scholarly journals Local level socio-economic impacts and responses to the earthquakes-2015: A case of Kirtipur Municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shree Kumar Maharjan ◽  
Keshav Lall Maharjan ◽  
Dharma Raj Dangol

The series of earthquakes and aftershocks affect Nepal in 2015. However, very few studies were carried out to assess and analyze the local-level impacts and responses. The present study focuses on impacts and responses to earthquakes in the Kirtipur Municipality based on secondary data and primary information generated from the open-ended questions to the purposively selected samples. Higher number of human casualties was observed among the elderly and children, but no such difference in terms of gender. The wards in core areas, particularly in Panga and Chovar, were affected the most because of century old houses without any disaster resistant technologies. The social bonding and cohesion were strongly observed during rescue and relief phases. The separated families united during the first two phases whereas the united families separated to nuclear families in recovery and reconstruction phases. The major reasons were main political transition, lack of financial resources and social factors.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Suryani Suryani ◽  

In this era of digitalization, the development of technology and information is running very rapidly, resulting in an increasingly fierce business competition. This makes producers to think critically, creatively, and innovatively to the changes that occur, both in the social, cultural, political and economic fields. The most important thing that a company should do to succeed in business competition is to try to build a company strategy to achieve the goal of increasing and retaining consumers of the Carvil Brand Store - Yos Sudarso in Bandar Lampung. Carvil remains consistent with current achievements, and continues to develop a variety of new and innovative designs for sandals and shoes for women, men, children, teenagers and adults to the elderly at Carvil Lampung brand stores – Yos Sudarso Bandar Lampung. This is descriptive quantitative, observational data collection techniques, questionnaires, secondary data, and documents conducted by research at the Carvil-Yos Sudarso brand store in Bandar Lampung. Based on the results of research that has been carried out to find empirical evidence about the influence of promotion, quality, and price on the decision to purchase Carvil brand sandals and shoes at Carvil Lampung – Yos Sudarso Bandar Lampung. Keywords: price, quality, promotion, purchase decision


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Norliati Fitri Md Nor ◽  
Siti Masayu Rosliah Abdul Rashid ◽  
Suriati Ghazali

Poverty among the elderly is always a significant concern due to changes in demographic patterns. It's because there is an increasing number of elderly, moreover, about the disability and limited ability of employment in themselves. This situation has an economic and social impact not only on individuals but also family members and the government involved. Therefore this article aims to study the issue of poverty among the elderly. Besides, the study will identify the financial resources obtained in the help of their daily lives. The study has selected a total of 327 older people aged 60 years and above. The study used a quantitative approach using a questionnaire to obtain feedback from respondents on their financial resources and income of respondents. The results of the study found that the majority of respondents answered 50.5% of the primary source of children as the main economic source in addition to other economic resources. Nevertheless, although there are results shown by the respondents, there are various sources as financial resources, but still exist among them. Therefore, it's hoped that the authorities or non-governmental organizations can help the elderly who face the problem of poverty always provide social assistance, especially related to the social security system through medical aspects exempt free hospital medical services, distribution of first-class medical cards or even provide initiatives through the enhancement of additional income programs explicitly implemented for the needy elderly. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 916 (1) ◽  
pp. 012035
Author(s):  
N C Drestalita ◽  
N Wijaya ◽  
N M Iqbal

Abstract Climate change has brought ecological impacts in the coastal area, such as seawater intrusion, coastal floods, and erosion, which have caused broader effects on non-physical aspects of human activities, including the coastal economy and society. This study aims to assess the socio-economic vulnerability to climate-related disasters in the coastal villages of Indramayu, Indonesia. Secondary data were collected based on available sources. Spatial and statistical analyses were applied. This study uses ten indicators to measure the socio-economic vulnerability of 41 coastal villages. These indicators include seven socio-demographic indicators and three economic indicators. The analysis shows that ten villages (24.39%) are socially vulnerable, and five villages (4.87%) are economically vulnerable. Overall, two out of seven socio-demographic indicators have high vulnerability levels, namely disaster mitigation systems and established community groups. Two out of three economic indicators also have high degrees of vulnerability, namely the availability of economic facilities and the employment-based sector. The other indicators with medium to low degree of vulnerability are population density, the elderly population, the disabled population (socio-demographic indicators), and poverty (economic indicator). From this study, local governments and other relevant actors can prioritize climate-related disaster reduction strategies in particular sectors and locations through spatial and development plans.


2021 ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Girdhari Dahal

The purpose of this study is to examine the women participation in local development of Kaski district in Nepal. The nation provides equal opportunities to the women. Despite that, they are strong enough and empowered in local development? Nepalese women are struggling for equal opportunity in society. This paper is qualitative research. It is based on primary and secondary data based on descriptive and analytical paper. In the local election held in 2017, 152 women were elected to the local government in Kaski district. They are Dalit and non-Dalit both. Constitutionally thirty-three percent women are required to be the participants on each level of the government of Nepal. It is a legal provision for participation in local governments. Similarly, women are the participants in the federal, provincial and local governments of Nepal. The constitution has provided women participation on policy level as well as civil service, Nepal Police and Nepal Army and other sectors of the nation. Now, the federal democratic republic nation of Nepal has been practicing inclusive democracy. It is a great achievement for the Nepalese women. Now, 21th century as democratic country like Nepal needs meaningful women participation on a local level. The women need equal opportunity in the social, economic and political sector. Local level of Kaski district women participate with empower on politics as well as development activities as planning, budgeting, judicial leadership. These are the symbolic empowerment of women in local development.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
Resti Hartika

This research aims to analyze to illustrate the kind of bully action that do Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. To describe the factors that trigger the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape take action against bully Harry Potter. To illustrate the social impact of the bully acts committed by the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Joanne Kathleen Rowling. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative, which tries to explain about the correlations between author life background and its influence to the literary work produced. Sources of data in this study include the source of primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques used in this study is a technique to read and record. The measures undertaken to analyze the data is as follows (1) Read the novel Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone works J.K. Rowling. (2) Marking a sentence or a paragraph discussing about the social context associated with the bully action. (3) Analyzing the results about the social context are associated with the bully, the social picture, and social functions and (4) Describe results. After analyzing the social factors that Harry Potter bully (intimidated) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the author concludes the analysis into three findings: first to describe the type of action undertaken bully Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. The types of bullying done of verbal bullying, where the actors perform intimidation through their words to a bully victim. Then bullying involving physical contact between the offender and the victim either directly or indirectly. This type of bullying usually include punching, kicking, slapping, choking, biting, spitting, even destroy the belongings of the victims, and relational bullying (friendship). Second to describe the factors that trigger the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape take action against Harry Potter bully. Factors child's own personal self, namely anxiety and feeling inferior from an agent, competition is not realistic, feelings of resentment arising from hostility or because the bullies had been the victim of bullying before, and the inability to handle emotions positively. Family factors namely lack of warmth and level of awareness of parents are low on his son, Pattern foster parents who are too permissive so that children are free to take whatever measures are desirable or otherwise. Factors association. Third to describe the social impact of the bully acts committed by the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. The social impact of the action bully among others They have a strong need to dominate and subdue other students and to get their own way. Are impulsive and are Easily angered. Are Often defiant and aggressive toward adults, Including parents and teachers. Show little empathy toward students who are victimized If they are boys, they are physically stronger than most other boys in general.    


Author(s):  
Laveena D’Mello ◽  
Meena Monteiro

Ageing is a normal, common, universal and un-avoiding phenomenon. Ageing has three aspects biological, psychological and social. We are living in this busy world, it is the duty of each and every young ones to spend a little time for our elders, patient listening, loving talks and careful attention can relieve many of the psychological problems. It appears in India senior citizens have no right to live a life of dignity. Day by day they are getting shocks and traumas in one form or other, the past two decades the social scene, due to a number of factors, had undergone drastic changes with the joint family system breaking down. Today, nuclear families are the norm. In fact, for most people, growing old is time to be enjoyed. They mostly ignore the symptoms considering it as the signs of aging. Institutionalized elderly refers to the people above the age of sixty years who live in the institution and Non-institutional elderly means who stay in their own house alone, with their partner, children, and grandchildren together. The issues and problems are varied in any place be it in families or in the institution. It differs from person to person. The researchers came to know of various problems faced by them. Thus was interested to study the problems they face. The scope of the study is restricted to only 50 elderly in Mangalore city. 25 respondents are from institutions and 25 from those living in families. The aim is to draw a comparison between the problems faced by the elderly in each of these places. The objectives are to assess the problems faced by the elderly and to know their opinion on their stay. The respondents were selected adopting a simple random method of sampling.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natália Calais Vaz de Melo ◽  
Karla Maria Damiano Teixeira ◽  
Mirely Bonin Silveira

Abstract Objective: to define the social and demographic profile of the different household arrangements involving the elderly, as well as to calculate the average annual consumption of such household arrangements according to the Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (the Study on Family Budgets) (2008/2009). Method: a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed using secondary data extracted from the micro-data of the Study on Family Budgets (2008/2009), carried out by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). In order to define the social and demographic profile of different household arrangements an exploratory analysis of the data was carried out, and the Gini index was used to identify if there was inequality in the distribution of consumption. Results: The results showed that elderly consumers can be seen as constituents of new generations, while most have only an elementary education and reside in an urban region of Brazil. There was a predominance of female heads of households in which there was no spouse present. When evaluating the distribution of the annual consumption of all the families, a greater weighting of the categories miscellaneous expenses, housing, transportation and food was found. Conclusions: Understanding the socioeconomic characteristics of the different home arrangements of the elderly, as well as their relationships with the consumption of goods and services, is extremely important, since the goods and services offered to this segment of the population can provide satisfaction with and improvement in quality of life.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 392-406
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Prykhodko ◽  
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Nina Dolbysheva ◽  
Sergey Afanasyev ◽  
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...  

Introduction. The critical state of both the social sphere and the infrastructure of most rural settlements requires the search for new and effective influences on this situation, as public authorities, as well as many local governments are still not ready to effectively implement social reforms, meet basic living needs. Rural population, refer to the lack of sufficient budget funds. However, human centrism means that attention to the person of the active part of the villagers will affect the living standards of the rural population as a whole, will bring the living conditions in the countryside closer to the urban level. Research purpose revealing the peculiarities of the formation of physical culture of a person who is the only one who forms the demand and development of physical culture and sports in a democratic society, showing new, modern approaches to the development of sports in rural areas with existing limited financial resources. Research methods and materials. A set of methods of theoretical research was used (generalization of literature, materials from the Internet, the content of previous own scientific developments, abstraction, idealization, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction). Results. Physical activity is the use by a motivated and self-determined person of subjective (assigned, included in the content of life) units of physical culture, reproduced by him to ensure the adequacy of his psychophysical condition to the changing conditions of life and production. Only when the actualized values to be physically developed and healthy, formed individually significant motives, existing concepts, knowledge and abilities, the necessary skills and abilities, only then on the basis of trained body mastered by man, there is a qualitatively new state of development, namely physical personality culture. Physical culture of the individual is a socially determined area of general human culture, which is a systemic, dynamic state, characterized by a certain level of unprofessional, i.e. self-used education, degree of physical perfection, motivational and value orientations and socio-spiritual values acquired through physical education and integrated into physical culture and sports, lifestyle culture, spirituality and mental and physical health. In this regard, the physical culture of the individual, and hence the structure of the strategy of sports development in the united territorial communities should be considered as being in unity and dynamics, and the latter should be the reaction of the social subject to the need to meet the needs of the population. In addition, related interests of physical, and then social, spiritual transformation of the person based on awareness of the value of a specific means of their satisfaction - exercise. Therefore, when considering the structure of PCS, it should be borne in mind that it arises and develops in the social structure of a particular society that has already developed. Conclusions. In the conditions of democratic development inherent in modern Ukraine, the determining condition for intensifying the involvement of rural people in physical culture and sports (PCS) is the formation of physical culture (PCP), as a conscious need to use sports for their improvement and development. It is the person with the formed PCP, uniting with the same persons interested in the development of PCS, forms the micro groups that form the demand for the creation of conditions for sports. The dependence of the governing bodies of the newly created United Territorial Communities (UTC) on the citizens who are voters in the respective territories allows those who have already formed the PCP to act as moderators of the development of physical culture and sports. It is these individuals and the social groups created with their participation with limited financial resources in most of the united territorial communities, who should take responsibility and involve support for prepared projects in the form of crowdsourcing, fundraising, and other modern tools to improve the base of physical culture and sports at the local level. Keywords: personality, physical culture and sports (PCS), physical culture of a person (PCP), physical culture/ sports activity, social group of sports activists, modern approaches to raising funds, crowdsourcing, fundraising, united territorial communities (UTC).


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Garcia Damaceno ◽  
Carlos Alberto Lazarini ◽  
Mara Quaglio Chirelli

ABSTRACT Objective: Analyze the social representations of professionals and managers of long-term care institution for the elderly about the care and the influence of this conception in the practice of caring. Method: This is a qualitative research carried out with twenty-nine professionals and four managers of a long-term institution for the elderly in a city in the interior of São Paulo. The data, collected in two phases through individual interviews and workshops, were analyzed through the techniques of the Collective Subject Discourse and Content Analysis in the thematic modality. Results: About their representations about care, three main ideas were identified for managers: "giving affection"; "Supply basic needs"; and "look broadened." For the professionals, the main ideas were "to help and to give affection"; "Supply needs"; and "extended care". It also identified that the representations of the elderly influence the care practice. Final considerations and implications for the practice: The maintenance of the caregiving vision of the care process and the charitable model of producing health in these institutions are reflections of the representations of the elderly. Thus, it is necessary to review the social roles of the elderly, recognizing them as protagonists of their care process aiming at a better quality of care for this population.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
R C C S Sacco ◽  
K T Santos ◽  
P M F Escalda

Abstract Background In the last decade, the number of individuals over 60 years of age with AIDS has increased in Brazil, with the need to know the trend of the mortality of the disease to subsidize educational and preventive actions for service users and health professionals. The objective was to describe the trend of mortality from HIV/AIDS in the elderly in the Federal District (DF), Brazil, from 2007 to 2016. Methods Descriptive study, ecological type of time series, from secondary data on mortality obtained from the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Linear regression was performed to analyze trends by sex and by age group, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results Deaths were predominant in men (74.1%) aged 60 to 69 years (70.4%). The sex ratio was 2.85. The married / stable union (43.0%) and white (52%) were the majority. There was a significant increase in males, while in females, it was slightly decreasing in the same period. In the age groups of 60-69 years and 70-79 years, there was a tendency to increase in mortality, decreasing for ≥ 80 years. Conclusions There was a predominance and an increasing tendency in young male elderly, demonstrating that prevention actions need to achieve greater reach in this population, with the breaking of barriers related to prejudice and the stigma of the disease. A better organization of the care network for the elderly is suggested, enabling approaches to suspected cases and providing early diagnosis, to ensure greater quality survival for the elderly. Key messages There was a tendency to increase mortality from HIV / AIDS in elderly men, aged 60-79 years. There is a need to improve educational activities and early diagnosis and timely treatment for this group.


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