Browse

In the present paper we aim to analyse the ethical implications of digitalisation in the public administration system. The present day society is heavily influenced by the digital techniques and these techniques are now present in many aspects of our lives (social life, banking, shopping, healthcare and so on). The digital technologies are advancing quickly and, together with them, the process of digitalisation in public administration is moving fast forward. Compliance with the ethical norms on the digital public...

This paper explores the phenomenon of isolation in modern digital society. The topic wasdeveloped with a group of 90 IT design students in two generations. The positive andnegative aspects of isolation are presented through the eyes of the students of the ZagrebUniversity of Applied Sciences. An initiative and incentive is the project entitled Isolatedpeople and communities in Slovenia and Croatia - Isolation (IPS-2022-02-3741). Theproject itself examines the contemporary isolation in both countries, Slovenia andC...

This paper provides an overview of the workshop The Shame of Prometheus, ArtificialIntelligence between limits and opportunities. Conducted on May 30, 2023, focused onthe intersection of artificial intelligence, the myth of Prometheus, and humanistic culture.Guided by the question "how can philotechnology coexist harmoniously withphilanthropy?", our primary objective was to inspire the audience to contemplatemutually beneficial interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). From apractical standpoin...

Sustainability accounting is a way of accounting that considers the economic, social, and environmental impacts of an organization's activities. Key theoretical concepts and practices in sustainability accounting include triple bottom line accounting, environmental accounting, social accounting, integrated reporting, materiality, and assurance. Common sustainability accounting indicators include carbon footprint, water usage, waste generation, energy consumption, social impact, biodiversity, economic impact, and s...

The swift evolution of education, catalyzed by the global pandemic, has driven the infusion of advanced technologies into higher education. As student expectations evolve amid global trends, a paradigm shift in pedagogical strategies is underway. This paper explores the realm of international business education and investigates the influence of generated artificial intelligence (AI) on student engagement in global virtual teams. This study analyzes the motivating factors propelling student participation in virtual...

The article examines the cardiac consequences of long-COVID and their implications for patient care. Long-COVID refers to persistent symptoms and complications that occur in some patients after apparent recover from COVID-19. One concerning aspect of long-COVID is cardiac involvement. Recent studies have found that some patients with long-COVID may experience cardiac complications, including myocarditis, ventricular dysfunction, cardiac rhythm disturbances, and blood clot formation. These conditions can persist in...

Digitalization plays important role in our lives and restaurants and other catering placesuse digital tools (websites, social media) to promote their services.The aim of the paper is to elaborate scenarios for catering places to attract theirpreferred audience via using digital tools.The research methods involve central trends and location measures, ANOVA, crosstabulationanalysis and correlation analysis. There are both secondary and primary dataused in the research. The primary data come from the survey conducted...

In the light of Objective 3 of the 2030 Agenda, this paper will analyse, the state of the art of sustainable innovation in healthcare and the improvement that it has brought both in the context of healthcare companies and socio-economic factors using the statistical data. The author will consider the repercussions that the emergency linked to Covid-19 had on this progress, highlighting the criticalities of the health system. The author will also look into how these can be remedied through the investments provided ...

One of the challenges of spatial approach to cultural dynamics is the understanding of spatial uniqueness among different elements, and finally the synergy between tangible and intangible cultural resources that makes tourist space unique. The association of cultural tangible and intangible heritage features includes associations to the physical elements of cultural heritage and their connection with the intangible through the experience, perception and interpretation of the cultural heritage of the visited destin...

Does teaching art and its history to the new generations still make sense today, and how? Whether it’s figurative arts or crafts, what humanity has produced throughout its history is one of the things that most fascinate scholars: in the end, as it’s for philosophy about the development of thought, studying art is a way of looking for the reasons for human specificity. The beauty search could be intended as one of the most evident aspects of it: times, modes, and tools have changed through the decades, but wha...

The aim of this research is to analyze how digitization impacts the healthcare services. The alert pace of innovation changes the face of traditional medicine and brings change for all those involved in the medical act: doctors, patients, management, authorities. For them, it is vital to know the many forms that digitization can take in the provision of healthcare services. The development of personalized medicine and the empowerment of patients are global goals that involve digital e-health services. The synergy ...

Introduction: Stress through long-term physical aggression (distress) strongly influences the chorion - component of the gingival mucosa. To track these changes, I have discussed a number of parameters and performed statistical significance on the obtained results. I discussed the nuclear area as the nucleus represents the vital center of the cell, and all biological processes of the cell are under the control of the nucleus. The new environment created by the presence of the fixed dental prosthesis represents a n...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected persons with disabilities in the world; the number of deaths caused by the pandemic has largely affected persons with disabilities as reported by United Nations. However, people with disabilities not only faced greater health impacts, but were also affected by worsening economic situation. Many persons with disabilities were dismissed from work, but many unemployed persons with disabilities stopped looking for work. The pandemic has halted the progress that had...

The measurement of social and health threats poses a methodological problem. To preserve the validity and reliability of the measurement, the whole complex of these phenomena has to be discovered and covered by appropriate variables. Therefore, in our research, we changed the perspective from the measurement of the objective occurrence of the threat and instead focused on measuring the subjective recognition. In social sciences, the subjective perspective can be more important because the experience of threat is o...

Digital technologies became one of the most important means of communication during the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to online learning and working from home, the pressure to increase ICT competencies has increased. This paper aims to analyse the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the skills for the digital age. The research data consists of two samples. The first was collected from October 2018 to June 2019 and the second from September 2020 to January 2022, i. e. during the period of anti-pandemic restrictions. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed CEOs two-speed model of decision-making and structural change about the operating implications supporting principal strategic factors, thus the importance of innovative strategies has central positions and are responsible for the corporations’ successful advances. The top pioneering companies emphasise years of organizational performance and are uniquely qualified to inspire and enhance innovation, as they are central to core values and creative leadership. The objective of ...

Human capital is the primary driver of change in the modern knowledge society. The migration of healthcare workers is a "brain drain" of highly qualified individuals. Healthcare workers are currently among the most sought-after and mobile occupations in the EU. The global trend of open borders and free movement of goods, people and capital is an important determinant of growth and development, which developed countries have already recognized at the expense of less developed ones. The aim of this paper is to highl...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are quite varied in terms of business concepts, size, age or entrepreneurial personalities and draw on a wide talent pool of both genders. From liberal professions and micro-firms in the service sector to medium-sized industrial enterprises, their diversity is the starting point in establishing the communication strategy. SMEs need to take full advantage of the benefits of information, a vital component of the digital economy. Traditional SMEs often do not know what digita...

The article describes a qualitative inquiry in the form of a case-study which used participatory action research. The study was implemented over a period of two years, 2020 and 2021. It inquired into a face-to-face higher education elective course on creativity and happening in which there was a strong performative element. The aim of the study was to find out how the transfer of the elective to online distance learning would effect the integrity of the course. To do this, the face-to-face course (taught 2017, 201...

The valorization of medieval castles in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, regardless of the fact that it is largely under the protection of UNESCO, is an important issue of a modern and multicultural society that can only be built by active work on preserving cultural diversity and building its useful and aesthetic value. The process of valorization of cultural heritage is extremely important for the preservation of cultural and historical heritage, which Northern Croatia recognizes as the most important p...

The paper presents the experimental data obtained on two groups of students, one control, in two normal classrooms and respectively in the gym, outdoors and another in the same type of rooms, but with a halochamber regime, differentiated on the two gender and age, including children born in 2006 and 2007, at the age with the highest growth rate. The primary data obtained were recorded in a tabular system, followed by their processing and graphical representation of the evolution over time of functional characteris...

The popularity of augmented reality (AR) in schools worldwide has been growing constantly in the recent years. Many experiments have shown that through AR teachers are able to improve learning outcomes for the students through increased engagement and interactivity. AR tools have been successfully applied in many subjects like Science, Math, History and Geography. However, there is one very special place where AR can encourage curiosity, inspire critical thinking and intense creativity of the students. This place ...

In an actual pandemic situation as part of COVID-19 crisis European Union face the challenge of data masking in the processing of sensitive data. European officials race to get a handle on COVID-19, the importance of collecting and sharing health data has never been poses many challenges for officials and national systems. The virusВ’ unpredictable and widespread nature makes tracing and testing critical to understanding transmission and treatment. Yet, this also poses a threat to personal health data: with data b...

Land degradation by soil erosion, has been recognized as a major environmental threat in the southern part of the Moldavian Plateau of Republic of Moldova. Implementation of soil and water conservation practices is a very important link to sustainable land use pattern. During the communist period, being a representative catchment from the south of Republic of Moldova, the Sarata catchment was the subject of widespread land improvement projects. After 1991, a varied complex of non-conservative land use actions beca...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that largely exist outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided. In most parts of the world CAM content is included into health care professionals training programs. In Croatia there are still ideological and professional disputes between the majority of allopathic establishment and CAM practitioners. AIM: Aim of the study was to identify the openness and willingness of healthc...

Over the last few decades an increasing number of surveys have been published on the effectiveness of CAM therapies. But papers are rarely focused on the attitudes and beliefs about CAM efficacy or identifying reasons why certain techniques have been used. In Croatian scientific literature there are just few published papers about attitudes/beliefs about CAM among Croatian healthcare professionals. Without any attempt to advocate for one or the other side, this survey wants to open a dialog between both sides thro...

The purpose of this paper was to determine the extent of occurrence and frequency of partner violence in students' romantic relationships, including the issue of whether there are differences in the forms of violence (psychological, physical, sexual), as well as willingness to seek and to provide help in case of violence. Methods: The study involved 104 female and male students (average age was 22.6) enrolled at the University of Mostar. The following measurement instruments were used in the research: Dating Viole...

In Croatia there is a wide range of CAM therapies outside of the conventional, allopathic medicine and their usage has been exponentially increasing over the previous decades. However, there are only few, if any, relevant national surveys about the attitudes and beliefs of health care professionals about CAM in Croatia. AIM: The basic objective of the research was to identify the attitudes and beliefs about CAM among nurses, physiotherapists and sanitary engineers that were enrolled at the University of Applied He...

Obesity in elderly people with type 2 diabetes is a public health problem and preventing it is an important outcome of the rehabilitation process. The objectives of the paper were to determine whether there are differences in the BMI result of elderly persons in the Republic of Croatia who are beneficiaries of institutional care compared to those who live independently in their own living space and examine the degree of quality of life and satisfaction with health of elderly people in the examined groups. The stud...

The prevalence of the non-performance of physical activity in the 21st century has reached pandemic proportions in all age groups, including elderly people. This study aimed to determine the level of physical activity of elderly people with type 2 diabetes who are users of institutional care in the Republic of Croatia compared to those who do not have diabetes and live independently in a residential area. The study comprised 200 elderly participants who can participate in physical activity independently or with as...

The traditional natural resource management of the Arctic regions increases the risks of ecological safety of the northern territories and indigenous peoples. The goal of the research is to determine the impact of inefficient nature management on the population of Arctic zone by the example of Krasnoyarsk Krai northern areas. A panel data analysis has been selected as the research methodology which integrates the possibilities for both time-series analysis and spatial observations allowing considering individual h...

The article analyses attitudes of nursing students towards learning the subject of gerontology. Since an individual is able to self-assess his/her learning best by thinking over his/her performance and actions helping to develop new skills on the basis of existing knowledge and understanding, the attitudes of nurses were researched by presenting a questionnaire to be completed in writing. The questionnaire consisted of three open-ended questions: what were the most useful aspects in gerontology classes? What did n...

OBJECTIVE: Medical statistics show that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) constitute the most frequent cause of mortality both in our country and in the world. We classify those diseases as lifestyle diseases. The therapy of cardiovascular diseases requires active cooperation of the patient. The level of the patient's cooperation with the healthcare staff is called compliance. The concept of compliance is being replaced by the term adherence. Adherence is defined as a behaviour in which the patients implement suggest...

The goal of the study consisted in describing the working conditions of the target group of Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic and in finding connections to their health condition. The questionnaire investigation was carried out with 237 Ukrainians in 2013–2014. The results show that the target group of migrants is exposed to adverse working conditions. Methods: The study implemented a questionnaire investigation (201 questions) in form of controlled selection. The collected data were statistically processe...

After coming from the hospitals to their families, the patients after brain injury miss mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere - i.e. application of principles of coordinated rehabilitation (including timeliness, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, availability, individual and psychological approach and repeated inter-professional assessment). The missing mutual cooperation of professionals from social and health sphere hinders a coordinated and comprehensive rehabilitation of s...

The French Healthcare System copes with important challenges especially of costs, often linked with “walls” between compartmentalized fields, particularly between Primary Care and Hospital sector. These challenges largely correspond to information and communication issues. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may constitute an important lever to overpass them and to improve the efficiency of the whole system. New Healthcare Interfaces Organizations (HIO) developed for thirty years constitute an int...

INTRODUCTION: The support of cardiovascular health constitutes an important part of the strategy of national and multinational health projects. Nurses-educators can play an important role in primary prevention of cardiovascular health. GOAL: The extensive research project is focused on the educational activities of the nurse in cardiology, on preventive interventions, on the modification of influenceable risk factors in persons with high risk of origination of cardiovascular diseases and in cardiovascular patients...

Background: Empathy is one of the factors influencing burnout. However, the relationship between empathy and burnout is not clear-cut. In the literature it is argued that burnout decreases the level of empathy that empathy leads to burnout, or even that empathy prevents burnout. Objective: The main objective of the research was to determine the degree of empathy among registered nurses and its relationship to burnout. Methods: The research was conducted using a quantitative method that was applied to the research ...

The goal of the paper is to present the research project ZGO2016_001 called “Health Literacy in Selected Groups of the South Bohemian Population”. The study deals with health literacy relating to social, cultural and gender differences in the population of the South Bohemian Region, the Czech Republic. Our target group includes school children and teenagers. The improvement of health literacy is one of the goals of Health 2020. Most of the tools for the assessment of health literacy were only tested with adult...

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether there exist differences in preferences of work values between female-physician and male-physicians. Methodology: The presented research was carried out at the turn of 2012 and 2013 in 25 randomly selected hospitals throughout the Czech Republic. The research set included a random sample of physicians working in hospitals in the Czech Republic (n = 738; female-physician = 367 (49.7%), male-physician = 371 (50.3%). The mean age of physicians was 39 years. The respo...

The submitted paper deals with a specific target group of citizens living below poverty line in South Bohemian Region and it is a part of Project RVO: ZGO2016_001 „Health literacy of selected groups of population of South Bohemian Region“. The project is further focused on several target groups, including children and adolescents, adults, seniors and the Roma. The poverty line for households in the Czech Republic is calculated as the proportion of total net monthly income of the household and the sum of consump...

In recent years, there has been a trend of increasing cases of HIV infection in Russia. According to the latest published epidemiological data (31.12.2014), the cumulative number of reported HIV cases among Russian citizens constituted 907607 and the number of new HIV cases was 85252 (Federal AIDS Center). In opinion of experts, a new growth of the HIV epidemic is associated with the migration process. The largest metropolises (Moscow and St. Petersburg) are facing new migration challenges. Migrants, as well as dr...

Nursing is a culture and, since time immemorial, it has been connected to a number of cognitive and skill-based preconditions that should be an integral part of the personality equipment of each nurse as representative of the nursing profession. The preconditions include primarily the theoretical-philosophical frameworks of nursing or conceptual models whose importance consists primarily in the effort to offer a comprehensive, high-quality, individualized and documentation-based nursing care, considering the indiv...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases constitute one of the main causes of deaths in Europe. They also rank among the most frequent causes of disability. That leads to high economic burden. The occurrence of those diseases is strongly related with life style and risk factors. Influencing of these factors in ill patients within secondary prevention and in risk factors within primary prevention will significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. Motivation is essential in the process of influencing of risk factors. It ...

The nurse's educational activities in cardiovascular prevention play an important role. Quantitative method of questionnaire technique with the help of standardized structured interview was used for the survey. Data were processed by the descriptive statistic methods. The SASD program and the contingency tables of selected indicators of the 2nd classification degree were subsequently used for processing. The degree of dependence of selected features was determined by the chi2, t-test.

Background. Every fifth citizen of Lithuanian are at the age of 60 years and older. Old age is related to the frailty and disability. Depression is related to disability, suicide risk and higher mortality rates. Older people's poor sleep is associated with a reduce physical activity. Besides, adequate sleep duration reduced mortality in older adults. The main goal of this paper is to assess physical status, depression and sleep quality of older patients in nursing departments. Methods. The study has been taken fro...

The aim of the survey was to map out selected general practitionersВ’ view on primary prevention. To achieve this objective, qualitative research through semi-structured interview was chosen. This interview was based on the standardized HLS-EU-Q47 questionnaire of the EU HLS Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for mapping health literacy. The interview included 26 questions arranged into five categories and has been designed to find out the opinion of general practitioner...

Background: Nursing homes with special regime provide long-stay services to persons with reduced sufficiency due to chronic mental disease or addiction to habit-forming substances, as well as to persons with senile, Alzheimer's dementia and other types of dementia who have reduced self-sufficiency due to the above stated diseases and whose situation requires regular help of another natural person. The regime in those facilities providing social services is adapted to specific needs of such persons. When caring for...

Nowadays, access to medicine is a crucial precondition for many disease prevention programmes and the treatment component of virtually all diseases. The availability of qualitative pharmaceutical care services is an integral part of the national welfare system, thus their quality maintenance and improvement under conditions of budget austerity is one of the main challenges for policy makers and pharmaceutical companies. The current research is a continuation of several related research projects implemented in scop...

The poster includes the partial results acquired within the GAJU 029/2016/S project – Life style of women in private sex business and their (self-)reflection. The main goal of the study consisted in studying and analyzing selected aspects of life style of women in private sex business. Private sex business is a very insufficiently research area, also due to high level of anonymity it provides to the women and to the clients. However, in view of the low mapping level and the relevant issue of sexual assistance, t...