scholarly journals Crisis, Urban Fabrics, and the Public Interest: The Israeli Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadas Shadar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Community Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Coping ◽  
State Of Israel

The relation between urbanization and pandemics is not new. In fact, the “reformative” urban plans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought the addition of green patches, reliable running water systems, good sanitation, and sunlight to fend off the common ailments of the industrial city. No wonder then that these urban planning elements are also compatible with the Covid-19 era, as ample green and low-density areas are supposed to ensure or at least support quality of life and good health, even amid the health crisis we face today. This article examines whether additional elements tie together urban fabrics and coping with crises, particularly pandemics. To answer this question, I examine national urban planning in the state of Israel from the mid-20th century onwards. Urban planning in Israel has implemented theories and precedents from Europe and America; however, Israeli planners have also included nationalist-ideological contents in their work, so that the state and its interests have dictated their planning. The article concludes that the state interest of producing a cohesive society has created Israeli urban fabrics with community values and proximity to green areas, which are better suited for individual coping with crises involving the denial of personal freedom, whether due to a pandemic or any other reason. Accordingly, it proposes viewing these elements as suggestive of the need for significant involvement by public representatives in future urban renewal efforts.

ISO 9001 and the public service: an investigation of the effect of the QMS on the quality of public service organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Armando López-Lemus
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the influence exerted by a quality management system (QMS) under ISO 9001: 2015 on the quality of public services organizations in Mexico. Design/methodology/approach The methodological design was quantitative, explanatory, observational and transversal, for which a sample of 461 public servants from the state of Guanajuato, Mexico was obtained. To test the hypotheses, a structural equation model (SEM) was developed through the statistical software Amos v.21. For the analysis of the data, software SPSS v.21 was used. Regarding the goodness and adjustment indices of the SEM (χ2 = 720.09, df = 320, CFI = 0.933, TLI = 0.926 and RMSEA = 0.05) which, therefore, proved to be acceptable. Findings According to the results obtained through the SEM model, the QMS under ISO 9001: 2015 is positively and significantly influenced tangible aspects (β1 = 0.79, p < 0.01), reliability (β2 = 0.90, p < 0.01), related to response quality (β3 = 0.93, p < 0.01), guarantees (β4 = 0.91, p < 0.01) and empathy (β5 = 0.88, p < 0.01) of the quality related to public services in Mexico. The study’s key contribution is that it discovered that implementing a QMS in accordance with the ISO 9001: 2015 standard has an impact on the quality of public services, with the most influential quality of response. Similarly, the assurance and dependability of service quality turned out to be important in providing public service quality. Research limitations/implications In this paper, the QMS was only evaluated as a variable that intervenes in the process of obtaining quality in public service under the ISO 9001 standard in its 2015 version. In this regard, the results’ trustworthiness is limited to the extent that the findings may be generalized in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico’s public service. As a result, the scientific community is left primarily focused on service quality to promote new future research. Practical implications The ISO 9001: 2015 standard’s QMS is one of the tools for success in both the commercial and government sectors. However, there are practical limitations, which focus on the time during which managers exercise their vision in the public sector: first, the dynamics that managers play in public policy; second, the length of time they have served in public office; and third, the interest of directors of public institutions to improve the quality of service provided by the government. Other practical consequences concern organizational culture and identity, public servant commitment, senior management or secretaries of government, as well as work and training. Originality/value The findings of this paper are important and valuable because they foster knowledge generation in the public sector through the ISO 9000 quality area. A model that permits the adoption and implementation of a QMS based on the ISO 9001: 2015 standard in public organizations that seek to provide quality in their services offered to the user is also presented to the literature. Similarly, the paper is important because there is currently insufficient research focusing on the variables examined in the context of public service in Mexico.

HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSECUTION BODIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-203
Author(s):  
Adilet Merkanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The State ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Democratic Rule

Nowadays in Kyrgyz Republic take a place huge reforms of prosecutors. The implementation of national projects requires a new quality of prosecutorial oversight so that the human rights and law enforcement potential of the prosecutor’s office really contributes to the development of a democratic rule of law. The prosecutor's office as one of the state legal institutions plays an extremely important role in the public and state life of the Kyrgyz Republic. As you know, the successful implementation of socio-economic and socio-political transformations in the state largely depends on existing laws, the observance of which the prosecutor's office is called upon to monitor.

Health Care System Structure in the State of Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Mohammad Yasser Sabbah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Care System

The health care system in the State of Israel consists of two sectors - the public sector, which includes government-owned hospitals and medical institutes. The public health sector includes the community health system, health funds, family medicine, the general care system and the mental health care system. The second sector is the private sector, which includes private hospitals and medical institutes. Both sectors are supervised by the Israeli Ministry of Health, which is the supreme governmental authority through which it implements its policy in the entire health system in Israel. The law provides and guarantees medical insurance for every resident of Israel, the right to receive medical treatment, the prohibition of discrimination, informed consent to medical treatment, the right to receive an additional medical opinion, the dignity and privacy of the patient and the right to attend. Health funds in Israel were established before the State of Israel was established. The ideological concept of the health funds was based on the principle of equality and mutual assistance.

scholarly journals Awareness of Meaning in Life is Protective Against Burnout Among Family Physicians: A CERA Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Hooker ◽  
Robert E. Post ◽  
Michelle D. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Family Medicine ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Program Directors ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Residency Program Directors

Background and Objectives: Burnout is considered a public health crisis among physicians and is related to poor quality of life, increased medical errors, and lower patient satisfaction. A recent literature review and conceptual model suggest that awareness of life meaning, or meaning salience, is related to improved stress and coping, and may also reduce experience of burnout. This study examined associations among meaning salience, burnout, fatigue, and quality of life among family medicine residency program directors. Methods: Data were collected via an online survey administered by the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA; n=268, response rate of 45.4%) in December 2018. Program directors completed measures of meaning salience, burnout, fatigue, and quality of life. Data were analyzed using Spearman correlations and path analysis. Results: Program directors who reported greater experienced meaning salience also reported significantly less burnout (β=-.40, P&lt;.001) and less fatigue (β=-.38, P&lt;.001), which were then both significantly associated with greater quality of life (Ps&lt;.001). Program directors who reported greater meaning salience also reported greater quality of life (β=.21, P&lt;.001). Additionally, there were significant indirect associations between meaning salience and quality of life through less burnout and fatigue (β=.26, P&lt;.001). Conclusions: The potential for increasing physicians’ awareness of their sense of meaning as a means to prevent or decrease burnout is underresearched and warrants further study. Both preventive measures (eg, wellness curricula) and interventions with already-distressed physicians may encourage regular reflection on meaning in life, especially during busy workdays.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Penerimaan Negara dengan Penerapan Modul Penerimaan Negara Generasi Kedua Wilayah Kerja

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Andy Priyambodo
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Budget ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Time Period ◽  
State Expenditure ◽  
State Revenues

State revenue is the most important part of the State Budget to finance various sectors of state expenditure. In support of this country's acceptance in apply MPN-G2 to facilitate the public in paying taxes. The result found that effectiveness of state revenue by applying of MPN-G2 system is quite effective in the case of quantity in the form of increasing percentage of amount of realization and transaction of state revenue. While the quality of state revenues after the MPN-G2 less effective because of input transparency of state revenue transactions is still too large so that the validity of the transaction is in doubt. For the duration of the state revenue with billing shows effective results because it is faster in the state revenue deposit, but the delegation of state revenue is less effective because it is still like the old system all transactions collected first with the time period determined after it was transferred to the state treasury. This study also produces factors that affect the effectiveness of state revenue with MPN-G2 such as communication, resources, and clarity of technology and procedures.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHOD OF ASSESSING THREATS AND RISKS- MANAGEMENT THE OF ECONOMIC SAFETY IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 148-157
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Tsiklauri ◽  
L. S. Belousova ◽  
A. I. Devyatilova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development

Russia today is a dynamically developing state that, despite external pressure, continues to strengthen its positions in the world arena, timely preventing external and internal threats to economic security. Social stability is a fundamental prerequisite for the dynamic development of the state. In this regard, the state's task is to prevent destructive processes in social and economic development, using a set of measures and management procedures. The state of the social sphere, trends and forecasts of its formation have always been in the focus of the interests of the leadership of our country, government organizations and the scientific community. This is because the social sphere is of primary importance for the development of society in particular and the state as a whole. In recent years, large-scale changes have begun to take place in the Russian Federation, including the development of new public legislation, the implementation of targeted projects, the formation of a new concept of public protection of the population, and many actions have been taken to provide a decent level of well-being and increase the quality of life of the Russian people. Despite the fact that the Russian government has made great efforts to reduce the scale of unemployment and poverty, improving the quality of life, the social problem remains quite acute. The main factor was the sudden change in the international situation in the last few years, the introduction of financial and restrictive sanctions, the implementation of hostile political activities by certain foreign states against Russia, and as a result, the complication of the social and financial situation within our state. However, successful social and financial development remains the highest value for the Russian state in the near future. The purpose of this activity is to identify the relevance and complexity of problems of economic security and assess indicators that determine threats to security in the public sphere. Observation and diagnosis of the degree of threats to the national interests of the state on the basis of indicators of socio-economic development indicators in the public domain is a priority task in the existing realities of our life. Modeling the threats to economic security, ie, obtaining specific values of economic security indicators depending on their belonging to a particular risk class (level), it is possible to develop an appropriate plan of measures to improve economic security in the social sphere on the basis of the proposed classification. Monitoring and diagnosing the level of threats to the national interests of the country on the basis of indicators of social and economic development in the social sphere is a paramount task in the existing realities of our life. At the same time, the results obtained serve as a good basis for developing development strategies for the future with the preservation of social stability. The aim of the study is to formulate methodological provisions for the development of the theory of economic security based on the definition of threats to the economic security of the social sphere, using the proposed model of the relationship between the key factors that affect the level of security in this area. The research uses a set of general scientific approaches (abstract-logical, deductive, complex and systemic). The realization of the research process was carried out with the help of the dialectical method of cognition, which predetermines the study of economic phenomena in their interconnection and development. To solve individual problems, economic-statistical methods, comparison methods, absolute, relative and average values, graphical and tabular data representation, correlation-regression analysis, Ward clustering were used.

scholarly journals FINANCING THE PROCESS OF PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OF UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF INFORMATIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
I. Mokhova ◽  
I. Dragan ◽  
O. Коzyrieva ◽  
N. Gavkalova ◽  
A. Dubovik
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Forecast Model ◽  
The State ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Service

Abstract. The article examines the mechanisms of process financing informatization of administrative services. The purpose of the article is to determine the sources of funding and prospects for the provision of administrative services in terms of informatization of the public sector of Ukraine. Research methods are comparative analysis of analytical and official statistical data of Ukraine, institutes of international support on the basis of group classification of instruments of financing of Administrative Servics Center (ASC). It is proved that decentralization, development and improvement of the quality of administrative services determine the ASC as a priority area of reforming the system of administrative services in Ukraine. The legal bases of creation and maintenance of functioning of ASC, legal statuses of establishment, principles of process of rendering of administrative services in ASC are defined. The dynamics of the number of administrative service centers and regional features of functioning are analyzed. Sources of financing of ASC (the state budget, regional and city budgets, means of the State fund of regional development, the international projects of technical assistance) are allocated. It is proved that the most common and largest source of funding for informatization processes in the ASC is the state budget (subvention for infrastructure development). The authors propose a forecast model for the creation and development of administrative service centers in Ukraine under conditions of further state funding in appropriate volumes. The necessity of attracting external sources of financing (funds of international technical assistance projects, initiatives of international donors) in the conditions of limited and deficit of the state budget of Ukraine is substantiated. The necessity of modernization of ASC from the point of view of use of IT-technologies is substantiated. Priority areas for comprehensive reform of improving the quality of administrative services are identified: decentralization, simplification, deregulation, institutional capacity development and communication support. Keywords: financing, administrative services, informatization, public sector. JEL Classification D92 Formulas: 0; fig.: 4; tabl.: 1; bibl.: 13.

HISTORY AND REFORMS OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
Adilet Merkanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Democratic Rule

Nowadays in Kyrgyz Republic take a place huge reforms of prosecutors. The implementation of national projects requires a new quality of prosecutorial oversight so thatthe human rights and law enforcement potential of the prosecutor’s office really contributes to the development of a democratic rule of law. The prosecutor's office as one of the state legal institutions plays an extremely important role in the public and state life of the Kyrgyz Republic. As you know, the successful implementation of socio-economic and socio-political transformations in the state largely depends on existing laws, the observance of which the prosecutor's office is called upon to monitor.

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