also offering conveniences for people with diabetes and cardiometabolic conditions. The adoption and acceptance of technology is crucial to recognize the full potential for improving care. Understanding and incorporating the perceptions and behaviors associated with technology use can prevent a fragmented health care experience. Conclusion Diabetes care and education specialists (DCES) have a history of utilizing technology and data to deliver care and education when managing chronic conditions. With this unique skill set, DCES are strategically positioned to provide leadership to develop and deliver technology-enabled diabetes and cardiometabolic health services in the rapidly changing healthcare environment.

Accompanying the Path of Maternity: The Life History of a Colombian Doula

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Daniel F. M. Suárez-Baquero ◽  
Jane Dimmitt Champion
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Life History ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Health Care Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role

Doulas have fundamentally improved the health-care experience of pregnant women internationally. Women who recognize the importance of not being alone during pregnancy have embraced this role for centuries. However, less is known about doulas practicing in countries experiencing health inequities like Colombia. Miller's methodology and Atkinson's interview domain was used to answer the question “What life experiences led a Colombian woman to become a doula?” A central theme emerged, “A calling from within: Growing up to accompany the transition from woman to mother.” The path to becoming a doula evolved from life experiences involving health inequities, and a sense of femininity, maternity, and the women's role in rural Colombia.

Technology Integration: The Role of the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist in Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Isaacs ◽  
Carla Cox ◽  
Kathy Schwab ◽  
Tamara K. Oser ◽  
Joanne Rinker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Diabetes Technology ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Continuous Glucose Monitors ◽  
The Individual

Purpose Technology is rapidly evolving and has become an integral component of diabetes care. People with diabetes and clinicians are harnessing a variety of technologies, including connected blood glucose meters, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, automated insulin delivery systems, data-sharing platforms, telehealth, remote monitoring, and smartphone mobile applications to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life. Although diabetes technology use is associated with improved outcomes, this is enhanced when the person using it is knowledgeable and actively engaged; simply wearing the device or downloading an app may not automatically translate into health benefits. The diabetes care and education specialist (DCES) has a central role in defining and establishing a technology-enabled practice setting that is efficient and sustainable. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the DCES in technology implementation and to demonstrate the value of diabetes technology in both the care of the individual and as a tool to support population-level health improvements. Conclusion By following the recommendations in this article, DCESs can serve as technology champions in their respective practices and work to reduce therapeutic inertia while improving health outcomes and providing patient-centered care for the populations they serve.

scholarly journals From Archangels to Virtual Pilgrims: A Brief History of Papal Digital Mobilization as Soft Power

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Johannes Ludwig Löffler
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Mail

The perpetual public display of successful mass mobilization and pilgrimage has become a pillar of papal soft power. During the 20th century, the papacy had repeatedly demonstrated its ability to use new technologies for public communication, media content production and mass mobilization. John Paul II endorsed the establishment of the first Vatican website and an official papal e-mail account, which provided Catholics a new form of communication with the Holy Father. During the pontificate of Benedict XVI, the papacy created several Twitter accounts, which would become the backbone of papal digital mobilization. Francis built on the success of his predecessors as he initiated the modernization of the Holy See’s media department. However, with the growth of the Internet and the stress test of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mechanics of mobilization, pilgrimage and power have considerably changed. With the religious role of the popes taken as a given, the paper looks into the history of papal mobilization, the role of the Internet and why it is not used to its full potential yet.

scholarly journals Sejarah Kemunduran Umat Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Mukhlis Rahmanto
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Work Done

<p>Answering the question of why Muslims fall down suffering in many fields, including economics, is the work done by Chapra in this book. By using the model of the dynamics of socio-economic  analysis  of  Ibn Khaldun,  he  began  to  read  and  trace the history of Muslims.  Eventually he gained a few main factors causing the decline of Islam, namely:  the movement of sufism which is not running on rails of origin,  poor appreciation of the  role of women, and declining quality of education. Deterioration occurs because of political authority (G)  negligent of  its responsibilities,  especially  in  upholding justice  and  Shariah,   guarantee facilities to the people (N),   and realize their full potential. According to him,  an urgent solutions must be implemented by Muslims are  moving  revival (resurrection) of Islam with one of  its programs to critically analyze what is coming from the West to conform to the Islamic world view and values.  The call to develop Islamic economics is just one strand of the Islamic revivalism movement.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong><strong>:</strong><strong> </strong><strong>socio</strong><strong>-</strong><strong>economic </strong><strong>dynamics</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Sufism</strong><strong>, women, </strong><strong>education</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>despotism</strong><strong>,</strong><strong> </strong><strong>revivalism</strong></p>

scholarly journals The origin and early evolution of arthropods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Aria
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Ecological Networks ◽  
Early Evolution ◽  
Cambrian Explosion ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Patterns And Processes

The rise of arthropods is a decisive event in the history of life. Likely the first animals to have established themselves on land and in the air, arthropods have pervaded nearly all ecosystems and have become pillars of the planet’s ecological networks. Forerunners of this epopee, exceptionally-preserved Palaeozoic fossils recently discovered or re-discovered thanks to new approaches and techniques have elucidated the precocious appearance of extant lineages at the onset of the Cambrian explosion, and pointed to the critical role of the plankton and hard integuments in early arthropod diversification. Despite new interpretative challenges, phylogenetic advances based on palaeontological evidence open the prospect of finally using the full potential of the most diverse animal phylum to investigate macroevolutionary patterns and processes.

scholarly journals The Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Past and Present Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
V. L. Bersenev ◽  
◽  
V. St. Bochko ◽  
M. Vl. Vlasov ◽  
V. V. Sukhikh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article describes the contribution made by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (Ekaterinburg, Russia) to the development of economic theory. It is shown how the Institute’s history of research fits into the long-standing tradition of economic thought, which studied the role of people both as agents of economic activity and as its objects. The article traces back the development of economic thought from Antiquity, through the modern period and the heyday of political economy in the nineteenth century, to the contemporary stage. Throughout its history, economic research dealt with such problems as human behaviour within the system of economic relationships, social policies as a form of public support of the manufacturing sector, labour as a way of realizing people’s full potential, and so on. The history of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the RAS started in the 1970s. The research was conducted in a number of areas, in particular the development of social infrastructure, methods of evaluation of living and materialized labour, the evolution of ownership during economic reforms, institutional support of economic transformations and the role of human agents in economy in twenty-first century Russia. Moreover, as the study makes clear, on researchers’ own initiative, a number of other projects were realized, covering a wide range of topics, from political economy of socialism to cliometrics.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The role of a family history of adenocarcinomas in patients with Barrett oesophagus

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A442-A442
Author(s):  
P TSIBOURIS ◽  
M HENDRICKSE ◽  
P ISAACS
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Barrett Oesophagus

Protective Factors and Suicidality in Members of Arab Kindred

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Hamdan ◽  
Nadine Melhem ◽  
Israel Orbach ◽  
Ilana Farbstein ◽  
Mohammad El-Haib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
History Of

Background: Relatively little is known about the role of protective factors in an Arab population in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Aims: To examine the role of protective factors in a subsample of in large Arab Kindred participants in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Methods: We assessed protective and risk factors in a sample of 64 participants (16 suicidal and 48 nonsuicidal) between 15 and 55 years of age, using a comprehensive structured psychiatric interview, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), self-reported depression, anxiety, hopelessness, impulsivity, hostility, and suicidal behavior in first-degree and second-relatives. We also used the Religiosity Questionnaire and suicide attitude (SUIATT) and multidimensional perceived support scale. Results: Suicidal as opposed to nonsuicidal participants were more likely to have a lifetime history of major depressive disorder (MDD) (68.8% vs. 22.9% χ2 = 11.17, p = .001), an anxiety disorder (87.5% vs. 22.9, χ2 = 21.02, p < .001), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (25% vs. 0.0%, Fisher’s, p = .003). Individuals who are otherwise at high risk for suicidality have a much lower risk when they experience higher perceived social support (3.31 ± 1.36 vs. 4.96 ± 1.40, t = 4.10, df = 62, p < .001), and they have the view that suicide is somehow unacceptable (1.83 ± .10 vs. 1.89 ± .07, t = 2.76, df = 60, p = .008). Conclusions: Taken together with other studies, these data suggest that the augmentation of protective factors could play a very important role in the prevention of incidental and recurrent suicidal behavior in Arab populations, where suicidal behavior in increasing rapidly.

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