Facilitating the disabled persons’ insertion in the Labour market through a professional counselling process directed towards the certification of competences

AbstractEquality and diversity are essential values of a democratic society, many companies being interested nowadays in developing ample programs of Corporate Social Responsibility. An ever-increasing number of studies demonstrate that the civic spirit and tolerance on the job are directly proportional to the team productivity and to the economic performance of the organisation, and the Romanian state offers fiscal facilitations to encourage the civic spirit. However, although in Romania there live more than 600 000 people with disabilities (acc. to ANPH), while 50% of them could be integrated on the labour market (in their case, their handicap affects activity only partially), only 5% of them are actually hired. In the herby study, our purposes are: to identify the resources that are necessary in the recruitment/selection process of the people with disabilities; to build up a specific counselling program of the people with disabilities with a view to fructifying their individual potential and to guaranteeing equal opportunities in their career development by means of a process of acknowledging the competences acquired as a result of their work experience, in protected workshops or outside them

Family Destructuring as a Results of Workforce Migration. Romanian Realities

AbstractAfter 1989, major changes in all fields of economic, social, political and moral life have taken place in Romania, these changes having great impact on family life. Economic crisis, increased unemployment, decreased income, and increased poverty on the one hand, the absence of viable social protection measures, on the other hand, triggered at the social level, the belief that ensuring acceptable living conditions in the country is impossible. In this context, migration of workforce has acquired new dimensions and its effects on family life are more and more obvious. The purpose of our study is, on the one hand, analyzing the current situation of the workforce migration in Romania, showing its main consequences on the family structure, inter-familiar relations, children's psychological development and social integration and, on the other hand, offering some viable solution to suppress the negative effects of such a phenomenon

Teachers’ Right to Health in the Policy Debates During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Hungary and Romania

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments worldwide suspended face-to-face education in schools to manage the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus. Romania and Hungary were not exceptional in this regard during the first wave of the pandemic. However, further along, the two countries’ policy pathways strongly diverged. Hungary strategized keeping schools open to ensure parents could attend to their employment obligations. Romania suspended face-to-face education in schools for long periods. The paper looks at these two national cases through a Critical Frame Analysis (Dombos et al., 2012) of education policy debates during the initial three waves of the pandemic (March 2020 – July 2021). It answers the question: How were the health rights of teachers and the health crisis in education framed in the education policy debates during the Covid-19 pandemic? Policy documents and policy related position documents by non-government actors were selected by country experts from both countries and coded inductively looking at the right to education, the right to health, and the relationship between economic activities and education. We present our findings concerning how teachers’ rights to health are featured in the policy debates between the government, oppositional political parties, trade unions and other stakeholders. Finally, we use our analysis to point to recommendations addressing the complex challenge of equally ensuring vulnerable pupils’ rights to education and teachers’ rights to health through coherent crisis management policies

The impact of covid-19 on financial management: evidence from Romania

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every facet of life globally. Business and commerce are key areas where the monetary crunch has been acutely felt. This study aims to analyze the various key changes in entities’ activities to evaluate the level of business performance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, we use panel data analysis on 218 Romanian listed companies of different sizes (big and small) and belonging to different business sectors for the period June 30, 2019–June 30, 2020. We find that the net profits of the overall market decreased by 37.43% over the analyzed period. However, small companies engaged in agriculture, commerce, construction, IT R&D, and transport and storage witnessed better financial performance. In addition, our results show that equity financing, proper liquidity management, and an increased company size consolidate the economic performance of entities regarding return on equity and return on assets. Our findings are useful for policymakers such as managers and investors and can help them make the best decision for their managing or investing activities. Moreover, governments need to know how companies respond to the pandemic to identify the sectors of activity that are more vulnerable to the crisis’ effects and the main financial management decisions that must be adopted by companies during times of crises

The Volatile Profile Characterization of Different Vinegars from the International Market

The present study aims the fingerprint characterization of 14 different vinegars purchased from the local market of different countries (Romania, Germany, Italy and France) and the identification of the major „marker compounds” present in all the analyzed vinegar

Severe form of COVID-19 in a neonate with resuscitated cardio-respiratory arrest - Case presentation

SARS-CoV-2 infection is usually a self-limiting viral infection in healthy children. Still, it’s effects on the neonatal population remain largely unknown. There has been evidence of adverse events on neonates, mostly consisting in case reports of patients with severe forms of COVID-19 and also recent cohort studied of the pediatric population including the neonatal subgroup. The clinical presentation appears different in the neonatal patients in contrast with older children, and may manifest also as a life-threatening respiratory infection with systemic complications. In this paper we present a clinical case of a premature boy with a corrected age of 40 weeks at admission to the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinical Department IX of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Bals” with the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The positive diagnosis was established on suggestive clinical picture (fever, dry couch, rhinorrhea, loose stools and inappetence) and confirmed by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test. Laboratory investigations at admission showed only moderate to severe anemia, mild inflammatory syndrome and a mild neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, with normal leukocyte count, normal glycaemia, ionogram and blood gases. Chest x-ray showed moderate interstitial pneumonia. In the second day of admission, after 24h of favorable evolution, with no fever and present appetite, he suddenly presented during defecation a presumptive vasovagal syndrome, with general hypotonia and a short period of desaturation. Laboratory investigations made during the episode showed normal glycaemia, normal ionogram, normal blood gases, moderate-severe anemia and important metabolic acidosis. A new chest x-ray showed evolution of the interstitial pneumonia. We did a blood transfusion and continued antiviral treatment, antibiotic treatment and perfusions. He maintained normal pulmonary and cardiac function for another 6 hours, after which he presented a tonic-clonic seizure and after administration of intrarectal benzodiazepines he presented cardio-pulmonary arrest. He was resuscitated, intubated and sedated and transfer to a children ICU. 2 weeks later after admission in the ICU he was discharged with favorable outcome. The case presented shows that although SARS-CoV-2 infection is often a mild condition in children, COVID-19 in neonates can have an unpredicted course. Rapid evolution to sever forms can be a possible disease outcome. Preterm birth with associated complications like bronchopulmonary dysplasia or anemia, can predispose to sever evolution of the disease, and this child must be kept safe. There is also a neurotropic potential of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has to be followed

Clinico-etiological and epidemiological particularities of respiratory virus diseases in children in the 2022-2023 season

In the period 2020-2022 as a result of epidemiological measures specific to the COVID-19 pandemic (protective mask, online teaching activity, social distancing) we witnessed a considerable decrease in the number of cases of respiratory viroids in children. With the lifting of prophylactic measures that coincided with the start of physical teaching activities and the onset of the cold season, we have been confronted in pediatric wards with an increase in the incidence of virological infections in the pediatric population. In this article we aim to analyze the particularities of respiratory virological diseases in children in the season 2022 - 2023 both from the etiological and epidemiological point of view and the characteristic clinical forms of the disease. We conducted a retrospective clinical study of cases admitted to the Clinical Departments of Infectious Diseases Pediatrics of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Bals” in the period October 2022 - March 2023. During this period, we recorded 3.012 cases of respiratory virology in children, which represents the majority of pediatric pathology admitted (72,9 %). The peak incidence of respiratory virology occurred in December (688 cases). From the etiological point of view, most cases were SARS-CoV-2 infections, followed by influenza (predominantly type A), then a smaller number of infections with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rhinovirus, adenovirus, metapneumovirus. The most common clinical form of the disease was moderate (66.9%), with severe forms accounting for 10.5%. All pediatric cases of respiratory virology admitted to our wards have evolved favorably, with no deaths