Production of Public Goods as a Space for the Development of Human Potential: Contradictions and the Potential of Soviet Practices

The article analyzes the contradictions in the development of public goods production sphere in the USSR. It is shown that, on the one hand, such spheres as science, education, public health care, culture, etc. in this economic system were developing on the principles of general accessibility, egalitarianism, guarantees of employment. This provision has become one of the foundations for the formation of creative potential among a wide range of citizens, boost of creative activity, high results in the development of human potential, technology, culture. On the other hand, in these areas, as in the economy as a whole, this progress was hampered by numerous deformations of progressive trends (bureaucracy, shadow commercial relations, etc.). Critical use of the experience of the USSR shows that the development of spheres in which prevails creative labor as spaces for the creation and distribution of public goods can give high economic, social and humanitarian results, provided they are organized in the democratic mode.

Sentiment analysis of users reviews in Facebook: comparison of TEXTBLOB and DOSTOEVSKY libraries

This article examines the work of two Python libraries TextBlob and Dostoevsky for determining the sentiment of reviews in Russian. The TextBlob library does not directly provide sentiment analysis of texts in Russian, but it has the ability to transfer such texts to the input of the Google Translate translator, in order to then evaluate the polarity of these texts based on the generated English translations. The second Dostoevsky library was created specifically for sentiment analysis of texts in Russian and is trained on the largest Russian-language sentiment corpus RuSentiment, which contains more than 30 thousand manually annotated messages. To compare these libraries, this article uses real feedback from residents of the city of Nur-Sultan about the quality of life in the capital, including about the activities of city services and the housing and communal sector, the work of service facilities, education, health care, culture, etc., posted on public Facebook groups. The results of the sentiment analysis carried out are evaluated using generally accepted metrics of accuracy, completeness and F-measure and demonstrate a slight superiority of the Dostoevsky library.

An Approach To Cultural Competency Education in The Cuban Pharmacy Currriculum

Background The aim of this monograph was advocate for a holistic, programmatic approach to integrating cultural competence education as a call to action for a new Cuban pharmacy curricular development. Methods A general search was conducted using terms specific to Cuban health care, culture, and education, combined with terms linked to cultural competence, global health, and pharmacy education. Additionally, relevant statements by the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization were searched. Results Cuba is a culturally rich country with complex and diverse perspectives on health. Cuban culture is the result of extremely broad and tedious transculturation processes; at the same time, health and education in Cuba are additionally entwined politically, a condition not always statistically available to be studied, nor scientifically referenced to be verified. Therefore, it is not possible to exhaust the subject in a single inquiry. Conclusions It is hoped that this paper will also set the foundation for additional scholarly work with recommendations regarding a clearer programmatic approach to help in the establishment of partnerships between Cuba faculties of pharmacy with other countries in a global pharmacy education framework.

Strategies for social mobility of young handicapped and disabled people in education, health care, culture, employment and recruitment

On April 28, 2021, the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of Kostroma State University hosted an interregional scientific and practical conference with international participation “Strategies for social mobility of young handicapped and disabled people in education, health care, culture, employment and recruitment. The scientific meeting was held within the framework of the business programme of the V regional championship in professional skills among disabled people and invalids “Abilympix-2021ˮ in Kostroma Region. This has already been the third scientific meeting organised by the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of the KSU together with the Department of Education and Science of Kostroma Region, the Department of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, and also together with the leading partner – Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogic University.

Strategizing of Kuzbass Human Capacity

The collective monograph of the Library "Kuzbass Strategy" presents the main factors that shape the human potential of Kuzbass. The main historical stages of the development of labor resources in the region are considered. The results of the analysis of the development of the education system, health care, culture, sports, social sphere, entrepreneurship and employment of the Kuzbass population are presented. The main strategic priorities for the development of the human potential of Kuzbass to 2035 are outlined.

“I Can Understand Where They’re Coming From”: How Clinicians’ Disability Experiences Shape Their Interaction With Clients

Students and clinicians with disabilities are underrepresented in the academic health programs and professional clinical settings. Disability studies foregrounds the unique ways of knowing and being that clinicians with disabilities can offer. Based on a larger grounded theory study of the experiences of students and clinicians with disabilities, this article examines the role that clinicians’ abilities to draw on their personal experiences of living with a disability have on their interactions with clients. The analysis of semistructured interviews with 55 students and clinicians with disabilities from different fields contributes to the development of a theory of epistemic connection. The theory is informed by the following three themes: (a) building rapport through understanding, (b) from understanding to advocacy and creative approaches, and (c) between professionalism and disability. The findings emphasize not only the importance of diversifying the health care workforce but also incorporating disability epistemology into the health care culture.

Mental health care in Italy: Basaglia’s ashes in the wind of the crisis of the last decade

Background and Aims: The purpose is to highlight the legal and ethical principles that inspired the reform of mental health care in Italy, the only country to have closed its psychiatric hospitals. The article will also try to verify some macro-indicators of the quality of care and discuss the crisis that the mental health care system in Italy is experiencing. Methods: Narrative review. Results: The principal changes in the legislation on mental health care in Italy assumed an important role in the evolution of morals and common sense of the civil society of that country. We describe three critical points: first, the differences in implementation in the different Italian regions; second, the progressive lack of resources that cannot be totally attributed to the economic crisis and which has compromised application of the law; and finally, the scarce attention given to measurement of change with scientific methods. Conclusion: Italy created a revolutionary approach to mental health care in a historical framework in which it produced impressive cultural expressions in many fields. At that time, people were accustomed to ‘believing and doing’ rather than questioning results and producing research, and this led to underestimating the importance of a scientific approach. With its economic and cultural crisis, Italy has lost creativity as well as interest in mental health, which has been guiltily neglected. Any future humanitarian approach to mental health must take the Italian experience into account, but must not forget that verification is the basis for any transformation in health care culture.

Formation of the Knowledge Economy in Russia: Problems and Solutions

For humanity, the 21st century is marked by a transition to a new technological order, which is characterized by giving great importance to management technologies and the development of non-productive areas of activity (science, education, health care, culture). This transition coincides with the transition to a knowledge economy, for which knowledge, innovation and human capital are of paramount importance. For Russia, the study of the problems of the formation and development of the knowledge economy is particularly relevant. According to a number of researchers, it is too early to talk about the formation of the knowledge economy in Russia. The author highlights the list of problems hindering the development of the knowledge economy in our country, namely: low level of R&D funding, low share of domestic R&D costs in GDP, significant predominance of public funds in the structure of R&D sources of funding, imbalance in the financing of fundamental and applied scientific research, the preservation of negative growth rates of the main indicators of postgraduate and doctoral studies, “brain drain” and “ideas leakage”, the absence of a common conception for the development of education, the inconsistency of the education system with the requirements of the labor market, a drop in the quality of school and higher professional education, an insufficient level of funding for education in Russia, and the problem of professional selection in pedagogical universities. The present article sets out the author’s view on solving these problems. In particular, the author argues that to tackle the problem of insufficient funding for science and education in Russia, it is necessary to create such mechanisms that would, on the one hand, diversify the sources of funding for science and education, and on the other hand, let the State to play the main role in these areas.