Community participation in policy development : a case study of the National Cervical Screening Programme : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Educational Administration at Massey University

Pg 165 not included in original vault copy Newspaper clippings removed due to copyright restrictions. Please consult print copy in Library.This thesis is a case study of the development of the National Cervical Screening Programme policy. The aim of the study was to identify and describe the political, social and ideological factors which may have influenced the National Cervical Screening Programme policy. The policy-makers included community or consumer participants as well as professionals. This relatively unique feature of community involvement was also a focus of study. The study involved a literature search and review as well as interviews with key informants. Cervical screening on a population basis was trialled as far back as the 1960s at the same time that Professor Green was questioning the efficacy of early treatment of cervical abnormalities. Green's controversial research resulted in a Royal Commission of Inquiry which recommended the establishment of a population based national cervical screening programme. The political, social and ideological context in which the National Cervical Screening programme policy was developed is described and interpreted. It is concluded that the National Cervical Screening Programme policy was adopted by the Government as a means to ameliorate the crisis of legitimation which was evident during the 1980s. It is further concluded that community or consumer participation in policy development is a highly complex issue requiring further study. Consumer representation is particularly problematic as consumer policy-makers require considerable skills, the acquisition of which may cause them to become less representative of the public whose voice they are intended to be

Gendered Speaking Patterns in Supreme Court Oral Arguments from 1981-2016

This research attempts to discover whether or not the Supreme Court of the United State is subject to implicit gender biases during oral argumentation, largely through examining speaking time and the number of questions each justice is able to ask during a case\u27s oral argumentation period. While there is substantial research on gender’s impact on communication and decision-making processes, as well as gender’s impact on court decisions, most research stops before it gets to the Supreme Court of the United States. There are two main goals to this research: First, to determine whether or not women Justices are impacted by the ratio of men to women justices on the Court. Second, to determine whether or not women Supreme Court Justices speak more in cases dealing with sex-discrimination than they do in other cases. To accomplish these goals, the oral arguments of eleven different Supreme Court cases covering a variety of male-to-female justice ratios and case topics were analyzed. Each case was listened to and the number of questions asked by each justice was counted. Then, computer software was utilized to discover exactly how long each justice spent speaking. A linear regression was then performed to quantify results. Results were compared across time, gender, case topic, ideology, and years on the Court in an effort to discover any sort of relationship between gender and communication style of Supreme Court justices

CLINICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NONAGENARIANS HOSPITALIZED IN A GERIATRIC UNIT: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Peer reviewe

Glosario de nombres de enfermedades de procedencia francesa en el español europeo actual

One of the principal means of neological enrichment of Spanish medical terminology is undoubtedly the importation of words coined in other languages. From this point of view, French, along with English and German, is the modern language that has predominated in the medical language of European Spanish. The repertoire presented here is compiled of imported names of the French language that refer to diseases, extracted from lexicographic works published between 1999 and 2021. For each selected term, information on spelling, grammatical behaviour, meaning, and etymology is provided. The study contributes to an understanding of how the influence of French, which was particularly intense in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is still felt today, despite the influence of the English language, and that this is reflected not only in the quantity and variety of imported elements, but also in the presence of linguistic phenomena that alter the prosody, morphology and meaning of numerous medical terms.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio