After major incidents and disasters psychosocial support for the people affected is urgent and sometimes predominant. To plan and train staff for psychosocial intervention European and national guidelines have been developed. The European Policy Paper "Psychosocial support in situations of mass emergencies" offers guidance for policy-makers and health-planners. The quality and time of early psy...

As the experience of Russia and some Eastern European countries has demonstrated, economic reform is difficult to carry out when the rank-and-file officials or bureaucrats to whom authorities must turn to implement change resist the reforms in order to protect their vested interests. Drawing on an unusual longitudinal survey data set for a representative rural county in northern China, we show ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare the differences across occupational groups related to their end-of-life care-specific educational needs and reported intensity of interprofessional collaboration in long-term care (LTC) homes. METHODS A cross-sectional survey, based on two questionnaires, was administered at four LTC homes in Ontario, Canada using a modified Dilman's approac...

A global pandemic and two hurricanes in weeks. That's enough disaster to daunt even the staunchest college officials. But leadership team staff at SOWELA Technical Community College met challenges, building on a retention rate of 75.06% from spring fall 2020, achieve an 83.71% 2020 2021, highest any community Louisiana.

A global pandemic and two hurricanes in weeks. That's enough disaster to daunt even the staunchest college officials. But leadership team staff at SOWELA Technical Community College met challenges, building on a retention rate of 75.06% from spring fall 2020, achieve an 83.71% 2020 2021, highest any community Louisiana.

A global pandemic and two hurricanes in weeks. That's enough disaster to daunt even the staunchest college officials. But leadership team staff at SOWELA Technical Community College met challenges, building on a retention rate of 75.06% from spring fall 2020, achieve an 83.71% 2020 2021, highest any community Louisiana.

the purpose of this study was to describe the influence of organizational variables on hospital staff nurses' job performance as reported by staff nurses in two cities in turkey. hospital ownership status, employment status were examined for their effect on this influence.the reported influence of organizational variables on job performance was measured by a questionnaire developed for this stu...

This article provides insights on how German and Ukrainian public sector employees perceive position themselves towards current eGovernment initiatives. After presenting the academic literature roles of individual servants in transformative change processes administration, approaches followed by Germany Ukraine are explained. The results a survey (n = 74) conducted among both countries provide ...

concerns regarding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. in the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...