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Cedi Frederick on Black Leadership and the Future of Equitable Healthcare
No full textIn this powerful episode of Voices of Resilience, host Mary Mosoeunyane speaks with Cedi Frederick, Chair of the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board and a lifelong advocate for equity across housing, social care, and health.
Born to parents of the Windrush generation, Cedi reflects on how service, faith, and perseverance shaped his journey from a childhood in 1950s South London to leading major NHS reforms today. He unpacks the deep connections between housing, education, and health, what he calls the wider determinants of wellbeing, and why trust remains the foundation for change.
Together, Mary and Cedi explore the lessons of COVID-19, the structural barriers that persist for Black communities, and the urgent need for culturally aware leadership. This is a conversation about legacy, accountability, and hope for a health system that serves every community with fairness and respect
Implementing Enterprise Information Management: : A Research- Based Approach in Two Swedish Municipalities: Part 2
No full textAn implementation programme for organisation-wide recordkeeping systems in two Swedish local governments is being informed by a research-based approach in cooperation with Mid Sweden University. In the previous issue of iQ, (May, 2010), the author set out the parameters for the research. In this concluding part of the article, outcomes are discussed. Reproduced with permission of RIM Professionals Australasia, article first appeared in IQ magazine Vol 26 Issue 3, 2010Funded by EU Mål 2CEDIF: www.miun.se/cedi
Fiscal decentralization, tax competition, and federal tax administration: A note from the Argentine experience
No full textThe paper analyses the usual arguments discussed in the fiscal federalism literature about fiscal decentralization through normative and positive (public choice) approaches. Afterwards, limits to enhance significantly fiscal decentralization in countries with important regional asymmetries like Argentina are analyzed. Finally, the author suggests the necessity of a fiscal institutional reform, which allows an efficient and responsible vertical coordination. A superlative role is assigned to the federal revenue administration in the suggested reform.Fiscal decentralization, Tax Competition, Federal Tax Administration, Argentina
Sleep Duration and School Readiness of Chinese Preschool Children
No full textObjectives:
To examine the average sleep duration in Chinese preschoolers and to investigate the association between sleep duration and school readiness.
Study design:
This is a cross-sectional study that included 553 Chinese children (mean age = 5.46 years) from 20 preschools in 2 districts of Hong Kong. Average daily sleep duration in the last week was reported by parents and school readiness as measured by the teacher-rated Chinese Early Development Instrument (CEDI).
Results:
Most Chinese preschoolers had 9-10 hours of sleep per day. Only 11% of preschoolers had the recommended 11-12 hours of sleep per day. This group was associated with more “very ready” CEDI domains. Sleep deprivation (≤7 hours per day) was associated with a lower CEDI total score, lower scores in the emotional maturity and language/cognitive domain, and prosocial behaviors subdomain but a greater score in the hyperactivity/inattention subdomain. Children with a lower family socioeconomic index, lower maternal education level, infrequent parent-child interactions, and who used electronic devices for more than 3 hours per day had shortened sleep durations.
Conclusions:
Optimal sleep duration was associated with better school readiness in preschool children, whereas sleep deprivation was associated with lower school readiness, more hyperactivity and inattention, and less prosocial behavior
LAZER E CIDADANIA: horizontes de uma construção coletiva
No full textResultados de pesquisa na forma de livro.O projeto de pesquisa intitulado Lazer e Gênero: Processo Educativo de Mulheres Negras-Empobrecidas e Políticas Públicas, desenvolvido pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Educação Física da Universidade Católica de Brasília com o apoio da Rede Cedes do Ministério do Esporte, constituiu-se em uma experiência de diversos encontros de lazer vividos por um grupo de mulheres de algumas cidades de Brasília-DF. A concepção de Lazer que pautou toda a ação foi tecida na contraposição a uma lógica de compensação, de alienação ou de exploração próprias da economia de mercado.Rede CEDE
Nutritional composition, physiochemical analysis, sensory properties and economics of raw and roasted “niri” (citrullus vulgaris) chaff extended beef sausages
No full textThere are increasing incidences of obesity, cardiovascular and other dietary related diseases as a result of the crave for ready-to-eat and processed foods. These foods lack adequate dietary fiber which contributes to these diseases. This study investigated the effects of “niri” chaffs (raw and roasted) as an extender on the nutritional, physiochemical, sensory and economics of beef sausages. All treatments were randomly assigned to minced beef by a completely randomized design. Raw and roasted “niri” chaffs were incorporated at 0, 5, 15 and 25% to minced beef. The Association of Official Analytical Chemist and the British Standard Institutes procedures were used to determine the proximate and sensory characteristics of the beef sausages, respectively. The results revealed significant (p<0.05) differences in some of the parameters determined. Raw and roasted “niri” chaffs extended beef sausages (extended products) generally had an improved (p<0.05) effect on fat (1.5-3.28%), ash (1.31-2.19%) and carbohydrate (2.06-20.81%) contents as compared to control. A decline (p<0.05) was observed in moisture content of beef sausages (62.34-21.52%) by the treatment of raw and roasted “niri” chaffs as compared to control. The protein contents of RaC 5% and RaC 15% (5% and 15% raw “niri” chaff beef sausages, respectively) were better (p<0.05) than the rests of the products. Extended products exhibited significantly (p<0.05) high calcium, iron and magnesium than control products; while potassium and zinc contents of beef sausages were improved by the treatment of 5% raw “niri” chaff than the control. pH values of products were in the range of 5.76-6.00. Raw chaffs extended products had higher grilling loss (5.4-25%) than roasted products (4-13.95%). Lipid peroxidation values showed that all “niri” chaffs extended products had exceedingly high (p<0.05) values than the control within the storage period with raw products being the most affected. The formulation cost saw an average cost reduction of Ghȼ (Ghanaian Cedi) 2.25 using raw and roasted “niri” chaffs for the sausages. This study reveals that raw and roasted “niri” chaffs have the potential for use as an extender in beef sausages
Assessing Efficiency of the Financial Sector in Ghana and Implications for Growth: An Application of the Ahiawodzian Model of Financial Market Efficiency
No full textPurpose: The importance of efficiency of the financial sector in promoting economic growth and development, particularly in developing economies, has been well documented in the economic literature. For example, the McKinnon (1973) and Shaw (1973) theories explicitly state this, with emphasis on developing economies. Therefore, the study set out to empirically assess the efficiency of the financial sector in Ghana from 1988 to 2023, and examine the implications for growth of the Ghanaian economy.
Methodology: The study applied a statistical model developed by the author in 2012 known as, the Ahiawodzian Model of Financial Market Efficiency to the financial sector of Ghana from 1988 to 2023. The key variables of the model are the interest rate and inflation rate. The time series properties of the variables of a regression model specified to estimate the long-run real interest rate were carried out. These were the stationarity and cointegration tests to see if the two key variables of the interest rate and inflation rate were non-stationary and cointegrated. The Ordinary Least Squares method was used to estimate the regression model.
Findings: The empirical results of the study revealed that the Ghanaian financial sector was inefficient during period 1988 to 2023, even during the financial reform period. The inefficiency level was as high as 51.45%. Thus, the prevailing high level of the financial sector inefficiency in Ghana during the period adversely affected private savings, private investments and economic growth of the country.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study therefore recommends to the Ghanaian financial authorities among others; control of the prevailing high inflation rates, effective use of the monetary policy, effective use of the fiscal policy (expenditure rationalisation and revenue mobilisation), reduction of the prevailing high interest rates, reduction of the persistent depreciation of the Cedi in order to reduce the high level of financial sector inefficiency in Ghana, in order to promote economic growth in the country
O sistema medico Waimiri-Atroari: concepções e praticas
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia, Florianópolis, 1995.Etnografia do grupo indígena Waimiri-Atroari nas questões ligadas à saúde: suas concepções e práticas. Análise da medicina nativa como sistema cultural, onde o processo da doença é muito mais uma experiência pessoal e coletiva do que simplesmente a caracterização dos sintomas físicos e diagnósticos clínico. Com intuito de compreender melhor o sistema médico do grupo, são explorados o complexo xamânico, mitologia e rituais. Os Waimiri-Atroari explicam a doença de acordo com seu sistema cosmológico, mas quando necessitam tratamento, para remoção dos sintomas, tendem a buscar os serviços oferecidos por um programa de assistência, o PWA (Programa Waikiri-Atroari, convênio FUNAI-ELETRONORTE). Fez-se uma breve avaliação sobre este programa
The Business of Piracy in Somalia
No full textThis article argues that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to control Somali piracy for four reasons. First, Somali piracy is a land-based problem and naval control mechanisms are not changing the incentives for pirates. Second, improving Somalia's anarchic political situation will not necessarily stop piracy. Our analysis demonstrates that piracy is a business which improves with a more stable operating environment. Third, piracy is organized criminal activity, and like other organized crime groups will be difficult to control, especially if it becomes embedded in state structures. Finally, we argue that few of the relevant players have any real incentives to alter their behaviour.Piracy, Somalia, Law Enforcement, Organised Crime, EU Atalanta
Indigenous territories and tropical forest management in Latin America
No full textUsing data from Latin America, the authors argue that fundamental changes must take place in the legal recognition and demarcation of indigenous territories if indigenous peoples are to fulfill their potential as resource managers for threatened tropical forest ecosystems. The authors compare different national land tenure models for forest-dwelling indigenous peoples (contained in national Indian, agrarian, and protected-area laws in Latin America) and a model proposed by indigenous organizations in Latin America. The conventional models emerged during an era when most governments were more concerned with the rapid occupation and exploitation of frontier zones and the assimilation of indigenous peoples. Recent attention to the environmental degradation of these areas and the need to create alternative models of land use and development have directed attention to the potential contribution of indigenous peoples to the conservation and management of the vast tropical forests of Latin America. The authors find that indigenous peoples must be given some degree of control over their territories and resources. They contend that for successful management of tropical forests there must be a new type of partnership between indigenous peoples, the scientific community, national governments, and international development agencies. This relationship should be a contractual one, in which indigenous peoples are provided with juridical recognition and control over large areas of forest in exchange for a commitment to conserve the ecosystem and preserve biodiversity.Municipal Financial Management,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Forestry,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform
