Community Health Workers: A Holistic Solution for Individual and Community Health

Community Health Workers (CHWs) go by many names, including outreach workers, patient navigators, peer health educators, and lay health advocates. CHWs help people overcome obstacles by accompanying them through treatment, monitoring needs for food and housing, leading education campaigns and empowering community members to take charge of their own health. As members of the communities they serve, CHWs establish relationships of trust with those they serve, bridging the gap between the clinic and community. Community Health Workers embrace a holistic conception of health, working not only in health care, but also with the social determinants of health such as poverty, education, and housing

Characterization of a metastability measurement system

peer-reviewedWe characterize the metastability measurement system [8] in which asynchronous data input and sampling clock frequencies trigger metastability. We develop the equation describing the time interval between data and clock inputs for practical frequencies and show that it takes on discrete values in the absence of jitter and that the presence of jitter perturbs these discrete values. Finally, we present experimental results supporting our characterization.ACCEPTEDpeer-reviewe

Open Access and the REF: Issues and Potential Solutions Workshop

This report provides a summary of the discussion and findings of the Open Access and the REF: Issues and Potential Solutions workshop held as part of the End-to-End Project. The workshop was highly interactive and feedback received indicated it was considered an excellent event, and that it was vital and useful to bring together various key stakeholders to discuss problems and procedures and develop ideas

Open Access and the REF: Issues and Potential Solutions Workshop: Executive Summary

This report provides a summary of the discussion and findings of the Open Access and the REF: Issues and Potential Solutions workshop held as part of the End-to-End Project. The workshop was highly interactive and feedback received indicated it was considered an excellent event, and that it was vital and useful to bring together various key stakeholders to discuss problems and procedures and develop ideas

Resignification, recontextualisation and reclamation of colonial landscape memorials in the Latin American context

Recent reactions to colonial-era memorials have contributed to a renewal of interest in memorialisation as a focal point for social justice and equity. In the Latin American context, colonial memorials are visual links that are deeply-rooted elements of the region’s identity. This paper focuses on three landscape memorial sites in Latin America as carriers of meaning. The first case study is the Equestrian Sebastian de Belalcázar memorial space in Popayán, Colombia. The monument of this Spanish conqueror was placed on Morro de Tulcán, a sacred site for the Pubenenses tribe. The colonial narrative, in this case, is one of oppression in which Spanish heritage is favoured over indigenous culture. The second case study is the Isabella La Catolica monument in La Paz, Bolivia. This statue was initially established to be a paradigmatic model of European women, beauty and virtue, but it has become a symbol of discrimination against native women. The third case is the equestrian monument of 19th-century war Chilean hero and politician General Manuel Jesús Baquedano González. Located in Santiago de Chile, this figure was seen by many as a symbol of how the Chilean elite repressed indigenous people. Each of the three statues has experienced a range of reactions that reveal counter-narratives to those imposed by the insertion of the colonial figures into the landscape. The responses include removal, dressing and graffiti; we classify these interventions as reclamation, resignification and recontextualisation.  Walter Hood (2019) argues, “landscape is the last democratic space we have, and we need to fill it with diverse voices.

Supervision in Nature: Integrating the Natural World in Supervision

Counseling supervision is a crucial component to the development of a counselor. Supervisors may integrate a variety of supervision techniques within the supervision process to facilitate the growth of the supervisee. This manuscript focuses on the integration of nature within the supervision process. We discuss the benefits of nature for humans, present nature-based supervision activities within the eight domains of professional functioning within the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM) of supervisee development, and discuss considerations for integrating nature within the supervision process