Indigenous Language Media and Communication for Health Purposes in the Digital Age

2022 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi ◽  
Nahimah Ajikanle Nurudeen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Potential Channels ◽  
Media And Communication

All over the world, the issues of health and ill health have generated heightened attention among health professionals and communication experts. This is expected in view of the prevalence of increasingly life-threatening ailments. It is therefore not surprising that matters bordering on health have been elevated to the front burner of policy and decision making both at the national and multinational levels. This chapter, therefore, observes that the reason most health information doesn't get to the intended audiences and produce the desired effect is because they are not communicated in the most intelligible language to the people. Indigenous language media are potential channels through which health information could reach the grassroots where more than 70 percent of the nation's populations are resident. It also perceived that health communication could be made to produce more effect in this digital era as more citizen journalists could be raised to communicate in the indigenous language.

Indigenous Language Media and Communication for Health Purposes in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi ◽  
Nahimah Ajikanle Nurudeen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Potential Channels ◽  
Media And Communication

All over the world, the issues of health and ill health have generated heightened attention among health professionals and communication experts. This is expected in view of the prevalence of increasingly life-threatening ailments. It is therefore not surprising that matters bordering on health have been elevated to the front burner of policy and decision making both at the national and multinational levels. This chapter, therefore, observes that the reason most health information doesn't get to the intended audiences and produce the desired effect is because they are not communicated in the most intelligible language to the people. Indigenous language media are potential channels through which health information could reach the grassroots where more than 70 percent of the nation's populations are resident. It also perceived that health communication could be made to produce more effect in this digital era as more citizen journalists could be raised to communicate in the indigenous language.

scholarly journals A Typology of Patients Based on Decision-Making Styles: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Anne FitzPatrick ◽  
Alexandra Claudia Hess ◽  
Lynn Sudbury-Riley ◽  
Peter Johannes Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patient Decision Making ◽  
Health Care Practitioners ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Decision Making Styles

BACKGROUND Although previous research shows broad differences in the impact of online health information on patient-practitioner decision making, specific research is required to identify and conceptualize patient decision-making styles related to the use of online health information and to differentiate segments according to the influence of online information on patient decision making and interactions with health professionals. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate patients’ decision making in relation to online health information and interactions with health care practitioners. We also aimed to present a typology of patients based on significant differences in their decision making. METHODS We applied a large-scale cross-sectional research design using a survey. Data, generated using a questionnaire that was administered by companies specializing in providing online panels, were collected from random samples of baby boomers in the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand. The total sample comprised 996 baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964, who had used the internet in the previous 6 months to search for and share health-related information. Data were analyzed using hierarchical cluster analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, as well as one-way analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and paired sample <italic>t</italic> tests. RESULTS Analyses identified 3 key decision-making styles that served as the base for 4 unique and stable segments of patients with distinctive decision-making styles: the Collaborators (229/996, 23.0%), the Autonomous-Collaborators (385/996, 38.7%), the Assertive-Collaborators (111/996, 11.1%), and the Passives (271/996, 27.2%). Profiles were further developed for these segments according to key differences in the online health information behavior, demographics, and interactional behaviors of patients. The typology demonstrates that collaborative decision making is dominant among patients either in its pure form or in combination with autonomous or assertive decision making. In other words, most patients (725/996, 72.8%) show significant collaboration in their decision making with health care professionals. However, at times, patients in the combination Autonomous-Collaborative segment prefer to exercise individual autonomy in their decision making, and those in the combination Assertive-Collaborative segment prefer to be assertive with health professionals. Finally, this study shows that a substantial number of patients adopt a distinctly passive decision-making style (271/996, 27.2%). CONCLUSIONS The patient typology provides a framework for distinguishing practice-relevant and addressable segments with important implications for health care practitioners, including better-targeted communication programs for patients and more successful outcomes for health care services in the long term.

Providing health information to older adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A Sadowski
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Informed Decision ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Written Information

SummaryProviding information to older adults is essential for informed decision-making and good health. Because there are significant deficits in providing information verbally, health professionals must use written information as well. Most studies have focused on the content and literacy of documents. However, the legibility and formatting are critically important for older adults, who are more likely to suffer with visual impairment. Providing written information that is tested for appropriate reading level and for presentation is necessary to ensure that older adults can use the information given. There are a number of tools available that test these aspects of written information, but not one tool that is universally accepted. Further research regarding the design and presentation of written information for older adults is necessary.

scholarly journals A Typology of Patients Based on Decision-Making Styles: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

10.2196/15332 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. e15332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Anne FitzPatrick ◽  
Alexandra Claudia Hess ◽  
Lynn Sudbury-Riley ◽  
Peter Johannes Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patient Decision Making ◽  
Health Care Practitioners ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Decision Making Styles

Background Although previous research shows broad differences in the impact of online health information on patient-practitioner decision making, specific research is required to identify and conceptualize patient decision-making styles related to the use of online health information and to differentiate segments according to the influence of online information on patient decision making and interactions with health professionals. Objective This study aimed to investigate patients’ decision making in relation to online health information and interactions with health care practitioners. We also aimed to present a typology of patients based on significant differences in their decision making. Methods We applied a large-scale cross-sectional research design using a survey. Data, generated using a questionnaire that was administered by companies specializing in providing online panels, were collected from random samples of baby boomers in the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand. The total sample comprised 996 baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964, who had used the internet in the previous 6 months to search for and share health-related information. Data were analyzed using hierarchical cluster analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, as well as one-way analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and paired sample t tests. Results Analyses identified 3 key decision-making styles that served as the base for 4 unique and stable segments of patients with distinctive decision-making styles: the Collaborators (229/996, 23.0%), the Autonomous-Collaborators (385/996, 38.7%), the Assertive-Collaborators (111/996, 11.1%), and the Passives (271/996, 27.2%). Profiles were further developed for these segments according to key differences in the online health information behavior, demographics, and interactional behaviors of patients. The typology demonstrates that collaborative decision making is dominant among patients either in its pure form or in combination with autonomous or assertive decision making. In other words, most patients (725/996, 72.8%) show significant collaboration in their decision making with health care professionals. However, at times, patients in the combination Autonomous-Collaborative segment prefer to exercise individual autonomy in their decision making, and those in the combination Assertive-Collaborative segment prefer to be assertive with health professionals. Finally, this study shows that a substantial number of patients adopt a distinctly passive decision-making style (271/996, 27.2%). Conclusions The patient typology provides a framework for distinguishing practice-relevant and addressable segments with important implications for health care practitioners, including better-targeted communication programs for patients and more successful outcomes for health care services in the long term.

A New Framework for Politics, Law, and Government in the Digital Era

2022 ◽  
pp. 589-609
Author(s):  
Keshav Sinha ◽  
Roma Kumari ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Chandan ◽  
Partha Paul ◽  
Naghma Khatoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

In the 21st century, the digital world has taken over law and politics. Political war is on online platforms, and various decisions are made based on the digital data. Another problem is to provide security of online data. Most of the world is unsatisfied with the government and policymakers. A lack of satisfaction among the people leads towards civil war or it can cause the fall of an entire selected government, or it can collapse the law systems of the world. To cope with this problem, the authors propose the judge-based political system (JBPS). The new political system can deal with the advancement of technology and cybersecurity. Judge-based politics will help to control this type of threat and provide satisfaction in the upcoming era of democracy.

Queer Deviations from the Future on Screen

Old Futures ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 175-212
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Location ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Media And Communication

As part 3 (It’s the Future, but It Looks like the Present: Queer Speculations on Media Time) turns to the cultural and technological reproduction of speculative futures imagined in audiovisual form, chapter 5 focuses on two speculative films whose genealogy in queer screen history is secure yet which rarely appear in canons of science fiction media: Derek Jarman’s 1978 punk dystopia Jubilee and Lizzie Borden’s 1983 lesbian political fantasy Born in Flames. It argues that that the construction of science fiction film as a heteronormative, capitalist genre defined by spectacular special effects obscures the work done by queer speculative independent film. Alternatively, Jarman and Borden project politicized futures into the people and locations of a present whose shifting temporal location refuses progressive teleologies. The films share an intense focus on media and communication even as they offer contrasting strategies for building futures out of a present moment saturated with representations of the end of the world. Jubilee brings the present to light as a dystopian future whose polite public face hides deep-seated violence; Born in Flames shows us how the politics of revolutionary transformation replicate the problems of the untransformed world through the failure to reckon with them.

scholarly journals SOSIALISASI PERKEMBANGAN KARIR BIDANG AKUNTANSI PADA ERA DIGITAL DI SMK MITRA BATIK KOTA TASIKMALAYA, INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulfa Luthfia Nanda ◽  
Gista Rismayani ◽  
Intan Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Technological Developments

This activity is motivated by technological developments that affect to science, especially in the field of accounting. The development of this technologi indirectly affects the economy and business sector, where at this time the work carried out by human began to be displaced by machines. The accounting profession is still very much needed because it is related to its function in decision making and as a controller. On the other hand, in 2018 the unemployment rate in West Java Province was recorded to increase which was dominated by SMK graduates. The purpose of this activity is to increase knowledge, understanding and provision in preparing student for digital era. The method used in this activity is socialization in the form of providing material about the development of the digital era (industrial revolution), the face of the world economy, the development of accounting in the future. The results achieved through this activity are increasing students� knowledge and insights about the digital developments that occur and helping to increase student awareness of preparing themselves to become graduates who are accepted by the job market.Keywords: socialization; career; accounting field�AbstrakKegiatan ini dilatarbelakangi oleh perkembangan teknologi yang berpengaruh terhadap ilmu pengetahuan terutama bidang akuntansi.Perkembangan teknologi ini secara tidak langsung berpengaruh terhadap perekonomian dan sektor bisnis, dimana saat ini pekerjaan yang dilakukan oleh manusia mulai tergeser oleh mesin. Profesi bidang akuntansi hingga saat masih sangat dibutuhkan karena terkait fungsinya dalam pengambilan keputusan dan sebagai pengendali. Di sisi lain, pada tahun 2018 angka pengangguran di Provinsi Jawa Barat tercatat meningkat yang di dominasi oleh lulusan SMK. Tujuan pengabdian masyarakat ini untuk menambah� pengetahuan, pemahaman dan bekal dalam mempersiapkan diri bagi siswa jurusan akuntansi dalam menghadapi era digital. Metode yang digunakan pada pengabdian kepada masyarakat yaitu sosialisasi berupa pemberian materi tentang perkembangan era digital (revolusi industri), wajah aplikasi ekonomi dunia, perkembangan akuntansi di masa depan. Hasil yang dicapai melalui kegiatan ini adalah meningkatkan pengetahuan dan wawasan siswa tentang perkembangan digital yang terjadi serta membantu meningkatkan kesadaran siswa mempersiapkan diri agar menjadi lulusan yang diterima pasar kerja.

scholarly journals Industrial design: latitudine e longitudine

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Tonelli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Productive Research

The first lesson on industrial design has to address questions such as «what is industrial design?» «what are its relations with the world of production?» «in what way does it change our perception of objects?». By now the word «design» is a part of our language used – relevantly, superficially or casually – to qualify myriad aspects of everyday experience. However the semantic elasticity of the term conceals a professional practice, a decision-making process and a productive research the results of which have profoundly affected our society and our lives. A designer does not simply design an object. Through the object he or she also conditions the physical and emotional scenario of the people who use it. Just as industry does not simply offer goods, but distributes culture or non-culture through its choices of product design. Explaining what this creative activity consists of, which spheres it comprises, who are the actors and what skills are required of them, this book aims to provide critical tools and stimulate further study.

Get the Data and Make Them Usable

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
Hill and
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Disaster Relief Operations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Relief Operations ◽  
Insight Into

As climate change advances and its impacts become clearer, more and more communities around the world will need deeper insight into the future, both immediate and distant. Decision-makers will require information to make high-impact, hard-to-reverse decisions about water, agriculture, and where and how to build infrastructure in a world experiencing climate change. They must model the projected evolution of droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires so that they can help people get out of harm’s way, and they will need data to make disaster-relief operations more effective. The world’s capacity to collect and analyze climate and weather data has exploded. Yet many of the people who need these data lack both access to them and the means to make them useful for decision-making. This chapter describes this data paradox and offer a few ideas on how to escape it.

scholarly journals Empowering Patients and Health Professionals in the Arab World: The King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Arabic Health Encyclopedia on the Web

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
M. M. Altuwaijri
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Health

SummaryThe purpose of this paper is to describe the needs and the process of establishing an online Arabic health encyclopedia to empower patients and health professionals with trustworthy information.A study was conducted by King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in collaboration with Health on the Net (HON) Foundation to review the quality of Arabic health information on the internet. A review of health portals in other languages was performed. Meetings were conducted to investigate areas of collaboration with different stakeholders including: WHO, HON, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and the NHS.The results of the assessment of Arabic health sites showed that a very small percentage (almost 4%) meets international standards. The study results call for immediate action to improve the trustworthiness of Arabic health information on the net. This will be achieved by establishing a reliable Arabic health encyclopedia and by encouraging health professionals from all Arab countries to contribute to its creation. It is important for the 300 million Arabic citizens around the world to be able to access valuable health information on the internet.More than 300 million Arab citizens around the world have missed the opportunity to use the internet to provide them with quality health information. Hence, to bridge this gap, a new project was launched to develop an online Arabic health encyclopedia. Moreover, this study proposes an Arabic health information foundation be established to govern and accredit the Arabic health websites, and to work in collaboration with HON, to regulate and promote the quality of health information on the internet in Arab countries.

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