scholarly journals Message from ACHSM President - Dr Neale Fong

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Neale Fong
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Certification Program ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Important Time ◽  
Or Manager

I trust that you are well and as a leader or manager in the health sector wherever you are, you have taken time to ensure your own health and wellbeing in these extraordinary times. There is no more important time than now to ensure that you have the resilience and reserves to travel through these uncertainties. In the last issue this column focussed on the ACHSM’s Certification Program and the importance of a credential for health leaders and executives. As I noted then, certification in a profession is an employment currency within the health sector that has traditionally excluded the leaders and managers. Through the introduction of these credentials, the College supports members and future members to have their body of knowledge and skills recognised and provides the platform for continuing development. Today let me focus on the importance of lifelong learning and intentionally managing a career that hopefully will span decades, providing you with personal satisfaction and success. Committing to lifelong learning, as we mandate within Certification, is a commitment to your own development, and your own sense of staying curious and active within the profession. A quiet and consistent focus on staying current is at the foundation of confident and competent leadership and ACHSM sees this as being at the heart of our offerings to College members.

scholarly journals Message from the College President – Dr Neale Fong

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Neale Fong
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
College President ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

Leadership and management spawn numerous catchphrases to assert what is important “right now”.  Resilience. Leaning in, or out. Authenticity. Balance. Agility. As a College for health managers and leaders, our clear challenge is to look past the “right now” and create the best platform to support our members through what we hope will be their lengthy career and positive contribution to the health of their communities. In the past year the College has introduced a credentialling approach for health leaders which is inclusive of any and all of the latest leadership theories whilst acknowledging that real and substantial contributions to the health of the community is an iterative process requiring the commitment of individual leaders over long careers spanning decades. Our vision is “Better Leadership. Healthier Communities.” Our body of services is directed at supporting our members to achieve this vision. Why Certification? At the very foundation of the notion of what constitutes a profession is a body of knowledge and skills that requires attainment and continuous improvement. The individual leader is supported by an external body (the College) that describes that body of knowledge and skills and creates a framework for the individual to point to how they personally are committing to lifelong learning and development. In the health sector certification in a profession is an employment currency that has traditionally excluded the leaders and managers. Through the introduction of these credentials, the College supports members and future members to have their body of knowledge and skills recognised and provides the platform for continuing development. The role of consumer expectation plays a role in the need for the College credentialling system. Consumers expect a professional and independent recognition of the capability of the senior people who develop, lead, manage and have responsibility for their health facilities and services. Our Challenge to our CHM’s and CHE’s Implicit in this Certification system is that it is very important that the College’s Certified Health Manager and Certified Health Executives use their postnominals in communications within the health sector, talk about the College’s work in supporting the profession and “live” the vision of committing to lifelong learning as part of a community of leaders. Over the past difficult 18 months the College itself has leaned into this attribute of community which goes beyond the triteness of “we are all in this together”. I have been proud and delighted to see how many of our members stepped up to support each other during this time and have been glad to harness that collegiate good will in developing both free and more importantly more opportunities for members to come together in small and large groups to listen and learn. This journal continues to be an excellent and informative part of health leaders’ journeys. We are thankful for the partnership with SHAPE and commend members’ contributions to this publication; another way to continue the life-long learning that is so necessary in meeting the challenges of the health and community care sectors.

scholarly journals Needs of lifelong learning for professionalisation of industrial workers: Opportunities and challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Zarina Kassim ◽  
Nor Aishah Buang ◽  
Lilia Halim
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
Human Resource Department ◽  
The Government ◽  
Learning Institutions

Only 23% of Malaysian workforce has tertiary education compared to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries such as Singapore and Finland that have tertiary education with an average of 28% and around 35%, respectively. This study investigates perceived needs lifelong learning programmes for professionalisation among the workers. A survey was conducted on workers from the industries. Most of the workers felt that lifelong learning programmes provide personal satisfaction. In terms of perceived needs, workers from higher positions in industries need lifelong learning programmes to get better positions and better salaries as compared to those with lower positions in industries to get better job and education. Both groups have different preferences for means of learning whether face-to-face or online learning. The implications are that the government has to change their policy in terms of requirement for these companies to register with the Human Resource Department Fund so that their workers be subsidised for attending lifelong learning programmes and to encourage the participation of public higher learning institutions for providing online and weekend lifelong learning programmes to the workers.

scholarly journals Critical theory and the implementation of lifelong learning in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Phan Thi Tra Khuc
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
College Level ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Full Development ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
And Training

Lifelong learning is the continuous acquisition of knowledge and skills which occurs throughout life with an emphasis on the full development of personality. Despite the increasing interest of Vietnamese policy makers in promoting lifelong learning, the implementation of lifelong learning at universities is still limited. This research delineated and critiqued the policies and the current practices of lifelong learning at the college level of the Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam (MOET) under the perspective of critical theory. From the discussion of the policies and practices that the MOET was implementing, recommendations for the policy makers were made with the aim of helping Vietnamese students embrace their right to lifelong learning and fulfill the personal and democratic purpose of education.

Future directions for the concept of salutogenesis: a position article

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
G F Bauer ◽  
M Roy ◽  
P Bakibinga ◽  
P Contu ◽  
S Downe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Salutogenic Model ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Aaron Antonovsky advanced the concept of salutogenesis almost four decades ago (Antonovsky, Health, Stress and Coping. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Unravelling the Mystery of Health. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987). Salutogenesis posits that life experiences shape the sense of coherence (SOC) that helps to mobilize resources to cope with stressors and manage tension successfully (determining one’s movement on the health Ease/Dis-ease continuum). Antonovsky considered the three-dimensional SOC (i.e. comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) as the key answer to his question about the origin of health. The field of health promotion has adopted the concept of salutogenesis as reflected in the international Handbook of Salutogenesis (Mittelmark et al., The Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer, New York, 2016). However, health promotion mostly builds on the more vague, general salutogenic orientation that implies the need to foster resources and capacities to promote health and wellbeing. To strengthen the knowledge base of salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education produced the Handbook of Salutogenesis. During the creation of the handbook and the regular meetings of the GWG-Sal, the working group identified four key conceptual issues to be advanced: (i) the overall salutogenic model of health; (ii) the SOC concept; (iii) the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems; (iv) the application of salutogenesis beyond health sector. For each of these areas, we first highlight Antonovsky’s original contribution and then present suggestions for future development. These ideas will help guide GWG-Sal’s work to strengthen salutogenesis as a theory base for health promotion.

An Ally as well as a Partner in Practice

1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 283-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Through her own personal story and experience the author describes herself as the ultimate client. She recounts some of the stages in her own rehabilitation process, and the ways in which the health professions helped or hindered her. Her involvement with the grass roots organizations for disabled people strengthened her convictions about the value of peers and role models for those with a disability. She urges occupational therapists, because of their unique body of knowledge and skills, to become partners, and even more importantly, allies with their clients. She encourages the profession to become truly inclusive and representative, and to take steps to bridge the power gap between the profession and its clients, with whom it seeks partnerships.

scholarly journals The Role of Professional Knowledge and Skills of Preschool Teachers in Building and Developing Partnerships with Parents / Uloga profesionalnih znanja i vještina odgojitelja u izgradnji i razvijanju partnerstva s roditeljima

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Mavračić Miković ◽  
Daria Tot
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Preschool Teacher ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City

Partnership is considered one among the most important factors in educationalwork. For its formation and improvements, appropriate competences are expected. Inthis research we seek to highlight the need to strengthen the professional knowledgeand skills of preschool teachers for building and developing partnerships with parentsseen as a higher form of collaboration. Therefore, the aim of this research was toexamine the perceptions and attitudes of parents and preschool teachers abouttheir mutual cooperation and partnership. The sample consists of 203 parentsand preschool teachers working in kindergartens in the City of Zagreb and ZagrebCounty. Hypotheses were set with regards to recognition or knowledge of cooperationand partnership concepts, the assessment of the role of preschool teachers as partnersby parents and preschool teachers in mutual cooperation and partnership, andthe assessment of the importance of cooperation through the participants’ ownresponsibility. Once the data was analysed, the obtained results showed that bothgroups of respondents did not consider the role of preschool teacher as partner asone that was the most important. Also, the results of the research have shown thatparents, but also preschool teachers, do not understand the difference between theconcepts cooperation and partnership. Although both parties have agreed on theimportance of a partnership or the collaborative relationship, there is also a smallnumber of participants who consider such a relationship irrelevant or less important.Keywords: cooperation; lifelong learning; parents; partnership; preschool teachers.-Partnerski odnos smatra se jednim od najvažnijih čimbenika odgojno-obrazovnogarada za čiju se izgradnju i unaprjeđenje očekuju odgovarajuće kompetencije. Uovom istraživanju želi se ukazati na potrebu osnaživanja profesionalnih znanjai vještina odgojitelja za izgradnju i razvijanje partnerstva s roditeljima kao višegoblika suradnje. Stoga je cilj istraživanja bio ispitati percepcije i stavove roditelja iodgojitelja o njihovoj međusobnoj suradnji i partnerskom odnosu. Uzorak čini 203roditelja i odgojitelja koji rade u vrtićima na području grada Zagreba i Zagrebačkežupanije. Postavljene su hipoteze koje se odnose na (pre)poznavanje pojmovasuradnje i partnerstva, procjenu uloge odgojitelja kao partnera od strane roditeljai odgojitelja u međusobnoj suradnji i partnerstvu te procjenu važnosti suradnjekroz vlastitu odgovornost sudionika. Rezultati dobiveni nakon analize podatakapokazuju da obje skupine ispitanika nisu ulogu odgojitelja kao partnera procijenilenajvažnijom. Također, rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da roditelji, ali i odgojitelji,ne shvaćaju razliku između pojmova suradnje i partnerstva. Iako su se obje stranesložile o važnosti partnerskoga/suradničkoga odnosa, postoji i manji broj onih kojismatraju takav odnos nevažnim ili manje važnim.Ključne riječi: odgojitelji; partnerstvo; roditelji; suradnja; trajno učenje.

scholarly journals The information society: does it need the information professions?

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (104) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Feather
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

A profession is constituted by a group of people with a shared body of knowledge and skills, based on formal training and well defined criteria. But the knowledge and skills which characterise the information profession, as defined by CILIP in the Body of Professional Knowledge and other documents, are no longer confined to those who describe themselves in this way, or feel any attachment to the information profession as traditionally defined. The paper discusses how this group do, can and should contribute to the so-called 'information society'. It challenges the idea that information society is in itself something new, and focuses more on the concept of the 'knowledge economy' in which information (and therefore information workers) have a key role. The challenge for the profession is to go beyond its own recognition of its knowledge, skills and insights, and to persuade others of the contribution it (and they) can make.

scholarly journals Measles outbreak amidst COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: grappling with looming crises

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullahi Tunde Aborode ◽  
Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde ◽  
Bright-Agbonze Samuel Osayomwanbor ◽  
Emmanuel Adebowale Fajemisin ◽  
Oko Christian Inya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
High Mortality ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Vaccination Programs ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Measles Outbreak ◽  
African Health ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and measles are major threats to the health and wellbeing of Africans. Measles is an endemic disease in Africa with a high mortality rate especially in children despite available vaccines. This letter aims to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prevention and management of measles in Africa. The emergence of COVID-19 has exacerbated the morbidities of measles due to multi-factors like the disruption of mass measles routine vaccination, a monopolistic focus on COVID-19 eradication, malnutrition, and poor surveillance. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic and looming measles epidemic pose a double burden on the African health sector. We recommend urgent interventions from government and other stakeholders including community leaders to strengthen measles research and vaccination programs in Africa amidst the pandemic.

scholarly journals Adaptation of First-Year Students to the Medical Academy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 2892-2896
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Personal Time ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Medical Academy ◽  
Psychophysiological State

After entering university and starting their studies, a person changes the routine rhythm of their life. Their social environment changes and they become subject to new requirements in connection with the features of the educational process. Consequently, these changes affect a first-year student's personal time and their psychophysiological state. The process of preparation for professional activities involves not only the acquisition of a certain body of knowledge and skills but also the acquisition of a system of values and attitudes governing the life of society. Speed and degree of adaptation influence the success of training, psychological comfort and satisfaction with the career choice.

scholarly journals APPROBATION OF A VALIDATION QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Boryana Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
The Impact

Qualified and well-informed citizens are of paramount importance for United Europe's development and prosperity. The issue of their education extends beyond formal education and covers knowledge and skills acquired informally or independently. Public opinion is that well-realized lifelong learning can make a lot of contribution both to the economic development of the countries and to the development of civil society and culture.In the modern world, there is a tendency for change from mass production to the individual one - more and more people want products and services that are specially created according to their personal preferences, they want to be distinguished from others in their possessions, they want to stand out. This trend finds its place in the field of education too: learners want to be able to make choices about what to learn and what not to, to acquire knowledge and skills that will distinguish them from others and make them more competitive in the labor market. But in times of financial crisis, and in some countries like Bulgaria - even when there is none, the education expenditures in the state budget are insufficient, especially for those that are not part of the formal structure of educational institutions. This is also a challenge of the lifelong learning: to provide personalization of learning on the one hand, and on the other to achieve economies of scale so that the unit cost of this education is tolerable for the country concerned.Bulgarian citizens, like everyone else, need to be able to show what they have learned in order to be able to get a promotion at work and/or to have the right to continue their education at higher levels of the formal one. To do this, the individuals need to have access to a system that validates knowledge and skills, that is, one that identifies, documents, evaluates and certifies all forms of training.The demanding market and growing competition require that in the regulatory framework of any validation system, a validation quality assurance system is to be set up and implemented. The scope of this system includes all validation actions in the particular school. Its tasks are related to: 1) identification of the factors influencing the quality of validation in the particular vocational school, 2) determination of the guidelines for correcting the impact of those factors in the desired direction, 3) definition of the system-specific criteria and indicators allowing effective analysis and improvement of the validation process to be carried out.This paper presents the results of the approbation of such a system created for the needs of the Bulgarian vocational schools for the realization of the project "New opportunity for my future".

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