A Comparison of Personal Response Services in Canada and the UK

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Fisk
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Telephone Networks ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Medical Risks ◽  
Public Telephone

Personal response services operating over public telephone networks are now widespread in Western Europe and North America. They serve the needs of a million people in the UK and a further two to three million elsewhere. While most clients are elderly, the scope of such services is extending to people with support needs of all ages, especially where there are medical risks or a likelihood of falls. Such services are, therefore, on a convergent course with those concerned with telemedicine. A study of two personal response services was carried out, one based in Ottawa (Canada) and the other in Oldham (UK). The parallels and contrasts were examined through a survey involving personal interviews with samples of clients. Thirty-eight valid personal interviews were completed, 20 in Ottawa and 18 in Oldham, representing 14% and 53% respectively of all service clients in the survey areas. It is concluded that services established within the health sector (such as many in Canada) are better placed to accommodate change. Convergence with telemedicine will, as a result, be facilitated. In the UK, health authorities and trusts are likely to develop their own telemedicine services in competition with current providers of personal response services, thus delaying convergence.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1983 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 26-38
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Minor Extent

The recovery in the OECD area gathered pace in the second quarter, when its total GDP probably increased by as much as 1 per cent. The rise was, however, heavily concentrated in North America and particularly the US. There may well have been a slight fall in Western Europe, where the level of industrial production hardly changed and increases in gross product in West Germany and, to a minor extent, in France were outweighed by falls in Italy and (according to the expenditure measure) the UK.

Framing Muslims

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Tahir Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Immigration Process ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Muslim Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Over Time

This chapter provides an overview of the experiences of Muslim minority communities in Britain, as well as in other parts of Western Europe. It explores the nature of the immigration process and its associations with the changing nature of the economy and society. Over time, a myopic concentration on ethnic, racial and religious differences has fed into Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment, where a discourse on mutually recognized integration has shifted into forced assimilation, partially into a dominant framing of ‘values’. For example, the discourse in relation to Britishness has shifted away from a focus on celebrating diversity and differences in society as part of a vision of a unitary political whole, and instead moved towards one in which ethnic nationalism, in the form of an idealized notion of Englishness in the case of the UK, is the centerpiece. Examining immigration in the contexts of politics, culture and identity, this chapter reveals the complexity of contested identities in post-industrial urban settings that were once the initial sites of immigration for these groups, focusing on Britain and other important centers of Muslim politics and populations across Western Europe. How such conditions provoke specific types of responses from these Muslim groups is also explored, and two aspects of the nature of the fissures within Islamism are also introduced – one is potentially regressive and reactionary, with the other being worldly and spiritual.

Crimmigration and the prison: Comparing trends in prison policy and practice in England & Wales and Norway

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Pakes ◽  
Katrine Holt
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Prison Policy ◽  
Prison Systems ◽  
The Uk

The crimmigration landscape in the UK is much lamented. Reference is frequently made to the recent creation of dozens of new immigration offences and a sharp increase in the administrative detention of immigrants during the last two decades. In particular, the prison has recently become an acute site of crimmigration, with separate prisons for foreign nationals (Kaufman, 2013). Norway, on the other hand, has traditionally been regarded as an exception. The treatment of criminals and outsiders is described as inclusive and rehabilitative and focused on their successful return to society. However, here a distinction is also increasingly made between prisoners who will return to society and those who will not, most particularly foreign nationals. The UK and Norway are virtually the only countries in Western Europe with regular prisons that are exclusively reserved for foreign nationals. This article examines how the arguably most benign and the arguably most severe prison systems of Western Europe have come to mimic each other in this fashion. Wider implications for our theoretical understanding of the nature and loci of crimmigration policies are also considered.

Foreign Investment in Asia in the 1990s: Trends, Problems and Implications for Manpower Movements

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 529-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sueo Sekiguchi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Capital ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The U.S

The diversity and rapidity of change in direct foreign investment (DFI) are described for flows among North America, Western Europe, Japan, ASEAN, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Russia. The U.S. share of DFI in Pacific Rim countries has declined, while that of Japan and Western Europe has increased. The NIEs have emerged as new investors in the region. The decline in U.S. DFI is likely to be compensated by Asian intra-regional flows initiated by Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. On one hand, international capital flows can serve as a substitute for international labor flows; on the other, DFI can also give rise to bidirectional flows of manpower ranging from unskilled to professional levels.

Labour Market Considerations in Hong Kong

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradford W. Imrie
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
The Uk

Labour market needs in Hong Kong continue to change and this paper deals with policies and planning related to sub-degree programmes at the higher vocational (HV) level, leading to the Higher Diploma (HD). The HD is equivalent to the associate degree in North America and, in the UK, to the Higher National Diploma (HND) which is generally accepted as pass degree equivalent. Since 1990 there have been far-reaching changes in the provision of the HD in Hong Kong and a review was initiated at the end of 1994. Two recent reports in Hong Kong are particularly significant: one dealing with manpower projections, the other with continuing education. It is vitally important that providers maintain quality while seeking to be more flexible. Some international considerations are addressed.

scholarly journals La Moselle canalisée et la voie maritime du Saint-Laurent : notes comparatives

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 253-275
Author(s):  
Jean Cermakian
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unit Value ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Economic Regions

This paper is based upon the premise that in order to justify the considerable capital investment required in such projects, the construction of a deep-draught waterway must serve the long-term economic and political interests of the regions and nations concerned. The question then arises as to what role should such a waterway play so that those interests might be furthered. In trying to answer this question, the author suggests three hypotheses, namely that, 1. The new waterway must provide cheap transport for heavy goods of low per-unit value which can only be carried in bulk, 2. It must create or intensify exchange between two or more economic regions on the same continent, and further the international trade of those regions, and 3. It must encourage the development of under-undustrialized regions and the utilization of hitherto inaccessible natural resources. By comparing the infrastructure and the traffic of two such waterways,, one in Western Europe, the canalized Moselle river, the other one in North America, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the author attempts to verify these hypotheses empirically and finds that all three are valid in both situations. It was found that in both cases the chief result of the new waterways has been the increased competitiveness of the regions which they serve vis-à-vis more powerful neighbors in the competition for world markets.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1984 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 27-39
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Total Output ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

In Western Europe GDP appears to have fallen in the second quarter, mainly because of the strikes in West Germany and the UK. Growth in North America and to a lesser extent in Japan was slowing down but still fast enough to keep the total output of the OECD area on its upward course. For the first half of the year this was probably about 2½ per cent up on the second half of 1983 and 5 per cent up on the first half.

From the “Judicialization of Politics” to the “Politicization of Justice” in the UK and Switzerland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Lucia Della Torre
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Judicialization Of Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Law

Not very long ago, scholars saw it fit to name a new and quite widespread phenomenon they had observed developing over the years as the “judicialization” of politics, meaning by it the expanding control of the judiciary at the expenses of the other powers of the State. Things seem yet to have begun to change, especially in Migration Law. Generally quite a marginal branch of the State's corpus iuris, this latter has already lent itself to different forms of experimentations which then, spilling over into other legislative disciplines, end up by becoming the new general rule. The new interaction between the judiciary and the executive in this specific field as it is unfolding in such countries as the UK and Switzerland may prove to be yet another example of these dynamics.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document