scholarly journals Social insecurity of freelance workers: objective position and subjective perception

Inter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 62-80
Author(s):  
Galina G. Karpova ◽  
Anastasiya S. Ubogova ◽  
Anna A. Fedoseeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment

This article is devoted to the social vulnerability of freelance workers and the way it is represented in different dimensions of precariousness. According to the previous studies, we identifed the categories of social insurance (fnancial, juridical, lack of social guaranteesand lack of personal well-being) and the most common indicators within each. We conducted a qualitative research using in-depth semi-formal interviews with 21 employees older than 18 years, who are engaged in freelancing at the moment or had such experience in the last couple of years. The number of informants included employees for whom freelance is one of the main sources of income for at least one year. During the interview, the informants were speaking about the subjective assessment of social precariousness and also answered to some questions aimed at identifying the objective features of the precious situation in employment status. In the analysis of subjective assessments of social precariousness, it was revealed that informants cannot be divided into categories according to the degree of precariousness, because they can experience social vulnerability in one or several areas at the same time. According to the results of the study, we propose to consider precariousness as a certain scale from 0 to the maximum value of the insecurity parameters. This approach will take into account the importance of subjective assessment of freelancers’ position, while the dichotomy “precariat — free agent”, which is mostly shared by researchers, does not consider the complexity of this social phenomenon.

scholarly journals Factors of public well-being of residents of the Russian province

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
V. A. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Relevant Factors

The article analyzes the features of the social well-being of the residents of the Russian province, examines the relevant factors that influence its level and direction. The author points out that the socio-cultural features of the periphery are essential for people’s subjective perception of the success of their lives. The article concludes that the social well-being of residents of the Russian province is largely determined by the age of the respondents. Middle-aged and older Russians are much less likely to perceive their social status as high, rarely have high self-esteem, and see opportunities for self-realization in the future. The social well-being of residents of the Russian province is also significantly influenced by the level of education, readiness for continuous self-development and education throughout life, subjective assessment of their own material well-being, as well as the degree of social integration of a person and support from the immediate environment and the local community. Based on the analysis, the author concludes that the social policy of the Russian state and society is not very effective, and that it is necessary to develop social institutions that focus on the formation of “self-care” competencies for Russian residents throughout their lives.

scholarly journals Quarantine conditions of education and life of Osyp Bodiansky in 1830–1831 (according to the letters of the Bodіansky brothers)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
Vita Bova
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Academic Year

The chronological boundaries of this study cover one academic year. That was the last year of Osyp Bodiansky’s studies at the Poltava (Pereiaslav) Seminary. The main source base consists of Osyp and Fedir Bodiansky’s letters from Pereiaslav addressed to their parents. The article aims to study the quarantine period of Osyp Bodiansky’s life in Pereiaslav during the second cholera pandemic. It is an attempt to recreate one year of Osyp Bodiansky’s life from the moment he arrived to study before leaving for Moscow. The sequence of events helps to answer the question: where did O. Bodiansky live, how did he earn from the conditions, what was distance education in 1830–1831 like, how did he manage to avoid cholera? This year began with finding a good apartment and a trip to Kyiv to buy some books. O. Bodiansky planned to re- ceive 660 rubles from the conditions. In October, the seminary was quarantined and all the students were sent home. There were two attempts to resume the study, but cholera reached Pereiaslav and the study did not take place. O. Bodiansky completed a full seminar course in Pereiaslav only in September 1831 and went to continue his studies at Moscow University. The main focus of the article is the quarantine conditions of study in the seminary and the life in the city. This study has a prosopographic context, which contributes to the retrospective of the social portrait of O. Bodiansky and the city of that time. Osyp Bodyansky was one of those who studied in this city and kept in touch with the locals throughout his life. His character was formed here together with the desire to know the truth, love for the Ukrainian way of life.The relevance of the study of such a historical figure as O. Bodiansky, who made a significant contribution to the preservation and development of Ukrainian history and culture in the Moscow ideology, is dictated by the socio-political realities of today when Ukrainian culture once again needs protection and promotion. This is a human-dimensional vision of both the history of a particular region (in this case, Pereiaslav in the early nineteenth century) and the understanding of a person of a particular era and region as a person, not a known historical figure without any ideological involvement.

scholarly journals Opioid Use among Patients with Early Inflammatory Arthritides Compared to the General Population

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1285-1292
Author(s):  
Paula Muilu ◽  
Vappu Rantalaiho ◽  
Hannu Kautiainen ◽  
Lauri Juhani Virta ◽  
Kari Puolakka
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Index Date ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Undifferentiated Arthritis ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Early Inflammatory Arthritis ◽  
One Year

Objective.To assess to what extent the worldwide opioid epidemic affects Finnish patients with early inflammatory arthritis (IA).Methods.From the nationwide register maintained by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, we collected all incident adult patients with newly onset seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (RA+ and RA–) and undifferentiated arthritis (UA) between 2010 and 2014. For each case, 3 general population (GP) controls were matched according to age, sex, and place of residence. Drug purchases between 2009 and 2015 were evaluated 1 year before and after the index date (date of IA diagnosis), further dividing this time into 3-month periods.Results.A total of 12,115 patients (66% women) were identified. At least 1 opioid purchase was done by 23–27% of the patients 1 year before and 15–20% one year after the index date. Relative risk (RR) of opioid purchases compared to GP was highest during the last 3-month time period before the index date [RR 2.81 (95% CI 2.55–3.09), 3.06 (2.68-3.49), and 4.04 (3.51–4.65) for RA+, RA–, and UA, respectively] but decreased after the index date [RR 1.38 (1.23–1.58), 1.91 (1.63–2.24), and 2.51 (2.15–2.93)]. Up to 4% of the patients were longterm users both before and after the diagnosis.Conclusion.During 2009–15 in Finland, opioid use peaked just before the diagnosis of IA but decreased rapidly after that, suggesting effective disease control, especially in seropositive RA. Further, opioids were used to treat arthritis pain of patients with incident RA and UA less often than previously reported from other countries.

Perception of social reality and subjective well-being in developed countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Goffe ◽  
G. Monusova
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The Social

This book is centered on two issues. Firstly, how do individuals from different countries view various social and economic phenomena, which they often encounter? Secondly, how do their views affect their subjective well-being? The authors of this book use international findings and their research to answer these questions. Analyzing the mechanisms which lead to a discrepancy between objective and subjective assessment of life is crucial for understanding the social, economic and voting behaviour of individuals, as well as searching for ways to preserve political stability.

New Zealand Government’s budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil K. Narayan ◽  
John Kommunuri
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Public Budgeting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
The Moment

Purpose This paper aims to provide a commentary on how well the New Zealand (NZ) Government has used the budget as a tool to tackle the social and economic problems associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of public budgeting as a political instrument is also critiqued. Design/methodology/approach An analysis was carried out of relevant documents that included government policy statements, budgets, news articles and website information on the pandemic. Meaningful interpretation of information and reflections helped provide the basis of the commentary. Findings Public budgeting has a prominent role in addressing a major global crisis. Budgets need to quickly respond to the needs of the moment in saving lives and sustaining people’s well-being, businesses and the economy. In a crisis situation, the social, political and economic factors become crucial determinants of budgetary policy measures. Although strong political leadership is required to deliver budgets under unimaginable circumstances, the ideology of the political party in government can be a powerful predictor of fiscal policies. Crisis budgeting will result in mounting budget deficits and public debts that will take many years for future generations to pay back. Practical implications This paper provides a significant learning for other nations. These lessons will guide budget policymakers to prepare better for potential crisis in the future. Originality/value This paper is original and based on the NZ Government’s budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be valuable in formulating budget policies and public funding decisions in a major crisis.

Poverty Plus Pandemic Equal to Lethal Epidemics in Mexico

2022 ◽  
pp. 220-241
Author(s):  
Amada Hidalgo Gallardo ◽  
Ruth L. Hidalgo ◽  
Blanca Josefina García Hernández ◽  
Eleazar Villegas González ◽  
Sofía Elizabeth Ávila Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
National Council ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Mexican Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
Near Future

For Mexican society it is relevant to know the prospects of well-being in an environment of instability and social insecurity; therefore, this research has the purpose of publicizing the health, economic, and social situation from COVID-19 in Mexico. The work has a qualitative, analytical, and descriptive research design considering current information from the Bank of Mexico with recent indicators of economic activity, The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) with data on occupation and employment, as well as the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) regarding the consequences of poverty in Mexican society and other documents that refer to the problem, all this analysis in order to form an idea of the near future of Mexicans. Currently, there is an increase in poverty and inequality resulting from the mismanagement of government policies and the lack of proposals to improve the social sector.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Claim Experience in Private Health Insurance to Establish a Relation between Deductibles and Premium Rebates

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 257-266
Author(s):  
G. W. de Wit ◽  
W. M. Kastelijn
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Private Health Insurance ◽  
Claim Amount ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specialist Treatment ◽  
Class Iib ◽  
One Year ◽  
Image Position

Many studies concerning the frequency of claims by size in health insurance are not generally known). A possible explanation of this circumstance could be the fact that in most countries this line of insurance has been brought entirely within the ambit of social insurance. Also from the side of the social insurance very few investigations have been published).In this paper we will analyse the claim experience (relating, to the calendar year 1972) of a private health insurance business. The data have been subdivided according to three levels of coverage (in increasing order of benefits these are: class III, class IIb and class IIa). The claim payments comprise nursing costs, auxiliary costs and the fees for specialist treatment in and out of the hospital.We will use the following notations:Si: claim amount paid for the insured i in one year,n: number of claims,v: number of risks (policies insured).In many instances the premium is simply determined as a level premium. In other words each insured pays the premium p, calculated as follows:.Actually we make the assumption that the claims are normally distributed, the parameters of which can be estimated as follows:which permits the calculation of the premium according to:.

scholarly journals Supervisory Leaders in Aging: One-Year Practice Change Outcomes of Innovative Training Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
Daniel Kaplan ◽  
Barbara Silverstone ◽  
Keith Chan ◽  
Amanda Spishak-Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
One Year

Abstract Social services for older adults are instrumental in addressing vulnerabilities associated with aging. Yet, practitioners report needing expanded geriatric knowledge and enhanced supervision. Agency-based supervision is essential to skilled practice and staff retention, directly impacting the quality of services delivered by the teams they support. The Supervisory Leaders in Aging (SLA) program of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was designed to strengthen supervision of the social service workforce. The SLA program, adopted in four states (IL, FL, MD, and NY), trained 134 MSW supervisors who support 1,200 social service staff, aimed at enhancing the well-being of 264,000 clients annually. This paper reports newly available final outcomes data from the 3-year implementation study of SLA. Trainees self-rated use of relevant supervisory best-practices was measured with novel 30-item instrument which captured frequency in use of supervisory best practices. The measure was administered prior to the first session and at three and twelve months after the final session. Comparisons of ratings across time periods demonstrate a range of positive and significant increases at the end of program workshops (0.12–0.56; mean of 0.30 points) and after one year (0.18–0.53; mean of 0.34 points). Supervisory best practices were maintained by those who already engaged in these behaviors, and participants who previously underutilized best practices adopted and maintained these behaviors as a result of the workshops. Implications of this tested model for enhancing workforce capacity will be discussed, including variation of impacts by supervisor characteristics and retention of learning gains over time.

scholarly journals Risk Readiness as an Adaptive Resource: Subjective Assessments of the Adult Population of Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Elena Shlykova
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Adaptive Resource ◽  
The Relationship

The article attempts to deepen scientific knowledge about the role of risk preparedness as an adaptive resource at different stages of the process of adaptation to uncertainty. Based on analysis of the scientific literature, the essence of risk readiness is shown as a rational choice of the method of interaction with uncertainty, based on the assessment of the situation by the adaptant, his own capabilities and the consequences of the decision made. The approach to measuring risk readiness through a subjective assessment of its sufficiency / lack / neutrality as an adaptive resource is substantiated. The theoretical basis is the position of the sociology of adaptations by L. V. Korel about the differentiation of adaptation resources according to their relationship with the speed and level of adaptation of the subject. An empirical interpretation of the speed of adaptation is proposed through the adaptive capacity and the level of adaptability, and the success / failure of adaptation through selfassessment of social well-being. The hypothesis of the relationship between the risk readiness of the adult population of Russia with the indicators of the speed and success of adaptation to the conditions of uncertainty caused by transformational processes in modern society is subjected to empirical testing on the basis of “RLMSHSE” data analysis. Socio-demographic factors differentiating respondents by subjective assessment of risk readiness, such as gender and age, are recorded. It has been established that a high subjective assessment of risk readiness associated with high assessments of adaptive capacity and adaptability level determines a high rate of adaptation. The relationship between the subjective assessment of risk readiness and the level of social well-being is shown. Risk readiness is justified as a specific adaptive resource that ensures the speed of the adaptation process and its result “at the exit” – the success or failure of adaptation to uncertainty conditions.

scholarly journals Aprovechamiento de las Redes Sociales como medio de participación ciudadana para validar posiciones e intereses de política internacional en el contexto de la diplomacia pública digital. Estudios de caso

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Rosmery Hernández Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
The Social ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Heads Of State

The objective of this research is to analyze the role of social networks in digital public diplomacy as well as citizen participation in validating the positions and interests of States and governments. It is based on three phases of content analysis: a) internal analysis of the content or publication b) causes c) effects (Alonso, Volkens and Gómez, 2011). For one year (2017-2018), the posts of four States, two European and two American, were followed up as case studies. Special attention was paid to the social networks of heads of state in relation to issues of international interest, and a comparison was made through content analysis. From July 2017 onward, a systemization of the posts encountered was initiated. The main results show an active, participatory role on the part of public users– citizens. We can speak of the phenomenon of the global citizen (Martínez, 2004). For their part, decision makers/ government leaders have an active role in social networks and seek to communicate and validate their actions, almost from the moment they make or announce their decisions, in order to know the reactions of citizens. States make use of social networks in the context of what is defined as digital public diplomacy.

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