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This article presents data of a quantitative study that aimed to analyze the specifics of the wellbeing of students in disadvantaged secondary schools. A total of 1579 students of gymnasium level from 27 disadvantaged schools in Iasi County, Romania, participated in a survey conducted using the Adolescent Wellbeing Scale (EPOCH). Findings illustrate that pupils from disadvantaged schools have a low level of wellbeing, with different characteristics depending on the gender, age, environment and the level of disadvantage of the school. Results indicate that students from disadvantaged schools are satisfied with their life, develop positive interpersonal relationships, show indifference to involvement in activities and easily abandon their goals. This study confirms the importance of analyzing students' wellbeing to identify educational strategies that allow schools to be more effective from the perspective of reducing the level of violence and decreasing the level of student demotivation, problems that educational systems face nowadays.

The papers makes an analysis, with a focus on the North-East Region of Romania, of the stage of the drafting of strategic documents at national level and their correlation with regional and county planning documents, at the end of 2022. The analysis is carried out both in terms of the regional and local strategic documents, correlated with the national ones, as well as in terms of the perception held by some of the most important regional actors. The questions that the article pursues in its research approach are: How do we evaluate the preparation of projects for the new programming period 2021-2027 from the point of view of strategic planning and correlation with the documents adopted at the national/regional/local level? and . How do local actors perceive the influence on the absorption of European funds the drafting and adoption of strategic documents at national and regional level after the start of the programming period? The conclusions of the research: after two programming periods, there are still difficulties in connecting the priorities of the strategies and the preparation of local projects for accessing European funds based on the national and regional strategic documents.

The surrogacy phenomenon has existed since ancient biblical times in which the barren Sarrai offers her maid Hagar to her husband Abraham to have a child with her. This relationship formed between Hagar and Sarrai, created conflicts that exist to this day. This article was written as part of the doctoral thesis, and aims to present the nature of the relationship that exists between the Israeli intended mothers and the Israeli surrogates, the intended mothers who have chosen to apply for surrogacy outside the country's borders, and examine the relationship between the surrogates who were all Israelis to the Israeli intend mothers. The subject was explored in sociological aspects, according to Symbolic interaction Theory, which is a sociological theory that was presented to the American sociology by George Herbert Mead at the 1920s. The method that was approach is the qualitative method. The present study comprised of 70 women residing in Israel. The women's ages ranged between 22 and 64 (M = 36.59, SD = 8.53). The women were sampled from two different groups. The first group comprised of 34 intended mothers who underwent a surrogacy process (41.4%). The second group comprised of 36 surrogate mothers who have undergone a pregnancy for other couples (51.4%). Analysis of the content done on the data collected from the interviews revealed two main themes - Emotions and Values involved in the interaction between the intended mother's and the surrogate. This study opens the door to a variety of emotions and values that involve and guide the interaction between the two groups of mothers and allows a rare glimpse into the depths of the souls of women who are unable to have a child and women who are willing to fulfill another woman's dream and, thus, sometimes, their altruistic aspirations.

Surrogacy is an initiated process, whereby intended parents wish to have a child by having an embryo carried in another woman's womb and, after the birth, the baby is given to the intended parents. In Israel, giving birth and motherhood are perceived to great extent as a significant, essential and natural component of female identity and the existence of children is perceived as a vital and central element of couple-hood and family. The Israeli society encourages fertility and family expansion. This is illustrated by the support of surrogacy and fertility treatments pursuant to the Israeli Embryo Carrying Agreement Law (Agreement Authorization and Status of the Newborn Child) legislated in 1996. On the other hand, the government limits the supply of contraceptives that are included in the authorized list of medicines, pursuant to the State Health Insurance Law (Ministry of Health, 1994). Surrogacy constitutes a solution for people who wish to give birth to a child but they are unable to do so. The issue raises ethical dilemmas in the global village in which we are living. This dilemma has become more prominent in the present age, due to the corona virus crisis that entailed cancelling all flights and forcing each country to close its borders to foreign travelers. In this study, the aim is to explore and comprehend the process of surrogacy according to the economic sociological theory, called the agency theory; the relationships between the parties to the agreement; and the ethical issues stemming from this issue.

This article presents findings that emerged from a study that asked how adolescents who dropped out of schools perceived their future and whether they had an orientation toward their own future. Although numerous studies on adolescents' future orientation have been carried out in Israel, none of them focused on dropout youth. The research was conducted within the setting of the Youth Advancement Units, official bodies, part of the ministry of Education that care for youth at risk, aged 14–18 who dropped out of school or are on the verge of doing so. To conduct the study, qualitative research using grounded-theory methodology was chosen. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with sixteen youths at risk who dropped out of school were employed.

The research objective is to adapt and validate the VARK questionnaire on learning styles (Fleming, 2001, 2008) to the discipline of midwifery education in nursing – ME-VARK. The four major learning styles are: Visual, Auditory Read/write and Kinesthetic. From a sociological point of view, the working relationship between preceptor (midwife) and preceptee (student) contributes to the student's professional learning (self-efficacy in midwifery) and to the social formation of the students' identity as a midwifery practitioner. Therefore, matched learning styles between them are important for successful training, particularly in clinical practice. In order to construct the ME-VARK, following an in-depth literature review, and a documental analysis, a focus group and a Delphi procedure with in-depth literature review interviews were used to expose the subjective meanings of preceptorship relations as a social construct. Three expert-midwives that also were experienced preceptors participated in the focus group, and ten expert judges participated in six Delphi rounds (a total of 15 judgements). They were requested to propose items/responses relevant to midwifery education and then to validate the new ME-VARK. The results indicate that the chosen items are suitable to measure knowledge, competencies and learning styles in midwifery education. The adapted ME-VARK is relevant to midwifery education and encompasses the main labor stages, the central types of learning via preceptorship, and the essential topics in midwifery profession (exclusiveness). All items are relevant only to midwifery education (inclusiveness). The adapted ME-VARK was found to have all psychometric attributes: Content and construct validity, as well as face validity.

Résumé Les autorités nationales roumaines, directement ou à travers des structures intermédiaires, ont manifesté à plusieurs reprises leur intérêt pour le développement d'une stratégie nationale pour la mise en œuvre de l'éducation parentale comme forme de soutien et de consolidation des services de prévention de l'abus, de la négligence et de l'exploitation de l'enfant, de l'abandon scolaire, etc. et pour la promotion des droits des enfants. Dans ce contexte, l'étude analyse 18 programmes d'éducation des parents en Roumanie menés par diverses organisations non gouvernementales ainsi que leurs caractéristiques, en termes de contenu, de formes d'organisation, de méthodes et de catégories de bénéficiaires. La recherche souligne la nécessité de construire un système national intégré et cohérent de l'éducation parentale en Roumanie. Ceci nécessite l'élaboration de normes professionnelles, le développement d'une méthodologie pour la formation, la certification des éducateurs et l'obtention de ressources financières publiques pour développer l'éducation parentale à long terme.

The Israeli healthcare system is a universal system, based on the National Health Insurance Law 1995 (NHIL), which mandates all residents in the country to join one of four official health insurance organizations, known as 'Kupat Holim' (HMOs). This resulted in an increase in the accessibility of health services and their distribution throughout the country. Lack of physicians, especially in the peripheries, and the competition to recruit clients forced HMOs to change and expand the concept of operating medical services. One way was to establish independent health clinics (IHCs). The current study focuses on a social and cultural phenomenon that was changed and expanded following the NHIL. The research literature lacks studies addressing IHCs in the context of the impact of the NHIL on Arab society. The research design is mixed methods with a qualitative stage followed by a quantitative stage. Specifically compiled research interviews and questionnaires were built to collect information. The main findings of the studies indicated that most physicians and managers recognized the NHIL and its contribution to the population. Addressing social and environmental rewards and deciding on moral rewards at an early stage anchored in the contract from the beginning was significant and strengthened the future of contracts between HMOs and self-employed physicians. Findings and conclusions of the study indicated a need to continue operating IHCs on condition they kept initial promises and provided feedback to physicians from time to time while improving terms of engagement, visits, and problem solving when needed in a timely manner.

The aim of research is to investigate high school students who have moved to Israel from the Palestinian Authority in order to study. We used qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews. The research participants of this study were students and teachers affiliated with a high school in the North of Israel. The paper discusses those students' experiences of identity crisis between their self-identity and their national identity. The paper also voices the students' feelings of alienation and disconnection to their school community, leading to gaps in the academic, social, and familial difficulties. This study shows that these difficulties lead to a conflict of identity between their original identity – the Palestinian Authority – and their new identity as students in an Arab school in Israel. This situation might lead to feelings of disconnection and alienation, that must be addressed by the entire school community.

Group B streptococcus (GBS) during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of preterm delivery and is a leading cause of invasive infections in newborns. Rates of vaginal GBS prevalence in pregnant women vary among ethnic groups and geographical regions, with a range of 0.5-38%. The aim is to assess the prevalence rate of GBS bacteria among Jewish pregnant mothers in northern Israel, according to their level of religiosity. A cross-sectional study was pursued in 303 Jewish mothers at Ziv Medical Center, Safed of whom 89 (29.4%) were secular, 59 (19.5%) traditional, 60 (19.8%) Orthodox and 95 (31.3%) ultra-Orthodox, from December 2019-July 2020. All participants were tested for GBS from pregnancy week 35 as part of the routine medical care at their Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and submitted the GBS test result upon arrival at the hospital delivery room. The overall prevalence of GBS was 33.7%: 16.9% of the secular mothers, 25.4% of the traditional women and 46.5% of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox group (p<0.001). In a univariate regression model the risk of GBS carriage in Orthodox mothers was 2.5 times higher and 6 times higher in ultra-Orthodox mothers than in secular mothers (p for trend <0.001). The prevalence of GBS was directly and significantly associated with the level of the birthing mother's religiosity. This study shows the need for systematic GBS screening of all pregnant women, particularly of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox women, prior to their arrival in the delivery room.

This paper discusses issues of identity associated with Palestinian students' integration in an Israeli-Arab high school. These students were born to Palestinian families that are considered as 'traitors' by Arabs living in the Palestinian Authority and in the State of Israel. Their parents have working relations with the State of Israel and are therefore living in a large city at the north of the country. The students experience some kind of identity conflict between them and the Israeli-Arab students learning in the same school. The students who came with their parents from the Palestinian Authority, have difficulties to define themselves and they constantly try avoiding the question: Where are you from? They usually say they are from Jerusalem and they hold a blue identity card. Moreover, these students deal with language difficulties. School today constitutes an educational framework for a variety of students, characterized by different abilities and needs. This sets a rather complicated challenge to the school management and staff that have to open the school doors and provide a response to the students. This paper is grounded in theories of high school education, self-identity, conflict between identities of minorities and adolescence. It reviews the identity issues associated with the Palestinian children's national and self-identity, as well as the steps that school and the education system can take in order to promote their integration.

AbstractThe labour force of the migrant domestic workers (MDWs) has become one of the significant policy concerns in Asia. Most of the Asian countries are not following (or not to an equal extent) the Domestic Workers Convention 2011 (No. 189) which has been adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The objective of this article is to show the transnational variations and policy concerns of the MDWs in Asia. Based on content analysis, the authors found that there are considerable transnational variations of the MDWs in terms of their age and nature of work, legal identity, working hours, and remuneration across Asian countries. These variations have serious policy concerns in a number of areas such as lack of available data of the MDWs, working conditions, exploitations, and gender issues. The findings of the article would be an important guideline for adopting new legislation and labour policy for the MDWs in Asia.

This book, Applied Social Sciences: Social Work, is a collection of essays specific to the field of social work. The approach is both holistic (assessment of social work, burnout, counselling, history of social work, migration, models of excellence in social work, unemployment, workaholism) and atomistic (child attachment, children's rights, coping strategies and associated work - family conflict, emotional neglect, monoparental families, physical abuse, positive child disciplining, psycholog

The objective of this article was to explore the practice of child rights among the indigenous communities of Bangladesh. We used a mixed method approach to collect data from four ethnic communities in the Bandarban District of the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh. We questioned children, parents, community members, local leaders, and service providers of those communities on a number of child rights issues, for example, child education, child labor, child recreation and culture, parents' guidance to children for capacity development, and access to child rights at home and in the community according to Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty. The results showed that while the community was aware of child rights, financial vulnerability and a lack of social support meant that these rights could not be upheld in practice. The paper urges improvement of social support, including income generation activities for indigenous communities.