scholarly journals The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the City Pilots Served by AB InBev Foundation’s Global Smart Drinking Goals Initiative

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Simons-Rudolph ◽  
Liz Lilliott-González ◽  
Deborah A. Fisher ◽  
Christopher L. Ringwalt
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Community Coalitions ◽  
Interpersonal Contact ◽  
Alcohol Production ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Harmful Drinking ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Community Fund ◽  
The City ◽  
Alcohol Sales

Abstract BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of global health, including efforts to curb harmful drinking. Very little is known about the effects of a prolonged disaster like this pandemic on alcohol consumption, misuse, and related harms, and on ongoing interventions designed to prevent or mitigate these harms. MethodsWe collected information from key informants in community coalitions in each of five City Pilots funded by the AB InBev Foundation that are implementing prevention and early intervention strategies to reduce harmful drinking. Key informants reported how the pandemic has affected alcohol sales and consumption in their communities, as well as alcohol-related harms such as interpersonal violence and drink driving. ResultsWe found that alcohol production has slowed and that sales of alcohol have uniformly decreased. However, the effects of local regulations on alcohol sales in on- and off-premise establishments have been uneven. Early reports suggest that home-based drinking has decreased during the pandemic, binge drinking is still problematic, and that while the prevalence of drink driving is greatly reduced, domestic violence has increased. We also report measures taken by the AB InBev Foundation to support the City Pilots’ efforts to combat the pandemic, which include transitioning in-person prevention strategies to online delivery where feasible, and the reorientation of the AB InBev Foundation’s Community Fund to support local efforts to combat the pandemic. ConclusionsWhile it presents considerable challenges for ongoing prevention efforts that depend on interpersonal contact, the Community Fund appeared to have a positive effect on building community coalitions, bringing new stakeholders to the table, and providing the opportunity for the coalitions to enhance their visibility and reputations in the communities they serve.

scholarly journals Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802097630
Author(s):  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Nation State ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Refugee Policies ◽  
Municipal Boundaries ◽  
The City

Cities known around the world as sanctuary, solidarity or refuge cities are resisting restrictive national migration and refugee policies and are seeking ways to accommodate migrants and refugees who lack support from the nation state. In this paper I examine urban solidarity approaches in Berlin and Freiburg in Germany, and Zurich in Switzerland. Interviews with key informants reveal that urban solidarity in these cities is not limited to including migrants and refugees living within the city’s boundaries. Rather, urban solidarity reaches beyond municipal boundaries to connect different places and scales in the form of inter-urban solidarity networks and initiatives that aim to enable migrants and refugees who are still abroad to arrive in the city. The complex geographies of urban migrant and refugee solidarity reach far beyond city limits.

Home-Based Pediatric Cancer Care: Perspectives and Improvement Suggestions From Children, Family Caregivers, and Clinicians

2021 ◽  
pp. OP.20.00958
Author(s):  
Lindsay A. Jibb ◽  
Julie Chartrand ◽  
Tatenda Masama ◽  
Donna L. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Pediatric Cancer ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
System Level ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Children With Cancer ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Home Based Care

PURPOSE: Although the hospital remains the dominant site for delivering most pediatric cancer care, home-based care is increasingly provided. To effectively deliver comprehensive, relevant, and acceptable care in children's homes, the voices of these key informants must be considered. We examined the views of children with cancer, their family caregivers, and clinicians on home-based cancer care to identify necessary strategies to improve the delivery of care. METHODS: Children with cancer, their family caregivers, and multiprofessional clinicians who provide care at a tertiary pediatric care center or in the community participated in audio-recorded, semistructured interviews in French and English. Interviews were conducted until data saturation in each participant group was achieved. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Thirteen children, 20 family caregivers, and 22 clinicians participated. Home-based care was endorsed as a means to improve child health-, family social- and financial-, and system-level outcomes. The success of a home-based model is built on care that addresses child and family informational, treatment and care, material, and psychosocial needs. Mechanisms to improve care include enhanced homecare agency-hospital-family communication, training for homecare nurses in pediatric cancer care, virtual solutions, and an expanded breadth of services provided in-home. Child-, family-, and system-related factors affect the delivery of optimal home-based care. CONCLUSION: Children, families, and clinicians value a model of pediatric cancer care that incorporates home-based services. The insights of these key informants should be reflected in the principles that become the basis of home-based cancer care best practices.

Provocation, Difference, and Public Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Joshua Cole
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
The City

This chapter assembles a broad array of archival sources on street-level interactions involving soldiers, café patrons, brothel owners, market-sellers, landlords, tenants, as well as children and adolescents that were retroactively seen as contributing to a rise in tension between Muslims and Jews in the city, beginning as early as 1914, but accelerating considerably in the late 1920s. This accumulation of incidents leading to interpersonal violence converged with and reinforced an atmosphere of political uncertainty related to the activities of the Federation of Muslim Elected Officials led by Mohamed Bendjelloul.

scholarly journals Preventing Dog Bites: It Is Not Only about the Dog

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Reese ◽  
Joshua J. Vertalka
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Dog Bites ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Feral Dogs ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The City

Background: Dog bites can have an array of negative health impacts on victims. Research focusing on the correlates of bites focused on limited sets of variables and produced conflicting findings. Objective: To expand knowledge about the correlates of dog bites by exploring a comprehensive set of variables related to the nature of the dog and the circumstances surrounding the bite not commonly explored in extant research. Methods: Data were drawn from police department reports of dog bites in the city of Detroit between 2007–2015; 478 dog bites were reported. Multiple regression was used to determine the significant correlates of dog bites, focusing on the nature of the dog and the circumstances surrounding the bite. Results: Bites were caused by a neighborhood dog. Thirty-two percent of the reports involved dogs running loose; 25% dogs that had escaped from a fenced or unfenced yard; 9% escaped from their home; and 8% had broken off a chain, were being walked, or were in their own home. Based on multiple regression, the victim was most likely bitten in their own yard by a single neighborhood dog that escaped from its home or yard. Breed of dog was not correlated with bites in multiple regression. Conclusions: The greatest risk of bites does not come from wandering feral dogs. Based on multiple regression, the victim was most likely bitten in their own yard by a single neighborhood dog that escaped from its home or yard. Human error often contributes to bites.

scholarly journals Proximity tourism and cultural amenities: Evidence from a regional museum card

2019 ◽  
pp. 135481661989023
Author(s):  
Enrico Bertacchini ◽  
Massimiliano Nuccio ◽  
Alessandra Durio
Keyword(s):  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Cultural Amenities ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Rural Destinations ◽  
The City

Although cultural tourism has generated extensive literature, it has often overlooked proximity tourism practices and the determinants of visits to near-home cultural amenities, often located in rural destinations with lower market appeal. This article investigates visiting behaviors and characteristics of intra-regional flows from urban settings toward museums and heritage sites located in surrounding areas. We use a unique transactional data set of about 76,000 subscribers to a regional museum card in Piedmont (Italy) to analyze visiting patterns in the 2011–2014 period from the city of Turin to out-of-town cultural institutions. Our empirical analysis shows that being male, having lower socioeconomic status, visiting home-based museums, and loyalty to the card program are the most relevant factors explaining propensity to out-of-town visits. At the same time, a clear polarization of visits between a limited number of cultural attractors and the tail of minor heritage sites suggests that differences in museum characteristics can generate distinct motivations for visits to the two types of cultural institutions. From a policy perspective, although a definitive evaluation of the effect of the museum card on proximity tourism cannot be undertaken, findings suggest that bundle of minor attractions and major urban museums can generate indirect network advantages, foster cultivation of taste, and eventually stimulate both the demand for regional destinations and the development of original cultural programs.

scholarly journals Affordable Housing In Toronto: Legislative And Regulatory Tools For Municipal LED Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kolsteren
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Imperative

This paper analyses the regulatory and legislative tools for affordable housing in Toronto. Through a review of relevant literature and interviews with key informants, key trends in affordable housing in Toronto have been identified. An analysis of affordable housing in Vancouver and Montreal is provided to show divergences and similarities in other Canadian cities. Key findings of this research reveal several trends. Firstly, past funding of housing was often rationalized as an economic imperative, rather than as a social policy issue. Secondly, federal retrenchment and Ontario government offloading have placed responsibility for housing on Toronto, which has neither the financial nor regulatory tools to adequately fund housing. Thirdly, this lack of capacity has led Toronto to adopt a more entrepreneurial approach to housing, using public-private partnerships, social mix revitalization initiatives, and other market influenced development mechanisms. These findings highlight difficulties on the part of Toronto to develop new affordable housing at a time when the city continues to grow and demand for housing is increasing.

scholarly journals Upaya Meningkatkan Volume Penjualan Pada Produk Madu Ternak P9 di Desa Parsanga

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Fahrul Noerrahman ◽  
Miftahol Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Sales Volume ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The City ◽  
Very High ◽  
Natural Honey

The problem examined in this thesis is because there is a problem in this research, in terms of market share of livestock honey, it is very difficult, the possibility of people still do not know the benefits or efficacy of honey itself and for natural honey, the target market is quite narrow, because the price is very high , but this natural honey has a long lasting period that can last for years. And also in the sale of livestock honey there are many problems when shipping far outside the city, because of every purchase there must be one cracked bottle in its packaging, and this is a problem that is being faced by P9 honey farmers in Parsanga Village. From the above analysis, researchers are interested to see how to increase sales volume. This makes the researcher raise the title Efforts to Increase Sales Volume on P9 Honey Products in ParsangaVillage. In answer these problem, researthers used descriptive qualitativ research. In this case, which is the focus of sales volume research, in this study researthers used a purposive sampling techniqu, consisting of key informants and supporting informants. The results of the study show that efforts to increase sales volumes affect the income of this livestock honey business, to achieve the target there must be steps that are passed or carried out in order to increase the sales volume of this livestock honey.

Working from Home

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Frances Holliss
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Central Business Districts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Planning Space ◽  
The City

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered an experiment in enforced home-working across the globe. In the UK, the home-based workforce jumped from 14 per cent to almost 50 percent of the overall working population, a trend mirrored in countries across the world. Largely welcomed by both employees and employers, many organizations predict a hybrid future that combines working at home and in a centralized collective workplace. This has major consequences for the way we inhabit, conceptualize and design the city and the suburbs, as more (and different) space is needed in the home and employers realize that they can reduce their property footprints. The 24-hour inhabitation of residential areas brings new life to local streets and economies, while Central Business Districts and High Streets lie silent. This paper approaches this as a paradigm shift: for more than a century mono-functional homes and workplaces have been systematically separated – ways now have to be found to reintegrate them. Covid has shone a spotlight on major social and spatial inequalities, with the poor and the young disproportionately impacted. Priorities for researchers and policy-makers include the future use of redundant commercial buildings, and analyses of policy and law, including planning, space standards, tenancy agreements, Bedroom Tax and social housing allocations, that obstruct home-based work – and proposals for alternatives.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Urban Vegetation Abundance in Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: A Geospatial Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Barimah Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Urban Vegetation ◽  
City Development ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Green Vegetation ◽  
The City

Abstract The essential role played by urban vegetation in making urban areas livable is often overlooked in many developing cities. This is the case of Ghana where its capital, Accra is developing at the expense of urban vegetation. This study was conducted at the metropolitan area of Accra to estimate how the extent of vegetation cover has changed in the period of 1986-2013, using remote sensing satellite data from Landsat TM and ETM+. Furthermore, views of key informants were assessed on changes in the livability of the city of Accra which may be attributed to loss of urban green vegetation in the city. It was found that between 1986 and 2013, 42.53 km2 of vegetation was lost representing 64.6% of total vegetation in 1986. The rate of change in vegetation cover between 1986 and 1991 measured around 2.14% of the total land area annually. This however, reduced in the subsequent years measuring 0.26% between 2002 and 2008. Key informants interviewed, also believe that the loss of vegetation in the city creates livability concerns relating to ecosystem functioning, temperature rise and air quality. It is therefore recommended for urban planners and decision makers to address three critical concerns of resilience, sustainability and livability, which are the missing links in the city development agenda.

Home-based businesses in the city

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Grace Sayers
Keyword(s):  
Home Based ◽  
The City
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