Challenges to elderly safety in Safe Community movements in Japan

In Japan, with the longest life expectancy in the world over the last two decades, a great emphasis has been placed on the safety of the elderly, which has in turn influenced their well-being. Meantime, the concept of Safe Community (SC) has drawn more attention as one of the potential measures to sustain and improve the health conditions of the elderly. In hope of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of current efforts for elderly safety, the SC model is expected to provide features with which communities can make the better use of current limited resources. This article examines how the SC model makes a difference in these efforts by utilising existing programmes and how elderly safety can be promoted at the community level. Six communities working safety promotion based on the SC model were selected for the study. Although there are limitations to the information due to the insufficient experience in SC in Japan, it was found that two features make SC significant in promoting safety: (1) systematic evidence-based plan-do-check-action processes and (2) a framework of cross-sectoral collaboration. However, to examine and identify the effectiveness of SC on elderly health, further observation is required to develop strategies while accumulating longitudinal data.     

Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion course in a Russian Master of Public Health programme

The Global Burden of Disease Studies describe and emphasise injury as a major and increasing component in the panorama of global ill health. Russia has the one of the highest injury rates in Europe. When a Master in Public Health programme was planned and started in 2007 in Arkhangelsk, Russia, under the auspices of University of Troms?, Norway, a course on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was included. A take-over programme (training-the-trainers) was implemented within the course. The present paper describes the course content, the students and their background, the training-the-trainers programme, the evaluation procedure and its results. So far, 53 students have passed the course, 77% being female. The majority of students were medical doctors (51%), psychologists (11%), pedagogues (9%), dentists (6%) and nurses (6%). The take-over programme has functioned well by gradually using students of excellence as teachers. In 2012, the take-over programme is completed and only Russians teach. Evaluation by students of the course content, organisation and pedagogic approach was useful for improvements.     

浅谈建筑施工中防渗漏施工技术分析

房屋渗漏是建筑工程中常见的质量通病，对于房屋建筑的质量有着重要的影响，并且影响了居民的正常生活。一般来说，引发房屋渗漏的因素较多，在施工过程中，施工技术人员需要加以重视并且及时的进行改进。本文对于建筑施工中防渗漏施工技术的相关问题进行了分析与探讨。     

世界上第一个Internet商务标准简介

1999年12月14日,在美国加州旧金山的St.Francis饭店,公布了世界上第一个Internet商务标准(The Standard for Internet Commerce,Version1.0-1999)。这一标准是由301位世界著名的In-     

我国上市公司融资顺序的实证研究

本文在对Myers融资优序模型进行修正的基础上 ,采用大样本实证检验了我国沪深两市上市公司的融资情况。研究结果表明 :上市公司融资顺序首选股权融资 ,其次选择债务融资 ,最后选择内部融资 ;在债务融资顺序中 ,上市公司更加偏好短期负债融资而非长期负债融资。这些研究结果将为我国上市公司进行融资决策和政府有关部门制定融资监管政策提供有益的实证证据。     

小型林产加工企业在发展中国家的重要地位

在许多发展中国家,小型林产加工企业无论是数量,还是其产量在整个林产加工业中所占的比例,都是很大的,但却被忽视了。小型林产加工企业的特点是:规模小,多数以家庭为单位;雇工不多,主要由经营者及其家庭成员从事劳动;原料除木材外还有各种森林植物的茎、叶、果、根等;以手     

Safe community in different settings

This paper describes the Safe Community concept and how communities aspired to safety through a structured, collaborative approach rather than a community that is already perfectly safe. The Safe Community movement started in Sweden at the end of the 1980s and was based on community-based injury prevention activities. Safe Communities are the communities that meet a set of 12 criteria (later changed to six indicators) set out by the WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) on Community Safety Promotion at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The communities may apply to the WHO CC to be designated as an official member of the WHO International Safe Community Network. To date, 83 communities around the world have been designated as members of the Safe Community Network, ranging in population from 1000 to nearly 2 million. Lidkj?ping in Sweden was the first designated safe community in 1989 and Rapla in Estonia was the last, designated in October 2004. The movement recognizes that it is the people who not only live, learn, work and play in a community but also best understand their community's specific problems, needs, assets and capacities. Their involvement and commitment are critical factors in identifying and mobilizing resources so as to create an effective, comprehensive and coordinated community-based action on unintentional and intentional injuries.     

信息通讯技术(ICT)在新鲜农产品供应链管理中的应用:欧洲和中国经验的对比分析

分析ICT技术在新鲜农产品供应链中的应用;识别影响ICT技术应用的促进和制约因素;比较分析中国和欧洲（英国、德国和希腊）新鲜农产品供应链管理中ICT技术的应用情况。以ICT技术的复杂性以及ICT技术在新鲜农产品供应链中应用的调查为基础的,从（1）供应链的功能,（2）供应链的商业模型,（3）供应链的覆盖范围三个维度,重点考察了供应链的三个主要功能：订单管理,库存管理,以及运输和配送管理。     

亚太地区中小企业六西格玛的推行

一、引言 六西格玛初创时所关注的焦点,是调查产品表现不稳定的原因并使其变动最小化.这是一个质量测量和过程改进项目,过程控制关注于从中心线起六西格玛(标准偏差)之间的界限.这样,就可确保正在生产的零件是无缺陷的.如果缺陷一旦发生,将被限制在每百万个零件只有3.4个有缺陷.产品质量的关键因素,常常由顾客的需要和减少缺陷来确定.