"Anti-aging" medicina: suvremene spoznaje i implementacija u svakodnevni život u cilju očuvanja zdravlja

Author(s): Jasna Cerkez Habek / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 7/2013

By the progress in diagnostics and therapy in up-to-date medicine, the length of life becomes prolonged; hence, the Republic of Croatia belongs to countries with very old population. According to the data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, the share of the population over 65 years of age in Croatia is 17.7 %, whereby our country “fits well” into the average of the European Union, where 17.5 % of the population belongs to this age group. By aging, the frequency of developing cardiovascular and malign diseases grows; however, a change in the life style may prevent this from happening. The paper presents the newest knowledge in the “anti-aging” medicine, the scientifically substantiated proof of its impact on maintaining health, and the possibilities for its implementation locally, adapted to the situation in the Bjelovar-Bilogora Country.

"BIO SAM NAVUČEN" – TRANSFORMATIVNO ISKUSTVO BIVŠIH ZAVISNIKA: ULOGA NARATIVNOG IDENTITETA, RELIGIJSKE KONVERZIJE I SOCIJALNE PODRŠKE U PROCESU REHABILITACIJE

Author(s): Srdan Sremac,Tatjana Radic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2010

The theme of the article is the narrative reconstruction of identity among former heroin addicts in which it is necessary to replace an old, stigmatized identity with a new one. Furthermore, religious conversion and social support are seen as key aspects of this process. The authors do not claim that a narrative reconstruction of identity is the sole or most important factor in the cure of addicts, but is certainly an unavoidable aspect of successful recovery. The authors base this claim on 10 interviews undertaken with former addicts. Moreover, the authors emphasize that a narrative method makes possible an adequate approach to the analysis of testimonies of conversion and in this way helps researchers to more easily understand the psychological and spiritual transformation of former addicts, as well as a better comprehension of the role of spirituality in their narratives. In this work the authors understand conversion as an adaptive mechanism which helps a former addict to get rid of psychological conflicts and to in this way create a new self-narrative. Furthermore, the authors consider that on the occasion of telling a story, addicts are given the opportunity for reinterpreting and reconstructing their past, as well as planning their future in the context of newly-adopted religious (canonical) language. Therefore, former addicts construct their life story as a typical story of conversion.

"ETHICS BY MOVIE". AN ALTERNATIVE ETHICS TRAINING METHOD FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONALS. A PILOT STUDY AMONG ROMANIAN STUDENTS

Author(s): Daniela-Tatiana Agheorghiesei,Vladimir Poroch / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2016

The paper presents the results of an empirical research that explored the opinion of Romanian students from four different professional Master’s Degree programs, on the impact of applying the method that we have called “Ethics by Movie” (creating the students’ own video scenarios on an ethical topic in teams) on substantiating ethical knowledge, ethical attitude and ethical behavior. The final sample consisted of 395 respondents. The students appreciate several advantages of the above mentioned teaching and learning method (”an ideal practice for understanding a theoretical concept”, ”an interactive method of learning” that helped them ”to acquire ethical concepts more easily or to reflect more deeply on the importance which must be given to ethical behavior, on the consequences of unethical behavior”, etc). Our study might prove to be useful due to the fact that it revives attention to a complementary teaching method that can contribute to increasing awareness of the ethical issues around us, to learning ethical concepts in a more substantiated manner, to the need to solve the ethical dilemmas related to the fact that we must be solidarity in the fight against unethical actions and that, through everything we do, we can send out own ethical message.

"IT’S SECURITY, BUT NOT INSURANCE." CORD BLOOD BANKING PRACTICES BETWEEN BIO-COSMOPOLITANISM AND GIFT ECONOMY

Author(s): Sandra Appleby-Arnold / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2012

During the last two decades, umbilical cord blood (CB) has become increasingly accepted as a stem cellrich source which can be used in, primarily, leukaemia treatments as an alternative to bone marrow. Since then, there can be observed a worldwide development of public and private CB banks who either store donated CB units for allogeneic non-directed use, or, at a fee, for potential autologous (private) family use. Both public and private banks, however, do not only depend on local politics, legal frameworks, and medical systems, but are also embedded in the respective social environments and societies they act within, which represent divergent public discourses about professional roles and accountability as well as personal attitudes and practices towards healthcare and biomedicine. In the contested field between continuously increasing biomedical knowledge about CB, cognitive uncertainty, different role ascriptions and perceived responsibilities between public donation and private storage, the various social actors (parents, doctors, midwives, CB bank employees etc.) develop specific strategies of (non)-knowledge management and reinvent or transform "traditional" values and practices in this new biomedical context. With Germany and the UK as societies under research because of their contrasting difference in the individual perception and institutional construction of healthcare, it is revealed how the "mobility" of CB has the potential to test and blur the boundaries between putative antipodes on a variety of levels, developing everyday practices and attitudes which can, perhaps, be best described as "bio-cosmopolitanism".

"Tıp Öykücülüğü" Üzerine

Author(s): Hasan Erbay / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: Special/2017

Medicine is a discipline with its own rules and manner of operation. Literature is one of the dozens of kinds of art. The common point of both fields is that they touch human stories from within life. Human stories in the field of health are about the processes in which a person lives, may live or is able to live. With the definition of medical story, it is narrative which are written by medical staffs, especially physicians. Medical narratives are fictitious narratives connected with medical realities, interpreting the health environment from the perspective of a physician or health care provider. Such is the primary concern of the works in the literary concerns. The medical narratiation is a field with a limited number of examples in both Turkish literature and world literature. Due to the diversity of medical education models in recent years, there is a growing interest in the relationship of medicine with literature and social sciences. Both in terms of medical education and in the context of literary and medical literacy, “Medical Narratiation” as a product of “quest of beauty” is a new and distinctive area in Turkish literature.

"Zdravo je biti Amerikanac": Rana hrvatska imigracija u SAD, prakse na otoku Ellis i stvaranje hrvatske dijaspore

Author(s): Tanja Bukovcan / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 29/2006

From 1892 to 1954 more than 12 million immigrants entered the United States through its famous gateway, Ellis Island. They were processed through immigration procedure and majority of them, from that period, were allowed to enter the US and become the citizens of their choice. Poverty, scarcity and hard field labour forced many Croats to seek better life in America. Almost four millions of them went through the Ellis Island in the period from 1880 to 1930. Very young, of average age not more than 22, most of them single males, together with all other steerage passengers, underwent the quick medical examinations, "six seconds physicals" through which they were checked for signs of infectious diseases, insanity, "feeblemindedness" of physical defects. To avoid the trap of being too easily critical 100 years after Ellis Island happenings, it has to be said that they were a practical solution to immigration admission. The number of people entering the US through Ellis Island could reach 5000 up to 11000 people per day during America's peak immigration years from 1890-1924. However, Ellis Island practices legitimatized and deepened the division between the ethnically desirable (North and Western Europe immigrants) and less desirable (South-Eastern Europe and Asia). Furthermore, they provided a mass demonstration of power and political practices, which used health as an instrument of separation between those who were eligible to become the members of a politically stable, healthy labour force, and those who were not. This paper tries to examine in what way did such "segregatory" practices, which already at the entrance to the New World, defined Croats and other immigrants as possibly unhealthy, insane or inapt, influence the formation of Croatian Diaspora in North America as a culturally distinct ethnic group. It also raises the question as to how will the newly emerging medical borders affect notions of ethnicity and the ways in which dispersed/displaced peoples construct their identities in the time of "global ethnoscapes" (Appadurai) The fact that this first "legalized" segregation on the basis of a six-second medical examination was going on under the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, shows to what extent it was assumed as "scientifically" reasonable and politically correct, and explains the existence of its current practices of creating medical borders. Who remains on the other side of the medical border? The ethnical and cultural "Others", or, just "the ill"?

"ZOVITE IH PO OČEVIMA NJIHOVIM": MUŠKA STERILNOST I NOVE REPRODUKTIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE U SVETLU ISLAMA

Author(s): Marko Pišev / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2012

Generally speaking, many patrilineal and patrilocal communities highly appreciate male fertility. In islamic societies Qur'an dogma givs strict preference to patrilinearity over matrilinearity, and ascribes primary importance to the biological fatherhood. The reader of Qur'an will, in the Surat Al-Ahzab, come across the verse "Name your adopted sons after their fathers, that is more just with Allah", while one of the experts on Arabic literature emphasizes the fact that male characters in many stories stand out through their fatherhood, especially the one expressed in relation to their sons. In such social context – shaped mainly by the absolute authority of faith – reproductive "incompetence" of an individual is reflected through specific biological "defect" which primarily stigmatizes male population. Thus, women are those who most often take over "the guilt" of infertility. Discussing some elements of islamic bioethics this paper shall focus on the issues whether and how new reproductive technologies are being used for treatment of male sterility in these societies, as well as whether it is – by their practical use – possible to decrease tensions that emanate from the conflict of male reproductive "unfulfillment" and traditional notions of the purity of the descent (nasab).

"По-русски говорите": сообщение информации и обратная связь во взаимодействии врача-генетика и Пациента

Author(s): Aleksandr Shirokov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2019

The article is devoted to the analysis of interactions between geneticists and patients through the perspectives of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The focus of the research is on how geneticists deliver medical information to their patients and how patients are involved in this process. The primary data are audio recordings and ethnographic observations of genetic counseling sessions conducted in July–December 2018. The study also uses materials from interviews with geneticists and from genetics textbooks that deal with issues of patient-provider communication. The author criticizes some features characteristic of the research on “information delivery” in a medical context. First, such studies are often one-sided: although they analyze how the patient understands information and what it means to him/her, the patient is represented as a passive recipient of information. This article, conversely, argues that the patient is also an active participant in the process of formulating information through various kinds of promptings, clarifications, and responses. Thus, communication of information is a joint achievement of doctor and patient. Secondly, when analyzing information delivery, various expressions, for example, “yes,” “aha,” “ooh,” and such, are considered signals of epistemic status change in conversation analysis. That is, it is assumed that these are signals that the recipient has received the information and understood the message. The question of which part of the message the recipient understood is hardly addressed. This article highlights a specific feature of the interaction between geneticist and patients: the difficulty of achieving mutual understanding. For the doctor, a description of the patient’s condition and his/her diagnosis is “packed” into abstract medical concepts, the explanation of which is problematic during the consultation process. Hence the difficulty of reaching an understanding, which happens either when the doctor himself/ herself begins to use everyday language or when the patient begins to ask for clarification in everyday language (although this can lead to tension). Using medical terms, the doctor gives a report, but it does not explain everything to the patient, and because of the problematic nature of the demonstration of misunderstanding, the patient has almost no way to tell the doctor about it.

"Съвременни аспекти при болестта на Бехтерев"

Author(s): Troycho Troev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 01+02/2016

#19 Corruption in the Healthcare Sector in Bulgaria

Author(s): Konstantin Pashev / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2007

At a time of heightened social sensitivity to persisting problems in the Bulgarian healthcare system, the report examines the causes and consequences of corruption in the Bulgarian healthcare. In the context of slow institutional reforms the analysis reveals the incentives of medical personnel for corruption, as well as the size and scope of corruption in the Bulgarian healthcare sector.

(Big Data, Analytika a iné technológie v digitalizácii zdravotníctva)

Author(s): Robert Furda,Michal Greguš / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017

Introduction: The constantly spreading digitalization facilitates activities in research, development, deployment and usage of new technologies and services in healthcare sector. The deployment of new technologies is supported by proper frameworks, models and architectures. The flexible system architectures for healthcare applications and services are the needed base in implementation of the advanced information technologies. Methods: To bring a business value in building of flexible system architectures the appropriate artifacts should be developed. This development is preceded by research of existing challenges and gaps related to healthcare. By using quantitative and qualitative research methods the interest is focused to Big Data and analytics area oriented to modern technologies and services. Results: The first findings of our researched system architecture are based on the five main components starting from data collection up to outcomes, such as visualization and statistics, and significantly important security access to healthcare data. The research about Big Data and analytics is focused on healthcare data in ophthalmology, such as diabetic retinopathy, blindness, and 3D unstructured data in planning of stereotactic radiosurgery. Conclusion: The conceptual look on the trends in healthcare digitalization should bring the right directions in the following research and proposals of flexible system architectures tuned for healthcare, which include the modern technologies, applications and services. The outcomes of Big Data and analytics should contribute in higher quality of life and bring business value in healthcare sector.

(Endoparazitózy šíriace sa komunálnou odpadovou vodou)

Author(s): Peter Juriš,Adriána Dudlová,Pavol Jarcuška,Lýdia Cisláková / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

Introduction: Municipal waste water prior to stabilizing treatment and disinfection contains various types of pathogenic microorganisms, including parasites. The handling of waste water and sludge, using them without prior treatment, is threatened public health. Methods: The samples of municipal wastewater and sludge were collected from five wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). For comparison, we also monitored the WWTP Sečovce in another region. For the detection of the oo(cysts) and eggs the saturated solution of saccharose, with specific weight of 1.30 according Kazacos (1983) was used. For detection of protozoal oo(cysts) an additional ovoskopic concentration set Paraprep L - Faecal Parasite Concentrator (Diamondial, France) with subsequent microscopy analysis was accomplished. For the statistical processing of the results the Chi square test - χ2 test (significance level α=0.05) the SPSS version 20 of statistical program was employed. Results: Examination of municipal wastewater and sludge from five monitored wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in east Slovakia, from various fractions of municipal wastewater, confirmed 35.87% positivity of samples for the endoparasitic germs. Among of all analysed samples 11.09% were protozoan oo(cysts) and 20.87% were helminth eggs. 3.91 % of samples showed positivity to both the helminth eggs and protozoan oo(cysts). In the raw wastewater the protozoa consisted of Giardia spp. (1.08 %) and Entamoeba spp. (1.08 %). The helminth eggs primarily consisted of Ascarisspp. (4.35 %) and eggs of strongyloid type (3.26 %). No germs of protozoa or helminths were found in the treated wastewater. However, the highest presence of the germs was found in drained stabilised sludge. The average number of oo(cysts)/kg was 2.86±0.24 and the average number of helminth eggs/kg was 5.77±0.09. In all kinds of sludge, obtained during the process of wastewater treatment, there were protozoan (Giardia spp., Cryptosporidium spp., Entamoeba spp.) and helminths eggs (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris spp., Taenia spp., Hymenolepis spp., or eggs of strongyloid type) presented. In drained (condensed) stabilised sludge the eggs of Capillaria spp. and Toxocara spp. were also detected. Conclusion: From the epidemiological aspect the sewage sludge, due to high concentration of protozoal oo(cysts) or helminth eggs, represents a significant epidemiological risk for the endoparasitoses dissemination.

(Nie)chronologie choroby. Punktowa obecność obrazu-bólu w Miłości Michaela Hanekego

Author(s): Sebastian Porzuczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2018

Focusing on Michael Haneke’s Amour, Porzuczek examines the mechanisms of visual (non-linguistic) representations of pain and illness in the realm of the film medium. In the Austrian film director’s work the problem of suffering is inscribed in the order of emotional tensions in family relationships. It is against this backdrop that the question of social (cultural) exclusion emerges. Porzuczek draws on notions such as Roland Barthes’s punctum and Gilles Deleuze’s time-image. Relevant issues are: a) the process of the materialization of time (through slowness) in the representation of daily struggles with illness and b) the specificity of the violent, punctual appearance of a paroxysm – analysed in terms of Porzuczek’s concept of the pain-image, which initiates an ethical (affective) encounter with the image experienced by the viewer.

(Re)Designing Human. Genetics in Cinema. The Dialectics of Past, Present and Future

Author(s): Aneta Jalocha / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2013

The aim of the article is to analyse representations of genetic engineering in chosen science fiction films: GATTACA (1997), The Island (2005) and Never Let Me Go (2010). In the first section of the article, the author delineates the emergence of the concept of ‘biotechnology’ and the moment of its identification with genetics and molecular biology. In the following, she draws attention to sociocultural functions of genetics and the dynamics of forming public understanding of the scientific subdiscipline. In film interpretations, the author focuses on genetic engineering technologies depicted and the ethical issues raised by the depiction. She argues that science fiction creates images of the future immersed in the past and the present; and that science fiction should be recognized as an important space of negotiating the meanings and roles of genetic engineering; both reflecting and shaping the public concerns on the rapidly expanding domain of biotechnology.

(Re)konstruowanie własnej (nie)pełnosprawności – przemiany w sposobie percypowania siebie osoby z dysfunkcjami ciała uprawiającej sport

Author(s): Jakub Niedbalski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

The article is intended to analyze reconstruction of an image related to two categories of disabled persons: those physically active and passive. On the one hand, I focus on the way, which the disable individuals perceive their own situation in, considering their status as persons who practice or do not practice sport. On the other, I attempt to determine how the said individuals reconstruct their image subject to assessment by others, depending on whether they are physically active or passive. For that purpose, I make references to the disabled individuals’ opinions on their own (subjective self), and their evaluation of how they are seen by the fully capable persons (reflected self). In other words, it is confrontation of an image of physically active and passive persons with opinions and feelings experienced directly by the respondents, with their image arising from other people’s opinions.

10 HAFTALIK CORE ANTRENMANIN 11-13 YAŞ ARASI KIZ YÜZÜCÜLERDE FİZİKSEL PERFORMANSA ETKİSİ

Author(s): Türker Biyikli / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2018

This study aimed to investigate whether the 10-weeks core exercises applied to female swimmers of 11- 13 age group have an acute effect on their physical performance. Forty athletes from FMV Işık Sports Club participated in the study voluntarily. The athletes divided into two groups (research and control) and 20 m speed, vertical jump, shuttle, right-left grip, standing long jump, balance and flexibility measurements were taken from these two groups. In the analyze of the obtained data in addition to descriptive statistical methods such as Mean (X) and Standard Paired-Samples t-test was used for pre-test and post-test differentiation between the groups. The findings were evaluated at .05 significance level in 95% confidence interval. According to analyze results, after the 10 weeks core trainings, significant differences were found between the participants’ speed, vertical jump, balance, shuttle, right-left hand grip and elasticity results. As a result, the core training which is applied according to before adolescence or in adolescence contributes to physical performance of child athletes.

10. VÝROČIE ZALOŽENIA ÚSTAVU SV. CYRILA A METODA V PARTIZÁNSKOM

Author(s): Michal VALACH / Language(s): Slovak,English / Issue: Suppl./2018

And years go by ...... Inside, people can stop in the world, but what they never stop is time. Time is the river of our life. It is day by day, year after year, and we sometimes get to see it flowing in order to realize a certain milestone in our lives. In this period, we recall the milestone of ten years of establishment of a detached workplace of the University of Health and Social Work, Elizabeth, based in Bratislava in Partizánske, covered with two patrons, namely St. Cyril and Method. This milestone was one of the most important events in the district of Partizánske, as well as in the district itself. I have the honor to honor you today for the occasion of the XIV. Scientific Conference with International Participation under the title "Health and Social Issues of the Regions in the 21st Century" to familiarize themselves with the very origins and ten - year history of our institute. It all began with the idea of establishing a Partizan college which, by its origins, moved the city and gave it credit to the university city.

12-14 YAŞ GRUBU HENTBOL VE TENİS PERFORMANS SPORCULARIN FİZİKSEL ANTROPOMETRİK VE MOTORİK ÖZELLİKLERİNİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

Author(s): Berat Koçyigit,Erkan Çimen,Seydi Karakus / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: S1/2018

The purpose of the study is to compare the physical anthropometric and motoric characteristics of handball and tennis performance athletes aged 12-14 years. The speed measurements of the groups included in the study were taken with photocell device, resilience measurements were performed by using sit-out test, hand paw force hand dynamometer, anaerobic power vertical jump jump meter, anthropometric measurements using environmental measurements of tape measure and skinfold caliper devices in subcutaneous fat measurements. SPSS 17 package program was used for the analysis of the data and an independent sample t-test was used to determine the differences between the physical and motoric characteristics of the groups. Age, height, body weight and athlete's age parameters of handball and tenis participating in the study were found to be significantly different only among athlete's ages. Flexibility of the groups, 10m 30m speed values and suprailiak parameters for subcutaneous fat measurements were found to be p<0.05, and in the values of hip, thigh and calf as circumference measurement, significant differences were found in the handball players compared to tennis players. As a result; tennis and handball athletes' flexibility and speed performances were evaluated while tennis players are better, strength values and anthropometric characteristics of the handball players were observed to be better. It is thought that these differences are due to different physical characteristics and training programs required by the sports branch.

13-15 Yaş Grubu Erkek Yüzücülerde 8 Haftalik Core Antrenmaninin Sirt Üstü Stili 100 M Performansina Etkisi

Author(s): Ahmet Gönener,Deniz Demirci,Utku Gönener,Beyza Özer,Ozan Yilmaz / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: S1/2017

In this study, It was aimed to investigate the effect of 8-week core training on backstroke swimming style 100 m performance in male swimming group of 13-15 age group. 24 athletes from the Gebze Gençlerbirliği Swimming Club participated in this study. The groups are divided into experiment group and control group randomly as 12 persons per group. During the study, the experimental group participated in core training in addition to swimming for 3 days a week. Control group just participated in swimming training during the survey. The exercises were designed as strength training for core muscles for 8 weeks. 100 m swimming test was used as a test measurement tool. The obtained data from pre and post test comparison was analyzed with Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test in SPSS 21.0 statistical package program. When the pretest and posttest results were compared as intragroup, a statistically significant difference was found in the experimental group (p<.05). Nevertheless, there was no statistically significant difference in pretest-posttest comparison of the control group (p>.05). As a result, it was seen that the core area trained by 8-week core training on 13-15 age male swimmers have a positive effect on 100 m backstroke style performance.

13-16 YAŞ ARASI ALTYAPI FUTBOLCULARININ MÜSABAKA DÖNEMİNDEKİ DURUMLUK KAYGI DÜZEYLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Author(s): Nurgül Tezcan Kardas / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2018

Present study aimed to analyze the state anxiety levels of 13-16 year-old footballers during competition period. Research group consisted of 320 male football players aged between 13-16 playing in infrastructure leagues from Düzce Province. To collect data in addition to personal information form developed by the researcher, “State Anxiety Level Scale” which was developed by Koç (2004) was used. The data evaluated with SPSS 25 package program using the independent samples t test and ANOVA. According to analyze results there was no significant difference on the variable state anxiety of the participants according to age, family income and the person who evokes the emotion of responsibility before the match however, there was a significant difference according to the person who evokes the emotion of responsibility (p=.014; p<0.05) after the match. As a conclusion it was seen that the factors affecting the state anxiety levels of footballers appears in several ways and this situation can be affected by various factors.