Interdisciplinary Programs Focused Populations: The Case Of Health Management Program

The Ariel University has a unique interdisciplinary program in healthcare management that targets experienced healthcare professionals who wish to earn an academic degree. Only one academic study has been held so far on the integration of graduates of an academic university-level school in healthcare management in the field. In the current study, the authors sought to investigate points of contact between the academic world and the professional field by following the professional integration of graduates of healthcare management at the Ariel University and their satisfaction with their training, job, and profession from an interdisciplinary perspective. A survey was held among all 1,327 graduates of the Department of Healthcare Management from 2002 to 2011. Data collection was performed through self-completed electronic questionnaires and personally distributed questionnaires, including questions on graduates' current place of work and satisfaction with their degree. The findings indicate that graduates are very satisfied with their interdisciplinary studies at the department. Students from the Arab sector, those who began their studies at an older age, and those who are more affluent, reported higher satisfaction with their studies. Most students intend to continue studying for an advanced degree in the profession

Don’t Throw Out Paper And Pens Yet: On The Reading Habits Of Students

This paper focuses on students’ reading habits — whether traditional reading habits (print books) or modern reading habits (using a computer screen). We review the changes in students’ reading habits over time, as part of other global changes, and explore whether corresponding digital pedagogies have evolved to address these changes. We examine generation Y students’ motivations and study habits, a generation that shows indications of changes in its academic values and priorities, and cracks in its research skills for a global world. We focus on a case study of the reading habits of students in one academic institution and discuss the implications of the findings for academic teaching and the academia’s traditional role of training researchers.

Challenges of primary health care implementation from a Human Rights approach

Este artículo tiene por objetivo reconocer los lineamientos y desafíos queplantea la implementación de la (Atención Primaria de la Salud) aps desdeel enfoque de Derechos Humanos. A estos efectos se parte de una revisióny análisis del surgimiento del concepto de Atención Primaria de la Salud(aps), sus concepciones, modo de implementación e interrelaciones con elsistema de salud, el derecho a la salud y el contexto socio-político, económicoy cultural. A partir de este análisis se concluye que: a) la implementaciónde la aps desde el enfoque de Derechos Humanos implica no sólo reconocera la aps como una estrategia sanitaria, un principio que guía y orienta lasacciones en salud y organiza los niveles de atención sino también como unaherramienta eminentemente política y social de constitución de ciudadaníay por lo tanto, relevante para la construcción de un marco legal nacional ysupranacional que obligue al Estado a actuar como garante y promotor delderecho a la salud b) la salud es un derecho humano fundamental e inescindiblede otros derechos económicos, sociales y culturales y c) las políticaspúblicas y los sistemas de salud deben estar basados en aps a los efectos degarantizar el acceso universal a la salud.This paper is aimed at recognising the guidelines and challenges raised by the implementation of phc from a Human Rights approach. With this purpose we reviewed and analysed the origins of the primary health care (phc) concept, its meanings, implementation and interrelationships with the health system, the right to health and the social, political, economic and cultural context. As a result of this analysis we concluded that: a) the implementation of phc from a Human Rights approach means not just its recognition as a health strategy for organizing the health system and guiding principle for health actions but as a political and social tool for citizenship construction and as relevant concept for the development of national and supranational regulatory frameworks to compel the State to actas a guarantor and promoter of the right to health b) the right to health has to be recognised as a fundamental human right, inextricable from other economic, social and cultural rights and c) public policies and health systems needs to be based on phc in order to guarantee universal health access.Fil: Echegoyemberry, Maria Natalia. Centro de Estudios e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales; ArgentinaFil: Castiglia, Gabriela. Centro de Estudios e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales; ArgentinaFil: Yavich, Natalia. Centro de Estudios e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Báscolo, Ernesto Pablo. Centro de Estudios e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentin