The decade of Roma Inclusion: did it make a difference to health and use of health care services?

OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether the severely disadvantaged health of Hungarian Roma adults living in segregated settlements changed by the Decade of Roma Inclusion program. METHODS: We compared the results of two paired health interview surveys that we carried out using the same methodology before and after the Decade, on the general Hungarian and Roma populations. RESULTS: Self-perceived health status of younger Roma worsened, while it improved among older Roma. Reported experience of discrimination reduced considerably and health care utilization improved in general. Positive changes in smoking and nutrition, and negative changes in alcohol consumption and overweight were observed. Many of observed changes can plausibly be linked to various government policies, including a quadrupling of public works expenditure, banning smoking in public places, restricting marketing of tobacco products, increasing cigarette prices, and a new tax on unhealthy foods. Liberalization of rules on alcohol distillation coincided with worsening alcohol consumption. CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that Roma remain severely disadvantaged and present an innovative sampling method which can be used to monitor changes in groups where identification is a challenge

Causal relationship between local field potential and intrinsic optical signal in epileptiform activity in vitro

The directed causal relationship were examined between the local field potential (LFP) and the intrinsic optical signal (IOS) during induced epileptiform activity in in vitro cortical slices by the convergent cross-mapping causality analysis method. Two components of the IOS signal have been distinguished: a faster, activity dependent component (IOSh) which changes its sign between transmitted and reflected measurement, thus it is related to the reflectance or the scattering of the tissue and a slower component (IOSl), which is negative in both cases, thus it is resulted by the increase of the absorption of the tissue. We have found a strong, unidirectional, delayed causal effect from LFP to IOSh with 0.5- 1s delay, without signs of feedback from the IOSh to the LFP, while the correlation was small and the peaks of the cross correlation function did not reflect the actual causal dependency. Based on these observations, a model has been set up to describe the dependency of the IOSh on the LFP power and IOSh was reconstructed, based on the LFP signal. This study demonstrates that causality analysis can lead to better understanding the physiological interactions, even in case of two data series with drastically different time scales

A transztelefonikus EKG-rendszerrel szerzett kezdeti tapasztalatok az akut koronária szindróma prehospitális ellátása során az észak-alföldi régióban

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A vackinációs szándék megértése különféle társas és társadalmi közegekben

A kutatás általános célja az volt, hogy bővítse ismereteinket a vakcinációs szándékot és más egészségügyi magatartást befolyásoló társas (és társadalmi) tényezőkről. Az elsődleges célunk az egyénnél nagyobb elemzési egység kifejlesztése, alkalmazása és hasznosságának értékelése volt gépi tanulási szemléletben. A kutatásunk megfigyeléses, keresztmetszeti vizsgálat volt. A kérdőív-adatokat 2022. november 15. – 2022. november 26. között gyűjtöttük egy online platformon keresztül. CAWI interjúkészítést alkalmaztunk. A kérdőív összesen 169 kérdésből állt. A kérdőív nyelve magyar volt. A teljes kérdőív, valamint a kvótás mintavételi terv és az adatállomány a mellékletben található. Az Egészségügyi Tudományos Tanács Tudományos és Kutatásetikai Bizottsága (ETT-TUKEB:BMEÜ/2422-1/2022/EKU, dátum: 2022. október 4.) és a Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Etikai Bizottsága (FOIG-1/130-24/2022, dátum: 2022. október 28.) egyaránt jóváhagyta a kérdőíves kutatást. Ezen felül az adatgyűjtést az Open Science Frameworkben is előzetesen regisztráltuk (hyperlink: https://osf.io/zwktc ). Az adatgyűjtés során adatvédelmi incidens nem történt. A kutatást és az adatgyűjtést a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia poszt-COVID-jelenségek nagy kockázatú kutatási támogatásában részesült (PC2022 II-5/2022)

… Kiáltunk emberebb világot… - …a szociális munka elfogadtatásával az egészségügyben

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Solidarity with Displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary: Attitudes and Practices

The paper explores the attitudes of Hungarian civil society in the context of the war against Ukraine, the active agents of solidarity, and the general social atmosphere associated with welcoming displaced people. Based on a population survey from the summer of 2022, the paper draws an ambivalent picture. First, it highlights the exceptional momentum and mobilising power of civil solidarity both in terms of practical involvement and expressed attitudes. At the same time, the results also reveal the limits and vulnerabilities of civil solidarity—namely, its exposure to populist political discourses which cherish or condemn moral economies of assistance according to vested interests, as well as its embeddedness in a neoliberal reliance on citizens’ individual resources (disposable time and material means), and the salient inequalities in sharing the burdens of humanitarian support. All this reflects that the consensus and relative evenness of solidarity attitudes at the time of our survey were unevenly translated into practical help, burdening those already heavily charged with care responsibilities. With this finding, we underline the importance of exploring solidarity as a complex relationship of attitudes and practices; also, we highlight the need to include the perspectives of care in inquiries of the population’s attitude towards immigrant groups and categories. Our results are drawn from the application of multi-dimensional logistic regression models based on data from a statistical survey involving 1000 respondents representative of Hungary’s adult population