scholarly journals INDONESIA’S DEFENSE HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Soroy Lardo
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Health Study ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Health Characteristic ◽  
Strategic Role

<p>The National Defense System is a systematic and planned concept, structure and organization, fostering the spirit of the universe of the people and nation, to strengthen and defend themselves from various threats, challenges, obstacles and disturbances that break the Indonesian building and network. The concept embodies software that contains the philosophy, purpose, theoretical framework and framework of the concept of national defense, as a soul and heart that moves continuously in the spirit of conscience defending the country. The purpose of this study is to develop a study about the strategic role of defense health as a diversified potential for multifunctional health to guide the national level of resilience. The potential of health in the field of defense with its strategic thinking decomposes the breadth of Indonesia's geographic region, which has distinctive characteristics of health problems based on geomedicine maps. The dynamic stratification of health problems makes geomedicine maps as a measure of defense health policy. The concept proposed in this study is expected to be one of the basic references in forming a defense health study program at Indonesia Defense University. The method, that needs to be developed, is the transformation of the health of Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI). At this time, it has achieved dynamic values in realizing a broader role, not only in the field of health services and support, but it has begun to expand into the field of research and development (R &amp; D). This development also related to global challenges, where the spread/pandemic of illness becomes an extraordinary homework, especially related to defense health. Defense health is a multiparadigmatic concept with multidisciplinary scientific dimensions and parameters, and various multi-approaches (analysis, synthesis, and solution), based on philosophy and history, build a defense health characteristic that has a scientific perspective that has reliability and validity, so th purpose of this study can be obtained.</p>

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE DEFENSE INSTITUTIONS IN HANDLING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Marina Ika Sari ◽  
Yuli Ari Sulistyani ◽  
Andhini Citra Pertiwi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Military ◽  
Adaptation Phase

<p>The involvement of the military in the global health crisis has begun since the COVID-19 outbreak broke out in Indonesia, starting from the implementation of Large-Scale Social Distancing to the implementation of the new normal adaptation phase. However, the involvement has received mixed responses. Some parties consider it as natural, while others question the urgency of the military involvement. This study focuses on the role of two defense institutions, namely the Indonesian National Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense in handling the COVID-19. It employs a qualitative research method and the theory of role, the concept of national defense, and the concept of Pandemic Management to analyze the problem. This study finds that the Indonesian National Armed Forces has a strategic role in several fields such as health, security and socio-economic as part of the efforts to contain COVID-19. The Ministry of Defense also plays a strategic role both internally and externally, by cooperating with other ministries, domestic private companies, state-owned enterprises in the defense industry sector, and with other countries in containing the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>role, defense, military, pandemic, COVID-19.</p>

Senam Sehat dalam Meningkatkan Imun Tubuh pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19 di Desa Peringgasela Selatan

10.29210/9940 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Muhammad Husni Tamim ◽  
Rina Nopiana
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The People ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Sports Activities

Doing physical activity can make the body fit and increase the body's immunity to be able to fight the virus during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on this, sports activities are needed to invite people to maintain their physical health through healthy exercise activities which are held aimed at increasing people's interest in exercising during the Covid-19 pandemic during new normal so that their body endurance is better. This community service (PKM) is a form of real work from the Hamzanwadi University Physical Education and Health Study Program for the people of South Pringgasela Village to participate in healthy gymnastics as an effort to prevent Covid-19. Healthy gymnastics activities can increase public awareness of the importance of maintaining health in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rwanda: Civil–Military Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Jowell
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The One ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military

The army has been a central part of Rwanda’s political system from the precolonial period until the early 21st century and is intrinsically part of the construction and politics of the state. Civil–military relations in Rwanda demonstrate not only the central features of transitioning a rebel group to a national defense sector but also how some states construct their armed forces after a period of mass violence. Since the civil war and genocide in the early 1990s, the Rwandan military has been the primary actor in politics, the economy, and state building as well as in regional wars in central Africa and the Great Lakes region. Practical experiences of guerrilla insurgency and conflict in Uganda and Rwanda, postconflict military integration, and the intertwining of political and economic agendas with the ruling party have shaped civil–military relations in Rwanda and have been central to how the Rwandan defense sector functions. Contemporary Rwandan civil–military relations center around the two elements of service delivery and control, which has resulted in the development of an effective and technocratic military in terms of remit and responsibilities on the one hand, and the creation of a politicized force of coercion on the other hand. The military in Rwanda therefore reflects the pressures and dynamics of the wider state and cannot be separated from it. The Rwandan army is thus a “political army” and is part and parcel of the political structures that oversee and govern the Rwandan state.

Militaries’ Organizational Cultures in a Globalizing World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Soeters
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Organizational Cultures ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Way

Organizational cultures in military organizations consist of symbols, practices, habits, hidden assumptions, and beliefs about what needs to be done, and what is appropriate and what is not, before, during, and after operations. Generally speaking, organizational cultures in military institutions are similar to those in any other work organization. Upon closer examination, however, it appears that the military’s 24/7, communal life outside society, its emphasis on hierarchy and discipline, and in particular its license to use large-scale force make it different. Relatedly, the way in which the military’s organizational cultures are created and recreated has aspects and emphases that are less common in conventional work organizations. Recruiting and socialization patterns of new organizational members in the military have been studied frequently because they are so distinctive in the armed forces. Military organizational cultures are not identical worldwide. Military organizations differ internationally, as military organizations are still strongly connected to their national backgrounds, including the languages, legal regimes, political atmospheres, and general ways of living in the many nations across the globe. National societies and their histories shape military organizational cultures in multiple ways. Dramatic experiences at the national level, for instance during World War II, may lead to a continuation or, just the opposite, the disruption of armed forces’ organizational cultures. Yet despite the differences, something of a world culture impacting on the use of force seems to emerge as well. In an era when international alliances carry out most missions, different national backgrounds influence strategic decision making and the way operations are conducted. Most of the time, national armed forces operate separately, in their own area (or time) of operations, sometimes guiding troops from smaller and less wealthy partnering nations. The coordination of actions between the various areas of operation is generally not very well elaborated. This applies not only to combat operations but also to peace missions. A full integration of national armed forces, such as in a United Nations security force or a European army, is an ideal that some may dream of, but it is still far from reality. The greatest degree of integration is likely to be found in international headquarters.

Effective Financial Decision Aids for Retirement

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Susan L. Rose ◽  
John E. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Financial Training ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Financial Decision

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 directs the Secretaries of the Armed Forces and the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces to provide financial literacy training to Service members at certain critical points throughout their careers, including the transition to retirement. Based on a review of the literature, we find that general financial training is ineffective. More effective are decision aids that provide assistance at the time the decision is being made. This article provides a discussion of what such a decision aid would entail.

scholarly journals Health Problems of Elderly Patients attending Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
SM Humayun Kabir ◽  
Md Ziaul Islam ◽  
Masuda Begum ◽  
Masud Ahmed ◽  
Mohammad Mohsin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional

Introduction: Health problems of elderly are an emerging health burden throughout the world. Bangladesh is currently undergoing a demographic transition and the proportion of the population of 60 years and older is increasing rapidly. Health care providers and policymakers are highly concerned with this burning issue. Objective: To know the disease pattern among the elderly patients in Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from July 2015 to June 2016 among 152 elderly patients above 60 years of age admitted in Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka Cantonment. Data were collected by face-to-face interview with semi-structured questionnaire and checklist following purposive sampling technique. Analysis of data was done by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS, version 20.0). Results: Mean age of the elderly was 72.06±4.56 years with the range of 60-80 years and majority (90.8%) of the elderly was male. Out of total 152 elderly patients, by occupation majority (31.6%) were in the business group followed by 30.3% in the retired group and 9.2 % in the housewife group. Average monthly family income was BDT 17927.63±7360.75 with the range of BDT 6000-35000. With initial complaints elderly patients reported to doctors in private chamber (38.2%), private hospital (25.6%) and Govt hospital (5.9%). Among all of the elderly patients, majority (21.1%) had Diabetes Mellitus followed by Rheumatoid Arthritis (17.6%), Asthma (12.5%), Cataract (11.2%), ENT problem (6.6%), Malignancy (5.9%) and Benign Enlargement of Prostate 8(5.3%). Conclusion: The number of elderly people is expanding rapidly; it also presents multifaceted health problems and thus creates unique challenges for the national healthcareservices. Early identification of problem and ensuring the availability of health with economic and social support can have a control over the elderly health problems. Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.13(1) 2017: 8-12

‘UNVEILING THE CONCEPT OF DRY RUN IN CONTEXT OF COVID VACCINE'

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-52
Author(s):  
Nitin Tyagi ◽  
Dhivya. S ◽  
Anita Rani ◽  
Charanjeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Vaccine Introduction ◽  
The Government

Just like armed forces mock drills, dry run is a dummy process that helps the government in assessing how ready we are for the COVID-19 immunization at the national level. India had approved two COVID-19 vaccines namely, Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. The main objective of the dry run for COVID-19 vaccine introduction was to assess operational feasibility in the use of Co-WIN application in the eld environment, to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges and guideway forward prior to actual implementation of the immunization drive.

RESEARCH ISSUES IN CHILD HEALTH: A HEAD START RESEARCH SEMINAR. I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-701
Author(s):  
A. Frederick North
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
The Real ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Imperfect Knowledge

The answers to four questions one must ask in planning to meet the health needs of any group of children define some of the most important research issues in child health. 1. What are the functionally important health problems to be found with some frequency in a group of children? Many are well defined and easy to count, and for some of these we have relatively good counts. While we know that the prevalence of many health problems is related to socioeconomic status, we know practically nothing about the mechanisms by which this relationship is mediated. There are certain health findings—for example, anemia, poor dietary history, and certain deviations of behavior and speech—that we are reluctant to label as health problems until we have much more evidence about their actual functional consequences. There are certain health problems, especially the behavior and learning problems of school-aged children, that we would like to be able to define in terms of findings at a much earlier age. 2. What techniques will efficiently identify those children who have functionally important health problems? We have a handful of effective and efficient screening tests, as well as several that are widely used but need much further definition in terms of reliability and validity. The series of tests and questionnaire items strung together in a physician's history and physical examination certainly falls into the category of tests whose reliability and validity needs vastly more study. All of the descriptive and predictive tests of behavior and learning, as well as those of nutrition and speech, need much further validation before they can be recommended for routine use. 3. What treatment or intervention techniques will be most effective in remedying these problems? Because this is the realm of traditional medical research, we know a great deal about many of the specific health problems which are to be found in children. We are, however, rarely able to critically weigh costs and benefits of one form of treatment against costs and benefits of another form of treatment or of no treatment at all. Many of the data we will need to make such logical decisions will come from studies of the natural history of illness and from double blind studies of various forms of intervention. A continuing problem is the perpetuation of ineffective intervention techniques—bed rest, tonsillectomy, much psychotherapy—because of the humanistic urge to "do something to help," even when we do not know that what we do actually helps. 4. What resources—financial, manpower, administrative, organizational—will be necessary to prevent, identify, and remedy these problems in a population of children? Given current techniques and organizations, we seem to require one children's physician for every 1,000 families with children and between $100 and $200 a year for each child. The opportunity for reallocation of tasks between the doctor and his helpers and for new organizational and financial settings is enormous. The tools to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of such changes are weak and need much greater development. We do know that use of whatever services are available can be greatly enhanced by making these services responsive to the real needs of the recipients or clients. With so many gaps in basic knowledge, it is hardly surprising that methods to best achieve better health and function for young children are criticized and debated. But, gaps in knowledge and lack of organizational models of proven usefulness do not preclude pragmatic decisions about the content and organization of programs to meet the health needs of pre-school children. Such imperfect knowledge does, however, dictate that practical decisions must be tentative, and that diversity of program content and organization is highly desirable, both in adapting to local conditions and in testing and proving new methods. It also dictates that each of the many diverse patterns and programs which develop must build into itself evaluation and monitoring systems leading both to program improvement and to more definite knowledge about effectiveness of treatment techniques and organizational plans. Perhaps the greatest research need is for tools and motivational arrangements that will assure that every practitioner of child health and every organization involved in the promotion of child health can and does fully evaluate his own results in terms which describe the real issues and modifies his programs in terms of this evaluation. John Gardner20 has described the seff-renewing individual or institution as one who is constantly aware of his actual problems and operating results and is constantly developing new resources to deal with the ever-changing situation. Perhaps the Gardner concept of self-renewal is what we need most, both in providing today's services and in defining tomorrow's research issues in child health.

scholarly journals Developing and validating a multi-dimensional measure of coopetition

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Crick ◽  
Dave Crick
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Product Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dimensional Measure ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose Coopetition, namely, the interplay between cooperation and competition, has received a good deal of interest in the business-to-business marketing literature. Academics have operationalised the coopetition construct and have used these measures to test the antecedents and consequences of firms collaborating with their competitors. However, business-to-business marketing scholars have not developed and validated an agreed operationalisation that reflects the dimensionality of the coopetition construct. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop and validate a multi-dimensional measure of coopetition for marketing scholars to use in future research. Design/methodology/approach To use a highly cooperative and highly competitive empirical context, sporting organisations in New Zealand were sampled, as the key informants within these entities engaged in different forms of coopetition. Checks were made to ensure that the sampled entities produced generalisable results. That is, it is anticipated that the results apply to other industries with firms engaging in similar business-to-business behaviours. Various sources of qualitative and quantitative data were acquired to develop and validate a multi-dimensional measure of coopetition (the COOP scale), which passed all major assessments of reliability and validity (including common method variance). Findings The results indicated that coopetition is a multi-dimensional construct, comprising three distinct dimensions. First, local-level coopetition is collaboration among competing entities within a close geographic proximity. Second, national-level coopetition is cooperation with rivals within the same country but across different geographic regions. Third, organisation-level coopetition is cooperation with competitors across different firms (including with indirect rivals), regardless of their geographic location and product markets served. Indeed, organisation-level coopetition extends to how companies engage in coopetition in domestic and international capacities, depending on the extent to which they compete in similar product markets in comparison to industry rivals. Also, multiple indicators were used to measure each facet of the coopetition construct after the scale purification stage. Originality/value Prior coopetition-based investigations have predominately been conceptual or qualitative in nature. The scarce number of existing scales have significant problems, such as not appreciating that coopetition is a multi-dimensional variable, as well as using single indicators. In spite of a recent call for research on the multiple levels of coopetition, there has not been an agreed measure of the construct that accounts for its multi-dimensionality. Hence, this investigation responds to such a call for research by developing and validating the COOP scale. Local-, national- and organisation-level coopetition are anticipated to be the main facets of the coopetition construct, which offer several avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Self-harm and attempted suicide among UK Armed Forces personnel: Results of a cross-sectional survey

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Pinder ◽  
Amy C. Iversen ◽  
Nav Kapur ◽  
Simon Wessely ◽  
Nicola T. Fear
Keyword(s):  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Psychological Morbidity ◽  
Lifetime Prevalence ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Uk

Aims: Little has been reported on self-harm among the UK Armed Forces, partly due to the difficulties in recording self-harm, within an often-difficult-to-reach population. This study assesses the lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide and self-harm within currently serving and ex-service personnel of the UK Armed Forces. Methods: Telephone interviews were conducted with 821 personnel who had previously participated in the King’s Centre for Military Health Research military health study. Within the telephone interview, participants were asked about attempted suicide and episodes of self-harm. Results: A lifetime prevalence of 5.6% for intentional self-harm (self-harm or attempted suicide) was reported. Intentional self-harm was associated with psychological morbidity (in particular, post-traumatic stress disorder) and adverse experiences in childhood. Ex-service personnel reported lifetime prevalence more than double that of serving personnel (10.5% vs 4.2%, respectively). Participants reporting intentional self-harm were younger (34.4 years vs 39.8 years). Conclusion: A lifetime prevalence of 5.6% for attempted suicide and self-harm is higher than previous research has suggested. Younger service personnel, those who have experienced adversity in childhood, those with other psychological morbidity, and ex-service personnel are more likely to report self-harm behaviours.

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