78 research outputs found
Mental Practice Combined With Repetitive Task Practice to Rehabilitate Handwriting Dysfunction in School-Age Children
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
In a quasi-experimental study, 20 typically developing first and second graders with poor handwriting significantly improved and retained growth as measured by the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment, establishing the potential effectiveness of mental practice coupled with repetitive task practice in remediating motor control in children.
Primary Author and Speaker: Ghazala Saleem</jats:p
Financing Human Development in India: Strategies and Options
No full textIndia is ranked fairly high amongst the countries in terms of out of pocket expenditure by its citizens on health and education. India is ranked 134th on the Human Development Index (2011 ranking). Public expenditure on human development is given increasing emphasis but the desired results remain elusive as the expenditure on social services hardly benefits the needy because of leakages and wastage. Only well targeted expenditures coupled with sound implementation can benefit the poor. As indicated by Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2009, in terms of realization of objectives of Right to Education Act and consequently the increased public funding of primary education, the situation is grim. Similarly the ambitious program like National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) too failed to bring about any significant improvement in health indicators. This paper seeks to find what should be the different mechanisms for achieving these objectives or the country will be able to come out of this trap situation with the persuasion of the current strategy with certain time lag
Global Concern for the Environment – Rhetoric or Real
No full textConsiderable amount of concern has been expressed for environment in the recent time. Various summits, negotiations and conferences have been held at various levels with the widest possible participation. The question that arises is despite the sincere concern and the recognition of the causative factors for environmental degradation and consequently the climatic changes, why viable international framework / treaty is still elusive? Since environment involves extensive externalities an international binding agreement is essential. Still each country wants to do little while expects others to do a lot.
The basic problem lies in the fact that environment is not the private good and therefore market can not offer solution. The issue demands a public policy intervention as well as cost. Fulfilling the obligations of any international agreement would require public policy interventions that would upset the current status-quo. Besides, capitalist countries are probably still to accept the reality of the limitations of the market mechanism in this regard.
The paper seeks to trace the causes for the disagreements. The position that they take in the negotiations are traced to their domestic political and economic compulsions. Recent global crises that resulted from the lack or the absence of the regulations in the market economies may be treated a reminder to make them realize that the neo-classical wisdom may not be panacea for every evil
Global Financial Crises and Its Effect on India
No full textThere were arguments and counter arguments with regard to the impact on Indian economy of the global financial meltdown. The paper examines the economic scenario in India. The belief that Indian economy was adequately insulated from such global development has been found to be only partially correct. The crises affected the economy via dwindling foreign exchange reserves as significant amount of it had to be withdrawn from equity market by the foreign institutional investors. The phenomenon resulted in the adverse effect on various key macro variables which include balance of payments and employment. India’s slow pace of lessening further controls, albeit because of political compulsions, came in handy for the economy
Impact of Green Innovation, Sustainable Economic Growth, and Carbon Emission on Public Health: New Evidence of Non-Linear ARDL Estimation
No full textThis study examines the impact of green innovation, sustainable economic growth, and carbon emission on public health issues in Saudi Arabia. As Saudi Arabia is struggling to increase human development that also incorporates public health, it is important to understand the determinant factors and significant solutions to curtail public health issues. The study pioneers investigation into the role of green innovation aimed at countering public health problems caused by environmental damage. For econometric estimates, a non-linear autoregressive distributed lagged approach is used, which confirms that economic growth and carbon emissions are the main sources of public health issues in Saudi Arabia. Further, the empirical results demonstrate that greater attention to green innovation, education, and health spending plays a significant role in minimizing health issues. The positive shock in green innovation is helpful in terms of reducing public health issues. The findings are significant for policy suggestions; some recommendations are as follows: (i) The Saudi government needs to enhance funding in research and development to increase green innovation within the country. (ii) Education and health sector should be improved and increase it outreach throughout the country
'Fasting and prayer don't concern the doctors ... they don't even know what it is': communication, decision-making and perceived social relations of Pakistani Muslim patients with long-term illnesses
No full textPakistani Muslims have the poorest overall health profile in Britain, for reasons which at present remain poorly understood. We sought to explore the impact of religious identity and beliefs on self-management of long-term conditions, on patient-professional communication and decision-making and health inequalities within Pakistani Muslim communities.Ethnographic study involving in-depth interviews and participant observation.Religious identity plays a central role in many individuals' attempts to make sense of their personal illness narrative. Practitioners and patients are typically unwilling to engage in discussion about religious influences on patient decision-making, reflecting patients' lack of confidence in the appropriateness of raising such issues, and professionals' lack of awareness of their importance. Patients consequently receive little or no support from professionals about decisions involving such influences on self-care. The policy vacuum and lack of patient-professional engagement in this area allows the use of stereotypes of Pakistani Muslims by practitioners to remain unchallenged in most healthcare settings. Social dynamics within these settings reflect those in wider UK society, in which many Pakistani respondents believe they are unwelcome. These factors affect the psychosocial well-being of Pakistani Muslims and on their ability to manage long-term conditions.Shared understanding about the context in which patients manage long-term conditions is a precursor to effective lay-professional partnerships. Religious identity influences the health beliefs and practices of many British Pakistani Muslim patients. Failure to acknowledge and discuss this influence on long-term illness management leads to a vacuum in professional knowledge, inadequate support for patients' decision-making and poor responses to their requests for assistance. Findings indicate a need for practitioners to initiate more open discussion and raise questions about the pathways leading to higher rates of complications and the relationship between social status and health inequalities in this population
Empirical Evidence of Environmental Technologies, Renewable Energy and Tourism to Minimize the Environmental Damages: Implication of Advanced Panel Analysis
No full textThe motivation behind this research is to investigate the determinants of the ecological footprint in MENA countries and find appropriate solutions. We updated the STIRPAT model and applied sophisticated panel techniques to data from 1996 to 2020. According to the findings, economic expansion along with urbanization and tourism is to blame for these countries’ huge environmental footprints. In addition, when it comes to environmental degradation remedies, environmental innovation and the use of renewable energy play an important role in minimizing these environmental externalities. The results of post Saudi Vison 2030 analysis confirmed the significance of urban population and renewable energy in minimizing the environmental footprint. In light of the findings, it is advised that policymakers should revise the legislative framework to attract not only private sector investment, but also foreign investment to utilize the full potential of renewable energy generation
Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Forestry in China: A Spatial Panel Data Approach
No full textThis study examines the role of forest activities in carbon emissions for Chinese provinces. We use forest area and forest investment with two sub-proxies. The findings of spatial analysis have reported significant and positive coefficients for forest area. On the contrary, forest investment has a significant and negative relationship with carbon emission. These results negate the traditional belief and propose that an increase in forests through proper and continuous management activities is conducive to mitigating the carbon emissions. Additionally, the decomposition of spatial analysis in direct and indirect effects has confirmed the local indirect effect, and spillover effect, in neighboring regions. This concludes that the emission in one province has a significant spillover effect in the neighboring provinces. The findings provide several policy implications that are fruitful for environmental policy makers while drafting the rules and policies, such as introducing the forest management activities rather than increasing in forest areas without proper research and continuous management
Migration, School Attainment, And Child Labor : Evidence From Rural Pakistan
No full textInequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for the temporary economic migration of low-skilled workers from developing to industrial countries is its potential impact on human capital accumulation by the poor. The large remittance flows from migrants to their communities of origin underscores this aspect of migration. However, migration can also transform expectations of future employment and induce changes in household structure that can exert an independent effect on the private returns to investment in human capital. The author explores the relationship between temporary economic migration and investment in child schooling. A key challenge is to deal appropriately with selection into migration. She finds that the potential positive effects of temporary economic migration on human capital accumulation are large. Moreover, the gains are much greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though, the gains appear to arise almost entirely from the greater resource flows to migrant households. The author cannot detect any effect of future migration prospects on schooling decisions. More significantly, she does not find any protective effect of migration-induced female headship on schooling outcomes for girls. Rather, female headship appears to protect boys at the cost of girls
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