Economic Crisis, Socially Integrated Consumption and Harm Reduction: New Ideas for Prevention

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Raimondo Maria Pavarin
Keyword(s):  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
New Ideas

scholarly journals Navigating Through the Financial Crisis that may Occur during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic for Gastroenterologists

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Dipam A. Patel ◽  
Chirag Narendrakumar Shah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Remedial Actions ◽  
Response Plan ◽  
Cash Reserves ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Introduction Considering the specific set of gastrointestinal endoscopy practitioners, it is witnessed that the number of patients forelective procedures are being deferred by the patients amid various concerns ranging from financial constraint to the fear of infection from the dreaded coronavirus. With Routine endoscopy procedures recommended to be safely postponed, the impact on the practice of Gastrointestinal Endoscopists shall be magnified. Assessment and Strategy The article discusses impact and remedial actions that may be taken by Gastrointestinal Endoscopists, which classified into:- Anindependent practitioner- A consultant- An employeeThe article further touches upon the difficulties that might be envisaged by the Gastrointestinal Endoscopists, and obtain a financial understanding of what could potentially lead to an existential crisis?Those with cash reserves sit in a pleasant position i.e. they can buy assets at an attractive price, experiment with new ideas, research and development, etc. It is imperative in these times to understand the uncertainty cast on operations of Gastrointestinal Endoscopists and prepare a response plan for coming out of this economic crisis. A roadmap also has been devised which provides a possible outline of a plan that can be implemented for handling the economic crisis.It is also important to answer these two questions:1. Who do I want to be during the crisis?2. Who do I want to be when this is over?

scholarly journals GERAKAN MAHASISWA DI INDONESIA DALAM BINGKAI KEKUASAAN ORDE BARU (1966-1998)

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Mohammad Maiwan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
New Order ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Masses

This study discusses the dynamics of Indonesian student movement in the New Order era between 1966 until 1998. It also analyses the responses of the authority to their movement and its impact. This research uses the qualitative method of literature review and interviews where the arguments are presented in descriptive analysis. Based on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony, this study has uncovered the hegemonic means utilized by the authority to undermine student movement. The description of how this social formation was defragmented, justified and then integrated into bureaucratic processes where their existence was then consented as a subordinated class. In reality, the student movement under the New Order government was closely related to the situation of socio-politics and character of the regime. Nevertheless, the Asian economic crisis jolted the revival of the student movement to its initial vibrant state which brought down Suharto’s regime in 1998. This study has proven that hegemonic process also has a shelf-life as the masses will eventually see through the regime’s political construction. This eventuality was due to external and internal factors such as development of information technology, the rise of cyber-power, international politics and the emergence of new ideas.

scholarly journals The importance of a business plan for the effective functioning of the enterprises of the sphere of services in the conditions of crisis

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Enterprise Success

Currently, the domestic tourism business development is carried out in the economic crisis conditions, uncertainty and unstable society life. Such an uncertain economic situation requires an active search for new ideas and solutions to increase competitiveness and maximize profits. The article establishes the reasons for the business plan emergence and the process of its distribution in domestic spaces; the role and functions are investigated; international studies of the business plan impact on the enterprise operation are analyzed. The feasibility and necessity of business planning in a crisis indused by a pandemiс are revealed. The subject of this article is a business plan as a component of the tourism enterprise success. The goal is to establish the relationship between the presence of a business plan in an enterprise and its more efficient functioning among competitors in a crisis. Objective: to determine the need of enterprise business plan creation. General scientific methods are used: systemic, descriptive, comparative and structural-logical analysis. The following results were obtained: on the basis of the study, a direct relationship between the increased efficiency of the enterprises which have a presented business plan compared to enterprises without it was revealed. It is shown that in the conditions of the economic crisis it is the most advisable to open enterprises focused on domestic tourism, in particular medical tours, rural green and children's tourism. Conclusions: entrepreneurs need to spend their time drawing up a business plan to set goals and plan for their business if they want to have faster growth and higher profitability. It seems appropriate to update it periodically so that the business remains competitive and constantly improves.

Reform of the International Financial Architecture: Clinton Proposes Strategy for Containing Global Economic Crisis; Debate Intensifies over IMF, Capital Controls, and need for “Safety Net”

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 74-104
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Financial Architecture ◽  
International Financial Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Subject

The subject that I want to discuss—let me just say one thing in advance—I'm going to give you my best thoughts. We have been working on this for three years at some level of intensity or another, going back to the Naples G-7 meeting in the aftermath of the Mexican financial crisis. I have done everything I could do personally to reach out across the country, and indeed across the world, for any new ideas from any source. I'm going to give you my best thinking today about what we can do, but I want you to know that I'm here, and if I had my druthers, this would be about a three-hour session where I'd give this talk and then I would listen for the rest of the time.

Mental representation of economic crisis in Italian and Swiss samples 1The authors would like to thank Maurizio Mistri for his help in the construction of items. This research was supported by a grant from the Italian Murst (ex 40%).

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Savadori ◽  
Eraldo Nicotra ◽  
Rino Rumiati ◽  
Roberto Tamborini
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
National Context ◽  
Cluster Procedure ◽  
Total N ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Important Symptom

The content and structure of mental representation of economic crises were studied and the flexibility of the structure in different social contexts was tested. Italian and Swiss samples (Total N = 98) were compared with respect to their judgments as to how a series of concrete examples of events representing abstract indicators were relevant symptoms of economic crisis. Mental representations were derived using a cluster procedure. Results showed that the relevance of the indicators varied as a function of national context. The growth of unemployment was judged to be by far the most important symptom of an economic crisis but the Swiss sample judged bankruptcies as more symptomatic than Italians who considered inflation, raw material prices and external accounts to be more relevant. A different clustering structure was found for the two samples: the locations of unemployment and gross domestic production indicators were the main differences in representations.

Unknown and Under-Researched: The Anatomy of Drinking Under Control Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Harald Klingemann ◽  
Justyna Klingemann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract. Introduction: While alcohol treatment predominantly focuses on abstinence, drug treatment objectives include a variety of outcomes related to consumption and quality of life. Consequently harm reduction programs tackling psychoactive substances are well documented and accepted by practitioners, whereas harm reduction programs tackling alcohol are under-researched and met with resistance. Method: The paper is mainly based on key-person interviews with eight program providers conducted in Switzerland in 2009 and up-dated in 2015, and the analysis of reports and mission statements to establish an inventory and description of drinking under control programs (DUCPs). A recent twin program in Amsterdam and Essen was included to exemplify conditions impeding their implementation. Firstly, a typology based on the type of alcohol management, the provided support and admission criteria is developed, complemented by a detailed description of their functioning in practice. Secondly, the case studies are analyzed in terms of factors promoting and impeding the implementation of DUCPs and efforts of legitimize them and assess their success. Results: Residential and non-residential DUCPs show high diversity and pursue individualized approaches as the detailed case descriptions exemplify. Different modalities of proactively providing and including alcohol consumption are conceptualized in a wider framework of program objectives, including among others, quality of life and harm reduction. Typically DUCPs represent an effort to achieve public or institutional order. Their implementation and success are contingent upon their location, media response, type of alcohol management and the response of other substance-oriented stake holders in the treatment system. The legitimization of DUCPs is hampered by the lack of evaluation studies. DUCPs rely mostly – also because of limited resources – on rudimentary self-evaluations and attribute little importance to data collection exercises. Conclusions: Challenges for participants are underestimated and standard evaluation methodologies tend to be incompatible with the rationale and operational objectives of DUCPs. Program-sensitive multimethod approaches enabled by sufficient financing for monitoring and accompanying research is needed to improve the practice-oriented implementation of DUCPs. Barriers for these programs include assumptions that ‘alcohol-assisted’ help abandons hope for recovery and community response to DUCPs as locally unwanted institutions (‘not in my backyard’) fuelled by stigmatization.

Motivational Interviewing: Ein Literaturüberblick

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Demmel
Keyword(s):  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Motivational Enhancement Therapy ◽  
Motivational Enhancement ◽  
Motivationale Interventionen

Der dysfunktionale Konsum psychotroper Substanzen geht in der Regel mit einem Zwiespalt zwischen Abstinenzvorsatz bzw. der Absicht, den Konsum zu reduzieren, einerseits und dem Wunsch oder Zwang, den Konsum fortzusetzen, andererseits einher. Das von Miller und Rollnick (1991) beschriebene Motivational Interviewing (MI) ist ein zugleich klientenzentrierter und direktiver Behandlungsstil, der dieser Ambivalenz Rechnung tragen und somit Veränderungsbereitschaft erhöhen soll. Miller und Rollnick (1991) nennen fünf Prinzipien motivationaler Gesprächsführung: <OL><LI>Empathie, <LI>Widersprüche aufzeigen, <LI>Wortgefechte vermeiden, <LI>Nachgiebig auf Widerstand reagieren und <LI>Selbstwirksamkeit fördern.</OL> Diese Prinzipien stimmen mit den Annahmen (sozial-) psychologischer Modelle der Einstellungs- und Verhaltensänderung überein. Seit Ende der achtziger Jahre wurden vorwiegend in den angelsächsischen Ländern verschiedene motivationale Interventionen zur Sekundärprävention und Behandlung von Substanzabhängigkeit und -missbrauch entwickelt, die den von Miller und Rollnick (1991) formulierten Behandlungsprinzipien entsprechen (der Drinker’s Checkup, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, das Harm-Reduction-Programm BASICS, Brief Motivational Interviewing, Brief Negotiation sowie eine Reihe weiterer motivationaler Kurzinterventionen). Vor dem Hintergrund der bislang vorliegenden Literatur erscheint insbesondere die Durchführung standardisierter motivationaler Interventionen zur Reduktion dysfunktionalen Alkoholkonsums bzw. der negativen Konsequenzen eines fortgesetzten Alkoholmissbrauchs gerechtfertigt. Voraussetzungen einer Optimierung des Behandlungserfolgs sind neben der Identifikation zentraler Wirkmechanismen u.a. eine fortlaufende Prozess-Evaluation der Implementierung motivationaler Interventionen sowie eine evidenzbasierte Ausbildung.

New Ideas about Hypnotic Therapy

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
MARTIN T. ORNE
Keyword(s):  
New Ideas
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