The Importance of Public Health Policies in the Social - Economic Development of Romania

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), no studies have been documented to analyze the equity aspects of public health policies. The aims of the study were to identify policy documents in the KSA relevant to public health and to explore whether these include an equity approach. Twenty health-related documents were identified from various ministries’ websites and analyzed through directed content analysis. The results showed that the term “equity” was neither defined nor explained in the documents and suggestions on how to tackle health inequities were lacking. None of the suggested measures communicated an explicit focus on promoting health equity or the social gradient. Several upstream, midstream, and downstream measures were suggested to improve justice and public health for the people. The study reveals that there is a need for an in-depth assessment of the policy measures across sectors and their influence on health equity to inform future health policy development and action in the KSA.

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Norwegian Public Health Policy: Revitalization of the Social Democratic Welfare State?

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.2190/hs.39.2.d ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 287-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Elisabeth Fosse

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Welfare State ◽

State Model ◽

Health Policies ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Left Wing ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

Social Democratic ◽

The Social ◽

Structural Measures

Norway is part of the so-called social democratic welfare state model, which is characterized by its emphasis on solidarity and redistribution among social groups. The concepts of upstream and downstream policy measures may be useful to characterize different approaches to public health policies: upstream measures would be structural measures, in line with the social democratic welfare state model, while downstream measures would be more targeted at individuals or groups at some sort of risk. The aim of this article is to analyze national policies in Norway and how these may be characterized in terms of upstream and downstream factors. Health promotion and public health policies have been high on the Norwegian political agenda for two decades. However, the national policy emphasis has shifted between strategies aimed at individuals and structural strategies—that is, between downstream and upstream measures. Until 2003, policies included mainly downstream measures, but since then a policy shift has taken place and current policy includes an emphasis on upstream measures. This policy was strengthened after a left-wing coalition came into government in 2005. It may be argued that the present policy represents a revitalization of universal and structural measures, in line with the social democratic welfare state model.

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Polygon competitiveness as an assessment of the social economic development of major cities

Proceedings of the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies ◽

10.20914/2310-1202-2016-2-323-326 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 323-326

Author(s):

L. S. Mashentsova

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Social Economic ◽

The Social ◽

Social Economic Development

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Human Rights in a Pandemic

Outlines of global transformations politics economics law ◽

10.23932/2542-0240-2020-13-5-13 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 219-252

Author(s):

A. Zhebit

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Human Rights ◽

Social Economic ◽

Health Policies ◽

The Political ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

The Public ◽

Social Actions ◽

Travel Restrictions ◽

The Face

The article is focused on the problem of human rights (HRs), limited or derogated from, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While addressing some HRs limitations, derogations and even abuses, and their consequent problems, the aim is to try to analyze policy, social, moral and personal dilemmas of HRs restrictions as well as motivations behind the types of public and social behavior, in the course of the pandemic, in response to the public measures of sanitation, social distancing and confinement, travel restrictions and social assistance, recommended by the WHO and selectively followed by governments. Learning from some old experience and deriving new lessons from the pandemic, as well as from public and social actions and reactions, the purpose of the present article is to assess whether or not public health policies in this context, implemented nationally or internationally, can promote change in the HRs paradigm in the face of the existing dilemmas and dichotomies in HRs, aggravated by the pandemic. The conclusion is that the extant HRs paradigm should be redefined to address better the political, social, economic, environmental and, especially, existential exigencies of “rainy times”, thus leading to the creation of a new universal HRs code or to harmonizing the existing one.

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Uma experiência de formação para a participação social

Trilhas Filosóficas ◽

10.25244/tf.v10i1.3063 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 67-84

Author(s):

Francisca Fabiana da Silva ◽

José Carlos Martins da Silva

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Rio Grande ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

Health Policies ◽

The Political ◽

São Paulo ◽

Educational Materials ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

The Social

Resumo: O presente trabalho configura-se como um estudo acerca da atuação da Pastoral da Criança no controle social das políticas públicas de saúde, especificamente no desenvolvimento de processos de formação que favorecem a participação social e o exercício da cidadania, que constituem práticas fundamentais para a construção da sociedade do Bem Viver. As atividades realizadas pelos voluntários, capacitados pela Pastoral da Criança, nos espaços políticos e sociais, semeiam esperança junto a um povo sofrido, esquecido pela sua condição social, ao mesmo tempo que fortalecem a comunidade. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, em que analisamos a ação da entidade à luz dos materiais educativos produzidos para formação e acompanhamento dos agentes voluntários. Como pressupostos teóricos utilizamos, entre outros, os estudos de Gonh (2011), Pastoral da Criança (2000, 2008) e Nascimento (2006). Os resultados revelam que as ações desenvolvidas pela Pastoral da Criança aliadas à participação política dos voluntários, nos conselhos municipais de saúde e na comunidade, contribuem para a melhoria das políticas públicas de saúde e se constituem como práticas sociais efetivas de construção da cidadania. Palavras-chave: Formação; Participação Social; Saúde; Cidadania. Abstract: The present work is a study about the performance of Pastoral da Criança in the social control of public health policies, which are fundamental practices for the construction of the society of well live. The activities carried out by volunteers, trained by Pastoral da Criança, in the political and social spaces, hey sow hope together with the suffering people, forgotten by their social condition, at the same time that they strengthen the community. This is a qualitative research, in which we analyze the action of the entity in the light of the educational materials produced for training and follow-up of volunteer agents. As theoretical presuppositions, we use, among others, the studies of Gonh (2011), Pastoral da Criança (2000, 2008) and Nascimento (2006). The results show that the actions developed by Pastoral da Criança, together with the political participation of the volunteers, in the municipal health councils and in the community, contribute to the improvement of public health policies and constitute effective social practices for the construction of citizenship. Keywords: Formation; Social Participation; health; Citizenship. REFERÊNCIAS BRASIL. Constituição (1988). Constituição Federal. República Federativa do Brasil. Brasília: Senado Federal, 1988. _____. Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria da Atenção à Saúde. Lei 8.080 de 19 de setembro de 1990. Dispõe sobre as condições para a promoção, proteção e recuperação da saúde, a organização e o funcionamento dos serviços correspondentes e dá outras providências. Diário Oficial da União. Brasília, DF, 1990. CONFERENCIA NACIONAL DOS BISPOS DO BRASIL. Fraternidade e Política: justiça e paz se abraçaram: Manual/CNBB. São Paulo: Salesiana Dom Bosco, 1996. ______. Compêndio da doutrina Social da Igreja / Pontifício Conselho “justiça e paz”. 4 ed. São Paulo: Paulinas, 2008. GOHN, Maria da Glória. Conselhos gestores e participação sociopolítica. São Paulo: Cortez, 2011. GIL, Antonio Carlos. Métodos e técnicas da pesquisa social. 6. ed. São Paulo: Atlas, 2011. INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA. Censo demográfico 2010: população residente, resultados do universo segundo mesorregiões, microregiões, municípios, distritos, subdistritos e bairros: Rio Grande do Norte. [online]: IBGE, 2010. Disponível em: <http://www.ibge.com.br>. Acesso em: 03 jan. 2014. ISTITUTO GOVERNAR. Revista Governar Cidades. Ano 1. n.O1, p. 8-16, fev. 2010. NASCIMENTO, José Mateus. Um Evangelho segundo a Pastoral da Criança: por uma pedagogia de sobrevivência. 2006. 265f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, 2006. PASTORAL DA CRIANÇA. Guia do líder da Pastoral da Criança: Para países de língua portuguesa. 22. ed. Curitiba. 2000. _____. O Articulador junto ao conselho de saúde. Curitiba: [s.n.], 2008. (Série Participação e Controle Social). REIMBERG, Cristiane Oliveira. Dois olhares sobre a relação entre jornalismo e a Pastoral da Criança: a comunicação popular do jornal da entidade e a cobertura jornalística da Folha de S.Paulo. São Paulo. 164f. Monografia (Especialização em Jornalismo Social) - Coordenadoria Geral de Especialização, Aperfeiçoamento e Extensão. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo, 2006.

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SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE STABLE IMPLEMENTATION OF REGIONS SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

European Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.12955/ejbe.v2i0.91 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Shukhrat Azimov

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Social Economic ◽

The Social ◽

Economical Development ◽

Social Economic Development

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the importance of systematic approach of the social-economical development in accordance with its generality, regionality, comparability, and logicality characteristics. There has been also given ideas about the importance of ‘nature-population-household-nature’ cycle in the stable ecological-social-economical development.

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Study on Water Resource Carrying Capacity of Enshi Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.864-867.2288 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 864-867 ◽

pp. 2288-2291

Author(s):

Yi Sun ◽

Jun Wei Wan ◽

Song Yuan Yang ◽

Yan Qiu Lu

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Resource ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Social Economic ◽

Analysis And Evaluation ◽

The Social ◽

Vector Module ◽

Water Resource Carrying Capacity ◽

Social Economic Development

Starting from the function of water resources to the social economic development, using the method of vector module, this thesis makes the analysis and evaluation of Enshi water resource carrying capacity. The results show that the water resource carrying capacity maintain its wide between 0.0884 to 0.1275 in 2007-2011, which shows that the carrying capacity of water resource in Enshi can meet the needs of social economic development.

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The Impact of Public Health Expenditure on Economic Development – Evidence from Prefecture-Level Panel Data of Shandong Province

Research in World Economy ◽

10.5430/rwe.v8n2p59 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 59 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lin Li ◽

Maoguo Wu ◽

Zhenyu Wu

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Economic Development ◽

Panel Data ◽

Health Expenditure ◽

Social Economic ◽

Shandong Province ◽

Quantitative Relation ◽

Public Health Expenditure ◽

Social Economic Development ◽

The Impact

Public health expenditure is an indispensable part of social economy. The public has always paid close attention to public health expenditure. In order to study the quantitative relation between public health expenditure and social economic development, this paper investigates prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province, due to the unique characteristics of Shandong Province. Making theoretical and empirical contributions, this paper augments the Cobb-Douglas production function with public health expenditure and empirically analyzes economic development of prefecture- level cities in Shandong Province. A panel data set is established, followed by multivariate regression analysis. Empirical results find that public health expenditure per capita and coverage of medical insurance can significantly promote social economic development. However, the expansion and growth of the number of health institutions does not necessarily promote economic development. Instead, it may even hold back economic development by causing personnel redundancy and waste of resources. If the government transfers its investment focus from the scale and the speed of development of medical services to their fairness and efficiency, public health expenditure may vastly improve both public health and economic development.

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