College Students' Perceptions of a Smoking Ban in Restaurants and Bars

Abstract

This study investigates college students' perceptions of smoking bans and their knowledge of smoking bans implemented in a college town. A total of 180 college students enrolled in two hospitality management classes participated in the study. While the majority of students were strongly supportive of smoking bans in general, results of the study indicated that significant differences were found in smoking ban perceptions based on respondents' future employment segments. The length of residency also affects how much information respondents knew about implemented smoking ban regulations.     

Mustn't Grumble: Immigration,Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany*

A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services, which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years and this study uses longitudinal data from both countries to examine whether immigrants differ in their use of health services from native-born individuals on arrival and over time. While immigrants to Germany, but not the UK, are more likely to self-report poor health than the native-born population, the samples of immigrants use hospital and GP services at broadly the same rate as the native-born populations in both countries. Controls for observed and unobserved differences between immigrants and native-born sample populations make little difference to these broad findings.     

Narratives of Negotiation and Transformation: Women's Experiences within a Mixed-Gendered Gym

ABSTRACT

Those within the fitness industry claim that gyms provide accessible space for women (of certain economic status) to engage in activities that will increase their health. As such, gyms are marketed as safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces. Yet when viewing gym spaces through a feminist-informed lens, it becomes clear that gyms are not always innocuous spaces. They often reflect and perpetuate gendered power relations and highly prescribed cultural expectations for femininity around women's bodies, appearances, strength, and abilities. This narrative inquiry sought to illuminate women's gendered experiences within a for-profit mixed-gendered gym space. Through the use of unstructured life story interviews, this research highlights the dominant gendered expectations that women perceived within the gym and how these expectations influence women's gym use. The narratives also exposed several ways that gyms can be changed in order to facilitate more positive gym experiences for women.     

在生物实验教学中渗透心理健康教育

心理问题在中学生群体中普遍存在,并对他们的学习和生活产生很多不良的影响。本文详细讲述了中学生的一些心理问题在中学生物实验中的表现及危害,以及在中学生物实验教学中渗透心理健康教育的重要作用和相关策略。     

创建优质护理示范病区 提高护理质量

优质护理示范病区的创建,对提升医院的护理质量具有重要的意义。为了研究护理示范病区的具体创建方法,医院护理部在医院的全部科室中选择了两个病区,作为了建立优质护理示范病区,并对病房的管理,护士的职业礼仪,病人出院后的随访,其他人性化的服务等等各个环节都提出了高要求。创建优质护理示范病区一段时间之后,对所有护理人员进行三基考核成绩,病区护理质量比较,差异有统计学意义(均P<0.05),90%¹00%优质护理示范病区医护人员认可优质护理示范工程建设的效果。最后得出了结论:医院积极的创建并实施优质护理示范病区,对于护理人员的专业水平的提升有巨大的帮助,从而带动了护理质量的提高,对创建医院优秀护理服务品牌有重要的意义。     

高职高专院校大学生心理健康现状分析与教育对策

大学时期是人生心理矛盾的多发期,而高职高专院校的大学生较其他本科大学生承受着更多的心理压力。目前,高职高专院校大学生心理健康问题呈现递增趋势,已成为阻碍大学生健康成长和顺利完成学业的重要因素。本文从心理健康概念的内涵、高职院校学生心理健康问题的表现特征、高职学生心理健康问题的形成因素进行分析总结,并提出几点教育对策。     

浅议健康心理教育对消防部队院校学员的重要性

本文主要探究在消防部队院校学员教育中培养和发展学生良好心理品质的功能和意义，阐述了在教育教学过程中，对教学指导思想、教学内容、教学方法结合健康心理品质培养，如何体现对军校学员健康心理品质的培养，从而克服和解决消防部队院校学员心理健康方面特有的问题。     

Embedding consumer culture in health and social care education – a university office's perspective

Health and social care services are changing – and this change is radical. Service user and carer involvement has been a key aspect of health and social care policy for a number of years. In terms of the National Health Service (NHS), this has been significantly strengthened by the report ‘High Quality Care for All’. The NHS will no longer be a monolith dictating what services it offers. It is beginning to take seriously the views of its consumers: the patients, service users and carers. The NHS is starting to put the patient experience at the centre of everything it does, and its regulators are asking for evidence of public and patient involvement. This process may yet prove to be one of the NHS' greatest challenges as it transforms to prioritize the consumer viewpoint. Social care, though further down the line in relation to involvement, is now responding to the relatively new personalization agenda. This paper will consider what the university sector can do to embed the consumer and service culture within the education of health and social care professionals. It looks at the challenges of involvement and required culture change, highlighting the key points to address in the early and middle stages of involvement from a university office's perspective. It includes examples of consumer involvement in teaching, assessment and the selection of students and how their input is starting to make a difference. Finally, the paper outlines what is needed in a development office to establish and support effective service user and carer involvement on health and social care courses in higher education. The article concludes by acknowledging that there is much more work that needs to be done in this field to embed the work of a development office, but that early steps have been promising.     

完善煤炭产业社会保障政策

煤炭产业社会保障政策是煤炭产业政策必不可少的组成部分。在对社会保障与社会保障政策分析的基础上,介绍了我国煤炭产业社会保障的基本情况,分析了该项工作面临的形势与任务,并就进一步完善煤炭产业社会保障政策提出具体建议。     

Skill transferability,regret and mobility

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this article, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these pupils had little experience of the actual working life in these professions. We develop a model where students accumulate partially transferable human capital but also learn about their professional preferences at the university and during the first years in the labour market. As a consequence of this newly acquired insight, these young workers might realize that working in another occupational field would better fit their preferences, although they are better equipped to work in their own field. The empirical analysis reveals that if wages are 1% lower due to lower skill transferability, the probability that a graduate who regrets his choice actually switches decreases by 1.4 percentage points, while those who switch on average take 0.3 months additional education.