scholarly journals Agrifood systems literacy: Insights from two high schools’ programs in Ontario

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Martin ◽  
Marie-Josée Massicotte
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Agrifood System ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Improve Health

Following the increased industrialization and globalization of the prevailing agrifood system, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the detrimental impacts of this model on human health, food security, and the environment. As such, experts and citizens are calling for an increased awareness, through food literacy (FL), to improve health and justice and to transition towards sustainable agrifood systems. Building on field research, critical pedagogy, and existing FL analyses, we argue for incorporating both health and well-being, and agrifood systems dimensions into FL programming. By doing so, FL can contribute to promote individual health, as well as more sustainable agrifood systems policies and practices based on the principles of food sovereignty. Through qualitative research with students and teachers in two Ontario high schools, we explore the content and approaches taken in food-related programming. Aspects of FL among students are also explored in order to highlight their strengths and limitations. Further, we point to the challenges faced by teachers in delivering food-related courses. We propose a conceptual framework that highlights the benefits of including the multiple dimensions of FL as a way to test and improve existing FL programs, and eventually train future generations of teachers, students, and citizens.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Best
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Industrial Food Production

This concluding chapter considers how we might think about youth food consumption, as a sphere of social meaning constituted in the everyday spaces of school, home, and commercial realms, and its relationship to our democratic future. It suggests that schools should move beyond conventional nutritional education and focus on critical food literacy. This entails a broader curricular project that enables students to engage the wide range of concerns relating to health and diet, environment and sustainability, industrial food production and food origins, well-being, community empowerment, and public space. A critical food literacy program is expansive in scope; builds on school, nonprofits, and community partnerships; and advances a critical pedagogy where learning is student centered. Since young people's struggles for autonomy and claims of cultural authority are often sought in the consumer sphere, critical food literacy is especially important.

scholarly journals Musical space at work place: benefits for mental health

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Juliane Vanderlinde ◽  
Solânia Durman
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Improve Health

Even in the 21st century we can verify a significant loss of rights and senses of workers. To attenuate the modern life´s stress, music relaxes, seeking the worker´s well-being, contributing for the work improvement and organization. Psicol music therapy is constituted on the therapeutic use of music and its elements to improve health. The therapeutic efficacy of music does not rise out from common sense opinions. Scientific researches prove its benefits on the human body. Attentive to alternative therapy in Nursing and different music styles, it was sought with this technique, possible benefits in the daily routine of Unioeste employees . It is a descriptive field research, in a qualitative feature, that suggests investigating the use of music as a therapy in the health improvement of Unioeste workers from Cascavel. Psicol music therapy workshops were accomplished and also evaluation questionnairies. The study had the objective to make the workers rethink their own life´s quality, developing a task that shows the benefits of music. The reports of the employees in relation to the workshops were fully revealed as singular and personal moments when they were able to reflect about their life´s quality and everyday routines. Listening to those reports we can conclude that the workshops brought benefits to these workers. We suggest that this project may be implemented in this Institution in a scheduling work way.

Common Enemies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kahn Best
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Perception Of Health ◽  
Individual Disease ◽  
Improve Health

Americans come together to fight diseases. For over 100 years, they have asked their neighbors to contribute to disease campaigns and supported health policies that target one disease at a time. Common Enemies asks why disease campaigns are the battles Americans can agree to fight, why some diseases attract more attention than others, and how fighting one disease at a time changes how Americans distribute charitable dollars, prioritize policies, and promote health. Drawing on the first comprehensive data on thousands of organizations targeting hundreds of diseases over decades, the author shows that disease campaigns proliferate due to the perception of health as a universal goal, the appeal of narrowly targeted campaigns, and the strategic avoidance of controversy. They funnel vast sums of money and attention to a few favored diseases, and they prioritize awareness campaigns and medical research over preventing disease and ensuring access to healthcare. It’s easy to imagine more efficient ways to promote collective well-being. Yet the same forces that limit the potential of individual disease campaigns to improve health also stimulate the vast outpouring of money and attention. Rather than displacing attention to other problems, disease campaigns build up the capacity to address them.

scholarly journals Ergonomic risk assessment in medical-dental clinics

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ferreira ◽  
Ana Lança ◽  
João Paulo Figueiredo ◽  
Silvia Seco ◽  
António Loureiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Cognitive Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Improve Health

Abstract Background The ergonomic applied to Dental Medicine aims to develop an ergonomically planned environment, with equipment rationally distributed, to reduce physical and cognitive stress, prevent diseases related to professional exercise, increasing productivity, improving the quality of service provided and reducing fatigue in the working team. However, physical work usually imposes muscle tension on the musculoskeletal system that can culminate in work-related trauma, commonly called Musculoskeletal Disorder. Methods We proposed as an objective, to evaluate how the ergonomic risks in Medical-Dental Clinics, which can cause work-related Musculoskeletal Injuries, influence the quality of life and health of the workers. The checklist was applied based on the legislation in force and, at the same time, a questionnaire was applied for consultation with the workers; identification of the tasks of all workers and their associated risks has been carried out; ergonomic studies of the workstations concerned have been carried out and, in the light of the results obtained, preventive measures have been indicated to address the problems. Results Through the Rula Method, we evaluated the level of performance in relation to the tasks performed and found that most of these corresponded to level 3, which corresponded to values between 5 and 6 and indicated that changes should occur briefly. Conclusion It was concluded that the most outstanding area in need of rapid changes was the surgical area, since it requires more effort on the part of these professionals. It is therefore proposed to implement new measures to improve health and well-being and avoid ergonomically incorrect postures.

scholarly journals High mountain community in a changing climate: a study of agropastoral adaptation in mustang district, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Prakash Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Mountain Community

This paper explores the changing climate, its impact, and the diversified practices of agropastoral adaption by a mountain community of Nepal. The findings reveal that there is an unswerving link between the changes in climate and their impact on the community and its adaptation options. The vulnerability and risk induced by the climate change has threatened the agropastoral subsistence, the sociocultural and economic structure, and the food sovereignty of the Loba community of Mustang district of Nepal and made them experience unanticipated complications in livelihood. In a changing climate, the community has attuned and restructured its adaptive strategy with diversified practices of collective labour in a traditional agropastoral system of landholding, mystical connectivity and seasonal relocation as an adaptive response ensuring the shared sustenance of the com munity. The challenge of climate change began long ago; it will persevere and be long- lasting. Hence, this paper argues for the need for a prudent adoption of measures to maintain an environmentally suitable agropastoral system of liveli hood well-being. Beyond enhancing community capacity and climate resilience, it is necessary to streamline and readjust indigenous sociocultural institutions by expanding their adaptive capacity, while recognizing the cultural dimensions grounded in systems of meanings and relationships and the way people and their culture experience and respond to exceptional climatic changes.

scholarly journals Identifying and overcoming barriers to healthier lives

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riz Firestone ◽  
Tevita Funaki ◽  
Sally Dalhousie ◽  
Akarere Henry ◽  
Mereaumate Vano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Healthier Living ◽  
Sociocultural Experiences ◽  
Diet And Lifestyle ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Improve Health

Understanding the key determinants of health from a community perspective is essential to address and improve the health and wellbeing of its members.  This qualitative study aimed to explore and better understand New Zealand-based Pasifika communities’ sociocultural experiences and knowledge of health and wellbeing. Fifty-seven participants were involved in six separate focus groups. Community coordinators co-facilitated and transcribed the discussions and conducted thematic analysis. The findings suggested two overarching themes: (1) ‘Pasifika experiences on poor health and well-being’: were based on sub-themes: (i) ‘recognisable issues’ (e.g., poor diet and lifestyle behaviours); (ii) ‘systemic issues’ that support the perpetual health issues (e.g., lack of knowledge and education) and; (iii) ‘profound issues’ that are often unspoken of and create long-term barriers (e.g., cultural lifestyle and responsibilities).  (2) ‘Hopes and dreams’ to improve health and well-being requires: (i) a family-centric approach to health; (ii) tackling systemic barriers; and (iii) addressing community social justice issues.  This study provides deepened insights on Pasifika communities’ understanding healthier living in the context of their cultural environment and family responsibilities. If we are to develop effective, sustainable programmes that prioritises health and well-being based on the needs of Pasifika communities, the findings from this study highlight their needs as step forward in overcoming barriers to healthier lives.

scholarly journals Ekoteologitani untuk Kedaulatan Pangan Etos Islam dan Spirit Bertani pada Masyarakat Desa Srimartani, Kecamatan Piyungan, Bantul, Yogyakarta

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Moh. Soehadha
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Special Region

This article presents the results of an explorative research that examined the concept of agrarian ecotheology. This issue was raised with the assumption that Islamic teachings can be a part in the restrengthening of agrarian culture i.e. to take part in enhancing food sovereignty and security in Indonesia. This study is established on the perspective of anthropological ecology. The data source for this article is results of research that has been conducted at the Srimartani Village, Piyungan District, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region Province. Data collection was conducted by using various techniques such as participant observation, focused group discussion (FGD) and interviews through questionnaires. The data collected from the field research was then analyzed using a descriptive-interpretative method.The study results show that Islamic teachings could be employed in restrengthening the agrarian culture, that is as a means to enhance food sovereignty and security. This study also provides critical contribution to the perspective of contemporary Islamic ecotheology so that it does not tend to be anthropocentric, thus becoming exploitative in nature. A new construction of Islamic ecotheology, which accommodates the view that humans, as farmers as well, have a proportional position within their environment, needs to be developed.

scholarly journals The Researcher Toolkit: a preventative, peer-support approach to postgraduate research student mental health

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie R. Homer ◽  
Linda Solbrig ◽  
Despina Djama ◽  
Anne Bentley ◽  
Sarah Kearns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Total ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Researcher Development ◽  
Postgraduate Research ◽  
Research Students

Purpose Rates of mental ill-health among postgraduate research students (PGRs) are alarmingly high. PGRs face unique challenges and stigma around accessing support. The purpose of this paper is to introduce The Researcher Toolkit: a novel, open-source, preventative approach to PGR mental health. The Toolkit empowers PGRs and promotes positive research culture. This paper describes and evaluates the Toolkit to encourage adoption across the sector. Design/methodology/approach Four workshops were designed by integrating researcher development, critical pedagogy and psychological knowledge of well-being. A diverse group of PGRs co-designed workshops and delivered them to their peers. Workshops engaged 26% of the PGR population (total 116 attendees). PGR Workshop Leaders and attendees submitted anonymous, online feedback after workshops (74 total responses). A mixed-method approach combined quantitative analysis of ratings and qualitative analysis of open-ended comments. Findings Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Workshops were universally appealing, enjoyable and beneficial and the peer-support approach was highly valued, strongly supporting adoption of the programme in other universities. Findings are discussed alongside wider systemic factors and recommendations for policy. Practical implications The Toolkit translates readily to other UK institutions and can be adapted for use elsewhere. Recommendations for practice are provided. Originality/value The Researcher Toolkit is a novel PGR well-being initiative. Its originality is threefold: its approach is prevention rather than intervention; its content is new and bespoke, created through interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists, researcher development professionals and PGR stakeholders; and support is peer-led and decentralised from student support services. Its evaluation adds to the limited literature on PGR well-being and peer-support.

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