Key Elements of a Migrant-Worker Health and Welfare Program

The SBCAS 2020 Short Course Book contains the texts of the tutorials selected and presented in this edition of the event. The book is organized into four chapters covering themes of software architecture, multisensory environments, tools in precision medicine and sensor networks. In the first chapter, entitled “Software architectures for the health domain”, the authors present an introduction to the concept of software architecture to support the development of health systems. In the second chapter, “Multisensory environments applied to health: application development and future trends”, characteristics of applications with multiple sensory effects are discussed. The third chapter, entitled “OHDSI tools and precision medicine: PLE and PLP studies”, deals with two tools for estimation and prediction in precision medicine. The chapter that closes the book is entitled “Applications in sensor networks in the area of health and medical data management: technologies on the rise”, with the purpose of presenting the main concepts related to sensor networks and the collection, treatment and protection of sensitive medical data.

Relatamos aqui uma pesquisa de campo prospectiva que objetivou mapear atores, ações e relações sociais que configuram a Economia Solidária da Zona Sul da cidade de São Paulo. Para isso, conduzimos treze oficinas de Mapeamento Participativo nas quais os participantes localizaram no mapa da região 150 atores sociais, incluindo coletivos informais, associações civis, cooperativas e entes estatais. A metodologia de Análise de Redes Sociais possibilitou identificar, entre os atores sociais, a presença de mais de 200 conexões e vinte conectores sociais que atuam como protagonistas territoriais, promovendo relações solidárias e desenvolvendo ações públicas nas áreas da cultura, educação, saúde, segurança alimentar, assistência social e gestão de resíduos urbanos. Realizamos por fim uma interpretação coletiva dos mapas e diagramas que permitiu compreender como pessoas e associações civis criam redes de relações solidárias, organizam ações coletivas com caráter social e econômico e, finalmente, como algumas práticas sociais são propagadas pelo território.

Abstract: In 2018, Wounds Canada launched the Wounds Canada Institute (WCI), which builds on decades of excellence in educational programs for health-care professionals in the areas of skin health and wound management. The Institute offers many courses and skill labs that are custom created to meet the needs of all wound care professionals. Wound Care Canada (WCC) interviewed two recent graduates about their experiences with the Institute courses.

Resilience engineering has been suggested to represent a new strategy for improving health and safety management. However, what resilience engineering is, and/or how it is different to organisational resilience is unclear. This paper provides a survey-of-the-art of RE in its widest context, based on a review of 46 articles published between January 1988 and December 2012. The state-of-art suggests that (i) a significant portion of literature comes out of work done in aviation, healthcare, nuclear and petro-chemical industries; (ii) there is no clear definition of OR, or of RE; (iii) RE lacks a clearly defined theoretical framework, and (iv) the gap between work as imagined and work as performed is an important reference point for research and practice in RE. The paper provides a working definition of RE and identifies a number of areas for advancing research and practice in this area of organisational health and safety management.

Assessment and monitoring is an important step to ensure and facilitate better performance for any activity. Likewise, for the Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Management (HSE), there are different performance assessment parameters, monitoring methods, procedures and the related Management aspects. Some of these are of general type while others specific. Selection of the assessment parameters may serve to establish the required benchmarking or to ascertain performance level leading to better loss control management or these may be some means to satisfy the statutory compliance etc. In an integrated upstream E&P oil/gas company where activities like exploration, well completion, production, maintenance, pipeline network and all associated services are available and undertaken in-house, the selection of the performance parameters and assessment system adopted, are required to be more elaborate and comprehensive. Each organization has a HSE policy and set of defined objectives to be accomplished. This necessitates a better coordinated approach for the selection of performance parameters, assessment and monitoring methods with a view to ensure that the company objectives are met and sustained along with desired future trends. In this paper, different performance assessment parameters and the monitoring systems have been discussed. While dealing with the subject and the concerned issues, effort has been made to lay emphasis on strengthening the systems making it more system-centric instead of data-centric. This paper is more analytical and practical in approach and systematically covers to a large extent the whole gamut of issues involved regarding performance parameters, assessment and monitoring in the area of Occupational Health, Safety and Environment management. Nature of the work upon which paper is based; the field study, literature survey and the professional experience. The conclusions are that while finalizing the performance parameters assessment, monitoring methods, procedures and the related management aspects, it is necessary to view it objectively, detailing the purpose and to ensure minimum acceptable HSE operating standards. Besides, standards of performance are an important tool ensuring Management by Objectives. The area of interest in the paper is primarily based on sharing of experience.

In recent literature, health and safety at work has been gaining importance, both by legal and ethical points of view. In this presented case study, the focus is on improving knowledge and skills of employees to successfully identify and avoid H&S hazards in their work environment. In order to achieve the proposed objective, an action research methodology is used. Following this approach, audiovisual documentation is created with the aim of carrying out training sessions for employees. The results obtained in this paper contribute to the knowledge in the area of occupational health and safety management, paving the way for further research on these topics.

1. INTRODUCTION In 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) ended Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), replacing it with the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANF differs from AFDC by ending the entitlement period of welfare via introduction of a time limit on welfare benefits and work requirement for participants. In this paper, we .analyze the impact of this welfare reform on the early cognitive development of welfare program participants' children using a multiperiod structural model. We first estimate the effects of mothers' work and welfare use on children's ability formation using a sample of single mothers and their children from the National Longitudinal- Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) Cohort. We then simulate different policy initiatives of the welfare reform to evaluate how each particular change impacts work and welfare participation behaviors of the mothers, and as a result, children's cognitive development. Early cognitive development has been found to be a strong predictor of long-term achievement and other outcomes such as educational attainment, crime involvement, salaries, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy (see reviews by Currie and Thomas 1995; Duncan and Brooks-Gunn 1997; Haveman and Wolfe 1995). Thus, it is crucial to understand whether, and by how much welfare program participation affects .children's cognitive outcomes. Moreover, any public policy initiative, such as PRWORA, that affects parents' incentives to work or participate in the welfare program by altering the opportunity .costs of parental time and financial inputs should be carefully evaluated. There is an abundance of studies on the effects of welfare reform on mothers' behaviors. However, implications of welfare reform on children's outcomes have not been studied by many. To our knowledge, other than this paper, there is only one other study. Miller and Zhang. (2009), that .analyzes the indirect effects of welfare reform on children's cognitive outcomes. Earlier studies generally find significantly negative relationships between welfare receipt and various types of child attainment measures. However, these negative relationships may not be causal due to improper comparison groups or the unobserved heterogeneity issue that is not addressed (Cunie 1998; Dahl .and Lochner 2012; Duncan, Magnuson, and Ludwig 2004). Chyi and Ozturk (2013) show that welfare program participation is not detrimental to early development of the children when the analysis is constrained to families who are most disadvantaged (and thus likely to be eligible for welfare benefits) and when unobserved heterogeneity is properly controlled for. We follow their lead and focus only on the attainment of children born to single mothers with 12 or fewer years of schooling. We model unobserved heterogeneity and use exogenous variations in welfare benefits across states and local labor market conditions to alleviate concerns of endogeneity. Moreover, we incorporate the dynamic nature of welfare program participation and employment decisions into our econometric setup. We estimate structural parameters of our model which enable us to run policy simulations with counterfactuals that imitate the changes brought upon by PRWORA. Thus, we not only provide insight on how welfare and employment affect the children's cognitive development, but .also document behavioral responses to the welfare reform and resulting impact on children's outcomes. Our estimates show that on average mother's work and welfare use both are beneficial for children's cognitive development. In our model, their effects are allowed to vary by children's ability endowment and they do; we find that benefits are highest for children with low endowment. Moreover, we allow the effects to vary by mother's attitudes toward welfare receipt and work and by her ability to utilize resources in child-rearing. We model unobserved heterogeneity in these dimensions and identify two types of mothers: mothers who are not likely to use welfare but are very efficient at using welfare resources if they do (Type I) and mothers who are very likely to use welfare but are not efficient at utilizing welfare resources (Type II). …

Since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996, there has been a proliferation of contracting for welfare services, specifically around Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and related benefits and services such as child care. The services most commonly contracted include those around the work or employment function, such as training, education, job placement, and support services to promote job entry or retention. The purpose of this article is to examine differences in the quality of service provision among public, nonprofit, and for-profit auspices in the delivery of work-based welfare reform services. The findings show that there are some differences in welfare programs across the three sectors. The significance of this issue relates to the critical question of whether social needs can be best met through competitive outsourcing.

ObjectivesRA has an affinity for smaller joints, thus its effect on the foot/ankle is widely known. Despite this, there is lack of adherence to foot management standards by podiatrists. This research aimed to audit the adherence to these standards and compare them with well-established adherence to management standards in the diabetic foot.MethodsIn this clinical audit, data were obtained via six National Health Service (NHS) podiatry departments in North-East London on service provision, management, treatment and professional development on both RA and diabetic foot health via foot management clinical audit tools. Descriptive analyses were conducted and analysed to identify patterns and trends, with set standard compliance conditions calculated on the Net Promotor Score (NPS) metric to allow for multi-comparison.ResultsAll areas of RA foot health management were found to have poor compliance when compared with diabetes foot health management. When using NPS, no trust audited met the majority of foot health standards in RA, with only two having a positive score (meeting the minimum standards), compared with all trusts posting a positive NPS on diabetes foot health standards.Conclusion Our results indicate that poor compliance to RA foot health standards is prevalent across the audited region and might be resulting in worsening foot outcomes despite a paradigm shift in other areas of RA management. Enhanced training and knowledge are required for better adherence to the standards set out and to improve foot health management in RA.

In recent years, there has been a fast spread of using new technologies and software in health management areas. Nursing education should be accommodated with this change to provide qualified nurses. There are little studies on novice nursing faculty challenges to perform their new roles in relation to IT literacy, specifically in Iran. Qualitative approach may provide first hand data to understand novice nursing faculty perceptions on their new roles that can be used to develop an actual empowerment program. A qualitative design was applied to explore novice nursing faculty experiences to perform their new roles in Mashhad nursing school (Iran). Data were gathered by in depth unstructured interviews from nine eligible participants. Two main themes related to IT competencies emerged from data as: “Efficiency concern” and “Importance of support”. Findings support that novice faculty should be familiarized with new systems and software in health management.

Systems of systems (SoS) are large-scale concurrent and distributed systems that are comprised of complex systems. SoS has been widely researched and developed in defense, air transport, medical and health management area. Applying SoS related ideas and methods in some engineering design work can be denoted as “System of Systems oriented (SoSed) design”. Based on this concept and method of distributed simulation system, this paper proposes a General Virtual Operation Platform (GeVOP), and basic composition, hierarchical structure, and overall architecture of GeVOP are depicted, then a distributed simulation platform framework is proposed, finally, a simulation case is carried out to verify its feasibility basically.

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Utilización de la Historia Digital de Salud y la aplicación «WebMovil» corporativa, en la comunicación de resultados críticos en Atención Primaria

In the area of prognostics and health management, data-driven methods increasingly show the superiority against model-based method due to the complex relationships and learn trends available in the data captured without the need for specific failure models. This paper uses Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to build a model for non-stationary time series prediction. And it proves that the EMD-SVR method can solve the problem of few training samples in modeling the path of performance degradation. Then when the threshold is given, we can forecast the lifetime of engineering systems based on the performance degradation data.

There has been a growing interest in monitoring the ongoing "health" of products and systems in order to predict failures and provide warning to avoid catastrophic failure. Here, health is defined as the extent of degradation or deviation from an expected normal condition. While the application of health monitoring, also referred to as prognostics, is well established for assessment of mechanical systems, this is not the case for electronic systems. However, electronic systems are integral to the functionality of most systems today, and their reliability is often critical for system reliability. This paper presents the state-of-practice and the current state-of-research in the area of electronics prognostics and health management. Four current approaches include built-in-test (BIT), use of fuses and canary devices, monitoring and reasoning of failure precursors, and modeling accumulated damage based on measured life-cycle loads. Examples are provided for these different approaches, and the implementation challenges are discussed.