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Measuring integration in new countries of immigration 衡量新移民国家的融合程度

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2018-0003

Coșciug Anatolie

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引用次数: 2

Introduction to the Special Issue: Debating Immigration in a Country of Emigration 专题导论:在一个移民国家辩论移民问题

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2018-0006

R. Anghel, Anatolie Coșciug

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引用次数: 1

Medical Students’ Working Preferences - A Pilot Study in Romania 罗马尼亚医科学生工作偏好的试点研究

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2017-0001

Andreea Marcu

{"title":"Medical Students’ Working Preferences - A Pilot Study in Romania","authors":"Andreea Marcu","doi":"10.1515/scr-2017-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scr-2017-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Health workforce migration affects healthcare services from all around the world. This present study hypothesized that: Romanian medical students’ preference of a workplace is based not only on factors such as economical, working conditions and professional development, but also on other factors that are more related to personal values. A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 215 medical students from Cluj-Napoca. Students were invited to take part in a career preference questionnaire about: socio-demographic factors, work environment, job characteristics, influence of family and friends and the students’ intention to emigrate. Results show that students would choose a job based on: quality of working conditions, intellectual challenges, job security, the location of job in an urban area, income and a good atmosphere at the workplace. The factors impacting the migration are: quality of working conditions, desire of support from nurses and acceptance of a job even if is far from where the students’ family lives. The results could influence legislation on health and workforce mobility and improve the workforce recruitment, retention and motivation aspects on long-term.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"54 1","pages":"23 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87756869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

The Right of the Governed: Foucault’s Theoretical Political Turn 被统治者的权利:福柯的理论政治转向

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2017-0004

J. L. Ferreira-Neto

引用次数: 2

Children born of War and Social Trust – Analysing Consequences of Rejection 战争和社会信任中出生的孩子——被拒绝的后果分析

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2017-0002

Andrea Meckel, Ingvill C. Mochmann, B. Voicu, Martin Miertsch

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引用次数: 0

Narrative Medicine – the methodology of doctor-patient communication analysis 叙事医学——医患沟通分析的方法论

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2017-0005

Ioana Silistraru

{"title":"Narrative Medicine – the methodology of doctor-patient communication analysis","authors":"Ioana Silistraru","doi":"10.1515/scr-2017-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scr-2017-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present paper aims at presenting a non-exhaustive list of methodology instruments for narrative analysis in medical communication. Patient narratives became of more and more importance while evidence-based medicine has created a gap between patients, their illness and their doctors. While being investigated through high-technology instruments used in medicine, the patient vanishes behind the computer screen where his body is analysed based on the biomedical factors. Narrative medicine is defined by one of its founders as the interaction between a health practitioner who doesn’t simply look at diseases, but treats the person who’s suffering from an illness by listening closely to his story (Charon 2001). Therefore, as mentioned by Rita Charon in her works, the doctor-patient interactions are measured considering the effectiveness of medical care. The patient is empowered with medical knowledge related to his illness, transposed into an accessible language. On the other side of the communication spectrum, the doctor reconnects with his patient, manifesting interest on how the patient’s life is affected by illness, not only on how it can be effectively treated. ‘Now, in recent years medical narrative is changing—from the stories about patients and their illnesses, patient narratives and the unfolding and interwoven story between healthcare professionals and patients are both gaining momentum, leading to the creation or defining of narrative-based medicine (NBM).’ (Kalitzkus and Matthiessen 2009). Narrative based medicine is presented to counteract the pitfalls of evidence-based medicine (EBM). NBM can foster a better care while taking into account the patient’s story on the way illness is affecting the quality of his everyday life. The final objective of effective medical care is to alleviate, if not to dismiss completely the illness and the suffering of the patients.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"80 1","pages":"105 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74051974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Measuring income inequality: comparative datasets and methodological deficiencies. An overview of income inequality in Romania during postsocialism 衡量收入不平等:比较数据集和方法缺陷。后社会主义时期罗马尼亚收入不平等概况

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2017-0003

Ionuț-Marian Anghel

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引用次数: 0

Household Role in Coping with Precarious Work. Evidence from Qualitative Research in Urban Romania and Switzerland 家庭在应对不稳定工作中的作用。来自罗马尼亚和瑞士城市定性研究的证据

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2016-0027

A. Preoteasa, Rebekka Sieber, M. Budowski, C. Suter

引用次数: 5

Producing Cheap Food and Labour: Migrations and Agriculture in the Capitalistic World-Ecology 生产廉价食品和劳动力:资本主义世界的移民和农业——生态学

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2016-0025

Y. M. Gerbeau, G. Avallone

引用次数: 26

School Mediators in the Romanian Education System. A Discussion on Their Role in Addressing Educational Inequalities 罗马尼亚教育系统中的学校调解员。讨论它们在解决教育不平等中的作用

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scr-2016-0026

Florina Pop, Bianca Balea

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引用次数: 2