scholarly journals Factors Influencing Bridge Employment Engagement: With Reference on Health Sector in Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Pabasara Senasinghe ◽  
Vilani Sachitra
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Bridge Employment ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Personal Fulfillment

Purpose: Ageing population will eventually have a dramatic effect on the country’s economy, as it influences on the size of the labor force available. Indorsing longer working lives by encouraging retirees back to the work force has been encouraged by many as a viable option to combat this issue and one way to do this is through bridge employment. Bridge employment is paid work undertaken after retirement from the main vocation but before leaving the labor force completely. The aim of this study is to identify factors influencing bridge employment in health sector in Sri Lanka. Design: Comparing developed and developing context literatures, the study focused on how job-related factors (financial motives and organizational environment) and the societal-level factors (personal fulfillment and social relationship) affect to the bridge employment. Quantitative approach was used. Primary data were collected through a questionnaire survey. To fulfill the study aim, 296 employees representing doctors and nurses, were taken as the sample of this study.   Findings: The binary logistic regression analysis results indicated that 21.9 per cent variation of the bridge employment can be explained by organizational environment, financial motives, social relationship and personal fulfillment. Among the factors, personal fulfillment, social relationship and organizational environment were significant determinants of bridge employment in health sector in Sri Lanka. Financial motive was not a significant predictor on bridge employment engagement. Research Implications: The study findings can aid to healthcare centers and pharmaceutical industry as great opportunity in gaining expertise knowledge of bridge employees by understanding influences of personal fulfillment, social relationship and organizational environment factors on their expectations. Further, the findings will be useful to local and global human resources specialists to access and evaluate the research findings to develop new HRM practices based on bride employment. Limitations: The responsiveness of older employees to providing data, is below than the expected responsiveness.

Factors Influencing the Private Cost of Higher Education; the Case of Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-202
Author(s):  
S Gobinath ◽  
K Tharshan ◽  
W.R.H Dheerasekara ◽  
M.M.D de S. Gunawardena ◽  
S.G Jayakody ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Private Cost

scholarly journals High Levels of Genetic Variation in MHC-Linked Microsatellite Markers from Native Chicken Breeds

Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Prabuddha Manjula ◽  
Minjun Kim ◽  
Sunghyun Cho ◽  
Dongwon Seo ◽  
Jun Heon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Polymorphic Information Content ◽  
Poultry Production ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Allele Number ◽  
Mhc Diversity ◽  
Local Chicken ◽  
The Difference

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene region that regulates cellular communication in all specific immune responses. In this study, we investigated 11 microsatellite (MS) markers in the MHC-B region of chicken populations from four countries: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, and Nigeria. The MS markers were divided into two sets. Set 1 included five novel MS markers, which we assessed using 192 samples from 21 populations. Set 2 included six previously reported markers, which we assessed using 881 samples from 29 populations. The Set 1 MS markers had lower polymorphism (polymorphic information content (PIC) < 0.5) than the Set 2 markers (PIC = 0.4–0.9). In all populations, the LEI0258 marker was the most polymorphic, with a total of 38 alleles (PIC = 0.912, expected heterozygosity (He) = 0.918). Local populations from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nigeria had higher allele diversity and more haplotypes for Set 2 MS markers than Korean and commercial populations. The Sri Lankan Karuwalagaswewa village population had the highest MHC diversity (mean allele number = 8.17, He = 0.657), whereas the white leghorn population had the lowest (mean allele number = 2.33, He = 0.342). A total of 409 haplotypes (89 shared and 320 unique), with a range of 4 (Rhode Island red) to 46 (Karuwalagaswewa village (TA)), were identified. Among the shared haplotypes, the B21-like haplotype was identified in 15 populations. The genetic relationship observed in a neighbour-joining tree based on the DA distance agreed with the breeding histories and geographic separations. The results indicated high MHC diversity in the local chicken populations. The difference in the allelic pattern among populations presumably reflects the effects of different genotypes, environments, geographic variation, and breeding policies in each country. The selection of MHC allele in domestic poultry can vary due to intensification of poultry production. Preserved MHC diversity in local chicken provides a great opportunity for future studies that address the relationships between MHC polymorphisms and differential immune responses.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing on E-Banking Practices: Evidence from Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anusiga Gunaratnam ◽  
Konalingam Kajenthiran ◽  
Umanakenan Ratnam ◽  
Achchuthan Sivapalan
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Total Variance ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Unique Model

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influencing factors of e-banking practices in Sri Lanka. A questionnaire with seven-point Likert scale is applied to 388 usable responses. The study was exploratory in nature and employed factor analysis to identify the important factors of e-banking practices. Results indicate that mainly four factors are significant with respect to the e-banking practices. Privacy & convenience, content & website layout, speed of delivery, and accessibility are the critical factors influencing the e-banking practices. In addition, factors extracted from the analysis accounted for 53.704% of the total variance. This study expected to provide a unique model in the realm of e-banking.

Normalizing Cross-Border Healthcare in Europe via New E-Prescription Paradigms

2013 ◽  
pp. 168-208
Author(s):  
Alexander Berler ◽  
Ioannis Apostolakis
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Electronic Prescription ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Right

The 21st century started with some significant efforts globally in the e-health sector. This was mainly pushed as a generic strategy from many nations and international organizations in order to cope with issues such as ageing population, demographic shift, social security limitations, and financial instability. A second reason was the introduction of new technologies such as cloud computing, Web interoperability standards, mobile health, and social media that are steadily changing the way healthcare has been seen in the last decades. In addition to that, globalization, commuting, immigration, and increased mobility raised the issue of cross-border healthcare and the right to access normalized healthcare services anywhere, anytime. In that context, the authors analyze the technological offerings and result of the epSOS (European Patient Smart Open Services) framework and how it has affected strategic decisions in electronic prescription in Greece, thus creating a new useful e-health national application. They prove that by rethinking healthcare, reusing established standards such as HL7 CDA (Health Level Seven Clinical Document Architecture) and IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) profiles, it is possible to propose a new innovative system that is in fact based upon new technological propositions such as REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture and cloud computing.

Factors Influencing Consumers' Trust on E-commerce Adoption in Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilmudeen Aboobucker
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Preventing the re-establishment of malaria in Sri Lanka amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasad Ranaweera ◽  
Rajitha Wickremasinghe ◽  
Kamini Mendis
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
Imported Malaria ◽  
World Health ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Programmes

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on other health programmes in countries, including on malaria, and is currently under much discussion. As many countries are accelerating efforts to eliminate malaria or to prevent the re-establishment of malaria from recently eliminated countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to cause major interruptions to ongoing anti-malaria operations and risk jeopardizing the gains that have been made so far. Sri Lanka, having eliminated malaria in 2012, was certified by the World Health Organization as a malaria-free country in 2016 and now implements a rigorous programme to prevent its re-establishment owing to the high receptivity and vulnerability of the country to malaria. Sri Lanka has also dealt with the COVID-19 epidemic quite successfully limiting the cumulative number of infections and deaths through co-ordinated efforts between the health sector and other relevant sectors, namely the military, the Police Department, Departments of Airport and Aviation and Foreign Affairs, all of which have been deployed for the COVID-19 epidemic under the umbrella of a Presidential Task Force. The relevance of imported infections and the need for a multi-sectoral response are features common to both the control of the COVID-19 epidemic and the Prevention of Re-establishment (POR) programme for malaria. Sri Lanka’s malaria POR programme has, therefore, creatively integrated its activities with those of the COVID-19 control programme. Through highly coordinated operations the return to the country of Sri Lankan nationals stranded overseas by the COVID-19 pandemic, many from malaria endemic countries, are being monitored for malaria as well as COVID-19 in an integrated case surveillance system under quarantine conditions, to the success of both programmes. Twenty-three imported malaria cases were detected from February to October through 2773 microscopic blood examinations performed for malaria in quarantine centres, this number being not much different to the incidence of imported malaria during the same period last year. This experience highlights the importance of integrated case surveillance and the need for a highly coordinated multi-sectoral approach in dealing with emerging new infections. It also suggests that synergies between the COVID-19 epidemic control programme and other health programmes may be found and developed to the advantage of both.

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