The positive side of community interpreting

Interpreting ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Beatriz Hale
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The World ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Formally Trained ◽  
Different Parts

Highlighting the negative aspects of a professional activity can be beneficial in identifying matters that need improvement. However, concentrating on the negative side only may lead to a lopsided view of reality. Much of what has been written regarding community interpreting in recent years seems to portray a less than favourable picture of this professional practice in different parts of the world. This paper will present the results of a survey of Australian practising community interpreters who were asked to share positive aspects of their work. The survey concentrated on five main issues which have been debated in recent studies: the interpreters’ satisfaction with their prescribed role, their perceptions of the usefulness of the code of ethics, their evaluations of the training they had received, their impressions of how they were treated by their clients and their reasons for choosing to work as community interpreters. While the findings cannot be regarded as representative, they provide an encouraging picture of the experiences of formally trained Australian community interpreters, who find their work valuable and rewarding and feel they are duly respected as professionals by service providers and service recipients alike.

Public Health and a President’s Racism

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter addresses how racism presents a clear threat to the health of populations. In 2018, President Donald Trump made racist comments toward countries with predominantly nonwhite populations. Why did the president’s racism matter for the health of the public? To answer this question, one needs to understand where health comes from. Health is the product of the social, economic, and cultural context in which people live. This context is also shaped by social norms that do much to determine people’s behaviors and their consequences. Changing these norms can produce both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, changing norms can promote health, by making unacceptable unhealthy conditions and behaviors that were once common, even celebrated. On the negative side, changing norms for the worse can empower elements of hate in society. When a president promotes hate, it shifts norms, suggesting that hate does in fact have a place in the country and the world. This opens the door to more hate crimes, more exclusion of minority groups from salutary resources, and little to no effort to address racial health gaps.

scholarly journals Ethical Conduct of Public Servants

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (71) ◽  
pp. 725-736
Author(s):  
Anatolii Anatoliiovych Rusetskyi ◽  
Yevhen Yuriyovych Podorozhnii ◽  
Andrii Tanko ◽  
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
The World ◽  
Conflicting Interests

The objective of the investigation was to examine the content and specific characteristics of the ethical conduct of public officials in Ukraine and the world. To achieve the objective, the authors used the following methods: epistemological, comparative-legal, structural-functional, analytical, informative-analytical. Among the results of the article, it was possible to consider the ethical conduct of public servants in a broad and narrow sense. In the same way, the main requirements of the legislation that regulate the conduct of public servants have been analyzed and the conditions that standardize in detail the legal relationships in the field of professional activity of public servants, their relationships with each other and with citizens. Finally, everything allows us to conclude that a Code of Ethics for public servants establishes common rules of conduct for them and determines responsibility for their violation. To be effective, this regulatory legal act must also include the following obligations for public servants: requirements for the performance of official functions; requirements for advanced training; requirements for relationships with colleagues, managers, and subordinates; norms of communication with citizens and norms to resolve conflicting interests.

scholarly journals TANTANGAN BANK SYARIAH DI ERA GLOBALISASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Wening Purbatin Palupi Soenjoto
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The World ◽  
Conventional Systems ◽  
Financial Transactions

Abstract: Since the decade of the 1970s Muslims in various countries have been trying to establish Islamic banks. The purpose of establishing these Islamic banks in general is to promote and develop applications of Islamic principles, sharia and their traditions into financial transactions, banking, and other related businesses. Globalization that occurs in various parts of the world, including Indonesia is no longer an issue but the reality that has now happened. Globalization is not a very frightening problem that tends to have a negative side but also has a positive side, namely the expansion of business networks during the challenges can be overcome by hard work and patience. With the globalization of economic competition between countries it is undeniable to become increasingly strict. Automatic in the world of banking will also experience competition between banks. Likewise with the presence of the Islamic system in every economic activity, it will certainly lead to competition between conventional systems with the sharia system. More detailed this article will discuss Islamic banks in the era of globalization, which includes the development of Islamic banking and the opportunities and constraints faced by Islamic banks in this era of globalization. الملخص: منذ عقد السبعينيات ، كان المسلمون في مختلف البلدان يحاولون تأسيس بنوك إسلامية. إن الهدف من إنشاء هذه البنوك الإسلامية بشكل عام هو تطبيق المبادئ الإسلامية وتقاليدها في المعاملات المالية والمصرفية وغيرها. إن العولمة التي تحدث في مختلف أنحاء العالم ، بما في ذلك إندونيسيا ، لم تعد قضية بل حقيقة واقعة قد حدثت الآن. العولمة ليست مشكلة مخيفة تميل إلى أن يكون لها جانب سلبي ولكن أيضا لها جانب إيجابي ، ألا وهو التوسع في شبكات الأعمال خلال تحدياتها التي يمكن التغلب عليها بالعمل الجاد والصبر. مع عولمة التنافس الاقتصادي بين الدول ، فسوف البنوك أيضا تجربة المنافسة. وبالمثل مع وجود النظام الإسلامي في كل نشاط اقتصادي ، فإنه سيؤدي بالتأكيد إلى التنافس بين الأنظمة التقليدية مع نظام الشريعة. وستناقش هذه المقالة بمزيد من التفصيل البنوك الإسلامية في عصر العولمة ، والتي تشمل تطوير المصرفية الإسلامية والفرص والقيود التي تواجهها البنوك الإسلامية في  هذا عصر العولمة. Abstrak: Sejak dekade tahun 1970-an  umat Islam di berbagai negara telah berusaha untuk mendirikan bank-bank syariah. Tujuan pendirian bank-bank syariah ini pada umumnya adalah untuk mempromosikan dan mengembangkan aplikasi dari prinsip-prinsip Islam, syariah dan tradisinya ke dalam transaksi keuangan, perbankan, dan bisnis-bisnis lain yang terkait. Globalisasi yang terjadi diberbagai belahan dunia, termasuk negara Indonesia bukanlah isu lagi tetapi kenyataan riil yang kini telah terjadi. Globalisasi bukanlah persoalan yang sangat menakutkan yang cenderung meimiliki sisi negatif saja melainnkan juga memilki sisi positif yaitu perluasan jaringan bisnis selama tantanganya dapat diatasi dengan kerja keras dan kesabaran. Dengan adanya globalisasi persaingan ekonomipun antar negara tidak dapat dipungkiri semakin ketat.  Otomatis di dunia perbankan pun juga akan mengalami persaingan antara  bank - bank. Begitu juga dengan hadirnya sistem syariah di setiap aktivitas ekonomi  tentunya akan menimbulkan persaingan antara sistem konvensional dengan sistem syariah. Lebih terperinci artikel ini akan membahas mengenai bank syariah di era globalisasi, yang mencakup perkembangan perbankan syariah serta peluang dan kendala yang dihadapi bank syariah di era globalisasi ini.

scholarly journals Health VS. Disease in the Context of Verbalization of the Axiological Picture of the World of a Modern Doctor

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Tetyana Leshchenko ◽  
Maryna Zhovnir
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Universal Category ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Different Parts

The article is devoted to the problem of linguistic interpretation of values and anti-values. The relevance of their differention and the functioning of dichotomy value – anti-value is pointed out. It is defined that values are a complex of vital material and spiritual, non-material concepts that outline the basic behavioral dominant of a person, provide their main interests and essential needs. At the same time, anti-values are defined as the opposition (meaning) to values as universal category of the general human axiological paradigm. Considering the value aspects of medical communication, presently great attention is paid to the importance of studying doctor’s axiological continuum. In this work health and disease were defined as the principal semantic oppositions. According to the results of analysis, these contrast notions are central to the axiological picture of the modern doctor, and these concepts belong to different parts of the coordinate system – value – antivalence. The author substantiates the opinion that the value for the doctor means the specific notion directed him to be an competent expert in the medical field, an essential attribute of consciousness that determines main vectors of his professional activity. The study of the discourse-textual material made it possible to determine the language reflexes of these values. The paper presents features of the language objectification of opposing axiological landmarks – health and disease. It is indicated that all analyzed verbal objectivists reflect a modification of the health paradigm. In addition, the pragmatic potential of tokens is noted, which verbalize the value component of medical communication. The positive and negative connotations recorded in the discourse express the approval, affability, reproach or critical attitude of the doctor to the patients.

scholarly journals Z prac Wydziału Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej Pierwszy w Europie „Kodeks Etyki Diagnosty Laboratoryjnego"

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Szałata
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Laboratory Diagnostics ◽  
Moral Awareness ◽  
National Meeting ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Moral Stance

The need to establish the Code of Ethics of a Laboratory Diagnostician stems from the development of medicine in which the specialized laboratory diagnostics has been playing an increasingly important role. Not only does it help determine accurate diagnostics which enables effective therapy, but also contributes to the development of wider health service and preventive medicine. It is thus understandable that with the service providers and patients becoming increasingly aware of the importance of laboratory diagnostics, it has gained the status of the profession of public trust. In practice, it means that laboratory diagnosticians set themselves high moral and professional standards, The Code of Ethics of a Laboratory Diagnostician, the signatories of which are individual laboratory diagnosticians through their representatives who attended the Extraordinary National Meeting of Laboratory Diagnosticians on January 13, 2006, will be very important in education of specialists, the Code expresses the moral awareness of the laboratory diagnostics community, and also provides the basis for assessment of professional involvement and moral stance of the members of the Corporation. The Code of Ethics of a Laboratory Diagnostician is grounded in generally accepted ethical standards as well as the principles originating from the professional tradition, the principal standard of conduct of a laboratory diagnostician involves consideration of the welfare of a human being, which should be protected both in the individual and social context, this principle provides for the obligation to respect human dignity and establishes reference for professional practice so that its primary objective would cover service to a patient in accordance with commonly respected values such as honesty, reliability and competency.

Practioner Reflection That Enhances Interprofessional Collaborative Practices for Serving Children Who Are Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Blaiser ◽  
Mary Ellen Nevins
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Interprofessional Teams ◽  
Client Care

Interprofessional collaboration is essential to maximize outcomes of young children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH). Speech-language pathologists, audiologists, educators, developmental therapists, and parents need to work together to ensure the child's hearing technology is fit appropriately to maximize performance in the various communication settings the child encounters. However, although interprofessional collaboration is a key concept in communication sciences and disorders, there is often a disconnect between what is regarded as best professional practice and the self-work needed to put true collaboration into practice. This paper offers practical tools, processes, and suggestions for service providers related to the self-awareness that is often required (yet seldom acknowledged) to create interprofessional teams with the dispositions and behaviors that enhance patient/client care.

BIOASSAY CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL URINARY GONADOTROPHIN EXTRACTS

1963 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
Raymond C. Mellinger ◽  
Jalileh A. Mansour ◽  
Richmond W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Reference Material ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Reference Standard ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Modifying Factors ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Quantitative Bioassay ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Age And Sex

ABSTRACT A reference standard is widely sought for use in the quantitative bioassay of pituitary gonadotrophin recovered from urine. The biologic similarity of pooled urinary extracts obtained from large numbers of subjects, utilizing groups of different age and sex, preparing and assaying the materials by varying techniques in different parts of the world, has lead to a general acceptance of such preparations as international gonadotrophin reference standards. In the present study, however, the extract of pooled urine from a small number of young women is shown to produce a significantly different bioassay response from that of the reference materials. Gonadotrophins of individual subjects likewise varied from the multiple subject standards in many instances. The cause of these differences is thought to be due to the modifying influence of non-hormonal substances extracted from urine with the gonadotrophin and not necessarily to variations in the gonadotrophins themselves. Such modifying factors might have similar effects in a comparative assay of pooled extracts contributed by many subjects, but produce significant variations when material from individual subjects is compared. It is concluded that the expression of potency of a gonadotrophic extract in terms of pooled reference material to which it is not essentially similar may diminish rather than enhance the validity of the assay.

Christianity in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Different Parts

This book charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity. The book traces how Christianity evolved from a religion defined by the culture and politics of Europe to the expanding polycentric and multicultural faith it is today—one whose growing popular support is strongest in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, and other parts of Asia. The book sheds critical light on themes of central importance for understanding the global contours of modern Christianity, illustrating each one with contrasting case studies, usually taken from different parts of the world. Unlike other books on world Christianity, this one is not a regional survey or chronological narrative, nor does it focus on theology or ecclesiastical institutions. The book provides a history of Christianity as a popular faith experienced and lived by its adherents, telling a compelling and multifaceted story of Christendom's fortunes in Europe, North America, and across the rest of the globe. It demonstrates how Christianity has had less to fear from the onslaughts of secularism than from the readiness of Christians themselves to accommodate their faith to ideologies that privilege racial identity or radical individualism.

THE 2019 NOVEL PANDEMIC OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19): A STUDY OF EXISTING EVIDENCE IN THE INDIAN POPULATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Shrikant Verma ◽  
Mohammad Abbas ◽  
Sushma Verma ◽  
Syed Tasleem Raza ◽  
Farzana Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Indian Population ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
General Wellbeing ◽  
Different Parts

A novel spillover coronavirus (nCoV), with its epicenter in Wuhan, China's People's Republic, has emerged as an international public health emergency. This began as an outbreak in December 2019, and till November eighth, 2020, there have been 8.5 million affirmed instances of novel Covid disease2019 (COVID-19) in India, with 1,26,611 deaths, resulting in an overall case fatality rate of 1.48 percent. Coronavirus clinical signs are fundamentally the same as those of other respiratory infections. In different parts of the world, the quantity of research center affirmed cases and related passings are rising consistently. The COVID- 19 is an arising pandemic-responsible viral infection. Coronavirus has influenced huge parts of the total populace, which has prompted a global general wellbeing crisis, setting all health associations on high attentive. This review sums up the overall landmass, virology, pathogenesis, the study of disease transmission, clinical introduction, determination, treatment, and control of COVID-19 with the reference to India.

Positive Aspects of COVID 19 Pandemic: A Blessing in Disguis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 187-191
Author(s):  
Anjankar Ashish P ◽  
Anjankar Vaibhav P ◽  
Anjankar Anil J ◽  
Kanyal Lata
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The World

COVID 19 is undeniably one of the deadliest diseases that humanity has ever seen. It continues to affect the lives and livelihood of people appallingly across the world. Maximum discussions focus towards the apprehension of catching the infection, dwelling in homes, overpopulated nursing homes and shut down of all kinds. But, here let’s discuss the positive side of COVID 19 pandemic.As COVID 19 has spread its influence all over the world, affected countries have either announced lockdown or have implemented severe restrictions in their respective countries. Because of this, everyone dwells in their homes. Thus, exercising social distancing and functioning from home. All of the above is directed at restricting the transmission of coronavirus and expectantly ostracising the fatality from COVID 19. These transformations have also brought about some unanticipated emanations; some good things have come out of the pandemic as well. Positive effects of COVID 19 are seen on reduced road traffic, and road traffic accidents lowered levels of air pollution which has to lead to lowered heart attack rates and rejuvenating environment. Crime rates have fallen, and expenses are reduced in most places. Community action, communication amongst families, behaviour, sanitation, hygiene, online and distance education has positively impacted by COVID 19 pandemic. COVID 19 despite a bane for humans, can be thought of a boon for living beings. The habitats and elements have been purified with the stringent use of petrochemical products. To breathe fresh air and to consume purified water is a boon by itself. Now, it is time for humans to lead a caring life to every bounty bestowed on them by Nature. This thoughtful and considerate life will give hope for a healthy, stress-free life.

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