Fonds Gesundes Österreich

Das Schulbuch als analoges Medium steht im Fokus des Beitrages. Die Autor*innen analysieren, wie grafische Darstellungen in österreichischen Schulbüchern über einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren, von 1972 bis 2022, verwendet wurden. (DIPF/Orig.)

BackgroundThere is an increasing demand for universal, high-quality access to palliative care in Austria. To ensure this, the implementation of palliative care in the medical studies curriculum is essential. This is the first study to investigate the state of undergraduate palliative care education at Austrian medical schools.MethodsFor this mixed-methods study with concurrent embedded design, expert interviews and online surveys were conducted between March and August 2022. The interviews were subjected to a thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke, while the questionnaires were analysed descriptively-statistically. For the final integration, the results of both methods for each topic are presented and discussed complementarily. Both the primary qualitative and supportive quantitative data were collected to combine the advantages of the in-depth nature of the qualitative data and the consistent structure of the quantitative data to provide a more precise representation of the state of teaching.ResultsTwenty-two persons participated in the study, of whom twenty-one participated in the interview and eight in the questionnaire. The participants were experts in palliative care teaching at Austrian medical schools. Currently, palliative care is taught at seven out of the eight universities. Large differences were found in the number of hours, organisation, teaching formats, and interprofessional education. At present, three universities have a chair for palliative care and at least five universities have access to a palliative care unit.ConclusionUndergraduate palliative care education in Austria is very heterogeneous and does not meet the minimum standards suggested by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) curriculum recommendations. However, several universities are planning measures to expand palliative care teaching, such as the introduction of mandatory teaching or the establishment of new teaching formats. Better coordination and networking within and between universities would be beneficial for the expansion and quality of teaching.

Voltage unbalance is one of the power quality (PQ) parameters defined in European standard EN 50160. Major challenge in modelling unbalance in large real medium voltage (MV) distribution networks is that current unbalance factors for many different customer categories must be used, but there are no results in the published literature on current unbalance factors for majority of customer categories. In this paper, current unbalance factors for different customer categories in low voltage networks were generated from the model. Voltage unbalance is modelled for an example of a large real MV distribution network in Austria. Voltage unbalance propagation in the analysed network is calculated using unbalance transfer factors, obtained from short-circuit calculations, and general summation law from the standard IEC 61000-3-13. Conclusion of this work is that the voltage unbalance can be modelled, even in large real MV networks, if enough current unbalance factor information of customers and PQ measurements are obtained. The results of this paper will be used for PQ monitor placement algorithm.

The restoration of grid structures after a grid failure is essential. This paper deals with the start-up process of a combined cycle power plant in Austria, which is realized with different constellations to hydropower plants. A real start-up process was first carried out and then confirmed with a simulation and the boundary conditions for a successful start-up process were addressed.

Banking business may only be conducted by entities entitled to do so. The capacity as a credit institution thus requires the existence of a license issued by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). So far, little attention has been paid to the final stage of banking business, namely the voluntary or governmental termination of a license. On the one hand, the systematics of the termination of licenses, in particular the voluntary surrender of the license, is associated with uncertainties. On the other hand, the (non-)continuation of the credit institution status after