scholarly journals Reconceptualizing multisectoral prison regulation: Voluntary organizations and bereaved families as regulators

2021 ◽  
pp. 136248062198926
Author(s):  
Philippa Tomczak
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Prison Health ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Prison health, prisoner safety and imprisonment rates matter: intrinsically and for health and safety outside. Existing prison regulation apparatuses (e.g. OPCAT) are extensive and hold unrealized potential to shape imprisonment. However, criminologists have not yet engaged much with this potential. In this article, I reconceptualize prison regulation by exploring the work of a broad range of multisectoral regulators who operate across stakeholder groups. I illustrate that voluntary organizations and families bereaved by prison suicide act as regulators, although their substantive actions have been erased from official narratives. Mobilizing (threats of) litigation, these actors have responsibilized the state and brought qualitative changes across the prison estate.

Termination of Skilled Nursing Facility Medicaid Provider Agreements: Procedural Due Process Requirements

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-493
Author(s):  
Nancy Elizabeth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
Skilled Nursing Facility ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal Regulations ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
Medicaid Reimbursement ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Procedural Due Process

AbstractWhen a state Medicaid agency terminates its provider agreement with a skilled nursing facility, federal regulations give the state the option of providing a pretermination evidentiary hearing; they do not, however, require that a state provide such a hearing. If a state chooses not to grant a pretermination hearing, as a number of states have done, federal regulations require: (1) an informal written reconsideration made by the state and submitted to the skilled nursing facility before the effective date of the termination, and (2) a posttermination evidentiary hearing.This Article argues that a skilled nursing facility has a right under the due process clauses of the fifth and fourteenth amendments of the U. S. Constitution to an evidentiary hearing before termination of its Medicaid provider agreement. The author claims that a skilled nursing facility's interest in continued receipt of Medicaid reimbursement under its provider agreement is a property interest entitled to constitutional due process protections, and not merely an expectation of economic benefit that does not implicate constitutional due process considerations.The Article concludes that, except in emergency situations, state Medicaid agencies are constitutionally required to grant a provider a pretermination, rather than a posttermination, evidentiary hearing. This procedure would protect the provider and its patients from the severe effects of an erroneous termination, while furthering the governmental interest in ensuring the health and safety of skilled nursing facility patients. The format for such a hearing should allow for the participation, with the assistance of counsel, of both the skilled nursing facility and its patients.

scholarly journals RISK ASSESSMENT IN OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION

Neft i gaz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (121) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
P.A. TANZHARYKOV ◽  
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U.ZH. SARABEKOVA ◽  
A.E. TULEGEN ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
Production Operation ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Oil And Gas Production

It is necessary to carry out work to analyze the harmful factors of accidents during the production, operation and transportation of raw materials in oil and gas fields and assess their compliance with the requirements of the standards of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main goal of labor protection is to create safe working conditions for employees, as well as to prevent personnel from illnesses. In this regard, it is necessary to have a system of accounting, analysis and assessment of the state of labor protection, as well as management of labor protection. This article proposes ways to quickly assess the state of health and safety at work by calculating a number of occupational risk indicators based on information available in the modules for assessing occupational safety by industrial risk indicators. The efficiency of using the OSH management systems software proposed by the authors is based on a specific task from four main modules "Employees", "Events", "Equipment", "Ecology" and a number of submodules. In addition, this work uses matrix methods for assessing risks in the "Probability or Consequences of an Event" coordinate system, "Elmeri" system, "Fine Kinney" method, "Risks". Modern expert methods are compared and presented under the title "Five stages of assessment"

scholarly journals The Musical Encyclopedia of Ukraine as a resonator of trends in development and qualitative changes in the Ukrainian musicology at the turn of 20-21 centuries

2014 ◽  
pp. 106-115
Author(s):  
Olena Nemkovych
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Qualitative Changes

The article is devoted to comprehending the multi-volume academic work named Musical Encyclopedia of Ukraine in terms of the state and level of development of musicological studies in Ukraine at the turn of 20-21 centuries. The specifics of transformation of main regularities in musicology which was appeared in solving practical and scientific-theoretical issues of creation of this work are revealed.

The Occupational Safety and Health System in Poland during the Transition to Democracy and a Market Economy

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Broszkiewicz ◽  
Barbara Krzyskow ◽  
Halina Szejnwald Brown
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War

Since the fall of communism, the occupational health and safety system in Poland, which was extensively developed during the post-war period, has been incrementally adapting to the new social order. The reforms of the 1990s aimed at stimulating active participation by workers and labor unions, increasing the responsibility of employers, reducing the paternalistic role of the state, and strengthening the enforcement branch. The emergent system has many strengths, including a highly branched-out system of regional and local enforcement agencies, competent and self-confident government institutions familiar with the firms under their jurisdiction and adept at balancing competing social objectives; a tradition of cooperation among agencies and employers; and strong advocacy by the government agencies on behalf of workers. The system also exhibits characteristics that may weaken it in the future, such as lack of support from labor unions; low interest among workers; a generally low safety culture; stringent, often unimplementable exposure standards; and lack of “ownership” of the system by social groups other than the state bureaucracy.

The Voluntary Movement in Modern Russia: Civic Activism vs. State-Enforced Indoctrination

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-496
Author(s):  
Mikhail Yu Martynov ◽  
Liubov A. Fadeeva
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Voluntary Movement ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
The State ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Khanty Mansi Autonomous

Abstract This article addresses the political effects which the multidirectional activity of both the state and civil society institutions have on the voluntary movement. The state seeks to provide support with the purpose of indoctrination, whereas the aim of public organizations is civic activism. The authors of this paper confirm the hypothesis about the direct political impact of these efforts using the evidence of an empirical study of voluntary movements that was conducted in 2019 in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra. The authors conclude that just as state support provided to voluntary organizations does not incite the ‘pro-government’ discourse of their actions, so their ‘civil’ origin does not stir up oppositionist attitudes. Moreover, the state’s efforts to indoctrinate or block political socialization can trigger the opposite response, where volunteers start to act opportunistically and non-profit public organizations, designed to be the mainstay of civil society, can easily be transformed into agents of state policy.

scholarly journals Forecasting the Spread of COVID-19 in Kuwait Using Compartmental and Logistic Regression Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah M. Almeshal ◽  
Abdulla I. Almazrouee ◽  
Mohammad R. Alenizi ◽  
Saleh N. Alhajeri
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Models ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Epidemic Size ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
The State Of Kuwait ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Individual Contact

The state of Kuwait is facing a substantial challenge in responding to the spread of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The government’s decision to repatriate stranded citizens back to Kuwait from various COVID-19 epicenters has generated a great concern. It has heightened the need for prediction models to estimate the epidemic size. Mathematical modeling plays a pivotal role in predicting the spread of infectious diseases to enable policymakers to implement various health and safety measures to contain the spread. This research presents a forecast of the COVID-19 epidemic size in Kuwait based on the confirmed data. Deterministic and stochastic modeling approaches were used to estimate the size of COVID-19 spread in Kuwait and determine its ending phase. In addition, various simulation scenarios were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical intervention measures, particularly with time-varying infection rates and individual contact numbers. Results indicate that, with data until 19 April 2020 and before the repatriation plan, the estimated reproduction number in Kuwait is 2.2. It also confirms the efficiency of the containment measures of the state of Kuwait to control the spread even after the repatriation plan. The results show that a high contact rate among the population implies that the epidemic peak value is yet to be reached and that more strict intervention measures must be incorporated

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