"ETHICS BY MOVIE". AN ALTERNATIVE ETHICS TRAINING METHOD FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONALS. A PILOT STUDY AMONG ROMANIAN STUDENTS

Author(s): Daniela Tatiana AGHEORGHIESEI (CORODEANU),Vladimir POROCH / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2016

The paper presents the results of an empirical research that explored the opinion of Romanian students from four different professional Master’s Degree programs, on the impact of applying the method that we have called “Ethics by Movie” (creating the students’ own video scenarios on an ethical topic in teams) on substantiating ethical knowledge, ethical attitude and ethical behavior. The final sample consisted of 395 respondents. The students appreciate several advantages of the above mentioned teaching and learning method (”an ideal practice for understanding a theoretical concept”, ”an interactive method of learning” that helped them ”to acquire ethical concepts more easily or to reflect more deeply on the importance which must be given to ethical behavior, on the consequences of unethical behavior”, etc). Our study might prove to be useful due to the fact that it revives attention to a complementary teaching method that can contribute to increasing awareness of the ethical issues around us, to learning ethical concepts in a more substantiated manner, to the need to solve the ethical dilemmas related to the fact that we must be solidarity in the fight against unethical actions and that, through everything we do, we can send out own ethical message.

"Съвременни аспекти при болестта на Бехтерев"

Author(s): Troycho Troev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2016

150 години германски червен кръст (ГЧК ). Германският червен кръст в социалния живот на Федералната република днес

Author(s): Nadka Milanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2015

The author outlines the contemporary face of the Deutsches Rote kreuz on the occasion of its 150 th anniversary. She introduces the readers in the basic directions of Organization’s work. The large net of its branches, voluntaries, donators, partners and beneficients were pointed. So many people avail of its support and services. It was set out the efforts of DRK for advance in the social sphere by dialog with the state and municipal institutions working together with influential religious and humanitarian organizations. Many facts were adduced to prove the big achievements of DRK in the field of the public health and social services. The author informs about the appreciations of the Bundespresident Joachim Gauck for the place and historical merits of DRK. The important ideas of the DRK’s President d-r R.Seiters on the tasks that should be realized by the Organization during the coming years were also set forth.

1960 sonrasi Türk sağlik personeli politikasi üzerine bir değerlendirme

Author(s): Mehmet Burhanettin Coskun / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 33/2017

When the public administration of countries identified as a social and economic forms of organization is impossible to think outside the health sector of this form of organization. In this area, many spend the majority of national resources and the operation of the human field prevents the medical field and constrained to work. Since the establishment of the Republic was considered to be an essential task of the state health services were encouraged to take public organizations. After the 1960 reform of the health policy issues were on the agenda. Health services, policy-making / implementation in the context of redefining the evaluation in relation to the consequences of experienced conversion and also the transformation of health policy to be discussed with a critical perspective, currently ongoing is important for appropriate evaluation of the discussion. Turkish health personnel to work in the process of globalization in terms of policy, not an example of transformation of the public administration, is considered important by itself in today's public administration studies. Working labor changes in Turkish public administration system will serve to seeing through intensive service sector. The main problem of the health personnel system in Turkey is achieved with a flexible structure, starting from the 1960's.

20 години секция Медицински науки при Съюза на учените в България – клон Сливен

Author(s): Ivan Trifonov,Vasislav Petrov,Maria Todorova,Janeta Uzunova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2016

A bioethical perspective on man’s life and death

Author(s): Stefan Florea / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

This article presents an interdisciplinary approach of the problems of bioethics related to the human existence, namely life and death: abortion and euthanasia. The connection point between bioethics and Christian morals is generated by the meeting of the two cultures, the scientific technologized one based on the economic perspective on life and the humanistic-moral one, which needs to be founded on the protection of life.At the same time, bioethics must not be focused only on man, but ought to comprise the biosphere as a whole as well, namely any scientific intervention of man on life in general.

A Bonus Pastor két évtizede

Author(s): Levente Horváth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2016

A breakable heart

Author(s): Iuliana Ardeleanu,Cristian Statescu,Catalina Maria Georgescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) is useful in preventing sudden cardiac death in patients with known, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Studies have shown ICDs to have a role in preventing cardiac arrest in high-risk patients who have not had, but are at risk for, life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Newer-generation ICDs may have a dual function which includes the ability to serve as a pacemaker. The pacemaker feature would stimulate the heart to beat if the heart rate were detected to be too slow. The geographical incidence of sudden cardiac death varies depending on the prevalence of the coronary artery disease in different regions. This variation is partly due to the inclusion criteria used in various studies, but the overall event rate in Europe is similar to that of the United States. The ICD implantation can cause a variety of complications depending upon the experience of the medical team and also on the patient’s conditions. We present the case of a female implanted with an ICD in order to save her life, that became dangerous because of its malfunction.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH UNITS OF THE 6TH GREEK HEALTH REGION DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS PERIOD THROUGH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHOD

Author(s): Georgios I. Farantos,Nikitas Spiros Koutsoukis / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2016

The aim of the present study is to investigate the change in relative efficiency through a comparative study on the efficiency of health units within a Greek health region during an economic crisis environment, with the aid of a new application. The study is designed to collect data from the 6th Greek health region and to process that data with the use of Data Envelopment Analysis software. The study methodology extends to the application of the study of efficiency of organisations and the integration of the analysis in an interpretation framework within the economic crisis. The study refers to similar hospital clinics (pathological) within one of the largest Greek health regions in order for the results to be comparable. We estimate and calculate the DEA sizes based on the CRS, VRS and SE models of the Health Units of a Greek health region, with the use of a new application which calculates the change of overall relative Efficiency during the crisis. The study of the change in the efficiency of health units leads to useful conclusions on the negative changes in the observed efficiency of the units and the integration of the studies on the change of efficiency in the Integrated crisis management. The study ranks the efficient and inefficient units and suggests ways of improvement. This study allows for further case studies in the future and the completion of the integrated crisis management model through comparative studies on the efficiency of systems.

A Comparative Study of the Foundations of Medical Ethics in Secular and Islamic Thought

Author(s): Mohsen Rezaei Aderyani,Mehrzad Kiani / Language(s): English / Issue: 40/2015

The principles of medical ethics, common as they are in the world at the present time, have been formed in the context of Western secular communities; consequently, secular principles and values are inevitably manifested in all corners of medical ethics. Medical ethics is at its infancy in Iran. In order to incorporate medical ethics into the country’s health system, either the same thoughts, principles, rules, and codes of Western communities should be translated and taught across the country, or else, if the principles and values and consequently the prominent moral rules and codes of Western medical ethics are not consistent with the culture, customs, and religion of our country, then new principles and values should be formulated that are more in harmony with our society. According to the available literature in Iran, the four principles proposed by Beauchamp and Childress do not contradict the Islamic-Iranian culture and can thus be generally applied in the mentioned context. However, the application of these four principles and their derivatives (e.g. regulations and codes) requires careful examination and adaptation to Islamic ethics. A comparison of the ontological, anthropological and epistemological foundations of secular and Islamic attitudes shows the differences between these two attitudes to be deep-rooted. “Rationalism,” “scientism,” and “humanism” are the main foundations of secularism, whereas “Godcentrism,” “pure human servitude to God,” the belief in “returning of humans to God,” “resurrection day,” and also human’s accountability to God are all fundamental beliefs and principles of religion for Muslims of all cults and sects. It can thus be concluded that the principles of secularist thought are different from and to some extent inconsistent with the principles of Islam. Instructions derived from secular thought can therefore not be implemented in an Islamic community; rather, these communities should adopt Islamic foundations as the source for the norms and standards of their medical ethics. The capacities of religious thought (in particular, Islam) make possible the formation of an ethical system consistent with Islamic Ummah.

A depresszió kialakulását valószínűsítő hálózatok

Author(s): Domonkos Sik / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2016

The paper aims at reinterpreting the psychological insights on the formation of depression from the perspective of critical theories and tests the resulting model. In the first part of the paper based on Bourdieu’s, Giddens’, Habermas’, Honneth’s and Lash’s theories of social integration, an attempt is made to identify those network constellations, which simultaneously block goal attainment and veil the social components of the blocking. These distorted networks are considered to be contributing factors of the emergence of depression. In the second part of the paper based on the database of ESS 2012 the correspondence of such network distortions and depression is analyzed along with the causes of the adding up of various distortions.

A gyógyulás szigetei

A Cenacolo Közösség és a függőséggel küszködő fiatalok

Author(s): Márta Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2016

A Gyulafehérvári Caritas konzultációs programja

Author(s): Rita Kedves / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2016

A magyar közszolgálati média az internetfüggőségről

Author(s): Kata Kádár / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2016

A Managerial Approach To A Controversial Exhibition: The Human Body

Author(s): Viorica Paus,Romina Surugiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2013

This paper will analysis the reception of tile Human Body exhibition of 2013 in Romania, from a managerial point of view. The research is based on the exhibit ion visitors’ book, to which a content analysis was applied. The main aim of the paper is to investigate how the “Grigore Antipa” Museum (Romania) constructed the cultural context in which the scientific arguments prevailed over the religious ones, turning the exhibition of plastinated human bodies into an accepted public event, with a strong emphasis on education and science (medicine). At the same time, ethical concerns and religious criticism were down—played by maintaining the focus on the ‘education for health’ frame.

A PRACTICAL SURVEY ON HEALTH MONITORING DEVICES AND THEIR IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE

Author(s): Alin MOLDOVEANU,Cristian TASLITCHI,Ionut Negoi / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2016

As a follow-up of the current escalated technology, especially in the fields related to advanced sensors and pervasive computing, significant changes have been brought in medical diagnostics and health surveillance equipment, including arrangements for prevention, self-care monitoring of various chronic conditions, as well as high performance hospital monitoring systems. This paper provides a detailed definition of a healthcare monitoring device and offers a multiperspective classification of them. Some important examples (such as clothing-embedded sensors, mobile/smart devices, microprocessor-based monitoring systems, implantable sensors), and their exact fields of usage (e.g. blood pressure and heart rate monitoring, pulmonary arterial hypertension detection, diabetes management, movement impairments and so on) are also given, as well as a brief note on the exploited technologies (for instance wireless networks and sensors, microelectronics, bio sensing technologies) in order to set the trends and offer a better understanding of the capabilities of health monitoring devices.

A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY ABOUT INSTITUTIONALIZED ELDERLY LIFE CONDITIONS IN THREE SOCIAL CARE CENTERS

Author(s): Cositnela Georgescu,Carmen Daniela Domnariu,Valeriu Ardeleanu,Cristian-Catalin Gavat / Language(s): English / Issue: 51/2015

A retrospective study was made on 195 institutionalized elderly people and was carried out between 2002-2006 in three social care centers from Galati county: “Sf. Spiridon” retirement home (A), “Stefan cel Mare” social care center (B) and Medicalsocial center (C). The aim of this study is to find out the real social life conditions of institutionalized elderly, the shortcomings and positive aspects of their existence, in order to design future measures to improve quality of elderly life in all aspects. Actual quality of life was assessed by, taking into account physical and psychosocial environment, quality of elderly social care, satisfaction degree of assisted persons in relation to living conditions and existing relationships, their health state, as well as to identify the causes that led institutionalization of such persons As working tools were used: individual questionnaire, training manual, sampling lists, summary tables. The study undertaken in Romania confirmed that elderly coming from “Sf. Spiridon “retirement home have the highest average age (up to 75 years old). Loneliness was the main reason which caused elderly admission for institutionalization in three nursing homes (49.6% among the elderly in the Sf. Spiridon retirement home (A), 43.2% for those from “Stefan cel Mare” social care center (B) and 38.1% of the elderly from Medical-social center (C). Other important reasons were represented by lack of housing and insufficient storage house space. The highest elderly percentage who came into social care centers A, B, C on their self will is 85.3%, 64.9% and 45.2%, respectively.

A STUDY ON THE COGNITIVE LEVEL OF HEALTH EDUCATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT

Author(s): Elena Mihaela Carausu,Marin Burela,Iulian-Costin Lupu,Ileana Antohe / Language(s): English / Issue: 55/2016

Due to particularities related to anatomy, fiziology, health and adaptability, adolescents, especially those coming from the rural environment, are an important population group, coping with specific problems and vulnerabilities. The aim of this study targetted the awareness of certain health and social aspects with regards to health education for adolescents in rural environment. The main objective is focused on the evaluation of the cognitive level of health education regarding general and oro-dental health in adolescents from the rural area. The investigated group, which was statistically representative for the studied population, comprised of 160 persons (88 males, 72 females). The maximum accepted error was ±1.68%. We are focused on main indicators of general health, oro-dental morbidity and addressability towards health services. The responses to the health education questionnaire revealed that cognitive educational level is precarious in fields: the general health and oro-dental health. The prevalence of general morbidity (51.40%), obesity (20.56%) and the prevalence of smoking (6.54%) and alcohol (3.74%) consumption was assessed for knowledge of general health status. The prevalence of the dental caries (51.55%) and periodontal disease (29.90%) was assessed in order to evaluate the oro-dental morbidity. Adolescents from the rural environment represent a highly vulnerable population group that requires the implementation of a health promotion program at community level. Adolescents’ health ought to be one of the primary concerns for the decision factors, with the purpose of ensuring an acceptable health level for future generations.

A STUDY ON THE DEPICTION OF DISABILITY IN ILLUSTRATED STORY BOOKS

Author(s): Mubeccel Gonen,Aylin Dursun,Zeynep TOPCU BILIR,Ilknur Tarman,Imray Nur / Language(s): English / Issue: 50/2015

The aim of the present study is to examine illustrated storybooks depicting people with disabilities, in terms of their content and the type of disabilities they feature and to analyze the disabilities in the books that could be reached. The study was carried out in the survey design. Within the scope of the study, three largest bookstores in Ankara, Turkey and the websites offering online book shopping were surveyed and 234 illustrated story books were reviewed. Among these books, 30 illustrated storybooks, which depict people with disabilities, were included in the study. In order to examine the characters with illnesses and disabilities in the illustrated books, the study employed “the Checklist to be used for Analysis of Children’s Literature that includes People with Disabilities used in Inclusive Education”, which was developed by Blaska. Although some examples found by the study results were rather negative, there are still some illustrated storybooks that depict disability correctly and help children respect people with disabilities by providing them with appropriate understanding of people with disabilities and disabilities themselves. However, despite the increase, it was seen that the number of books in this field is not sufficient.

A STUDY ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, IN ARGES, ROMANIA

Author(s): Andrei Dumitru / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2016

" Purpose: To assess the impact of cerebral palsy on health-related quality of life of Arges county-Romania children.This is a cross-sectional survey. The study involved 54 children (33 males and 21 females), between 1 and 12 years of age, with cerebral palsy. The socio-demographic details of the participants were obtained through interviews. Their HRQoL was assessed using the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form. Severity of motor disability was assessed and classified using the Gross Motor Function Classification System. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics. The participants’ overall scores and scores on each domain of were very low.