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Purpose– Housing conditions affect occupants continuously, and health interventions have shown the positive association between housing investment and improvement in occupant health. Yet only rarely do we hear of the public's own perception of housing improvement internationally. The purpose of this paper is to explore public views on the importance of housing issues, from a worldwide perspective, in analysis of the global survey.Design/methodology/approach– Data were analyzed from the World Values Survey, 2005-2007, the most recent public data sets including demographics, self-rated health status, and beliefs on different social and political issues. Participants were those aged 15 and above. Analyses includedχ2 and logistic regression modeling.Findings– Less wealthy countries had the most people who considered housing improvement as top priority. Regions with more than 20,000 residents and lower scale of income levels were linked with higher proportions of people considering housing improvement as top priority. Additionally, people who reported very poor self-rated health tended to view housing improvement as top priority, compared to those who reported very good self-rated health.Practical implications– Public consensus is that there is an urgent need for housing improvement globally. Effective housing strategies and interventions optimizing population health, well-being, and quality of life are suggested.Originality/value– To the author's knowledge, this is the first study investigating public opinion on the importance of housing issues using a global, cross-sectional, population-based study for international comparison. Understanding the need on housing improvement from the general public would indicate possible policy reform in the coming decades.

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD). ; In recent years the concept of a 'self-improving school-led system' has been at the heart of the English Government's education policy, with a core focus on 'high-autonomy-and-high-accountability' within the system. With greater autonomy comes the expectation that schools will be the main drivers of systemic improvement to ensure effective outcomes. Adopting a continuous improvement (CI) approach may reduce the impact of the changeable nature within an open system, such as those attributed to schools. A CI philosophy has been demonstrated to be a critical influence for sustained performance within unpredictable environments in sectors outside of education. The study explores the applicability of a CI philosophy to support school improvement. This research is situated within a human activity system (HAS) based around the dynamics of school improvement within six schools, situated in the West Midlands, during 2016. The literature review demonstrated an agreement on the critical success factors (CSFs) required to develop a CI philosophy. These CSFs situate around leadership, people, process, purpose and culture. The research was positioned in a interpretivsit paradigm and used a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) approach to explore the dynamics of school improvement within compulsory education due to the complexity of this HAS. This inductive process reveals a congruence of elements associated with CSFs of CI within a compulsory school setting. However, this study concludes that a CI philosophy would be unsustainable under the current educational climate in schools. This is due to missing or under-represented CSFs, in particular those related to leadership and culture. If schools are to meet new demands associated with the external and strategic environment, it is essential that clarification and understanding between the implementation of CI and the schools' ...

EN: At the present stage, our country is opening up opportunities for integrating its culture, economy, politics and technology into the world space. Therefore, the value of a foreign language is very large, since it is a means of communication between peoples are an important instrument for integrating our homeland to world civilization; it is a means of discovery and knowledge of the world of Ukraine. All this leads to an increase in the requirements for knowledge of a foreign language acquired at school, to their use in the learning process and to the achievement of a standard level of knowledge that is adequate in the world.

Relaxation techniques have been identified as reducing physiological and behavioural manifestations of anxiety. This study considered whether these reductions were related to similar reductions in the client's self‐assessed experience of anxiety. This study replicates Lindsay and Morrison's (1996) findings of reductions in self‐assessed anxiety following relaxation training and extends these findings to a wider population. Thirty participants with moderate intellectual disabilities were assigned either to an experimental group receiving behavioural relaxation therapy or to a 'placebo' contrast group. Participants were assessed using the Zung Anxiety Inventory (Z AI), a test of short‐term memory (STM) span, an incidental learning task and a test of general knowledge. Experimental group findings suggest reductions in assessed levels of anxiety and concurrent improvements in cognitive performance with respect to STM and incidental learning, but not in general knowledge.

Purpose: This project examined potential changes in health behaviors following wellness coaching. Design: In a single cohort study design, wellness coaching participants were recruited in 2011, data were collected through July 2012, and were analyzed through December 2013. Items in the study questionnaire used requested information about 11 health behaviors, self-efficacy for eating, and goalsetting skills. Setting: Worksite wellness center. Participants: One-hundred employee wellness center members with an average age of 42 years; 90% were female and most were overweight or obese. Intervention: Twelve weeks of in-person, one-on-one wellness coaching. Method: Participants completed study questionnaires when they started wellness coaching (baseline), after 12 weeks of wellness coaching, and at a 3-month follow-up. Results: From baseline to week 12, these 100 wellness coaching participants improved their self-reported health behaviors (11 domains, 0- to 10-point scale) from an average of 6.4 to 7.7 ( p < .001), eating selfefficacy from an average of 112 to 142 (on a 0- to 180-point scale; p < .001), and goal-setting skills from an average of 49 to 55 (on a 16- to 80-point scale; p < .001). Conclusion: These results suggest that participants improved their current health behaviors and learned skills for continued healthy living. Future studies that use randomized controlled trials are needed to establish causality for wellness coaching.

The article is devoted to the definition and theoretical and methodological substantiation of priority areas for the implementation of the principles of improving dynamic relations in a complementary management system for the development of self-governing territories. In the context of the search for optimal models of development of self-governing territories, the author analyzes the types of links that operate at the state administrative and regional, subregional and local levels. In particular, to improve the political ties of self-governing territories with the state level, it is necessary to build a holistic concept of local government reform, which would include decision-making and promotion of ideas for optimal change of the existing organizational structure of self-governing territories based on political institutions. The formation of a model of balanced development of self-governing territories should be aimed at achieving long-term state goals that will help concentrate resources, increase production efficiency, form a new sectoral structure, develop new infrastructure projects that will improve cooperation between self-governing communities and improve quality of life. and the country as a whole. At the local level, it is important to establish a dialogue between the government and the community, to promote the involvement of community potential in local development; ensuring a high level of public awareness of the real situation in the community, the causal links of problems and opportunities for their solution. At the same time, changes are needed in the relationship between local authorities and the community, the use of democratic leadership, the introduction of new practices to involve and increase the activity of residents, transparent dialogue and partnership in local budget planning, quality public services and more. The key to the effectiveness of joint work is mutual trust and support in the community, a sense of belonging to a single whole and awareness of a common goal. The concept of ...

In the information age, we are offered a myriad of options through which to fulfill the exhortation to "know thyself." Tech-based initiatives—including Google Calico, which seeks to address the problems of aging and death, and Quantified Self, which looks to prompt self-improvement— offer that knowledge in the form of data. This essay explores the notion of the algorithmic body—a body built from data—and its roots in a history of projects that attempt to escape some of the fundamental aspects of the human condition, including mortality.