New Strategic Direction for Alcohol and Drugs (2006-2011) Executive Summary

Executive Summary and Strategy Document (May 2006) The New Strategic Direction has a set of overarching long-term aims to: • Provide accessible and effective treatment and support for people who are consuming alcohol and/or using drugs in a potentially hazardous, harmful or dependent way. • Reduce the level, breadth and depth of alcohol and drug-related harm to users, their families and/or their carers and the wider community. • Increase awareness on all aspects of alcohol and drug-related harm in all settings and for all age groups. • Integrate those policies which contribute to the reduction of alcohol and drug-related harm into all Government Department strategies. • Develop a competent skilled workforce across all sectors that can respond to the complexities of alcohol and drug use and misuse. • Promote opportunities for those under the age of 18 years to develop appropriate skills, attitudes and behaviours to enable them to resist societal pressures to drink alcohol and/or use illicit drugs, with a particular emphasis on those identified as potentially vulnerable. • Reduce the availability of illicit drugs in Northern Ireland

New Strategic Direction for Alcohol and Drugs (2006-2011) (PDF 976 KB)

Strategy Document - May 2006

Anaesthetics, Pain Relief and Critical Care Follow Up (PDF 797 KB)

In 2003/2004 the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety commissioned a value for money follow-up audit of Anaesthetics, Pain Relief and Critical Care (APRCC) services at twelve Trusts and covering fourteen hospital sites. The original study had reported in 1999/2000. Detailed follow-up reports, together with action plans have been agreed locally with Trusts. The objectives of the follow-up review were to: • Ascertain the progress made in implementing recommendations from the original study; • Provide data to compare performance across Trusts in areas such as: - Pre-operative assessments; - Organisation of post-operative pain relief; - Organisation of chronic pain services; - Levels of admissions to critical care units; - Occupancy in critical care units; and åÊ • Assess the extent of progress made by Trusts in the implementation of the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) recommendations from ‘Facing the Future –Building on the Lessons of Winter 1999/2000’. To enable comparisons across Trusts, data was collected for the financial year 2002/2003. In addition, relevant findings from the Audit Commission’s Acute Hospitals Portfolio have also been included. The Acute Hospital Portfolio is a collection of reviews that are undertaken at acute and specialist Trusts. They focus on key service areas and are reported along the key performance criteria of patient experience, efficiency and capacity. åÊ

Healthcare Associated Infection Conference March 2006 Information (PDF 200 KB)

Healthcare Associated Infection Conference March 2006 Information

Key Indicators of Personal Social Services for Northern Ireland 2003

Social Services expenditure and provision in NI

New Targeting Social Need Action Plan 2000 (PDF 2000 KB)

This report sets out New Targeting Social Need actions for 2000.

Review Of Public Administration: Consultation On Draft Legislation To Establish Five New Integrated Health And Social Services Trusts

Reform of HPSS

El comportamiento penalmente relevante en el delito de defraudación tributaria: una propuesta político-criminal

El sistema tributario es fundamental en el Estado social y democrático de Derecho, pues el ejercicio y efectivo disfrute de muchos derechos fundamentales depende del correcto funcionamiento de la actividad tributaria. Además de esto, la situación económica actual demanda una adecuada política en contra del fraude tributario, lo que necesariamente implica analizar si el modelo penal vigente es el más adecuado para enfrentar el fraude fiscal. Teniendo en cuenta que muchas de las características de la criminalidad tributaria no son exclusivas de un país, pues ésta trasciende habitualmente las fronteras de los países por medio del recurso a empresas multinacionales o la localización de empresas en “paraísos fiscales”, el análisis del fraude tributario no debe limitarse al examen jurídico del modelo legislativo español, debiendo trascender a un estudio de política criminal que vincula consideraciones criminológicas y jurídicas. En consecuencia, en esta investigación se propone un análisis que no se reduce a los debates exclusivamente jurídicos. Se busca, además, efectuar un examen que tenga por fundamento una perspectiva criminológica y de Law in action a fin de evaluar críticamente la respuesta a la criminalidad tributaria por parte del modelo de regulación penal vigente en España. Esta orientación permitirá una más amplia comprensión del fenómeno de la criminalidad tributaria, así como de las categorías jurídicas adecuadas político criminalmente para su prevención. Este estudio interdisciplinario nos conducirá, al final de la investigación, tanto a proponer la interpretación del modelo de legislación penal vigente, como una reforma al mismo que pretenda solucionar algunos de los problemas de prevención que a lo largo de la investigación se señalan.

Work motivation and pro-social behavior in the delivery of public services : theoretical and empirical insights

This Ph.D. dissertation seeks to study the work motivation of employees in the delivery of public services. The questioning on work motivation in public services in not new but it becomes central for governments which are now facing unprecedented public debts. The objective of this research is twofold : First, we want to see if the work motivation of employees in public services is a continuum (intrinsic and extrinsic motivations cannot coexist) or a bi-dimensional construct (intrinsic and extrinsic motivations coexist simultaneously). The research in public administration literature has focused on the concept of public service motivation, and considered motivation to be uni-dimensional (Perry and Hondeghem 2008). However, no study has yet tackled both types of motivation, the intrinsic and extrinsic ones, in the same time. This dissertation proposes, in Part I, a theoretical assessment and an empirical test of a global work motivational structure, by using a self-constructed Swiss dataset with employees from three public services, the education sector, the security sector and the public administrative services sector. Our findings suggest that work motivation in public services in not uni-dimensional but bi-dimensional, the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations coexist simultaneously and can be positively correlated (Amabile et al. 1994). Our findings show that intrinsic motivation is as important as extrinsic motivation, thus, the assumption that employees in public services are less attracted by extrinsic rewards is not confirmed for this sample. Other important finding concerns the public service motivation concept, which, as theoretically predicted, represents the major motivational dimension of employees in the delivery of public services. Second, the theory of public service motivation makes the assumption that employees in public services engage in activities that go beyond their self-interest, but never uses this construct as a determinant for their pro-social behavior. In the same time, several studies (Gregg et al. 2011 and Georgellis et al. 2011) bring evidence about the pro-social behavior of employees in public services. However, they do not identify which type of motivation is at the origin of this behavior, they only make the assumption of an intrinsically motivated behavior. We analyze the pro-social behavior of employees in public services and use the public service motivation as determinant of their pro-social behavior. We add other determinants highlighted by the theory of pro-social behavior (Bénabou and Tirole 2006), by Le Grand (2003) and by fit theories (Besley and Ghatak 2005). We test these determinants on Part II and identify for each sector of activity the positive or the negative impact on pro-social behavior of Swiss employees. Contrary to expectations, we find, for this sample, that both intrinsic and extrinsic factors have a positive impact on pro-social behavior, no crowding-out effect is identified in this sample. We confirm the hypothesis of Le Grand (2003) about the positive impact of the opportunity cost on pro-social behavior. Our results suggest a mix of action-oriented altruism and out-put oriented altruism of employees in public services. These results are relevant when designing incentives schemes for employees in the delivery of public services.

Aprendiendo de los caciques

Esta ponencia versa sobre la dificultad de investigar un tema tan escurridizo y oculto como son los sistemas políticos informales, las vías que los caciques emplean para suplantar al (imaginado) Estado democrático de Derecho y los medios con los que aglutinan a sus clientelas (pan, palo y símbolos). De todo ello, las conclusiones que se pueden extraer transitan entre dos planos: en primer lugar, desde la metodología, mi objetivo es demostrar que el antropólogo es el investigador social que está en mejor disposición de abordar un objeto de estudio como el caciquismo, gracias sobre todo al método etnológico. Siguiendo a Knight, ello requiere de doscompetencias profesionales de corte geertziano: la capacidad de inmersión y la descripción densa (Knight y Pansters, 2005). Cierta dosis de fortuna y un punto de arrojo también deben entrar en la ecuación. Además, un breve repaso por las aproximaciones teóricas más destacadas (desde la ciencia política, la economía política, la historia, la antropología, etc.) servirán para contextualizar los estudios similares. De esta manera, se va a realizar una revisión crítica y abierta a la posición teórica que sostiene la ausencia de Estado y a la del concepto de intermediación, apuntando hacia la integración y la continuidad de lógicas, discursos y prácticas entre los diversos actores políticos, tanto locales como de fuera de las comunidades.

Evaluation des activités de prévention du VIH/sida dans le canton de Genève, période 2006

Les principaux objets abordés au cours de l'évaluation en 2006 sont : 1. Le suivi de l'évolution des nouveaux cas de VIH et des comportements dans un des groupes spécifiques, à savoir les consommateurs de drogues par injection (comparaison 2000-2002-2006); 2. La poursuite du monitoring des activités des associations institué en 2005 et le suivi des recommandations émises dans le rapport 2005; 3. La révision des indicateurs proposés dans les contrats de partenariat et la définition des indicateurs de processus et des objectifs visés à moyen terme; 4. L'appréciation des synergies et des complémentarités du dispositif, en particulier des activités de prévention, dans le domaine des migrants, après les recommandations émises en 2005; 5. L'exploration des possibilités de comparer les clientèles et la demande de test dans les centres de test anonyme de Checkpoint et des HUG. Dans ce rapport figure en premier lieu le bilan épidémiologique et la présentation de l'évolution des comportements dans deux groupes cible à savoir les personnes séropositives et les consommateurs de drogues par injection. Les résultats des monitorings des activités des associations sont ensuite présentés en regard des recommandations émises dans le précédent rapport d'évaluation. La collaboration dans le travail effectué auprès des migrants fait l'objet d'un chapitre en soi alors que pour les objectifs 3 et 5 un bref résumé présente le travail effectué. [Extrait Introduction p. 5]

A legalidade como forma de Estado de direito

O presente estudo visa a demonstrar que o Estado legal, assim como concebido por Weber e Kelsen, não pode ser identificado com o Estado de direito, mesmo que a legalidade seja uma condição necessária deste. Isso acontece porque a legalidade não é uma condição suficiente do Estado de direito em razão de não resolver adequadamente o que Habermas nοmeia de dialιtica entre igualdade de fato e de direito. O texto apresenta, a seguir, a partir de Habermas, quatro fases de juridicizaηão: 1] o Estado absolutista burguês; 2] o Estado burguês de direito; 3] o Estado democrático de direito e 4] o Estado social e democrático de direito. As três últimas fases são figurações conceituais do Estado de direito, regulando, verticalmente, a relação dos indivíduos para com o Estado e, horizontalmente, a relação para com o mercado. Por fim, apresentam-se os efeitos colaterais advindos de cada uma dessas fases de figuração do Estado de direito. Defende-se a tese de que tais efeitos são decorrência de uma perspectiva substancialista do Estado de direito, que interpreta os sujeitos apenas como atores, ou destinatários de direitos. Tais problemas são melhor resolvidos por uma perspectiva procedimental do Estado de direito, a qual, ao tratar os sujeitos como autores, pode contar com uma perspectiva autocorretiva dos problemas decorrentes do que Weber chamou de materialização do direito.

Aspectos nutricionais em obesos antes e após a cirurgia bariátrica

OBJETIVO: Determinar perfil clínico-nutricional de pacientes obesos submetidos à cirurgia bariátrica, no HC/UFPE. MÉTODOS: Foram avaliados retrospectivamente, 205 pacientes, no período 2002/2006. A análise considerou história clínica para diabetes tipo 2 (DM 2), hipertensão arterial (HA) e síndrome metabólica (SM). O estado nutricional pré-operatório foi avaliado pelo IMC e bioquímica (hemoglobina, hematócrito, albumina, proteínas totais, triglicérides (TG), colesterol associado à lipoproteína de alta (HDLc) e baixa (LDLc) densidade e glicemia de jejum (GJ). Nos períodos pós-operatórios (6, 12, 18, 24 meses) a avaliação nutricional foi feita pelas medidas de peso, perda ponderal, percentual de perda de peso (%PP), IMC e bioquímica incluindo ferro, ferritina e transferrina. RESULTADOS: 71,2% eram do sexo feminino, idade de 38,4 ± 9,96 anos, 129,66±27,40 Kg e IMC 48,6 ± 8,9 Kg/m², no pré-operatório. Receberam o diagnóstico de SM 26,8%, HA 52,7% e DM 2 11,7%. A bioquímica revelou TG, LDLc, GJ elevados, estando normais os demais parâmetros. Evolução antropométrica demonstrou perda ponderal progressiva, atingindo aos 24 meses IMC 31,7±5,82 Kg/m² (p< 0,001) e maior %PP (36,05%). Valores de TG, LDLc e GJ atingiram a normalidade a partir do 6° mês pós-operatório: 104,4mg/dL(p=0,018), 95,5mg/dL(p=0,263) e 84,8g/dL(p=0,004), respectivamente; transferrina apresentou valores reduzidos aos 6 meses. Prevalência maior dos sintomas ocorreu no 6° mês: alopécia (19%), vômitos (18%), intolerância alimentar (12,2%). CONCLUSÃO: A Cirurgia bariátrica foi um procedimento eficaz para promover perda ponderal e sua manutenção por dois anos, assim como melhora de parâmetros bioquímicos e co-morbidades, com sintomas clínico-nutricionais reduzidos e/ou evitados por monitorização nutricional.