Beyond Services and Prescriptions: Reimagining Healthy Lifestyle Centers as Cooperative Enterprises

While the health-enhancing benefits of exercise and good nutrition have been well documented, the ability of health professionals to encourage healthier lifestyle behaviors among those they serve continues to prove challenging. Creating the conditions where healthier living can both occur and be sustained requires thinking beyond the traditional provision of services and prescriptions that occur in healthcare settings. Healthy Lifestyle Centers are emerging as a way of deploying lifestyle medicine practices. Turning these centers into cooperative businesses has the potential to make them more effective. Cooperative business principles are well established, and they enable individuals to become makers and producers of their own healthy lifestyles, providing a greater opportunity for sustained lifestyles changes. The purpose of this article is to further examine the role of engagement practices and coproduction as they relate to cooperative business models and to propose a framework for a Cooperative Healthy Lifestyle Center.

The importance of timely diagnosis and replacement of medical equipment in healthcare institutions

The health care system around the world, both in developed and developing countries, is struggling with the problem of managing the provision of health care in conditions of limited resources. The availability and use of various medical equipment at all levels of the healthcare system were emphasized for the efficient and high-quality provision of services. The main purpose of this review article is to assess the availability and use of medical devices and identify the registered causes affecting the availability and use of medical devices in healthcare institutions.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF FACULTY ‎MEMBERS IN THE LIGHT OF QUALITY STANDARDS AND PERFORMANCE ‎EVALUATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI

Scientific research eventually considered as one of the most important functions and ‎tasks undertaken by the university, and it is a balancing function to the function of ‎education. Thus, universities have become concerned in the process of discovering, ‎transferring and developing knowledge, and that their role is not limited to ‎preparing specialized educates needed by the labor market. Scientific research also ‎contributed to activating the role of The university in developing and serving ‎communities, which imposed on the university to undertake a new mission that led ‎to the necessity of linking the university with the community, and therefore the ‎functions of the university steadily developed. Development, and therefore the ‎university is entrusted with integrated tasks and functions that it performs through ‎its specialized colleges and scientific centers.‎ University institutions have great significance in carrying out scientific research and ‎development, transferring knowledge and technology to a variety of fields and ‎activities of society, where scientific research contributes to adapting and keeping ‎pace with global changes and challenges in the long and near term. We found that ‎developed countries follow in this field many means, including provision of services ‎Education, training for the community, and encouraging universities to carry out ‎scientific research, and also development through their faculty promotion system. ‎The topic of scientific research and its role in developing the skills of faculty ‎members is among the topics that are of great significance at all local and ‎international levels, where university education faces in This era of scientific and ‎technological changes and developments, compulsory on universities to develop and ‎modernize their educational system by paying attention to scientific research, so that ‎they could have constructive possessions in improving the stage of students, in their ‎scientific construction, and forming their characters.

Intelligent Technology and Automation in Hospitality

Based on the growing evolution of intelligent technology and automation in the provision of services, this chapter analyzes its incorporation into the 4- and 5-star national hotels and its consequent impact on decision and consumer choice. In this sense, the authors proceeded to characterize the technologies with greater appetence concerning the reality of the hotel industry. Furthermore, they investigated the appreciation made by the guests, researched trends, advantages, inconveniences, changes in behavior and procedures, given the COVID-19 pandemic.

Examining Ease and Challenges in Tele-Assessment of Children Using Slosson Intelligence Test

As the world came to terms with the longevity of the COVID-19 crisis, there came a mass migration towards tele-health services which included tele-assessments. Practitioners argued that delaying assessments would mean a delay in provision of services. Therefore wherever possible, assessment procedures were modified to cater to an online setting including assessment of cognitive abilities. With its many advantages tele-assessment brings many unpredictable challenges. In this study we tried to explore those by administering the Slosson Intelligence Test-third edition (Slosson, 2006) on a sample of 29 school going children ranging in age from 6 to 16 years old, via Zoom. Observations were divided into two categories, that is, logistical and practical. Results showed that technology improves accessibility of services and solves many logistical problems such as availability of testing venues, and makes communication easier. However, practicality was hindered as the testing environment was less controlled and factors such as internet disruptions, limitations in observations, and presence of other people and things in the household may adversely affect the scores. Moreover, virtual fatigue could be a factor that practitioners need to consider.

The Phenomenon of (Sustainable) Tourism Activities on Farms in Slovenia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is the reason why the development trends of the tourism industry are changing today. The purpose of this article is to address issues of future tourism industry development, linking it to elements of sustainable development trends. The article presents the main elements of the sustainable concept of rural and farm tourism. Using the method of compilation and description, we want to check, based on statistical data related to farm tourism activities in Slovenia (before and during the COVID-19 pandemic), whether it is possible to detect development trends in Slovenia, in the direction of sustainability that are linked to the concept of farm tourism. This study also aims to identify a number of measures that can improve sustainability at the farming tourism level in Slovenia, in a post-COVID phase. According to the findings of numerous comparisons and statistical analysis, it can be stated that the future development trends show a great need to develop the decarbonisation of the industry, digitalisation of industry, and the involvement of the local population in the provision of services. In the present global situation, we have reached a point where it will be necessary to focus on sustainable and digital forms of the industry, in order to further post-COVID development of the tourism industry.

Service in the conditions of using digital technologies

Problem setting. The information society needs to form such a model of legal regulation of service provision, which will allow to ensure the appropriate level of quality of digital service provision, using the latest information technologies. Target of research. To analyze the current legislation to identify the impact of the development of information technology on ensuring proper regulation of relations for the provision of services in the context of digitalization. Analysis of recent researches and publications. Many scientists have studied the problem of providing services in the domestic scientific literature, in particular, O. V. Sibilova [1], A. A. Telestakova [2], N. A. Fedosenko [3], N. V. Fedorchenko [4], Yu. E. Khodiko [5]. However, in the information society, digital services are becoming relevant, the problem of the legal regime of which needs to be studied. And although recently this type of service has become the subject of research by some scientists, namely G. K. Nekit [6], I. I. Svitlak [7], N. Yu. Filatova [8], we will try to highlight our views on digital services. Article’s main body. The article considers the issue of defining a service as an object of turnover in the conditions of using digital technologies. Discussion issues that arise when defining the concept of digital service are resolved. The current legislation of Ukraine, scientific researches, the conclusions which have both theoretical, and practical value concerning the outlined question are analyzed. Conclusions and prospects for the development. After analyzing the above regulations, we can conclude that the service is an action (activity) performed by one party to the contract at the request of another, aimed at obtaining a useful result not related to the creation of material goods. Among the main features of services in the development of digital technologies are the following: 1) the service is always expressed through the active actions of the parties; 2) the service provided by the contractor is able to meet the needs of the customer; 3) lack of material nature; 4) synchronicity of provision and receipt of services (consumed in the process of their provision); 5) the service must meet the requirements specified in the contract or regulation; 6) the possibility of remote provision of services – the use of information and telecommunications systems in the provision of services.

Beyond the Bioceanic Route: indigenous crafts and the potential of ethno-tourism in the southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul

The object of this article is the relationship between indigenous crafts and the potential of ethno-tourism in the southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul. With the implementation of the Bi-oceanic Route, government propaganda has been promising that this economic corridor will stimulate tourism, hence the objective of probing the potential of ethno-tourism in that region, which will directly suffer a great impact as a result of this large-scale undertaking. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on the basic assumption that human productions necessarily result from work, hence the need to treat them as social relations. Therefore, the object of research only acquires understanding within the most general frameworks of capitalist society, expressed by categories such as capital, labor, labor force, market, merchandise, among others. Regarding the methodology, the empirical data survey looked for primary sources of a documentary and imaginary nature, especially photographs. Systematic observations were also recovered in work siltation, carried out both in production and commercialization stations of indigenous artifacts. Secondary sources relevant to the object were also raised, such as catalogs, scientific articles, master's dissertations, doctoral theses, books, and book chapters. To make ethno-tourism viable, the general conclusion is that it invests in a set of initiatives, planned in an integrated and continuous manner within a permanent project. In this group, the improvement of ethnic artifacts is urgent; the recovery and systematic maintenance of the access roads to indigenous lands, as well as the restoration and adaptation of the buildings already available in the villages, with a view to adapting them to the provision of services and products to tourists.