scholarly journals Poverty as a predisposing factor of illness tendencies in sugar cane workers

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (spe) ◽  
pp. 736-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha ◽  
Maria Helena Palucci Marziale ◽  
Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Predisposing Factor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musculoskeletal Problems ◽  
Intense Solar Radiation ◽  
The Individual

This exploratory research based on the Social Ecological Theory aimed to study the health promotion of 39 people working in the harvest of the sugarcane in São Paulo, Brazil. The objectives were to identify the individual, social and environmental factors predisposing the workers to illnesses. The data were collected through direct observation of the labor activity and a questionnaire. The main individual determinant factors were physical effort and hectic work rhythm, and among the environmental factors, intense solar radiation, dust, soot and the presence of venomous animals were highlighted. The conditions of life and work reflect the poverty of these individuals and are the main social determinants of illness. The interaction of these factors can cause respiratory, cutaneous, musculoskeletal problems, occupational accidents. Thus, eradicating poverty and improving work conditions are fundamental for the health promotion of these workers.

The Mentally Ill in Your Caseload

2016 ◽  
pp. 409-420
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Psychology ◽  
The Individual

In this talk delivered to social workers, Winnicott brings his understanding of professional psychiatry, with its attempts to treat severe mental illness using a more humane approach, together with his belief in dynamic psychology—the emotional development of the individual derived from the study of psychoanalysis—into a closer connection with one another. He charts a brief outline of psychoanalysis and interprets the psychoses through it. He sees the importance of early environmental factors in mental illness and the possible effects of this on maturation. He comments on depression both normal and psychotic in type, on his theories of personalization, of feeling real, and, through early dependence, the gradual growth of the functioning self. He also gives an empathic view of the role of the social worker in the difficult work of treating acute mental ill health.

scholarly journals School and community relationship in the perspective of Health Promotion

10.3823/2415 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Benegelania Pinto ◽  
Kênia Lara Silva ◽  
Luciana Dantas Farias de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Context ◽  
School Community ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
School And Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Relationship

Goals: The aim of this study was to analyze the scientific production on the relationship between school and community in the perspective of Health Promotion. Method: Integrative review. The search was guided by question: How has the relationship between school and community occurred in Health Promotion? Results: Nine studies were selected in Portuguese, Spanish and English, published from April 2006 to April 2016. Most of the rescued studies showed that the type of relationship between school and community has based on actions that are not linked to the principles of Health Promotion, mostly focused on the individual, without considering collective issues, risk factors that cause illness, disconnected from the social context. Few studies present advances in Health Promotion with a critical-citizen perspective and experiences with the potential for the necessary establishment of the school and community relation. Conclusion: Although the relationship between school and community in the perspective of Health Promotion presents as elementary and not deepened, the successful experiences show good prospects of overcoming. It is necessary to move forward and bring the relationship between school and community in a synergetic movement in favor of Health Promotion. Descriptors: Health promotion; School; Community.

scholarly journals LITERASI MEDIA DIGITAL BERBASIS INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK PADA ANGGOTA MAJELIS TAKLIM KOTA PALEMBANG PENGGUNA WHATSAPP

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Nurly Meilinda ◽  
Krisna Murti ◽  
Novaria Maulina
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competence Framework ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Digital Media Literacy ◽  
The City ◽  
Communicative Abilities

This study aims to determine the level of digital media literacy based on the individual competence framework in member of Majelis Taklim of Palembang City. This study uses a quantitative approach with a survey method based on the framework of the individual competence framework of the Europian Commission. This study involved 80 research respondents from members of the Taklim Assembly in Palembang City. the individual competence of Taklim members in using the WhatsApp application are in the advanced category, with details as follows: use skills are in the advanced category, critical understanding is in the advanced category, communicative abilities are in the advanced category. The advance category means that members of the Taklim assembly in the city of Palembang have been very active in using media, they are also aware and interested in various regulations that affect the use of digital media, especially WhatsApp. Respondents have deep knowledge of techniques and languages and can communicate and create messages. In the social field, respondents have been able to activate group collaboration that allows him to solve problems. The factors that encourage respondents to use WhatsApp are environmental factors and individual factors. Environmental factors are encouragement from family members and people around the respondents, while individual factors are a sense of motivation to be able to socialize and add information to themselves.

scholarly journals Changing Smoking Behavior of Staff at Dr. Zainoel Abidin Provincial General Hospital, Banda Aceh

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Said Usman ◽  
Soekidjo Notoadmodjo ◽  
Kintoko Rochadi ◽  
Fikarwin Zuska
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions ◽  
Banda Aceh

Smoking tobacco is a habit of individuals. Determinants of smoking behavior are multiple factors both within the individual and in the social environment around the individual. Staff smoking has been an undesirable phenomenon at Dr. Zainoel Abidin Provincial General Hospital in Banda Aceh. Health promotion efforts are a strategy that has resulted in behavioral changes with reductions in smoking by staff. This action research was designed to analyze changes in smoking behavior of hospital staff. The sample for this research was all 152 male staff who were smokers. The results of this research showed that Health Promotion Interventions (HPI) consisting of personal empowerment plus social support and advocacy to improve employee knowledge and attitudes influenced staff to stop or to significantly. HPI employed included counseling programs, distribution of antismoking leaflets, putting up antismoking posters, and installation of no smoking signs. These HPI proved effective to increase knowledge and create a positive attitude to nonsmoking that resulted in major reductions in smoking by staff when offsite and complete cessation of smoking whilst in the hospital. Continuous evaluation, monitoring, and strengthening of policies banning smoking should be maintained in all hospitals.

Consumers in Virtual Worlds: Identity Building and Consuming Experience in Second Life

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Parmentier ◽  
Sylvie Rolland
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Consumer Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Positioning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Initial Framework

This paper examines the link that exists between individuals and their avatars in virtual worlds, in terms of identity. The outcomes of the study suggest that virtual worlds and the social and business interactions they offer are tools to build consumer identity. This exploratory research is based on a qualitative study using the chat mode to conduct 34 interviews in the Second Life virtual world. In the transition from the real to the virtual world, the individual must build another identity and operate a transfer, partial or total, from his real identity to the virtual one. The aim of the study is to offer an initial framework in order to understand this transition and its result in terms of identity positioning. Four types of identity positioning are identified: duplication, improvement, transformation and metamorphosis.

scholarly journals Promoting Mental Health for healthier subsistence

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
KD Upadhya
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Mental health is not merely an absence of mental illness. It’s also a relationship between an individual and the society that the individual dwells and all the social process and institutions that a society embodies within. There exist several personal and environmental factors culminating into some form of mental illness. Therefore prevention of these factors helps prevent mental illness or delay their onset for timely intervention. Various public health strategies have genuine implications in day to day life an individual and population at large. The combination of mental health with such public health strategies will have synergistic effect. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v2i1.8574 J Psychiatrists’ Association of Nepal Vol .2, No.1, 2013 39-42

Relationship of Schizophrenia to the Environment

1989 ◽  
Vol 155 (S5) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
Social Stimulation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Negative Syndrome ◽  
First Rank Symptoms ◽  
Relationship Of

Attention was first drawn to the importance of this topic by Schneider (1957) when he proposed that some of his first-rank symptoms could be grouped together under the concept of ‘permeability’ of the barrier between the individual and his/her environment — the ‘loss of ego boundaries’. Similarly, in a recent series of papers (Strauss et al, 1987), the essence of schizophrenia was conceptualised in the processes of interaction between biology, behaviour, and environment. The two main syndromes — acute and chronic — can each be precipitated or made worse by environmental factors, and although most patients with the negative syndrome appear to show some irreducible impairment, poverty of the social environment has been found to worsen their condition, while on the other hand, a moderate degree of social stimulation promotes relative improvement (Wing, 1987).

Health Promotion for Older Americans in the 21st Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minkler ◽  
Helen Schauffler ◽  
Kristen Clements-Nolle
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Objectives. To provide a broad overview of the role of the individual, the physical environment, and the social environment on health and functioning in older adults (65 and older), and to highlight interventions and recommendations for action on each of these levels. Data Sources. Published studies and government reports on health and functioning in older Americans and on the individual, social, and physical environmental contributors to health were identified through journal and government documents review and computer library searches of medical and social science data bases for 1980–1999. Study Selection. Preference was given to published studies and government reports that focused specifically on behavioral and environmental contributors and barriers to health promotion in Americans 65 and older and/or that highlighted creative interventions with relevance to this population. Both review articles and presentations of original research were included, with the latter selected based on soundness of design and execution and/or creativity of intervention described. Data Extraction. Studies were examined and their findings organized under three major headings: (1) behavioral risk factors and risk reduction, including current government standards for prevention and screening; (2) the role of the physical environment; and (3) the role of the social environment in relation to health promotion of older adults. Data Synthesis. Although most attention has been paid to the role of behavioral factors in health promotion for older adults, a substantial body of evidence suggests that physical and social environmental factors also play a key role. Similarly, interventions that promote individual behavioral risk reduction and interventions targeting the broader social or physical environment all may contribute to health in the later years. Conclusions. With the rapid aging of America's population, increased attention must be focused on health promotion for those who are or will soon be older adults. Promising intervention strategies addressing the individual, the physical environment, and the social environment should be identified and tested, and their potential for replication explored, as we work toward a more comprehensive approach to improving the health of older Americans in the 21st century.

Acidentes com pérfuro-cortantes na equipe de enfermagem

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1071
Author(s):  
Suelem Do Rozario ◽  
Jorge Luiz Lima da Silva ◽  
Enéas Rangel Teixeira ◽  
Simoni Furtado Da Costa ◽  
Aline Landim Farani Faria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Workers ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Accidents ◽  
Cutting And Piercing ◽  
Selection Of

Objective: to discuss the occurrence accidents with cutting and piercing material among nursing workers. Methods: this was a descriptive and exploratory research which was based on literature review. A selection of articles on the internet was through the descriptors related to the subject and interpretative reading of the material. Articles were included dissertations and books relating to issues. The collection of material for the study was conducted from July 2007 to July 2008. Results: the contents were organized in the following subject matters: Conditions of nursing work and the context of accidents with pierce-cutting materials; The health workers knowledge regarding the occupational accidents; Preventive measurements and treatment. Conclusion: it is verified that, most part of accidents happen because of inappropriate work conditions, with the existence of the following components: professional’s ignorance, working days, division and accumulation of unsatisfactory tasks, and others factors that predispose some workers to the risks of accidents with pierce-cutting materials and biological exposure. Descriptors: work accidents; nursing team; work conditions.

scholarly journals english teacher's work in relation to the prescriptions of the official documents and the work conditions in the public school

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Renata Pucci
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

This paper presents an enunciative analysis of the discourses of a group of teachers aiming to understand the ways in which the teachers elaborate the English teaching in the public school in relation to the prescriptions of the official documents and the work conditions. The theoretical basis for the enunciative-discursive analysis is based on Bakhtin and Volochínov, authors who theorize the social, dialogic and ideological language in the discursive formation of the individual. The text develops a brief contextualization of the scenary in which the teaching of English is established in public schools, including the trajectory of the insertion of the English language in the curriculum of the schools and the presentation of official documents that support the offer of the subject. The analyzes indicate that the official documents discourses organize the teachers’ view of English language teaching practices in the public school, guide the evaluation of the teaching methods and the appreciation of the work itself in the classroom.

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