• Like other work, work at a construction site can imply different organisational and social risks. (av.se)
  • If the client make wise choices, the organisational and social work environment can be better during both the planning and design phase and the construction phase. (av.se)
  • This skills gap is despite the strong emphasis in both government, private and third sector organisations on behavioural, organisational and social change. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Sick leave due to mental health problems is increasing, and there is evidence that it is associated with the individual's self-perceived organisational and social work environment. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this study was to compare occupational therapists' self-perceived organisational and social work environments in different job sectors. (lu.se)
  • The web survey included questions on their sociodemographic characteristics and self-perceived organisational and social work environment regarding workload, control, community in the workplace, reward, justice, and values. (lu.se)
  • Questions on the self-perceived organisational and social work environment were assessed by the QPS mismatch questionnaire. (lu.se)
  • A systems theory approach, which acknowledges society as a complex adaptive system, is suggested as providing a useful framework for social marketing campaigns in supporting new identities and increasing sustained behavioural change. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • Appealing to deeply seated human needs, the six persuasion principles of Reciprocity, Consistency, Social Proof, Authority, Liking and Scarcity can be translated into practical communication strategies that will increase the personal involvement of a target population and secure a lasting change in behavioural patterns. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • These changes may occur because of genes, behavior, the environment, or interactions among these factors. (prb.org)
  • The Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging supports research on the interaction of genes, behavior, and the social environment. (prb.org)
  • This newsletter highlights recent results from research that assesses the effects of interactions among genes, behavior, and the environment. (prb.org)
  • It is based upon research in the social sciences that demonstrates that behavior change is most effectively achieved through initiatives delivered at the community level which focus on removing barriers to an activity while simultaneously enhancing the activity's benefits. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • The extent to which the environment impacts behavior and hormones on the individual level, however, is rather unexplored. (bvsalud.org)
  • The physical and social environment is a determining factor in active and healthy aging in place, being a central factor in the study of environmental gerontology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physical-social environments and aging population from environmental gerontology and geography. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chipotle, an international fast-food restaurant has environmental and social goals embedded in its brand values. (oracle.com)
  • Of course, this is a charge that has been laid before corporations ever since corporate social responsibility - as environmental, social and governance issues used to be termed - first became a thing. (forbes.com)
  • Without planning and upgrading processes that involve local governments and low-income urban communities, mitigation investments in the built environment will exacerbate socioeconomic and environmental injustices in cities across the global South. (iied.org)
  • Social Text contributors have approached the environmental crises of the last several decades by exploring the constitution of a second nature. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Social Text contributors, for example, anatomized the impact of hegemonic projects of environmental transformation such as the Green Revolution. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Social marketing is a key approach whose aim is to influence and support constructive change in environmental, social and health campaigns. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • Students explore how Chinese and East Asian environmental issues such as deforestation, pollution, and toxic waste intersect with human issues like culture, ethnicity, gender, class, and social identities. (cmu.edu)
  • Known as environmental humanities, this humanistic approach to the environment helps students view China "not simply as a positive or negative, but as a complicated thing that is really contextually defined," he said. (cmu.edu)
  • Using literature, film, popular culture, environmental history, and even virtual reality (VR) devices, students in the course connect environmental issues in China with their social context. (cmu.edu)
  • Students spent time in the Askwith Kenner Global Languages and Cultures Room where they used Oculus VR devices to reimagine environments and develop strategies for cultivating environmental education and awareness. (cmu.edu)
  • With little fanfare and scant media attention, a new social movement appears to be evolving in Canada to address issues of environmental decline and climate change from a moral, ethical and justice perspective.Headed by an Anglican priest, the Rev. Dr. Mishka Lysack, the first "retreat" was held in Calgary last October and video-linked to Edmonton. (anglicanjournal.com)
  • The Coalition For A Safe Environment (CFASE) is a non-profit community based Environmental Justice, Public Health, Public Safety and Community Sustainability advocacy organization. (saveourplanet.org)
  • School health programs can help children and adolescents attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support, and environmental reinforcement they need to adopt long-term, healthy eating behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • In February/March 2022, guided by its Member States UNEP spearheaded the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) as an opportunity for Member States and Stakeholders to share best practices for sustainability and create momentum for governments to build back better through green and sustainable recovery plans, following the COVID-19 pandemic. (un.org)
  • However, said Lysack, who is an assistant professor in the University of Calgary's faculty of social work, "What we're looking at is engaging and building a very sustainable moral movement that is going to have a longevity that is going to be multigenerational. (anglicanjournal.com)
  • CFASE believes that we must plan and invest in a future sustainable community environment and balance the need for economic growth and the public's best interests. (saveourplanet.org)
  • Recalling Principle 1 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, namely, "Human beings are at the center of concerns for sustainable development. (who.int)
  • Noting with concern that, despite much social and economic progress, health continues to be severely compromised in many countries by inadequacies in the implementation of required measures in all areas of sustainable development, 1. (who.int)
  • For example, activists demand that they go beyond commitments to display real action against climate change, social injustice and the rest, while more traditional capitalists - for all the shifting of focus from shareholders to a wider stakeholder community exemplified by the restatement of the purpose of a corporation by the Business Roundtable two years ago - are concerned about executives being seen to be too political. (forbes.com)
  • In addition, they reminded us that the polarized debates about climate change that unfolded during the 1990s were but the latest installment in the agonistic social construction of the climate in the modern world. (dukeupress.edu)
  • However, the production and throwing away of plastic bottles is harmful to the environment and the climate. (ecologic.eu)
  • Ecologic Institute 2023: Tackling Microplastics in the Environment. (ecologic.eu)
  • On 29 March 2023, Doris Knoblauch and Mandy Hinzmann gave a lecture on 'Plastics and the Environment' in a postgraduate course, where 19 experts from ministries, authorities, municipalities, non-governmental organizations and industry from low-income countries and emerging economies were represented and exchanged. (ecologic.eu)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data are also intimately related to a company's environment, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the generation of sustainability related impacts. (ssrn.com)
  • There is a significant under-provision of social science postgraduates with the specific subject expertise of social change for sustainability. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • This programme is one of the few in the country that addresses this skills gap, and the only one in the UK which specifically blends Sociology with environment, sustainability, and social change. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • In particular, efforts have increased to involve many sectors of a community in pursuit of better health outcomes and the economic and social benefits thought to be associated with such outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of this study is to assess differences in perceptions of neighborhood walkability across demographic characteristics and social environment factors among rural residents. (cdc.gov)
  • This pilot initiative will link entrepreneurs with the public and voluntary sectors across Europe to develop and deliver products and services that address unmet social needs. (telefonica.com)
  • Assessing the social impacts, governance and equity of conservation: SAPA, GAPA or SAGE? (iied.org)
  • The importance of governance and the need to improve social impacts of conservation were highlighted at the IUCN World Parks Congress in 2003 and elaborated on in the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) Programme of Work on Protected Areas in 2004. (iied.org)
  • The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. (wikipedia.org)
  • Allow all stakeholders to collaborate on data and narrative in internal and external reports to share the context around your ESG metrics-all within a secure and controlled environment. (oracle.com)
  • In many cases, the inter-linking factors of technology, people, social environment, culture and legislation are not considered adequately when designing or implementing a waste management plan. (europa.eu)
  • Monica Keith , assistant professor of Anthropology, recently published insights into the complex factors contributing to maternal hypertension and health disparities in a paper titled, " Social Determinant Pathways to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Nulliparous U.S. Women " in the journal Women's Health Issues . (vanderbilt.edu)
  • This study examined associations between trust, an important aspect of workplace social capital, with seven cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 (LS7)): smoking, obesity, low physical activity, poor diet, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • Among those workers whose supervisor created a mistrustful environment, the odds ratios were greatest (>20%) for having four or more of the LS7 CVD risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • ADHD probably results from a combination of factors, such as genetics and your environment. (medlineplus.gov)
  • These factors include brain injuries, nutrition, and social environments. (medlineplus.gov)
  • It provides an overview of current findings on the role of inflammation, memory loss, social interaction, genetic buffers, and health disparities within these interactions. (prb.org)
  • The study's findings reveal that embodied stress rooted in the social environment plays a pivotal role in driving maternal hypertensive disparities. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Keith highlighted the critical findings from her research, "our study demonstrates that embodied stress rooted in the social environment is a major driver of maternal hypertensive disparities in the United States. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • We invited policy stakeholders at the EU level as well as other interested stakeholders to learn more about these new findings on microplastic emissions into the environment and how to reduce them. (ecologic.eu)
  • Trust in the work environment and cardiovascular disease risk: findings from the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. (cdc.gov)
  • The interaction may be in person or through communication media, even anonymous or one-way, and may not imply equality of social status. (wikipedia.org)
  • Peoples of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions live in social and physical environments that differ substantially from those of their more southern-dwelling counterparts. (cdc.gov)
  • Peoples of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions live in social and physical environments that differ substantially from those of their more southern-dwelling counterparts ( 17 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Hormonal phenotypes of guinea pigs can be shaped by the social environment on the group level pair-housed and colony-housed males differ systematically in average testosterone and stressor-induced cortisol levels (i.e. cortisol responsiveness). (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether repeatability and individual variance components (i.e. between- and within-individual variation) of hormonal phenotypes also differ in different social environments . (bvsalud.org)
  • The meeting, which marked 50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, was co-hosted by Sweden and Kenya. (un.org)
  • En vous déconnectant d'EU Login, vous vous déconnecterez de tous les autres services utilisant votre compte EU Login. (europa.eu)
  • Community organizing refers to the unit of analysis and action, shifting the focus from individuals to systems, rules, social norms, or laws to affect health behaviors and outcomes (2). (cdc.gov)
  • All these man-made components are included in human cultural environment, Erving Goffman in particular emphasising the deeply social nature of the individual environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social, Cultural and Historical Aspects of Hearing Impairment. (lu.se)
  • The challenge lies in achieving a healthy and safe environment, an accessible city, a good range of cultural offerings and quality social and health services that are suited to all the needs. (who.int)
  • We also undertake some research on social cognitive neuroscience, examining the neural underpinnings of social perception and emotions (in collaboration with colleagues in Cognitive Neuroscience and the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC ). (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Barroso emphasized that social innovation empower citizens to become co-creators of innovative social relationships and models of collaboration. (telefonica.com)
  • Social movements are attempting to wrestle control of the food summit process, while promoting policies and strategies on agroecology and the right to food that have been studied and debated within the UN Committee on Food Security (CFS) and its Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism (CSM). (iied.org)
  • A child of Indian immigrants who has studied at both Harvard and Yale and became successively a hedge fund partner and then a biotech entrepreneur, Ramaswamy argues that certain business leaders' growing involvement in social and political issues, such as Black Lives Matter and voting rights, is a cynical attempt to win customers who might be impressed by this activity. (forbes.com)
  • UCT Prague's Rector has announced a contact person for social environment-related issues, ThDr Klára Muzikářová PhD. (vscht.cz)
  • In addition to my volunteer activities in the social/charitable field, I have been active in the UCT Prague's COVID response team and the team dealing with issues related to the war in Ukraine. (vscht.cz)
  • Social marketing is an adaptable approach, increasingly being used to achieve and sustain behaviour relevant to a range of social issues and topics. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • The science that is prescribed as a solution by the UNFSS scientific group can be described as pure natural science, with little room for tried and tested traditional knowledge and practices, as well as social sciences. (iied.org)
  • Max Scheler distinguishes between milieu as an experienced value-world, and the objective social environment on which we draw to create the former, noting that the social environment can either foster or restrain our creation of a personal milieu. (wikipedia.org)
  • We thank all of you for helping us to foster and ensure a positive, safe social environment on campus. (vscht.cz)
  • people often tend to trust and help one another, and to congregate in social groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to enrich their lives, people have used natural resources, and in the process have brought about many changes in the natural environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are still many people living in villages and this is their social environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our mission statement is a good starting point for SavATree's social contract: we are "people with passion, leading progress in nature and community. (savatree.com)
  • A key reason for this has been the Home Office's seemingly wilful indifference to the terrible collateral damage that the hostile environment has caused to some people who were not supposed to have been its target at all, most clearly highlighted by the Windrush scandal. (smf.co.uk)
  • This year many people may find contemplating World Environment Day too big a stretch, as we are only beginning to adjust to the ravages of bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and the way these events have reduced our world to our immediate street and suburb. (jss.org.au)
  • The virus of greed destroys the environment by producing gross inequality, in which some people amass enormous wealth while others live in poverty. (jss.org.au)
  • It impoverishes people, who then further stress the environment by destroying vegetation for firewood and crowding together in cramped, unsewered housing. (jss.org.au)
  • This report examines the changes in the litigation landscape that are driving social inflation, urging insurers to safeguard their role in protecting people and businesses against liability risk, namely by strengthening their claims management processes, focusing on better understanding and measuring new liability exposures, and prioritising new products and risk-absorbing mechanisms. (genevaassociation.org)
  • Under this initiative, older people take on the role of active citizens in the building of a new society for all ages, a society that fosters the presence and participation of older people in all aspects of life and social dynamics. (who.int)
  • His presentation will focus largely on the issue of water consumption as an example of how social structures and cultures shape resource use and are influenced by such use. (k-state.edu)
  • However, attributes of the built environment influence participation in physical activity. (cdc.gov)
  • An atmosphere of safe neighbourhoods and parks allows children, youngsters and adults to safely enjoy outdoor physical and social activities. (who.int)
  • This short paper by Doug McKenzie-Mohr discusses community-based social marketing as an alternative to information-based campaigns for conservation. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • IIED has developed three practical and relatively low-cost tools for stakeholders and rights-holders of a protected or conserved area to assess their social impact, the quality of governance and the equity of conservation. (iied.org)
  • If, that is, the environment furnishes particular societies with a specific set of obstacles and possibilities, this original natural realm is reshaped and transformed through human agency. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Research on and evaluation of multisector partnerships also need to incorporate more standard measures of partnership contexts, characteristics, and strategies and adopt longitudinal and prospective designs to accelerate social learning in this area. (cdc.gov)
  • Identity and Modern Sound Environments. (lu.se)
  • This paper by Rita Seethaler & Dr Geoff Rose shows how social psychology offers a series of six specific persuasion techniques that are able to reach beyond the mere raising of awareness and knowledge. (learningforsustainability.net)
  • At Jesuit Social Services we are committed to ensuring that our programs, practices, relationships and our reflection embody that respect. (jss.org.au)
  • Keep up with the latest news and insights from Jesuit Social Services - being connected and informed is the best way to build a just society. (jss.org.au)
  • You'll now receive all the latest updates, uplifiting stories and so much more from us here at Jesuit Social Services. (jss.org.au)
  • Jesuit Social Services acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and live. (jss.org.au)
  • Therefore, friendly cities are those that project their structures and services so that everybody, regardless of age, skills and capabilities, can be healthy and can participate actively in all areas of social life in complete safety. (who.int)
  • The building work environment coordinator can clarify in the rules for the construction site that victimisation is not acceptable. (av.se)
  • Then it is even more vague who is responsible for what on the construction site and it is common that the work environment tasks are not carried out. (av.se)
  • Communication is a key in creating a safe work environment on the construction site. (av.se)
  • We introduce every new employee to the new work environment, help to get to know colleagues better, work culture and the enterprise itself: the values, activity and work principles thereof, introduce the rights and responsibilities of the employee. (ans.lt)
  • The goal is to identify the sectors with the most unfavourable work environment and thus where the need to improve the work environment, to prevent mental health problems, is greatest. (lu.se)
  • The independent variable was the response to a work environment (WE) question as to whether their supervisor always creates an open and trusting environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Emile Durkheim took a wider view of the social environment (milieu social), arguing that it contained internalized expectations and representations of social forces/social facts: "Our whole social environment seems to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds" - collective representations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Active ageing is unquestionably a factor that has a direct bearing on maintaining the functional capability of individuals, with all the advantages that involves both on a personal and family level or, on a higher plane, on a social level. (who.int)
  • Pathway modeling identified demographic aspects of the social environment, indexed by metrics such as household income and partnered status, as the most salient predictors of hypertensive risk, particularly among Black women. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Die Geisterstunde' by Christian Tielmann is the third PIXI book produced as part of the BMBF research focus 'Plastics in the Environment' with Stiftung Lesen and Carlsen Verlag and is dedicated to the recycling of plastic bottles. (ecologic.eu)
  • To help students deepen their understanding of modern China, Li developed the course "Environment & Society in Modern Chinese Literature & Visual Culture. (cmu.edu)