scholarly journals Residential Area Sociodemographic and Breast Cancer Screening Venue Location Built Environmental Features Associated with Women’s Use of Closest Venue in Greater Sydney, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11277
Author(s):  
Jahidur Rahman Khan ◽  
Suzanne J. Carroll ◽  
Neil T. Coffee ◽  
Matthew Warner-Smith ◽  
David Roder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Environmental Predictors ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Station Hospital

Understanding environmental predictors of women’s use of closest breast screening venue versus other site(s) may assist optimal venue placement. This study assessed relationships between residential-area sociodemographic measures, venue location features, and women’s use of closest versus other venues. Data of 320,672 Greater Sydney screening attendees were spatially joined to residential state suburbs (SSCs) (n = 799). SSC-level sociodemographic measures included proportions of: women speaking English at home; university-educated; full-time employed; and dwellings with motor-vehicles. A geographic information system identified each woman’s closest venue to home, and venue co-location with bus-stop, train-station, hospital, general practitioner, and shop(s). Multilevel logistic models estimated associations between environmental measures and closest venue attendance. Attendance at closest venue was 59.4%. Closest venue attendance was positively associated with SSC-level women speaking English but inversely associated with SSC-level women university-educated, full-time employed, and dwellings with motor-vehicles. Mobile venue co-location with general practitioner and shop was positively, but co-location with bus-stop and hospital was inversely associated with attendance. Attendance was positively associated with fixed venue co-location with train-station and hospital but inversely associated with venue co-location with bus-stop, general practitioner, and shop. Program planners should consider these features when optimising service locations to enhance utilisation. Some counterintuitive results necessitate additional investigation.

Arthur Conan Doyle and Medical London: Reading the Topography of Round the Red Lamp

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-313
Author(s):  
Roger Luckhurst
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Set Up

This essay explores the short period of time that Arthur Conan Doyle spent between March and June 1891 when he moved his family into rooms in Bloomsbury and took a consulting room near Harley Street in an attempt to set up as an eye specialist. This last attempt to move up the professional hierarchy from general practitioner to specialist tends to be seen as a final impulsive move before Conan Doyle decided to become a full-time writer in June 1891. The essay aims to elaborate a little on the medical contexts for Conan Doyle’s brief spell in London, and particularly to track the medical topography in which he placed himself, situated between the radical, reformist Bloomsbury medical institutions and the fame and riches of the society doctors of Harley Street. These ambivalences are tracked in the medical fiction he published in Round the Red Lamp, his peculiar collection of medical tales and doctoring in 1894.

scholarly journals BMI of students of School of Sport – facts and self-assessment in the context of physical activity and parents’ education. Long-standing research

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
EWA WÓJTOWICZ ◽  
BARBARA DUDA-BIERNACKA
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Nutrition Disorders ◽  
Lower Height

The objective of this study is self-recorded BMI among 20-year-old female students in the context of their physical activity, weight, body height, parent’s education and the time factor. Statistical analysis of the data was based on anthropometric measurements and a survey conducted among female students (N = 1,394) from the first year of full-time studies at the Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport (AWFiS) in the years 2003–2010. The relationship between variables and logistic models was analyzed (Student’s test, Duncan’s test, analysis of variance, logistic regression). Statistical analysis was conducted using Statistica 6.0 software. At the background of the research results it may be claimed that incorrect self-reported BMI favors sport (OR = 0.71), father’s elementary or basic vocational education (OR = 1.44), higher weight (OR = 0.90) and BMI (OR = 0.76) and lower height (OR = 1.07). 29.77% women did not evaluate their BMI correctly during the whole 8-year research process. The correct BMI was reported by 70.23% of the students; 26.76% overestimated their BMI and 3.01% underestimated it. A high percentage of women who practice sport and who incorrectly determined their own BMI (31.25%) is disquieting, including 8.82% of the students who underestimated their BMI, and 91.18% who overestimated it. Failure to correctly evaluate BMI may lead to nutrition disorders, low self-esteem and serious health consequences. It is reasonable to develop regular and skillful evaluation of BMI among young people by institutions and people involved in health promotion.

scholarly journals Traffic-Related Airborne VOC Profiles Variation on Road Sites and Residential Area within a Microscale in Urban Area in Southern Taiwan

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1015
Author(s):  
Jiun-Horng Tsai ◽  
Yen-Ting Lu ◽  
I-I Chung ◽  
Hung-Lung Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Methyl Cyclopentane ◽  
Set Up

The sampling sites, including roadsides and residential areas, were set up to collect ambient air and determine the volatile organic species it contained. For the roadside air, the average VOCs (volatile organic compounds) abundant at rush hour periods was two times that at non-rush hour periods. In the residential area, the VOC concentrationswere106 and 129 ppb during rush hour periods. The VOC concentration ratios of roadside and residential areas were in the range of 1.08–1.75 and the traffic emissions were related to the VOCs abundant in air. The highest VOC concentration was 168 ppb at midnight at residential sites and the VOC abundance could be two times that of roadside sites. This level of concentration could be attributed to the application of solvents and to human activity in a nearby motorcycle/vehicle maintenance plant, laundry rooms, etc. High abundant species were similar in both the roadside and residential air samples. These highly abundant species included toluene, acetone, acetonitrile, m,p-xylene and n-pentane, all of which can be emitted from traffic exhaust. Benzene, acrolein, formaldehyde, vinyl chloride and 1,3-butadiene were the main species with health impacts collected at both sites. In the micro-scale environment, the residential ambient air was affected by traffic flow from morning to night. In the midnight period, some local activities (a motorcycle/vehicle maintenance shop and laundry shops) affected the concentrations of certain VOCs (acetonitrile, toluene, hexane, 2-methylpentane, methyl cyclopentane and 3-methylpentane). The traffic and motor vehicles’ effects were determined, which could be useful for air quality management and strategy development in an urban area.

Let the People Be Heard: San Diego County Bicycle Use and Attitude Survey

1998 ◽  
Vol 1636 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Jackson ◽  
Erik O. Ruehr
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
Public Works ◽  
San Diego County ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
The People ◽  
Bicycle Transportation

What is the best way to promote bicycle transportation? Are people afraid to ride bicycles because motorists will run them over? Are there enough bicycle facilities available? Is promoting bicycle transportation a wise use of tax dollars? What percentage of the population currently rides bicycles? The San Diego Association of Governments allocates approximately $2 million annually on bicycling projects throughout San Diego County, California. Both the county of San Diego and the city of San Diego employ full-time bicycle coordinators. Periodically, questions and comments will arise regarding bicycling policies. “Why are they spending so much money on bicycle lanes? No one ever bicycles down this street.” “If they would build more bicycle paths, I would ride my bicycle to work instead of drive.” “How do they expect people to ride bicycles if they don’t maintain the pavement?” The San Diego County Bicycle Use and Attitude Survey was commissioned at the behest of the San Diego County Public Works Department to determine existing levels of bicycle usage and bicycling attitudes among San Diego County residents. A total of 3,800 interviews, conducted during February and March 1994 by telephone throughout the county, provided valuable insight into a large range of bicycling issues. The survey found that a majority (58 percent) of those residents polled reported that they were bicycle owners, and that a majority (68 percent) of those households in which bicycles were present reported that the adults bicycled. Respondents who bicycle chose bicycle paths, which are separated from motor vehicles, as their preferred bikeway facility. Almost three-fourths of the respondents (73 percent) stated that they did not bicycle at night. Only 15 percent of respondents who rode a bicycle at least once within the past year reported riding for transportation purposes. Over 99 percent of all respondents stated that they did not belong to a bicycling organization. A majority of respondents (over 70 percent) had not heard of various government programs that provided bicycle maps and bicycle information, and less than 10 percent of respondents have used these services. The majority of bicycling households (86 percent) reported being at least somewhat satisfied with the level of bikeway maintenance provided. Overall, survey respondents expressed support for government efforts to promote bicycle transportation.

Transporting Urban Inequality through Public Transit Designs & Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Y. Purifoye
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Large White ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Far North ◽  
The North ◽  
Predominantly Minority ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
North End

Four large, and often overflowing, dumpsters are situated at one of the more than dozen bus stops at the Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) Red Line 95th Street/Dan Ryan train station. This station is on the city's far south side and the ridership on the buses that board and disembark there and the train is predominantly minority. On a warm or hot day, the smell of bus engines and dumpster contents fill the waiting areas. One 28–year–old Black male passenger (BMP) noted, as he stood at one of the nearly one dozen (no seating available) bus stops at the station, “In the summer it's really horrible because of the smells, flies, and bees.” He also added that as far as he could remember “they've [the bus stop dumpsters] been here my whole life” (June 2012). His experience at the south end of this train line, which also has a majority minority ridership, is starkly different from the waiting experiences on the far north end of the same line, Howard Street, where the ridership is diverse (with a large white ridership). The north end station is surrounded by shops and restaurants, more open waiting spaces, and places to sit to wait for buses that travel through the adjoining bus depot. There are no bus stop benches at the south end station, even though there are over a dozen buses that use that station's depot.

Prevalence of and incentives for board certification among hospital pharmacy departments in California

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha L Yeung ◽  
Christina A Vu ◽  
Mengxi Wang ◽  
Mimi Lou ◽  
Tien M H Ng
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Board Certification ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Teaching Institution ◽  
Director Characteristics

Abstract Disclaimer In an effort to expedite the publication of articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic, AJHP is posting these manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, but are posted online before technical formatting and author proofing. These manuscripts are not the final version of record and will be replaced with the final article (formatted per AJHP style and proofed by the authors) at a later time. Purpose Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) certification is endorsed to distinguish pharmacists for advanced practice areas, yet perceived value to stakeholders remains poorly described. This study characterized how board certification is integrated in hospital pharmacy departments across California. Methods A prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted in which a survey was administered to all hospital pharmacy directors in California between November 2019 and March 2020. Licensed institutions and corresponding pharmacy directors were identified from the California State Board of Pharmacy. The survey queried for institution and pharmacy director characteristics and if/how board certification was integrated. Multivariable logistic models identified predictors of institutions with at least 25% full-time board-certified pharmacists and those that reward board certification. Results Surveys were completed by 29% of institutions. Most of these institutions were urban (81%) and nonteaching (57%), with fewer than 325 hospital beds (71%), and with fewer than 50 full-time pharmacist positions (86%). The majority reported that less than 25% of their pharmacists were board certified. Currently, 47% consider board certification during hiring and 38% reward board-certified employees. Predictors of institutions with 25% or more board-certified pharmacists included being a teaching institution (odds ratio [OR], 2.96; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.24-7.06), having 325 or more beds (OR, 7.17; 95% CI, 2.86-17.97), and having a pharmacy director who was previously or currently board certified (OR, 3.69; 95% CI, 1.46-9.35). Hospitals with 100 or more pharmacist positions predicted institutions that reward board certification (OR, 16.69; 95% CI, 1.78-156.86). Conclusion Board certification was an employment preference for almost half of the hospital survey respondents in California. Institutions more likely to reward board-certified pharmacists are larger, urban, and teaching hospitals and have pharmacy directors who have been board certified.

scholarly journals Stress and its causes in UK gastroenterologists: results of a national survey by the British Society of Gastroenterology

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot Gleeson ◽  
Christopher O’Shea ◽  
Howard Ellison ◽  
Tony C Tham ◽  
Andrew C Douds ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
British Society ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Potential Factors

AimEvaluation of stress and its causes in UK gastroenterologists,DesignQuestionnaire emailed to all 1932 medical members of the British Society of Gastroenterology.ResultsOf 567 respondents (29%), 107 (20%) graded their stress level as 4 or 5 out of 5. Stress levels correlated inversely with self-reported happiness levels (r=−0.60; p<0.001) and with hours slept per night (r=−0.23; p<0.01) and correlated directly with % time off-duty thinking about work (r=0.46; p<0001) and with proportion of nights with broken sleep (r=0.30; p<0.01). Due to stress over the past year, 21% of respondents reported one of the following: consulting their general practitioner (7%), attending occupational health (5%), taking planned time off (7%), taking anxiolytics/antidepressants (6%) and considering suicide (5.5%). These respondents had higher stress and lower happiness levels than the remainder. Stress levels were higher in women and in those working full time but had no other demographic associations.The main causes of stress were excessive clinical work (ranked highest by 47% and most commonly patient-related administration), working conditions beyond control (ranked highest by 15% and most commonly inadequate information technology systems, workspace and secretarial staff) and conflict (ranked highest by 9%). Of eight potential factors, happiness with work showed the closest associations with overall happiness (positive) and overall stress (negative) levels. Talking to someone at work about stress was ranked difficult or impossible by 35%. The highest ranked suggested solutions were relief from some duties and mentoring.ConclusionsStress is common and has objective correlates in UK gastroenterologists. The main cause is excessive workload.

scholarly journals Small-dispersed dust chemical composition on the leaves of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca) in residential area

2019 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 01021
Author(s):  
Irina Glinyanova
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Prunus Armeniaca ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Specific Chemical ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Environmental Measures

A study of the small-dispersed dust chemical composition on the leaves of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca) in the residential area of the Sredneakhtubinsky district of the Volgograd region was coducted. The aim of the study was to assess the environmental situation in low-rise buildings near functioning constructional and machinery enterprises. The leaves of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca), growing in the residential area, were used as passive biomonitors. Chemical analysis of dust particles was carried out with the usage of a scanning electron microscope Versa 3D Dual Beam. As a result of the studies, the chemical composition of small-dispersed dust (PM1, PM2,5, PM10) on the leaves of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca), which consisted of C,O, Mg, Al, Si, Cl, K, Ca, F, P, S, Fe, Mo. Chemical elements such as: F, P, S, Fe, Mo are not specific for leaf blades of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca) and are environmental pollutants that have fallen on the leaves of apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca) from atmospheric air. In the future, it is necessary to find out the sources of atmospheric air pollution in the residential area by non-specific chemical elements and their compounds for this type of plant in the Sredneahtubinsky district of the Volgograd region, and to develop a set of environmental measures aimed to reduce pollutants emissions into the environment, and improving the quality of life of the population.

scholarly journals REDESAIN TERMINAL TIRTONADI DENGAN PENDEKATAN GREEN TERMINAL DI SURAKARTA

Arsitektura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Aini Prisamsiwi ◽  
B. Heru Santosa ◽  
Leny Pramesti
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
Transportation Infrastructures ◽  
Bus Station ◽  
Terminal Design

<p><em>Transportation is activity of people and goods in moving from one place to another place. Good transportation must be supported by good infrastructures. Transportation infrastructures consist of road, bus stop, bus terminal, rail road, train station, and airport. Bus terminal is one infrastructure which had by every city in Indonesia. Redesigning Tirtonadi Bus Terminal Surakarta is built upon the existing condition of Tirtonadi Bus Terminal in 2013 and the final result of Tirtonadi Bus Terminal development that is not appropriate with Green Terminal concept chosen by the management  and the Local Government of Surakarta. This redesign is aimed to obtain appropriate Green Terminal design to change the dirty and polluting image of the bus terminal. The main problem of this design is how to redesign Tirtonadi Bus Station Surakarta by applying Green Terminal Principles. The approach used in  this deisgn is Green Terminal principles, they are: ecofriendly builing, eficiency of energy, air quality, water conservation, security, and renewable natural recources management. The result of redesign is Tirtonadi Bus Terminal Surakarta with appropriate Green Terminal concept that the station can be more safe and convenient for the visitors and the building can maintain harmony between architecture and surrounding environment.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Architecture, Transportation, Redesigning, Bus Terminal, Green Terminal</em></p>

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