AIR ACCESSIBILITY IN NORTHERN CANADA: PROSPECTS AND LESSONS FOR REMOTER COMMUNITIES

This paper assesses the impact of Canada’s air transportation policy on air accessibility of remote and arctic communities in a context of liberalization of the aviation industry. The central objective is to examine policy’s impact on essential air service – travel and shipment. An observational study of the federal government’s National Airports Policy (NAP) of divesting smaller airports to local entities is conducted using airport cases both inside and outside the National Airports System (NAS) covering 12 communities in Ontario (Ont.), Manitoba (Man.), British Columbia (B.C.), Quebec (Que.), the Northwestern Territories (NWT), and Yukon Territory (YT). The paper also evaluates the impact of Airports Operations and Maintenance Subsidy Program (O&MSP) and investigates the impact of several federal government departments in assuring air accessibility to remote areas. It is argued that: (a) local management allows for greater entrepreneurship and leads to some efficiency gains, (b) remote and arctic airports seem to be unable to sustain and operate their infrastructures without receiving local or federal contributions, and (c) Health Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), and Inuit organizations, such as the Makivik Corporation through its subsidiaries carriers First Air and Air Inuit, play a significant role in making air travel accessible. It concludes that, although the decentralization strategy and the subsidy mechanisms are benefiting remote communities, Canada’s policy success is constrained by its failure to incorporate changing conditions, loss of focus, and flaws in performance evaluation. Keywords: National Airports Policy (NAP), Remote airports, Arctic airports, Inuit organizations, Health Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), Canada.

The impact of home care nursing in puerpera dificulties

BACKGROUND: The birth of the first child forwards the new mother to an individual, family and social reset in order to deal with self-caring and parenting skills. Many women in postpartum period report having to deal often with new doubts and/or problems. OBJECTIVE: Identify the main difficulties reported by mothers during puerperium time. Compare those mentioned difficulties, between control group and study group. METHODS: Quasi-experimental design - Control group and study group with 200 primiparous women (100 women in each group). Participants in the study group were submited to at least two home visits during the postpartum period. RESULTS: Chi-square test revealed statistically significant differences between groups, for participants who did not report difficulties (p=0.021). A larger number of mothers in the experimental group did not mention difficulties (38%), compared to those belonging to the control group (23%). The three main difficulties were found: Understanding child's cry - 53% in the control group and 45% in study group; Child feeding - 29% in the control group and 21% in study group; “Psychological changes” are referred by both groups in thirdly. Chi-square test shows differences between groups in this variable (p=0.037) - Control group 27% and study group 15%. CONCLUSIONS: This investigation demonstrated the relationship between home visit and expressed difficulties: a higher number of participants followed during puerperium did not mention difficulties. For those who mentioned difficulties also the groups show different regarding the difficulty in dealing with the psychological changes. More mothers from control group mentioned this problem

Educação online no ensino superior : um programa de doutoramento em Educação a Distância e eLearning na Universidadde Aberta (Portugal)

As extraordinárias mudanças económicas, sociais e culturais associadas ao desenvolvimento das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação não podem deixar de ser também atuantes nas Universidades e no Ensino Superior em geral nomeadamente pela emergência da Educação Online nas suas diversas cambiantes. Neste artigo descrevemos o processo de virtualização da Universidade Aberta (Portugal) que passou de ser uma Universidade de Educação a Distância tradicional para se transformar numa universidade online. É nesse contexto que surge o Programa de Doutoramento em Educação a Distância e E-Learning da Universidade Aberta. É esse programa que aqui se descreve assinalando-se também as suas possíveis implicações e perspectivas no domínio da investigação e do ensino sobre Educação a Distância e E-Learning

Apresentação

Número especial "Aprendizagem Aberta e Escalável: A Emergência de um Novo Paradigma Educacional"Apresentação dos editores.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Integrating palliative care education in pulmonary rehabilitation: a randomized controlled study protocol

Background: Palliative care addresses multiple unmet needs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or interstitial lung diseases (ILD) and their family and/or friend caregivers, but it remains highly underused. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) may provide a key opportunity to introduce palliative care. We aim to explore the effects of palliative care education as part of PR on knowledge about this field in people with COPD or ILD and their family and/or friend caregivers. Methods: A randomized controlled study will compare PR with palliative care education (experimental) with traditional PR (control) in people with COPD or ILD and their family and/or friend caregivers. Family and/or friend caregivers will be invited to take part in education and psychosocial support sessions. In addition to the usual educational content, the experimental group will have a session on palliative care, a “Peer-to-peer session”, two “Get-apart sessions” and online sessions. The “Peer-to-peer session” and the “Get-apart sessions” will be discussions about topics suggested by participants. The “Get-apart sessions” will be dedicated to people with COPD or ILD apart from their family and/or friend caregivers and vice versa. The online sessions will be zoom meetings to discuss any health-related issues raised by participants, at a flexible time. A mixed-methods approach will be used to evaluate the outcomes. The primary outcome will be knowledge about palliative care. Secondary outcomes will include attitude towards palliative care referral, symptoms, disease impact, health-related quality of life, needs, knowledge about the disease, burden of providing care, adherence, adverse events and referral to a specialist palliative care team. Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected at baseline and end of PR. At 6-months post-PR, only patient-reported outcomes will be collected. For the primary outcome, time*group interaction will be analyzed with mixed analysis of variance. Discussion: This study aims to demonstrate the impact of integrating palliative care into the PR education program. Trial registration: The trial was registered in the ClinicalTrials.gov U.S. National Library of Medicine, on 1st September, 2023 (NCT06046547).Nippon Gases Portugal; Gasoxmed.publishe

Rent Regulation in Portugal

The regulation has a significant impact on tenant–landlord relations and the overall functioning of the private rented sector. Different forms of rent regulation—in relation to rent levels, rent increases, security of tenure, etc.—also affect the quality, the social composition and, ultimately, the size of the private rented sector. Together they affect the character of much urban regeneration and renewal. The introduction in Portugal of more flexible rent regimes that aimed to gradually replace open-ended tenancies with freely negotiated contracts led researchers to classify the country as a free market system.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Guia do professor/tutor online

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Comparing Air Transport Policies for Small Remote Communities: U.S.A., Canada, Portugal, Spain and Brazil

This paper examines the regulatory status in the aviation industry, and the efforts of the U.S.A., Canada, Portugal, Spain and Brazil to adopt air transport policies and mechanisms to provide their populations with universal accessibility. A systems engineering grounded theory approach and a cross-national case-based comparison framework are used to look at the impacts of different policies and mechanisms on the air service to small remote communities. It is found that the success of a policy design critically depends on five factors: 1) the joint support of infrastructure investment, maintenance and operations and air services; 2) governments’ ability to promote competition and protect passengers in markets where competition does not exist; 3) the operating carrier’s choice of business model, technology for thin routes, and network; 4) political interest; and 5) local participation. Based on the evaluation of policy designs and assessment of policies in five substantially different national contexts and interviews with several stakeholders, the authors provide insights and suggest recommendations in small remote air transport policy for policy makers and practitioners. The recommendations are applicable to other countries reforming their aviation industries

Universidade Aberta's pedagogical model for distance education: a university for the future

This document present the Pedagogical Model for Distance Education in the case of Universidade Aberta of Portugal. It describes the principles and actions for the fully virtualization of the organization and for the learning process

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