• Targeted social distancing to mitigate pandemic influenza can be designed through simulation of influenza's spread within local community social contact networks. (cdc.gov)
  • Covid-19 Pandemic: Socio-Economic Consequences of Social Distancing Measures in Italia. (thejnp.org)
  • The objective was to investigate the factors that generate stress in the residential environment of Brazilians during the social distancing measures that were established to control the pandemic of COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions for visitors and caregivers in healthcare settings and long-term care (LTC) facilities were enacted in the larger context of public health policies that included physical distancing and shelter-in-place orders. (bmj.com)
  • Wearing masks, social-distancing, staying home: Those preventive measures were least likely to be followed by Canadians who were least informed about how best to stop the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic. (medicalxpress.com)
  • During the pandemic, this crucial benefits, employment and crisis support was often provided by voluntary organisations and councils at scale and pace, and was vital in helping individuals navigate the social security system and manage financial hardship. (distantwelfare.co.uk)
  • But the surge in claimant numbers has put these services under significant pressure and the report raises concerns about how the withdrawal of crisis social security measures, introduced during the initial phases of the pandemic, could put these services under additional strain. (distantwelfare.co.uk)
  • Our research indicates that those providing benefits, crisis and employment support have faced increased demand for their services throughout the pandemic and additional challenges from social distancing. (distantwelfare.co.uk)
  • Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. (kl.ac.at)
  • The online survey described here responds to the need of understanding the effects of the pandemic on social interactions/relations and to provide findings on the extent to which digital technology is being utilized by citizens across different communities and countries around the world. (kl.ac.at)
  • 7. Zorin, K.V. Medical education under conditions of pandemic of coronavirus infection: social and ethical recommendations. (almavest.ru)
  • The research team discussed the vulnerability of Philippine institutions of higher learning to natural disasters and disruptions, including the recent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for preparedness and resilience measures, which will be the focus of a panel featuring experts from the BCP4SUCs Project by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. (iafor.org)
  • That's the conclusion of a new study by sociology and psychology researchers at Université de Montréal, based on survey results of close to 2,700 Canadians between April 2020 and April 2021. (medicalxpress.com)
  • In this work, we develop state-of-the-art NLP models grounded in frameworks from social theory in order to analyze two social media movements: online media coverage of the #MeToo movement in 2017-2018 and tweets about #BlackLivesMatter protests in 2020. (princeton.edu)
  • conducted by UdeM psychology professor Roxane de la Sablonnière, director of the Social Change and Identity Laboratory. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Society: Sociology, Psychology, Pedagogy. (almavest.ru)
  • The aim of the study was a systematic analysis of the state and perspectives of the disciplines of medical psychology and sociology at the medical faculties in Germany. (bvsalud.org)
  • 46 departments and institutes of medical psychology and sociology were invited to the survey. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: The subjects of medical psychology and medical sociology have developed very heterogeneously in terms of independence, size, equipment and possibilities at the various faculties in Germany. (bvsalud.org)
  • Contagion-as-imitation combines perspectives from psychology, sociology, and public health research and provides the greatest heuristic utility for examining whether and how suicide and suicidal behaviors may spread among persons at both individual and population levels. (cdc.gov)
  • In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. (kl.ac.at)
  • The University College London team says keeping pupils off has little impact, even with other lockdown measures. (gabio.org)
  • He says the Lancet research fails to take into account the impact that school closure can have alongside other lockdown measures. (gabio.org)
  • Scale (social sciences) - In the social sciences, scaling is the process of measuring or ordering entities with respect to quantitative attributes or traits. (academic.ru)
  • The second panel was from Central Luzon State University , including Melanie Tolentino, Associate Professor of Sociology, Jose Epimaco R. Arcega, an Instructor of the Department of Social Sciences, and Professor Floper Gershwin Manuel, Assistant Professor at the Social Sciences Department. (iafor.org)
  • She worked as a visiting scholar and Fulbright fellow at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at Stanford University. (tigre-project.eu)
  • You'll begin Stage 1 with a choice of two introductory modules - focusing on social sciences or the environment. (open.ac.uk)
  • James C. Scott: Agrarian Studies and Over 50 Years of Pioneering Work in the Social Sciences. (lu.se)
  • Are you student at Social Sciences Faculty with a reading disability - due to for example dyslexia, vision impairment or adhd? (lu.se)
  • Considering the unprecedented deployment of governmental power via public health interventions based on social regulation to protect the population during the crisis-how can we understand so much death and suffering among the most vulnerable? (bmj.com)
  • Cognitive declines cannot fully explain their vulnerability - interventions in a 'post-truth world' must also consider older adults' shifting social goals and gaps in their digital literacy. (princeton.edu)
  • Accessibility and Spatial Interaction demonstrates the integration of spatial economics with transport and planning science, using accessibility concepts and measures in exciting new ways. (e-elgar.com)
  • Policy makers and practitioners in transport and urban planning will appreciate this fresh level of insight, and academics in economics, sociology and geography will find this book an important reference point. (e-elgar.com)
  • Staying home, health experts say, is a means of social distancing - reducing the amount of close physical contact between individuals. (contexts.org)
  • The academic distance physical education classes were organized in view of the students' medical indicators, which implied the division of students into the study groups: basic, preparatory, and special. (rudn.ru)
  • A reaction against the abrupt dogmatism of this position has led many others to an equally abrupt and equally dogmatic assertion of the laws of the lower forms of physical struggle and selection which explain or describe progress in lower animals as sufficient for all purposes of sociology. (marxists.org)
  • The good of the world, the true cause of humanity, demands that this struggle, physical, industrial, political, continue, until an ideal settlement is reached whereby the most socially efficient nations rule the earth in accordance with their several kinds and degrees of social efficiency. (marxists.org)
  • Trained social workers interviewed the dents have explored the reasons for non- children and with the help of a public health enrolment from economic, cultural and consultant, focus group discussions and health perspectives, although the impor- physical examinations were conducted. (who.int)
  • The notion of social distance was first introduced by the sociologist Emory Bogardus (1925), who referred to it as the degrees of understanding and feeling that people experience regarding each other. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bogardus social distance scale - A scaling technique for measuring social distance, pioneered by Emory S. Bogardus in the 1930s, usually applied to the study of ethnic relations, social classes, and social values generally. (academic.ru)
  • Going into our study, we suspected that people who didn't understand the directives the government was issuing were less likely to follow them," said first author Clémentine Courdi, an UdeM doctoral student and research assistant to sociology professor Éric Lacourse. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Professor Lisa Scullion, Co-Director of SHUSU at the University of Salford, who leads the project, said: "This year has challenged the UK social security system like no other, with an unprecedented number of new benefit applications and soaring demand for support. (distantwelfare.co.uk)
  • And that, I think, is the reason why we are talking so much about it now," said Maurice Crul, a professor of sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (wwlp.com)
  • Our critical analysis shows that by isolating individuals who were sick, fragile, and biologically and socially vulnerable, undifferentiated population management policies like social distancing, when piled on the structural weakness of health systems, reproduced inequities and risk for those in need of medical care, advocacy, and social companionship in acute moments of illness, death and grief. (bmj.com)
  • I love social theory because it forces you to get uncomfortable with your perspectives at times. (wna.org)
  • Teaching sociology and behavioral finance are great examples of how perspectives matter. (wna.org)
  • We will make the primary necessities of life affordable," his party's manifesto says, with measures including reforming taxation and welfare rules to give people more disposable income. (wwlp.com)
  • Later, I meet with Val Klump and Tim Grundl, I have my monthly meeting with Brett Peters, I'll provide updates to the Academic Staff Senate, I have my weekly meeting with Chancellor Mone, and a meeting with Helen Bader School of Social Welfare leadership to discuss Dean candidate feedback. (uwm.edu)
  • Kumlin co-designed the "welfare state module" in the 2016 European Social Survey and is currently finishing a monograph called Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure (Oxford UP 2021, with Achim Goerres). (tigre-project.eu)
  • Results showed that interindividual differences in levels of empathic traits modulated both behavioral and electrophysiological responses to human social touch, such that highly empathic participants evaluated human social touch as inducing more pleasant emotions and exhibited greater mu suppression upon observation of human social touch compared to less empathic participants. (springer.com)
  • Specifically, both the behavioral and the electrophysiological responses to observed social touch were predicted by levels of personal distress, a measure of emotional contagion. (springer.com)
  • These findings indicate that the behavioral and electrophysiological responses to observed social touch are modulated by levels of empathy. (springer.com)
  • There's a whole range of things that schools could do to reopen in a way that involves social distancing at schools but keeps schools open. (gabio.org)
  • Considering that the observation of social touch involves vicarious sharing of emotions, we hypothesized that levels of empathic traits modulate the neural responses to observed touch and focused on the attenuation in the mu\alpha rhythm (8-13Hz), a neural marker that has been related to sensorimotor resonance. (springer.com)
  • In contrast, researchers have found--at least in the immediate aftermath of disasters--that community resilience and unity, strengthening of social ties, self- help, heightened initiative, altruism, and prosocial behavior more often prevail. (cdc.gov)
  • The goal was to analyze the stigmatizing and negative cancer-related attitudes in the public consciousness and social media in Russia, as well as to understand the related stigma of the need for mental care. (rjsocmed.com)
  • While recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have greatly enhanced our ability to analyze online text, distilling broad social-oriented research questions into tasks concrete enough for NLP models remains challenging. (princeton.edu)
  • Therefore, I am going to analyze the measuring methodology, sub-components of World Governance Indicators, namely its Control of Corruption indicator, to try and identify the main factors that contribute to the low performance of Uzbekistan in international rankings. (lu.se)
  • Her work focuses on the intersection of NLP and computational social science, including both developing NLP models that are socially aware and using NLP models to examine social issues like propaganda, stereotypes, and prejudice. (princeton.edu)
  • The concept of power distance , originally proposed by the late Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede, helps measure to what extent inequality in the distribution of power is socially accepted. (theconversation.com)
  • In this module, we will examine the social, political and economic encounters between the European settlers, American Indians, African-Americans and Latino migrant groups that have shaped the social and political development of the United States. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Parents who intended to have a child together , at the time they wanted , and who have attained some measure of economic security , are much more likely to stay together. (brookings.edu)
  • Although evidence sug gests that some of these findings may apply to disasters worldwide, one must be cautious in extrapolating the data because of the social, cultural, economic, and political differences in other countries. (cdc.gov)
  • Adrian's research areas are political economy, economic sociology and applied microeconomics but he has recently also become interested in educational issues and have found a way to combine these areas. (lu.se)
  • The Social Distance Corollary is a theory in communication research that concerns the tendency of people to perceive others to be more susceptible to media influence than they actually are. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was just awarded an NSF grant for research entitled, "The Legal, Political, and Social Filtering of Expert Witnesses into Court. (uwm.edu)
  • 1Department of Community and Social Medicine, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, Cairo, Egypt (Correspondence to S.I. Mekheimar: [email protected]). (who.int)
  • To conclude, these findings from the study are expected to bring in our understanding the role of digital technologies in affecting individual social and emotional connections during a crisis. (kl.ac.at)
  • Three components of stigma were assessed in the survey: (1) characteristics ascribed to persons with a depression, (2) emotional reactions to people afflicted by depression, and (3) desire for social distance. (bvsalud.org)
  • The cost-of-living crisis, a chronic shortage of social and affordable housing and limits on access to affordable healthcare have combined to become known by the catch-all title "security of existence" in election campaigning and it's a topic all parties are addressing in their election programs. (wwlp.com)
  • The bigger the value of the power distance index , the more inequality is accepted, although Hofstede was interested mostly in the distribution of power within companies. (theconversation.com)
  • Objetivou-se investigar os fatores geradores de estresse no ambiente residencial de brasileiros durante o distanciamento social estabelecido para controle da pandemia de COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • Aislamiento social y estresores ambientales en los hogares en tiempos de COVID-19: una perspectiva desde la psicología ambiental. (bvsalud.org)
  • El objetivo fue investigar los factores que generan estrés en el ambiente residencial de los brasileños durante el aislamiento social establecido para controlar la pandemia de COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • Paid for their involvement, the participants answered at least four times over the year the survey was conducted, with questions regarding their adherence to public health measures, their level of understanding of those measures, and where they got their information about COVID-19. (medicalxpress.com)
  • They were also asked to self-assess, again on a scale of of 1 to 10, how well they understood their government's public health measures, both federal and provincial, to combat the spread of COVID-19 and adhere to the recommended guidelines. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Although a high level of understanding does not guarantee a perfect adherence, a lack of comprehension regarding COVID-19 and associated preventive measures hinders adherence," they concluded. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Our results simply suggest that this relation holds true in the case of COVID-19, meaning that better health literacy would improve individuals' level of understanding and thus have a positive influence on adherence to preventive measures. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The study's participants were also asked which sources of information they trusted the most regarding COVID-19, ranging from family and friends to work colleagues, the media and the World Health Organization, as well as a wide range of social media. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Overall," the authors noted, "we showed that perceived understanding of information was a key predictor of adherence to all COVID-19 health measures, regardless of the type of sources used by participants. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The purpose of the article is to problematize the study of COVID-factors of the constitution of social reality in scientific discussions. (almavest.ru)
  • This is important because the authors focus on the COVID-factors of the constitution of social reality. (almavest.ru)
  • In the logic of the study, it can be argued that the high degree of subjectivation of COVID-factors for the constitution of social reality in Russia implies in the future a greater adaptability of society to such shocks, since the degree of subjectivation of the threat is associated with the degree of further objectification of the constitutive foundations of social development. (almavest.ru)
  • 8. Zorin, K.V. Social and Ethical problems of Vaccination against COVID-19. (almavest.ru)
  • An Academic Preparedness subteam, with representation from Academic Affairs, CETL, UITS, Classroom Technology, the Registrar's Office, and our branch campuses, has developed an academic continuity plan that would guide our actions if social distancing measures are necessitated by a local COVID-19 outbreak. (uwm.edu)
  • The weekly classes will take place face-to-face (unless there is a change in the current COVID safety measures). (essex.ac.uk)
  • Finally, we show how infectivity of the strain and underlying structure of the infectious contact network influence the design of social distancing strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Several measures are being taken to care for the infected and to curtail the spread of this novel infectious virus. (bvsalud.org)
  • In sum, Courdi and her co-authors recommended, "governments and public-health agencies should strive to provide clear and coherent communication regarding public-health measures if they want to ensure a higher level of understanding and improve adherence. (medicalxpress.com)
  • At the same time, the necessary public health measures have required us to take responsibility not only for our own health, but for the health of others. (brookings.edu)
  • 6. Zhuravleva, I.A. Students' perception of distance learning at university. (almavest.ru)
  • My decisions and outlook about students and work are absolutely shaped by my experiences in long-distance running. (wna.org)
  • Objective of the study was to determine the influence of the academic day in terms of distance learning during selfisolation on the psychophysiological state of students attributed to the preparatory health group. (rudn.ru)
  • The lectures provide an overview of the colonising processes, social histories and ethnic conflicts around the topic of the week, while the classes will give you the opportunity to reflect on your learning and actively engage with other students to develop understanding, interpretation and critical analysis further. (essex.ac.uk)
  • One reason to why female students with affluent parents is better off is because they manage to have a broader social network," Adrian says. (lu.se)
  • One question was how the students' study results and well-being have been affected by distance learning and which students have coped best with the transition. (lu.se)
  • Considering the social distance phenomenon an aspect of Davison's (1983) third-person perception, Perloff (1993) articulated it as a complex variable including perceived similarity, familiarity, and identification, and pointed that there are at least two different ways to conceptualize social distance. (wikipedia.org)
  • First, social distance is a continuum going from "just like me" to "not at all like me. (wikipedia.org)
  • The authors believe that prospective studies of the content of integrated care related to the study of the optimal ratio of medical and social components of the continuum in disease conditions will help solve the complex problem of improving the quality of medical care for patients with chronic diseases. (rjsocmed.com)
  • In other words, Brosius and Engel varied psychological distance and found that perceived effects were greater for "remote" others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Problems of transition to distance learning. (almavest.ru)
  • The panel focused on the transition from face-to-face classes to distance learning after the two year shutdown. (iafor.org)
  • A similar study (Gunther, 1991) was done at the University of Minnesota, and the social distance phenomenon was supported. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study proposes and tests a model of the relationship between public opinion regarding war and Army service as measured by Army recruitment and retention rates. (tufts.edu)
  • This study found a large and significant difference between communities who produced the most and least recruits and reenlisting soldiers, an indication of considerable social distance between much of the nation and its Army. (tufts.edu)
  • How did you measure beauty in your study? (lu.se)
  • The variables considered for the study were: training time in years, and monthly real salary (centroid), in compliance with weekly working hours, mode of incorporation into the oral health team, postgraduate course, social participation and ongoing involvement in Family Health. (bvsalud.org)
  • I started my work by getting familiar with the survey that created the farmer social network, as well as prepping those data for spatial statistical analysis in a geographic information system (GIS) software called ArcMap. (wisconsin.edu)
  • In ArcMap I looked to see if there was a spatial autocorrelation, which measures the geographic distribution of farmer's survey responses within the watershed and identifies areas of clustering. (wisconsin.edu)
  • Dentists in the Family Health Strategy differ as regards weekly working hours, postgraduate course and social participation in the city, and the training time can be a critical feature to point out these differences. (bvsalud.org)
  • the capacity to understand, access, and use health-related information, is the primary predictor of understanding an illness and the impact of related preventive measures or treatment, regardless of other factors such as education," the authors added. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The seminars address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained as well as the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty. (gu.se)
  • Policymakers need to provide social protective measures to improve coping in critical health events. (bvsalud.org)
  • The circulation of cultures enables individuals to partake in extended social relations that cross national and regional borders. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social gatherings and even dinner at a restaurant become isolating activities because of the inability to understand what people are saying and individuals can't contribute to the conversation. (cdc.gov)
  • Investigating the third-person effect in regard to political identification, Duck, Hogg, and Terry (1995) found that perception of self-other differences in media vulnerability are influenced by the subjectively salient social relationship between self and other, and are governed by motivational needs, such as self-esteem, social-identity, and differentiation from others. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to effectively carry out informational and educational work, one needs to understand stigmatizing attitudes in general public and social media. (rjsocmed.com)
  • Participants include residents aged 18 years and older in the countries and snowball sampling is employed via social media platforms. (kl.ac.at)
  • FILE - Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the recently formed Dutch political party New Social Contract, speaks to the media at a meeting in Amersfoort, Netherlands on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (kob.com)
  • Family stability - with few or no changes in parents' residential and romantic partnerships - is associated with better educational and social outcomes for children - especially boys . (brookings.edu)
  • Daniel Edmiston, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, who led the report, said: 'In supporting people to navigate a benefits system with which they are often unfamiliar, these organisations play an important role for people in receipt of working-age benefits. (distantwelfare.co.uk)
  • Thus, in Perloff's (2002) terms, social distance corollary is "the notion that self-other disparities grow in magnitude with increases in perceived distance between self and comparison others. (wikipedia.org)
  • After several studies, the notion of social distance was enshrined as the "social distance corollary" (Meirick, 2005). (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Perloff's review (1999), of the 11 studies that have tested the social-distance notion, 9 confirmed it, articulating this phenomenon as "another factor on which the strength of the third-person effect hinges. (wikipedia.org)
  • Distance Angulaire (Cosmologie) - La distance angulaire est une notion utilisée en cosmologie pour exprimer la distance apparente d'un objet astronomique à partir de son diamètre angulaire. (academic.ru)
  • The levels of integrated medical and social care for patients with chronic diseases are determined, according to the authors, by the dynamics of the patients' quality of life mediated by the relevant condition of the disease. (rjsocmed.com)
  • Embarking on a social life in Sweden is an epic journey with a cultural shock. (lu.se)
  • One way to measure this impact is to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). (cdc.gov)
  • When people think of disasters, the common image is one of social breakdown. (cdc.gov)
  • Interdisciplinarity was the nature of my work this summer, looking to see if there was a correlation between social distance and geographic distance within the farmer's social networks in the Red Cedar Watershed. (wisconsin.edu)
  • My analysis expands on the work of the sociology team, looking at both farmers' social networks and how farmers connect geographically. (wisconsin.edu)
  • Overall, our work provides insight into social movements and debunks harmful stereotypes. (princeton.edu)
  • The measures that have been urgently put in place to fight the virus, including school closures, work in combination with each other. (gabio.org)
  • The plays of articulation and distancing, we suggest, allow a more palatable, morally sensitive form of distinction-work for the middle-class subject than can be offered by blunt expressions of disgust currently argued by some 'new' class theorising. (socresonline.org.uk)
  • That centrist "middle party" is personified by Pieter Omtzigt, a former Christian Democrat who set up the New Social Contract over the summer. (wwlp.com)
  • Although "me" and "you" are put in one category, it is implied that some degree of distance exists between self and such close others as friends and lovers (Tsfati & Cohen, 2004). (wikipedia.org)
  • The task of improving the quality of medical care for patients with chronic diseases is considered a priority for the healthcare system, which requires a personalized model of medical and social care focused on the needs of patients with chronic pathology. (rjsocmed.com)
  • This article presents the practice of multilevel integration of medical and social care for patients with chronic diseases in disease conditions. (rjsocmed.com)
  • The psychosocial impact of these measures on patients, relatives, caregivers, and medical personnel also needs to be assessed and catered for. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sets up tensions between processes of homogenization that contribute on the one hand to flattening social differences and human experience, while on the other hand enhancing the sense of the local and promoting counter-globalizing movements. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Information Capacity of States, Ethnic Diversity, and Social Development. (gu.se)
  • This paper argues for a reconsideration of social cohesion as an analytical concept and a policy goal in response to increasing levels of religious diversity in contemporary Australia. (mdpi.com)
  • Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification. (open.ac.uk)
  • When combined with intense social distancing it plays an important role in severing remaining contacts between households and thus ensuring transmission declines," he said. (gabio.org)