Theoretical basis for reasonable population distribution in Tho Chu archipelago

Tho Chu archipelago is one of administrative units of Kien Giang province, Hon Nhan- one of its islands - is selected to become A1 base point of baseline for Vietnam territorial waters. If Tho Chau district is established, it will contribute to identifying sovereignty of Vietnam Southwest sea area following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, creating favourable conditions for islands’ socio-economic development, developing culture, enhancing effects of administration work and life quality of population in this island, firmly protecting sea border, securing island and sea sovereignty… However, the establishment of Tho Chu district appears in the context of streamlining administrative apparatus and limitation of capital for infrastructure construction in district level. This article focuses on the analysis of some factors affecting a reasonable population distribution in order to meet the requirement of building the Tho Chu into a district-level administrative unit in Kien Giang province.

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Regional Differentiation for Life Quality of the Population in Ukraine Under Innovative Growth

e-Finanse ◽

10.2478/fiqf-2020-0014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 73-86

Author(s):

Natalia Burkina ◽

Taras Furman ◽

Janusz Soboń ◽

Kostiantyn Sapun

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Population Distribution ◽

Estimation Method ◽

Life Quality ◽

Statistical Information ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Living Standards ◽

Innovation Activity ◽

Regional Differentiation

Abstract The article focuses on the analysis of economic growth of Ukraine and its regions, using the proposed by the authors indicators of quality and indicators of the population living standards under innovation growth. The main purpose of the research is developing a method of multi-factor assessment and regional classification of population`s life quality. Moving to the results literature review showed that many approaches to assessing the quality of life of the population have been developed in the statistical theory and practice. However, still, there are many discussions about the question of a single aggregate indicator of living standards and the methodology of regional differentiation by this criterion. So, it has not been found a rational way to combine indicators of the level and quality of life to obtain a comprehensive index that reflects objectively, reliably and verifiable the population`s level and quality of life. The main discovered disadvantage of existing methods is the use of the expert estimation method, which does not allow guaranteeing validity the weight of the criteria for estimation the quality of life indicator. Nevertheless, all authors admitted that today the role of the state rises in solving the most important social and economic problems, therefore, the task to increase the efficiency of the regions` functioning based on innovation activity becomes of key importance. The analysis of regional activity`s effectiveness considering the innovation component is the most important part of national administration. In the article the research of the question of multi-factor assessment and regional classification the quality of the country population`s life is carried out in the following logical sequence: theoretical analysis of categories of living standards and quality of life; development of the statistical indicators system at the regional level for assessing the quality of life of the population; distribution of the entire system of indicators for certain economic categories; receiving indexes for each region by each category; realization of regional clustering with the received system of indexes. The methodical tools of the research were general scientific methods: analysis (conducted analysis of definitions for concepts of the standard of living and quality of life); synthesis (combination of separate research methods into a unified methodology of regional differentiation by the quality of life); deduction (initially it is analyzed all the proposed systems of indicators in general, and then they are divided into economic categories); abstraction (separation of a significant indicators system for the implementation of regional differentiation in terms of innovation development of the living standard of the population from the entire statistical information), specification (revealing specific characteristics of the received categories and clusters); comparison (comparison of regions according to the indicators of the population`s life quality level), classification (grouping of individual indicators into economic categories); generalization (with the help of which conclusions were drawn). There were also used some special methods: cluster methods (the tree clustering method and k-means clustering of the regions of Ukraine by the basic indicators of population`s living standards), the method of the main components (for the development of regional indexes for each category). The research was carried out for the data of 2017 year as the last year, for which statistical information is available with most indicators in a regional context. The object of the study is Ukraine and its 24 regions. The city of Kyiv was highlighted as the capital. The article presents the results of the empirical analysis of the level and quality of population`s life indicators, which allowed to allocate five clusters and a set of indicators for regional differentiation. The study empirically confirms the presence of regional clusters in the category of living standards and theoretically proposes a methodology for its implementation in conditions of innovative development. The results of the study can be useful for analyzing various scenarios for the implementation of social policy aimed at financial and economic protection of the population ensuring. It was shown that for certain regions the quality of population`s life should be considered as a task of their innovative growth.

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Evaluation of quality work life of nurses serving in the Hospital Of Dicle Univercity and the factors affecting itDicle Üniversitesi Hastanesinde çalışan hemşirelerde iş yaşamı kalitesi ve etkileyen etmenlerin değerlendirilmesi

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v14i1.4243 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 131

Author(s):

Mehmet Ali Şen ◽

Günay Saka ◽

Yakup Evreüz

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Life Quality ◽

Work Load ◽

Educational Background ◽

Work Life ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Employment Conditions ◽

Significant Difference

The study, which is a descriptive and cross-sectional one, was carried out on a population consisting of nurses serving at the Hospital of Diyarbakır Dicle University to identify and evaluate the factors affecting their work life quality depending on the employment conditions at the workplace.The population of the study consisted of 720 nurses working in hospital of the Medicine Faculty of Diyarbakır Dicle University and 334 nurses (46.4%) were included in the study. Study data were gathered, after obtaining the required permissions, by a survey form containing 29 questions determining demographic and vocational qualities between 1 September 2015-30 October 2015, and by “Nursing Working Life Quality Scale” developed by Brooks (2001) and adapted into Turkish and tested in terms of validity and confidence by Şirin (2011) was also used. In evaluation of the data, numbers, percentage calculation, standardized deviation mean, Anova, Student t test, Kruskal-Wallis Variance Analysis and Mann-Whitney U test were used. In these analyses p<0,05 was accepted as statistically significant. The total mean score of “Quality of Nursing Work Life Scale” (QNWLS) for nurses in the study was found to be 88,76±21,23. A statistically significant difference was found between participants’ place of employment, satisfaction with the choice of the unit they serve in, satisfaction with monthly salary, incidence of vocational diseases, working conditions from their perspective, love for their profession, educational background, proper employment in compliance with their special education/certificate and the general work life quality they perceive and the QNWLS total score (p<0.05).In conclusion, the results obtained in the study suggest that heavy working conditions in institutions should be moderated, that more qualified nurses should be employed to ease the work load of nurses, that physical conditions in working environments should ameliorated, that the managers should ensure that nurses be employed in field in accordance with their respective specialization and that programmes should be designed to enhance the work life quality of nurses taking due account of their requests, opinions and expectations. ÖzetAraştırma, Diyarbakır ili Dicle Üniversitesi (DÜ) Hastanesinde çalışan hemşirelerin iş yaşam koşullarına bağlı olarak gelişen iş yaşam kalitesini etkileyen etmenleri belirleyip değerlendirmek amacıyla yapılan tanımlayıcı-kesitsel bir araştırmadır.Araştırma evreni, Diyarbakır D.Ü. Tıp Fakültesi hastanesinde çalışan 720 hemşireden oluşmuş ve 334 hemşire (%46.4) çalışmaya dâhil edilmiştir. Çalışmanın verileri, gerekli izinler alındıktan sonra 1 Eylül 2015- 30 Ekim 2015 tarihleri arasında demografik ve mesleki özellikleri belirlemeye yönelik 29 soruluk anket formu ile Brooks’un (2001) geliştirdiği ve Şirin tarafından (2011) Türkçeye uyarlanıp, geçerliliği ve güvenilirliği test edilen “Hemşirelik İş Yaşam Kalitesi Ölçeği” ile elde edilmiştir. Verilerinin değerlendirilmesinde sayı, yüzdelik hesaplama, standart sapma ortalama, Anova, Student t testi, Kruskal-Wallis Varyans analizi ve Mann-Whitney U testi kullanılmıştır. Yapılan analizlerde p<0.05 istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı olarak kabul edilmiştir. “Hemşirelik İş Yaşamı Kalitesi Ölçeği” (HİYKÖ) toplam puan ortalaması 88,76±21,23 olarak bulunmuştur. Katılımcıların, görev yerleri, çalıştığı birimi isteyerek seçme, aylık gelirlerini yeterli bulma, mesleğine bağlı hastalık geçirme, değerlendirdikleri çalışma koşulları, mesleklerini sevme, aldıkları eğitim, aldığı özel eğitim/ sertifikaya uygun görevde çalışma ve algıladıkları genel iş yaşamı kalite durumları ile HİYKÖ toplam puan ortalaması arasındaki fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulunmuştur (p<0.05).Bu sonuçlar doğrultusunda; kurumlarda ağır iş koşulları hafifletilmeli, kurumlarda kalifiye hemşire sayısı arttırılarak hemşirelerin iş yükleri azaltılmalı, çalışma ortamında fiziki şartlar iyileştirilmeli, hemşirelerin uzmanlaştığı alanda çalışmaları sağlanmalı, yöneticiler hemşirelerin istek, görüş ve beklentilerini dikkate alarak iş yaşam kalitelerini arttırıcı programlar oluşturulmalı gibi önerilerde bulunulabilir.

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Population patterns in World’s administrative units

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.170281 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (7) ◽

pp. 170281 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Oscar Fontanelli ◽

Pedro Miramontes ◽

Germinal Cocho ◽

Wentian Li

Keyword(s):

Power Law ◽

Goodness Of Fit ◽

Population Distribution ◽

Population Data ◽

One Dimension ◽

City Population ◽

Administrative Unit ◽

Administrative Units ◽

Extended Discussion ◽

Generalized Beta Distribution

Whereas there has been an extended discussion concerning city population distribution, little has been said about that of administrative divisions. In this work, we investigate the population distribution of second-level administrative units of 150 countries and territories and propose the discrete generalized beta distribution (DGBD) rank-size function to describe the data. After testing the balance between the goodness of fit and number of parameters of this function compared with a power law, which is the most common model for city population, the DGBD is a good statistical model for 96% of our datasets and preferred over a power law in almost every case. Moreover, the DGBD is preferred over a power law for fitting country population data, which can be seen as the zeroth-level administrative unit. We present a computational toy model to simulate the formation of administrative divisions in one dimension and give numerical evidence that the DGBD arises from a particular case of this model. This model, along with the fitting of the DGBD, proves adequate in reproducing and describing local unit evolution and its effect on the population distribution.

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From frontier military post to Hong Ngu district-level town

Science and Technology Development Journal ◽

10.32508/stdj.v17i3.1439 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 16-28

Author(s):

Truong Kim Do

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Focal Point ◽

District Level ◽

Rural District ◽

Early 19Th Century ◽

The North ◽

Late 18Th Century ◽

Administrative Unit ◽

Long Time ◽

Sea Area

Hong Ngu Town is currently the only town of Dong Thap Province. Place name Hung Ngu dates back from early times and was officially recorded in many of Nguyen Dysnasty’s historical records. The place name Hong Ngu originated from Hung Ngu which was the name of the Nguyen Lords’ army troup assigned to guard the border and to collect taxes. The place where the Nguyen Lords’s army troup stationed was named Bao Hung Ngu. The land was garrisoned by the army troup of the same name. Through long-time contact, the land’s name was set as Hung Ngu. For convenience of sound pronunciation, “hung” was pronounced a little bit inclined to “hong”; thereby, “hung ngu” to “hong ngu”. The place name Hung Ngu (now called Hong Ngu) may have been formed in the late 18th Century or the early 19th Century. Bao Hung Ngu troup originally stationed at Rach Doc Vang rivulet mouth (at Thanh Binh rural district), then moved to the lower shore of Hiep An river, now is the Mekong resort of Dong Thap Tourist Company. Over 200 years, Hong Ngu constantly developed. It took 85 years sharp for the frontier military post in the Nguyen Lords’ times to become an administrative unit at rural district level (1029); now it has been the district-level town of the province for 5 years (2009-2014). The paper points out the continuity of the formation and development process as mentioned above. Hong Ngu continues to rise to become an urban area and the clue of an economic focal point of the North of Dong Thap Province, and towards the near future, a city in the sea area.

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Employment and Labor Market Results of the SOPHIE Project

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.1177/0020731416676233 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 18-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mireia Julià ◽

Laia Ollé-Espluga ◽

Christophe Vanroelen ◽

Deborah De Moortel ◽

Sarah Mousaid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Gender Equity ◽

Population Distribution ◽

Well Being ◽

Poor Mental Health ◽

European Countries ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Work Related ◽

Employment Conditions

This article reports evidence gained by the SOPHIE Project regarding employment and labor market-related policies. In the first step, quality of employment and of precarious and informal employment in Europe were conceptualized and defined. Based on these definitions, we analyzed changes in the prevalence and population distribution of key health-affecting characteristics of employment and work between times of economic prosperity and economic crisis in Europe and investigated their impact on health outcomes. Additionally, we examined the effects of several employment and labor market-related policies on factors affecting health equity, including a specific analysis concerning work-related gender equity policies and case studies in different European countries. Our findings show that there is a need to standardize definitions and indicators of (the quality of) employment conditions and improve information systems. This is challenging given the important differences between and within European countries. In our results, low quality of employment and precarious employment is associated with poor mental health. In order to protect the well-being of workers and reduce work-related health inequalities, policies leading to precarious working and employment conditions need to be suspended. Instead, efforts should be made to improve the security and quality of employment for all workers.

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Factors Affecting Life Quality of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Sufferers at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar

IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science ◽

10.9790/1959-0253034 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (5) ◽

pp. 30-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lasmaria Magdalena ◽

Keyword(s):

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽

Life Quality ◽

Factors Affecting

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The Nexus between Poverty and the Environment: A Case Study of Lijiang, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12031066 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1066 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ping Gao ◽

Shenghe Liu ◽

Wei Qi ◽

Honggang Qi

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Socioeconomic Factors ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Western China ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Spatial Differences ◽

Administrative Unit ◽

Administrative Units ◽

And Control

Highlighting the nexus between poverty and environment is essential to promote poverty alleviation and sustainable development. This study analyzed spatial differences and environmental factors influencing poverty incidence and reduction using spatial statistical methods and GeoDetector tools. It focused on Lijiang in the Hengduan Mountains of western China as the case area. The results indicate a notable decline in poverty incidence in most Lijiang villages during 2014–2018 under China’s poverty alleviation strategy. However, there are distinct spatial differences for both poverty incidence and reduction. The main environmental factors affecting poverty incidence and reduction are available water storage and geological hazard risks. Socioeconomic factors such as administrative unit and distance to city center also play a key role. The anti-poverty policies in various administrative units have the most significant influence. However, existing policy formulation mainly considers elevation factor in mountainous areas. This study suggests that water resources and geological hazards should also be highly considered, and not only elevation. It is imperative to promote the construction of water conservancy facilities and improve the prevention and control of geological disasters. Moreover, targeted poverty alleviation should focus on, not only policy or socioeconomic factors, but also main environmental factors affecting poverty incidence and reduction.

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