Fatigue

La propuesta es reflexionar por las experiencias que atraviesan hombres y mujeres que concurren a espacios destinados a la finalización de la educación general básica en la ciudad de La Plata y su periferia. Interrogarnos por la experiencia puede aportar pistas de análisis que indaguen en los aspectos formativos, en un contexto determinado. La misma puede reservar para un sujeto, cuáles son los modos de comunicarla y de representarla, qué sentidos conlleva, qué disposiciones subjetivas habilita, además de los saberes aprehendidos que involucra. Estas preguntas abren el juego a cuestionamientos relacionados con la desvalorización de las experiencias, surgidas del mundo vital, que se suelen irradiarse desde algunas instituciones. Conjuntamente, esas institucionalidades promueven una maniobra de ubicar en una posición subalterna a los saberes producto de las experiencias, respecto de otros que fueron privilegiados por las estructuraciones surgidas de procesos más encauzados y con dispositivos tangibles, por ejemplo, como la escolarización.The proposal of this work is to reflect about the experiences that men and women go through when they attend to mainstream education institutions from La Plata and its surroundings. Reflecting on this experience could provide us some clues for the analysis of these formative stages, in a given context. Similarly, this could contribute to account for which experiences students are to live, distinct acts of communicating and represent them, which senses are displayed, which subjective dispositions could be habilitated, in addition to the learning knowledge that are involved. These points to be discussed open up the possibilities to ask about the devalue of students´experiences from the vital world, which tend to be irradiated from some institutions. Additionally, these instituting practices promote certain conditions to place the experience knowledge in a subordinated status with respect to that one which was priviledged by structures originated in more channeled processes and tangible devices such as the mainstream education system.Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Socia

Access to health care in relation to socioeconomic status in the Amazonian area of Peru

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Access to affordable health care is limited in many low and middle income countries and health systems are often inequitable, providing less health services to the poor who need it most. The aim of this study was to investigate health seeking behavior and utilization of drugs in relation to household socioeconomic status for children in two small Amazonian urban communities of Peru; Yurimaguas, Department of Loreto and Moyobamba, Department of San Martin, Peru.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Cross-sectional study design included household interviews. Caregivers of 780 children aged 6–72 months in Yurimaguas and 793 children of the same age in Moyobamba were included in the study. Caregivers were interviewed on health care seeking strategies (public/private sectors; formal/informal providers), and medication for their children in relation to reported symptoms and socio-economic status. Self-reported symptoms were classified into illnesses based on the IMCI algorithm (Integrated Management of Childhood Ilness). Wealth was used as a proxy indicator for the economic status. Wealth values were generated by Principal Component Analysis using household assets and characteristics.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Significantly more caregivers from the least poor stratum consulted health professionals for cough/cold (p < 0.05: OR = 4.30) than the poorest stratum. The poorest stratum used fewer antibiotics for cough/cold and for cough/cold + diarrhoea (16%, 38%, respectively) than the least poor stratum (31%, 52%, respectively). For pneumonia and/or dysentery, the poorest used significantly fewer antibiotics (16%) than the least poor (80%).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The poorest seek less care from health professionals for non-severe illnesses as well as for severe illnesses; and treatment with antibiotics is lacking for illnesses where it would be indicated. Caregivers frequently paid for health services as well as antibiotics, even though all children in the study qualified for free health care and medicines. The implementation of the Seguro Integral de Salud health insurance must be improved.</p

Co‑creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators

Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability goals nationally and internationally. When indicators are developed solely through top-down approaches without engaging local knowledge, they often fall short of capturing local perceptions and concerns relevant to decision-making. The aim of this project was to co-create a Coastal Barometer and its component indicators, together with local knowledge-holders and communities, using the Ocean Health Index as a framework. As a frst step, local knowledgeholders from six communities dispersed across Northern Norway were invited to articulate local sustainability goals and the required knowledge for eight broad topics pertaining to global OHI goals: small-scale fsheries, food production, sense of place, tourism, food production, clean waters, carbon storage and economy and livelihoods. In this paper, our main focus is the co-design phase of the Coastal Barometer, namely eliciting sustainability goals. We thus, present locally desired sustainability goals and sub-goals and the process of eliciting these goals. We also include suggestions from local knowledge-holders on how to reach these goals (i.e. proposed management measures), along with researchers’ assessment of data availability (part of the co-production process) for developing indicators to measure progress towards these goals. Finally, we discuss the benefts and challenges of co-developing sustainability goals and indicators with local knowledge-holders. We conclude that co-design can increase the quality of sustainability assessments by enriching the view of coastal sustainability. This knowledge can subsequently be used to align indicators with local sustainability goals as well as to the local context where the indicators will be applied. Blue growth · Ecosystem services · Public participation · Sustainability indicators · Sustainable development goals · Ocean health indexpublishedVersio