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Ageing is a global trend and one of the greater challenges of the current societies, with strong consequences on general population and particularly on workforce composition. In fact, ageing issues were been stressed on the agenda of European policies over the last years, with the establishment of goals intended to increase the employment rate of 55-64 workers and also increase of the retirement age. Demographic changes have a great impact on the composition of workforce. According to the 5th European Working Conditions Survey workers aged 50 and over represent 25% of employees in EU, which places a new challenge for corporate social responsibility. The most common answer for ageing at work has been the encouragement of ageing workers to remain active and at the same time convince companies to retain these older workers. But this aim cannot be achieved without an adaptive change of working conditions, considering the health and needs of older workers, providing the access to lifelong learning and rethinking benefits, rewards, participation, recognition and careers. Are companies aware of demographic trends and their impacts? Do the companies perceive ageing as a "social concern" or a "management issue"? Are they prepared to face this challenge inside them? In this sense, the purpose of our studies, conducted in Portugal, is to provide a comprehensive approach on age management topic, based on literature review but also on empirical work developed with Human Resources managers, trying to understand how companies evaluate and manage ageing, in the context of corporate social responsibility. Our findings suggest that Human Resources managers are generally concerned with age but they usually see this as an external problem, being mainly a society issue. Age is not being taken as a real challenge for companies while economic recession and youth unemployment are shaping the labor market. While economic recession is transitory, ageing is a structural trend and cannot be answered without a long-term approach based on public policies gathered with management practices. The managers' short-term vision is a barrier to a strategic development and undermines the sustainability of organizations. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

AbstractThe relationship between self-awareness (insight) and outcome following acquired brain injury (ABI) is well recognised, but evidence suggests that information regarding brain injury and its cognitive impact is not adequately conveyed to social workers, or appropriately considered when assessing support needs and a person's capacity to make decisions about their care. The Brain Injury Needs Indicator (BINI) provides a solution, by enabling the valid assessment of the needs of those with brain injuries living in a community setting. This paper investigated associations between impaired insight, functional outcome of brain injury, and level of risk, and validated the use of the BINI as an indicator of need. A high prevalence of severe disability (73 per cent) and low insight (30 per cent) was found in a sample of thirty individuals with ABI. The composite BINI score was the measure most strongly related with a clinical assessment of risk (rs = 0.72, N = 26). Self-report methods may underestimate support needs, especially in those with low levels of insight into their difficulties. The BINI, which combines outcome post-ABI with a measure of insight, provides a more accurate estimate of risk than either measure individually. It is important to include both areas in individual needs assessments.

In this paper we propose an index to measure the state of health of the 28 countries of the European Union. Material and methods Using the Principal Components Analysis method, we construct the European Health Index as a combination of six dimensions: (1) Working conditions, (2) General state of health, (3) Health system, (4) Quality of Life, (5) Mental health and drug abuse, and (6) Risk health factors, that are in turn made up of 29 distinct variables. Results We find the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland in the first four positions, and Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Bulgaria at the end of the ranking. Within the European Union, two blocks stand out above the rest, the ex-soviet countries and northern Europe. Conclusion The European Health Index could be used to assist public policies designed to improve health perception in regions where it is needed. = En este artículo proponemos un índice para medir el estado de salud de los 28 países de la Unión Europea. Material y métodos Usando el método de Análisis de Componentes Principales, construimos el Índice de Salud Europeo (ISE) como una combinación de 6 dimensiones: (1) Condiciones de trabajo, (2) Estado general de salud, (3) Sistema de salud, (4) Calidad de vida, (5) Salud mental y abuso de drogas, y (6) Factores de riesgo para la salud, que a su vez se componen de 29 variables distintas. Resultados Encontramos a los Países Bajos, Dinamarca, Suecia e Irlanda en las primeras 4 posiciones, y Estonia, Lituania, Polonia y Bulgaria al final del ranking. Dentro de la Unión Europea, 2 bloques destacan sobre el resto, los países exsoviéticos y el norte de Europa. Conclusión El Índice de Salud Europeo podría usarse para ayudar a las políticas públicas diseñadas para mejorar la percepción de la salud en las regiones donde se necesita.

We present a state of the science on HIV behavioral prevention interventions in Black and Hispanic/Latinx communities. The purpose of this article is threefold: (a) highlight the early documented underlying social and political barriers that constrained interventions to prevent new HIV infections; (b) address the structural inequities in HIV prevention and treatment; and (c) describe the need for increasing HIV multilevel prevention interventions that support greater HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake. To address HIV prevention, multilevel interventions that address individual, structural, and social level components have demonstrated more sustainable outcomes. Implications for research and clinical practice include (a) updating antiquated curricula in nursing, medicine, and public health that perpetuate racial, structural-level inequities and (b) increasing the pipeline for Black and Hispanic/Latinx persons to pursue research or clinical-focused doctorate degrees.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted race-based health disparities and structural racism in the United States. Enhancing the training of early-career academic and health scientists from underrepresented minority groups (URM) is critical to reduce disparities affecting underserved population groups. A dedicated training program that has been proven to support URM can facilitate career development for junior faculty during the pandemic. This critical support ensures the retention of talented, racially diverse junior faculty who are poised to mitigate struc­tural racism, rather than perpetuate it. We describe how the Cardiovascular Disease Programs to Increase Diversity Among Indi­viduals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE-CVD) summer institute successfully transitioned from a face-to-face format to a virtual format during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, early-career faculty continued to receive the PRIDE-CVD train­ing on research methodology, grantsman­ship, career development, and CVD health disparities, especially as related to the pandemic. In addition, the virtual format facilitated networking, promoted mental wellness, and allowed continual mentor­ship. Collectively, the program provided timely and relevant career development in the COVID-19 era and helped partici­pants navigate the psychosocial challenges of being a URM in cardiovascular health research.Ethn Dis. 2021;31(3):411-416; doi:10.18865/ed.31.3.411

The artisan production of canned tuna is characterized by generating effluents with high organic and saline loads, which complicates their suitable treatment. The main objective of the LIFE VERTALIM project is to demonstrate the efficiency of a holistic solution (including technical, legislative, social, and environmental aspects) for the controlled integration of food industry wastewater from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the urban sanitation system with the compliance of all stakeholders. This work shows the viability of the implementation of low-cost innovative solutions, through the clean and eco-efficient production and wastewater pretreatment for fish canneries. This solution allows on average a reduction of 30% of the wastewater discharges to the environment and a reduction of food losses of up to 0.1%. Moreover, there is a reduction of between 40% and 90% related to high organic load. These results allow the canneries to dispose their pretreated effluents to the urban sanitation system, avoiding the high costs of an industrial wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) to discharge to the river. A better physical-chemical quality in the river waters as a well as the marine water surrounding the urban WWTP have been achieved.

The 3rd meeting of the W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) had scheduled to be held in Guadalajara (Mexico). The COVID-19 pandemic did not allow us to meet face-to-face, and we decided to organize the meeting online on January 12-14, 2021. The guidelines for making the posters of the attraction campaigns were presented in this meeting. ; W-STEM (Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM) is a project funded under European Union ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Programme (598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein