Evaluating and improving understanding and use of current UK nutrition labels among older adults

Background: New formats of UK nutrition labels were mandatorily introduced on-pack and for products sold online, from 2014. However, there is a lack of evidence concerning older adults’ understanding and use of this information and the extent to which these may be improved with nutrition label education. With respect to older adults, this research aimed to (1) explore use of this information and potentially related consumer characteristics and (2) evaluate objective understanding of the current UK nutrition labels, before developing and evaluating a pilot education intervention targeting label understanding. Methods: An online survey was developed to evaluate understanding of current UK nutrition labels and their use among older adults aged 50 years or older. Exploration of these adults’ engagement with online nutrition information was also undertaken using “Think aloud sessions”. Following a systematic review of the effect of nutrition label education on consumers’ use and understanding of this information, a single-arm pre post-intervention study design was used to evaluate a pilot educational intervention among community service-users. Results: Frequent use of nutrition labels during purchases was reported by 51% of all survey respondents (n=181) and predicted by increasing levels of personal motivation (OR 1.1, 95% CI 1.1, 1.2), nutrition knowledge (OR 1.3, 95% CI: 1.1, 1.5) as well as self-rated (OR 1.2 95% CI: 1.0, 1.5), but not objective (OR 1.1, 95% CI: 0.9, 1.3), understanding of this information. Respondents had difficulties understanding the meaning of specific elements of the current UK nutrition labels, including “Reference Intakes (RI)” terminology. Infrequent use of online nutrition information could be explained by a variety of factors related to supermarket website use and information presentation. Finally, the developed educational intervention increased levels of participants’ (n = 30) objective understanding of current UK nutrition labels (quiz score out of 5 MD=1.4, 95% CI: -2.1, -0.8), as well as participants’ confidence in their use of this information to make healthier food choices (using a 7-point scale, MD = 1.0, 95% CI: 0.5 to 1.6). Conclusion: Older adults’ understanding of current UK nutrition labels may be improved with nutrition label education. Implications for policy and practice are given. Further research into the impact of education on older adults’ nutrition label understanding, use and dietary intakes is now warranted

Producing single homelessness: descriptive practice in community mental health casework

This is a case study of a community-based interdisciplinary team of Mental Health professionals who work with homeless people in a large English city. Its aim is to 'unpack' the team's decision-making processes. Such processes construct the client as vulnerable in terms of mental health and/or homelessness. The analysis shows the ways in which client description is an organised social accomplishment and is contexted in related research in the sociology of mental illness. Following Goffman (1974) and Gubrium (1989), data are analysed against a background of changing and laminated frames and local cultures. A charge of deviancy is brought and then debated (McHugh 1970). The relation of this analysis to ethical and policy issues is discussed

Coping Strategies of Stress Adopted by Female Employees with Children in the University of Cape Coast: Implications for Management Practices

The study investigated the coping strategies of stress adopted by female employees with children in the university of Cape Coast. A descriptive study was the designed employed in carrying out the study. Two hundred and four (204) respondents were sampled from 431 female employees with children to answer a set of questionnaires. The results revealed that demands from husbands and thinking of promotional issues were some of the stressors that confronted the respondents. The major effects of stress among the respondents were their inability to plan well and lack of concentration on household chores. The result showed that the most prevailing coping strategy adopted by the respondents was engaging in conversation with friends and family members as well as getting assistance from colleagues. It was concluded that female employees with children in the University of Cape Coast go through stress, which emanates from different sources. Some of the recommendations were that management of the University must educate their employees on and appropriate strategies to cope with their stress. That could be done by management through seminars conferences, workshops on coping strategies of stress. Keywords: work stress, coping strategies, female employees, university of cape coast DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-23-16 Publication date: August 31st 201

Mental Health Shared Care in Australia 2001: Report for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

This literature review was completed to inform the development of the Access to Psychiatry component of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care InitiativeThis study provides a summary of the current policy and research literature on shared care and comments on the current debates around workforce, training and better coordination and integration of care between general practice and mental health services. It contributes to the knowledge base on the current state of mental health care reform in Australia. The review focuses specifically on better ways of integrating mental health care across the general practice and specialty mental health sectors and provides commentary on the points of influence, key players and social, political and economic events, which together have reshaped the culture of mental health care in Australia. Particular attention is paid to key national policy events in Australian general practice and the specialist mental health sector in the last decade, and how policy makers in both contexts have been influential in shaping a shift in emphasis from an isolationist service delivery model to one of partnership and community-based mental health care.Primary Mental Health Care Australian Resource Centre (PARC

Evaluation of Infant Growth in the First Year of Life in a Low-income Primarily African-american Sample

The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of indicators of malnutrition in a low-income primarily African-American sample and to examine the association between various sociodemographic characteristics and indicators of both undernutrition and overnutrition. The data were derived from the Women, Work and Wee ones project and consisted of 285 mother-infant dyads. Sociodemographic characteristics (maternal and infant) were based on maternal report when infants were three months old. Infant height and weight was measured at three and 12 months and both the CDC 2000 and the WHO 2006 growth charts were used in each analysis. The results indicate that the proportion of infants categorized as displaying non-normative growth (e.g., stunted, overweight) was dependent upon the growth chart used. Results also showed that infants of mothers with an irregular work schedule were significantly more likely to experience rapid weight gain from three to 12 months and breastfeeding at three months was protective against rapid weight gain during infancy. Implications of these findings are discussed for researchers, clinicians, and early prevention and interventionists.Human Development & Family Scienc

Discourse analysis of interviews with manic patients

Bibliography: pages 215-224.This thesis analyses the discourse of two manic patients, interviewed at an acute stage of their illness. The analysis has two aims: to begin a comprehensive analysis of manic discourse, a task which has not been undertaken in other work; and to describe and refine a methodology suited to the purpose of analysing discourse taken from unstructured interviews with psychotic patients. The aims of this study are set in the context of broader aims for research in the area of language and psychopathology. A selective review of the relevant literature is given. This is followed by a brief over- view of those disciplines from which concepts informing the analysis have been drawn. These disciplines include pragmatics, social psychology and sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics and semiotics. The analysis is divided into two parts; micro-analysis and macro- analysis. The micro-analysis consists of tone-unit analysis, which examines the process by which the speaker segments utterances into message blocks; and cohesion analysis, which examines the way in which words are selected, and combined to form cohesive utterances. The macro- analysis includes exchange structure analysis, an examination of the interchanges between patient and interviewer; and analysis of topic structure. This addresses itself to the movement from one topic to another as well as to the well-formedness of single topic sequences. The thesis concludes with an appraisal of the findings, an evaluation of the methodology and suggestions for further research

An international comparision of environmental tax with an emphasis on South Africa

Every country should have a moral responsibility to sanction its residents in a bid to curb the effects of global warming. South Africa has a unique economic and social set-up which has to be considered in crafting a policy and legislation or designing an environmental tax regime. The objective of this study was to analyse the current incentives for environmental taxes as contained in the Income Tax Act and provide recommendations on proposed changes to the existing incentives. In addition, it compares and establishes what South Africa can learn and adapt from Malaysia and Denmark, two countries who have successfully implemented environmental taxes and renewable energy incentives. It also explores the arguments for and against carbon tax (tax mechanism system) in South Africa on the energy intensive sector. The study continues to consider what the prospects are of achieving this purpose and the possible adverse impact it may have on the operating profits of energy-intensive companies. Carbon tax may result in a substantial elimination of tax contributions, a massive reduction in exports and major retrenchment and job losses, given the ever rising electricity tariff. There is much debate as to whether a cap-and-trade system would be preferable to a tax mechanism system, therefore the pros and cons of both systems are addressed and both systems’ sustainable positive and negative impacts are compared. This study explored the shortcomings of South Africa’s environmental tax laws by comparing them to the environmental tax regimes and the different incentives and tax rebates offered by Malaysia and Denmark to reduce emissions. The study firstly concluded that positive encouragement through incentivising green behaviour is preferable to a punitive tax mechanism given the fact that South Africa is still growing its economy. Therefore the introduction of a carbon tax would significantly reduce company profits, may result in unemployment and a substantial reduction in exports especially if it is not gradually introduced at a minimum charge given South Africa’s volatile labour and trade union nature. Secondly, if South Africa eventually decides to introduce carbon tax, it should emulate the Danish system that is taxing the industrial emission of carbon and earmark that income for industrial subsides and investment in greener sources of energy. AFRIKAANS : Elke land het 'n morele verantwoordelikheid om sy inwoners bewus te maak van aardsverwarming in 'n poging om die gevolge daarvan te bekamp. Suid Afrika het 'n unieke ekonomiese en sosiale opset het wat behoorlik oorweeg moet word voor ʼn groenbeleid of wetgewing geïmplementeer word. Die doelwit van die studie is om die huidige groenbelastingaansporings te analiseer soos in die Inkomstebelastingwet vervat en om aanbeveelings te maak in terme van moontlike veranderinge tot dié bepalings. Bykomstig hiertoe vergelyk en bepaal die studie wat Suid Afrika van lande soos Maleisië en Denemarke kan leer in terme van groenbelastingaansporings. Albei hierdie lande het 'n reputasie dat hulle groenbelasting en hernubare-energie aansporings suksesvol geimplementeer het. ‘n Ondersoek is gedoen om die impak van koolstofbelasting (belastingmeganisme ontwerp) in Suid-Afrika op die energie-intensiewe sektor te bepaal. Die impak van koolstofbelasting en die moontlike negatiewe gevolge wat dit kan inhou vir die bedryfswins van die energie-intensiewe maatskappye, word ook in ag geneem. Die negatiewe gevolge kan moontlik lei tot ‘n substansiële afname in belastingbydraes, 'n vermindering in uitvoere en verliese aan werkgeleenthede, gegewe die immer stygende elektrisiteitstariewe in Suid-Afrika. Daar word tans gedebatteer of 'n handelsbeperkingbeleid (plafon-en-handelstelsel) beter vir Suid Afrika sal wees as 'n belastingmeganisme ontwerp om koolstofvrystellings aan te spreek. Die voor- en nadele van elke stelsel sal ondersoek word en die twee stelsels se doeltreffendheid ten opsigte van die hantering van ekologiese uitdagings sal vergelyk word. Die studie sal die tekortkominge van Suid-Afrika se groenbelastingwette ondersoek deur dit te vergelyk met die groenbelastingstelsels, die verskillende aansporingsmeganismes en belastingkortings wat deur Maleisië en Denemarke aangebied word, om koolstofgasse te beperk of te verminder. Daar is eerstens tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat positiewe aanmoediging deur insentiewe vir groengedrag verkies word bo ‘n belastingmeganisme aangesien Suid-Afrika in ‘n ontwikkelende stadium is. Koolstofbelasting mag 'n uitgebreide negatiewe effek op maatskappywins hê, wat kan lei tot ‘n toename in werkloosheid en ‘n aansienlike vermindering in uitvoere, veral as dit nie geleidelik geïmplementeer word teen 'n minimum koste nie., gegewe Suid-Afrika se wisselvallige arbeids-en vakbond-omgewing. Tweedens, indien Suid-Afrika besluit om koolstofbelasting te implementeer moet Denemarke se voorbeeld gevolg word waar belasting gehef word op industriële vrylating van koolstof. Die herinvestering van die belastinginkomste in die bedryf deur middel van subsidies vir navorsing en beleggings in alternatiewe energiebronne, skoner ontbranding van brandstof, koolstof-opname tegnologie en ander omgewingsinnoverings sal koolstofbelasting se sukses bepaal.Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.Taxationunrestricte

Ram Opportunity

RAM Opportunity is a self-sustaining mentoring and experiential learning program designed to serve high school students in the local community through programs led by graduate student mentors. RAM Opportunity operates using a plug-and-play structure that can be implemented in the arts, business, education, humanities, sciences, or any other discipline. Partnerships will be formed with local high schools and their guidance counseling services to develop a pipeline for potential students to participate in the program. The program benefits VCU by enhancing engagement with the local community, generating interest in high school students pursuing post-secondary education at VCU, and developing graduate students by providing professional development funding and real-world teaching and mentoring experience

Mahasiswa FBE Ubaya Sabet Juara Pertama Pada Ajang The 8th ATV

Mahasiswa Universitas Surabaya tak henti-hentinya mengukir prestasi. Juara 1 berhasil ditorehkan oleh mahasiswa Program Studi Akuntansi Fakultas Bisnis dan Ekonomika Ubayapada ajang The 8thATV. Tim terdiri dari Renatta Amanda, Grace Angela, Sally Kurniawan berhasil menjadi yang terbaik pada kompetisi ATV. ATV tahun ini diselenggarakan pada Selasa, 27-28 November 2018 bertempat di Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis Universitas Indonesia. AjangThe 8thATV merupakan kompetisi audit terbesar dan tertua di Indonesia ini, berhasil menyaring peserta dari berbagai univeristas yang ada di tanah air.ATV diadakan oleh Universitas Indonesia (UI) bekerja sama dengan kantor KPMG Indonesia. Tahun ini The 8thATV mengusung tema “Enlightening Auditors” Paradigm in the new era of Audit 4.0. Event ini bertujuan untuk memberikan wadah bagi peserta untuk menguji seberapa jauh kemampuan dan pengetahuan terkait audit. Sally Kurniawan mengatakan pada tahappreliminary test, peserta diminta mengerjakan soal dengan tenggang waktu 2 minggu kemudian dikirim melalui email. Pada babak selanjutnya peserta diuji kemampuannya melalui soal pilihan ganda dan esai singkat terkait audit dan keuangan secara individu.Pada babak dua seluruh tim mengikuti cerdas cermat dan rebut nilai lawan. Serta diminta untuk memecahkan contoh kasus dari KPMG Indonesia berkaitan dengan perencanaan audit. Pada babak final seluruh tim diminta melakukan simulasi audit, pembukuan dan persentasi serta tour keliling kantor KPMG. Rabu, 28 November 2018 bertempat di kantor KPMG jl. Jend. Sudirman No 28 Lt 32,33,35, Jakarta “Ini merupakan peluang sekaligus tantangan untuk kami. Karena mahasiswa perwakilan dari universitas lain memiliki kelebihan dan strategi masing-masing,”ujarnya. Sementara itu tim yang sempat beradu menuju final. Berasal dari perwakilan Universitas Surabaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Universitas Binus, Trisakti School of Management dan Swiss German University. Setelah melalui rangkaian dan tahap dalam kompetisi tersebut, akhirnya terpilih tim Akuntansi Ubaya sebagai juara pertama, dan tim lainnya yakni UGM berhasil meraih juara ke dua dan ketiga. “Kami berharap dapat terus belajar dan menjadikan ajang ini sebagai penyemangat untuk mengikuti lomba-lomba berikutnya,”tutup Sally. (ee