Assessment of Need as a technology of government in Ireland’s Disability Act 2005

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
New System ◽  
Assessment Of Need ◽  
The Way

This chapter is concerned with exploring a specific governmental technology – the Assessment of Need (AoN) process in the Disability Act 2005 – which has initiated a new system of categorising children with disabilities in the Irish state. Subject to significant controversy, the AoN exposes not just the way in which governmental rationalities and strategies seek to bring new categories of individuals into being, but also how these projects are often incomplete and fraught with tension, insofar as they are played out within and across institutional and professional boundaries and forms of expertise. In particular, the chapter is concerned with documenting how those charged with working within the health system interpret, make sense and sometimes subvert, the categorisations and obligations which the AoN process places upon them, thereby pointing to the messy realities of governing which are sometimes absent from governmentality-inspired analyses of policy programmes.

From the President: Working Early-Intervention Magic in Community Settings

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patty Prelock
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
The Way

Children with disabilities benefit most when professionals let families lead the way.

Social Need Revisited

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Sheltered Housing ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
Assessment Of Need ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTConsiderable debate has taken place as to the nature of social need and ways in which it can best be identified in individual people, but little attention has focussed on the way assessments of need are used in the process of policy formation. The article takes Jonathan Bradshaw's commonly quoted taxonomy of social need and assesses its strengths and weaknesses for use in a practical policy making setting, that of assessment of need for sheltered housing for elderly people by a district housing authority. Some fundamental problems associated with Bradshaw's approach are then discussed, together with those arising from use of a term such as need in the process of policy formation.

Evaluating Shared Governance: Measuring Functionality of Unit Practice Councils at the Point of Care

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Fray
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
The Way

Measuring the functionality of Unit Practice Councils (UPCs) in institutions on the Magnet journey is a rare occurrence. The Jackson Health System Unit Practice Council Functionality Measurement Tool is one of the first such attempts to provide an objective way to assess whether UPCs function in the way they were envisioned to perform.

Understanding the Business Consequences of ERP Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 72-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Staehr ◽  
Graeme Shanks ◽  
Peter B. Seddon
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
User Resistance ◽  
Manufacturing Organization ◽  
Training And Support ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

This study examines the postimplementation period of an ERP implementation in an Australian manufacturing organization, with the aim of understanding and explaining the business consequences that occurred. The description of the case is followed by an analysis using the structurational model of technology. The radical change in the way users needed to understand the business in terms of the new system, coupled with insufficient training and support postimplementation, and user resistance to change, impacted on the benefits the organization gained from the system.

scholarly journals Mental health law in Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hudson Walker ◽  
Akwasi Osei
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mental Health Law ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
New System

In 2012 Ghana passed a new Mental Health Act, which aimed to create a new system of mental healthcare in Ghana. The Act includes provisions for the creation of a modern, community-based mental health system and for the protection of the rights of persons with mental disorders. This article discusses the implications of the Act and the progress which has been made towards its implementation.

SOCIAL INCLUSION, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Ivan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
The Way

In the article there was discussed the term of social inclusion and the quality of life of children with disabilities. There was presented the way to social inclusion in the context of the achieved quality of life and also the main categories for individual assessment of the quality of life. In this article there are also presented four ways to improve social inclusion for children with disabilities.

Simulation System Research on Live Working for 500kV Transmission Line

2013 ◽  
Vol 325-326 ◽  
pp. 673-676
Author(s):  
Lian Yang ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Xiao Feng Li ◽  
Chuan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Line ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Safety Margin ◽  
Stable Operation ◽  
System Research ◽  
Transmission Tower ◽  
Transmission Networks ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

500kV EHV transmission networks have become the main one of the national grid, carring out live working for 500kV EHV transmission lines is the objective requirements to ensure the stable operation of the grid system. This paper uses a new system to simulate and analyse the way of entering the high electric area on 500kV transmission line. The system has built the ZM1 transmission tower and line model, accurately accounted the complex gap and satety distance. The simulation results show that the system can effectively get the best secure route and determine the way to enter into the equipotential with the safety margin.

scholarly journals New technology of coring for bottom soft sediments

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 875-880
Author(s):  
E. A. Konstantinov
Keyword(s):  
Bottom Sediment ◽  
Bottom Sediments ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Drill String ◽  
Valve Mechanism ◽  
Soft Sediments ◽  
The Core ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

A new technology for coring of weakly consolidated sediment is proposed. The technology includes the original coring system and the way it is operated. The technology is based on a number of original solutions: 1) unification of the elements of the drill string, where household pipes made of PVC are used as a sampler and rods; 2) the use of the valve mechanism of a simple conical construction; 3) the method of vertical freezing of the core in open air. The coring system makes it possible to obtain the cores of the bottom sediment in winter from ice at a depth of up to 710 meters. Field tests have shown that the proposed system is inexpensive, easy to assemble and operate, but at the same time very effective and reliable. The new system can be as an alternative or complement to existing systems for coring of bottom sediments.

scholarly journals Childhood Tuberculosis: An Under Prioritized Disease in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (234) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabin Gautam ◽  
Gambhir Shrestha ◽  
Prabin Phuyal
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Childhood Tuberculosis ◽  
Case Detection ◽  
National Tuberculosis Program ◽  
Successful Program ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

Globally, childhood tuberculosis constitutes up to 10% of overall tuberculosis cases. In Nepal, childhood tuberculosis has remained around 5.5% of overall tuberculosis cases and has remained stagnant over the years. Moreover, our health system is focused on adult tuberculosis. Childhood tuberculosis has recently got its attention both at the national and international levels. National Tuberculosis Program has been a successful program; however, more has to be done to track childhood tuberculosis progress. In this viewpoint, we discuss current initiatives taken by the government and the way forward for case detection and management of childhood tuberculosis in Nepal.

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