Aesthetic Dimensions of Music-Initiated Processes in Co-Production

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-215
Author(s):  
Julie Borup Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Circle Method ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Pragmatic Research ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Empirical Material

This chapter offers an aesthetic approach to co-production processes at a micro level to understand how citizens, social care professionals, and researchers contribute to developing music- and empowerment-based tools for citizen involvement in social-psychiatric care. The chapter draws on empirical material from a research-circle-based project about dream workshops within a Danish municipal social-psychiatric care unit. The chapter addresses music as supporting empowerment within the processes of co-production of citizens' action plans, and music is understood as an aesthetic dimension of these processes. The chapter includes a pragmatic research perspective on knowledge and experience building and generation of empirical insights, drawing on Dewey and Bruner, realized in the research circle method.

An attempt at a reconciliation of the Sraffian and Kaleckian views on desired utilization

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Reiner Franke
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strategic Complementarity ◽  
Functional Specification ◽  
Long Run ◽  
State Position ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Rate Of Profit ◽  
Increasing Function ◽  
Empirical Material

This paper derives firms’ desired rate of utilization from an explicit maximization of a conjectured rate of profit at the micro level. Invoking a strategic complementarity, desired utilization is thus an increasing function of not only the profit share but also the actual utilization. Drawing on recent empirical material and a straightforward functional specification, the model is subsequently numerically calibrated. In particular, this ensures a unique solution for a steady-state position in which the actual and the endogenous desired rates of utilization coincide. On the other hand, it turns out that the anticipated losses of firms by not producing at the desired level are rather small. Hence there may be only weak pressure on them to close a utilization gap in the ordinary way by suitable adjustments in fixed investment. It is indicated that this finding may serve Kaleckian economists as a more rigorous justification for viewing their equilibria as pertaining to the long run, even if they allow actual utilization to deviate persistently from desired utilization.

Involuntary Treatment of Adolescents in Psychiatric and Social Care

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
R. Kaltiala-Heino
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Medical File ◽  
Involuntary Care ◽  
Disruptive Behaviours

Background:Little is known about use of coercion on minors in psychiatric care. Questions of coercion, self-determination and competence are more complicated in minors than in adults. Choice between psychiatric and child welfare care is not always clear.Objective:To present findings in Finnish studies on involuntary treatment of adolescents.Methods:Register data, medical file data and interviews with the young people, their parents, and professionals participating in decision-making are used in an ongoing series of studies.Results:Involuntary psychiatric treatment and taking into care of adolescents has vastly increased since mid 1990's. Their use varies greattly within the same legislation. Involuntary care is more common in socially deprived ares. Involuntary treatment takes place justified by paternalistic motivations. Girls are more easily committed due to disruptive behaviours than boys.Conclusion:Involuntary care of minors is a sizeable and ignored ethical problem.

scholarly journals Mental health services in Luxembourg: an overview

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Anja Malmendier-Muehlschlegel ◽  
Niamh Catherine Power
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Social Health Insurance ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Medical Workforce ◽  
The Past

We describe mental health services in Luxembourg and how they have evolved over the past 50 years. Health services in Luxembourg are provided through a social health insurance-based system and mental health services are no exception. Additional services are offered through mixed-funding avenues drawing on social care budgets in the main. Luxembourg is closely connected with neighbouring countries, where a large proportion of its workforce live. No run-through medical training exists and the entire medical workforce, including psychiatrists, have trained in other countries. This is reflected in a rich but often non-uniform approach to the provision of psychiatric care.

scholarly journals Evaluation of safety trends in construction, mining and transportation sectors in Turkey

Sigurnost ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Yilmaz ◽  
Serpil Bardakci Tosun
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Preventive Services ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Fatal Accidents ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
Very High ◽  
The Eu

SUMMARY: Production processes in construction, mining and transportation involves high risks of occupational accidents all over the world. In 2014, 25.6% of the total accidents and 65% of fatal accidents occured in these three sectors in Turkey. According to the Eurostat data, in 2014, 20% of all work-related accidents and 38% of fatal accidents have occurred in these sectors in EU. The fatality rates in Turkey are very high compared to EU countries. In Turkey, these sectors have high accident risks due to its production processes, use of low-tech, negative conditions and labor-intensive characteristics. Production machines are old, and protective-preventive services are inadequate. Especially in the construction sector, unregistered labor and subcontracting is widespread. Labor inspection is inadequate. In EU accession process, legislative works done in the field of health and safety in Turkey in recent years have not been enough. New regulations were introduced related to protective-preventive services, risk assessment, information and education workers. Nevertheless, occupational accidents has not decreased at the desired level. This paper contains a comperative and statistical analysis of accidents in coal mining, construction and transportation sectors in Turkey and EU. The official statistics data are used in the EU and Turkey. To prevent accidents, action plans must be prepared for each of the three sectors. Practices must be determined and followed strictly within the frame of these action plans.

scholarly journals Operationalising desistance through personalisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fox ◽  
Caroline Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Offender Rehabilitation ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Roll Out

This article reports on the early stages of a project to develop a model of offender rehabilitation that operationalises the concept of desistance. The concept of desistance is influential but operationalising it remains a challenge. The aim of this article is to assess whether personalisation of offender rehabilitation has potential as a mechanism for operationalising the concept of desistance. We identify learning from the design and implementation of personalisation in social care, but challenges include the roll out of personal budgets, developing a local market to support consumer choice and the limited evidence base on the effectiveness of personalisation. We specify a project to pilot personalisation in the English probation sector that tests concepts relating both to the design and commissioning of personalised services, including community capacity building to support the supply of personalised services at the local or even micro level. A project evaluation design is also outlined.

scholarly journals Collaboration between community social services and healthcare institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håkan Källmén ◽  
Anders Hed ◽  
Tobias H. Elgán
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Substance Use Treatment ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Stockholm County ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Paper Version ◽  
Cross Sectional Design

Background: Well-functioning care of people with substance use and psychiatric disorders presumes collaboration between different parties such as psychiatric care and substance use treatment centres, as well as social services. According to Swedish law, a collaborative individual plan, i.e., a written action plan to support structured inter-organisational collaboration, should be established. However, there are indications that such action plans are not used to a satisfactory extent. Aim: To explore current inter-organisational collaboration and use of collaborative individual plans among healthcare units and social services in Stockholm County. Design: The study uses a cross-sectional design. Participants ( N = 797) in a course specifically aimed at improving the knowledge and use of collaborative individual plans were invited to take part in the study prior to attending the course. A total of 705 participants accepted. Data were collected through an electronic questionnaire sent to each participant’s workplace. Non-respondents were offered a paper version to fill out. Results: Respondents reported participating in one to two collaborative individual plans per month and about 70% reported using a particular template. Respondents perceived mainly positive consequences of establishing a collaborative individual plan, for instance that it clarifies what measures are to be performed and who is responsible. Conclusions: Although respondents were generally positive about establishing a collaborative individual plan and the consequences thereof, they reported low use of such action plans.

From Democratic Consultation to User-employment: Shifting Institutional Embedding of Citizen Involvement in Health and Social Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
TONE ALM ANDREASSEN
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Dominant Model ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Institutional Embedding

AbstractPolicies of citizen involvement in health and social care have given rise to a variety of organisational forms, which address citizens in different capacities and differ in their demands as to the representativeness, performance and competence of those involved. Apparently, the policies draw on different institutional logics. Based on extant studies, partly the author's own research from Norway, this article sheds light on three purposefully selected cases of citizen involvement. Two models of democratic consultation encompass a dominant model of involvement in Norway (advisory bodies of service users) and a model more prevalent in UK (panels of the general public). These are both embedded within a logic of democracy. A third emergent model of involvement is one in which citizens with experience as service users are engaged as workers in service providing organisations. This model resembles an idea of co-production. However, when involvement is organised as user-employment and paid work, the model rather seems rooted within the logic of the market – the labour market of service workers. The rise of this model suggests a shift in institutional embedding of citizen involvement. The analysis of these models provides a framework of distinguishing dimensions between different models of involvement.

scholarly journals A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Pablo Paniagua ◽  
Veeshan Rayamajhee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Political economists assume that global externalities, such as pandemics and climate change, require global or multi-national solutions. Yet, many aspects of these externalities can be addressed at the micro-level. As Elinor Ostrom pointed out, what scholars perceive as global externalities are in fact nested externalities that are organized in multiple, overlapping scales. By drawing on Ostrom's oeuvre, we explore the notions of nested externalities, polycentricity, and co-production in the context of pandemic governance. We highlight two crucial features of pandemics: first, preventative measures such as social distancing are co-production processes that cannot be provided by governments alone. Second, pandemics, much like climate change, pose nested externalities problems at different levels. Thus, pandemic externalities are better viewed as collective action problems arranged at multiple, nested, and/or overlapping scales. Finally, we propose an alternative institutional take that considers the nestedness of pandemic externalities and the diversity in institutional conditions across jurisdictions.

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