The increasing incorporation of genomics in clinical practice underscores the need to improve genomics knowledge and familiarity among future health care providers. To this end, it is important to ...consider both the "push" and the "pull" factors that shape or determine the transition of new personalized medicine (PM) discoveries to clinical practice. One of the pull factors involves the attitudes, values, and education of the user communities such as patients, physicians, and scientists who are poised to use the PM diagnostics. Among the push factors are often health scientists who contribute to PM science and development efforts. Seen in this light, health sciences trainees represent both the push and pull factors, not to mention the next generation of stakeholders and innovation actors who will make PM a reality in mainstream medical practice in the future. Τhis study aimed at investigating and comparing awareness and attitudes (ethical and other) on pharmacogenomics (PGx) and PM adoption among undergraduate students from the school of health sciences and other students. A convenience sample was used in this survey in two groups of students: 205 students from the School of Health Sciences and 141 students from other schools (e.g., biology, computer engineering, and business administration) of the University of Patras, Greece, and mostly at undergraduate education level. We observed that despite the relatively low level of awareness about genetics, PGx, and relevant notions, both groups of students were very optimistic about the genetic testing usefulness and professed their positive anticipations about PGx on disease management. Thus, health sciences students and those in other faculties appeared to be avid proponents of genetics testing and in favor of public endorsement of the concepts of individually tailored medicine. This case study in Greece is one of the first studies on perceptions and attitudes toward PGx testing and PM in Southern Europe. Of importance, the study informs the prospects and challenges on the push and pull factors of PM innovation while offering potential lessons for future PM curriculum needs in health sciences in other countries in Europe.
Aims
To determine the main driving factors affecting the senior nursing students in their decision to migrate and to evaluate the effect of attitude towards migration in career planning.
Background
...In order to promote the nursing workforce, it is important to understand the factors affecting the decisions to migrate.
Method
A cross‐sectional study was conducted with 1,410 Turkish nursing students. The data, which were collected using the Descriptive Form and Attitude Scale for Brain Drain (BD‐s), were analysed with the multiple regression and decision tree analysis.
Results
The mean score of attitudes towards migration was 56.30 ± 12.09 (min 16‐ max 80). The main push–pull drivers to migrate were the socio‐political factors and working conditions. The BD‐s score was higher in the participants, who had overseas experience, had career plans and studied in a metropolitan city. The strongest variable predicting career planning was the attitude towards migration.
Conclusion
The opinions of the students on career planning and their intentions to migrate indicated that the shortage of nurses would continue in Turkey in the future.
Implications for Nursing Management
The prospects of the nursing candidates regarding the nursing profession should be addressed considering their expectations for initial salaries, career development and salary increases.
Participating in tourism activities in crowded areas such as cities during the COVID-19 pandemic represents a risk. This study examined the demographic and psychological features of Taiwanese ...domestic urban tourists during the pandemic in 2021. The theoretical framework was based on push–pull motivation, self-concordance, and push–pull–mooring theories. The 680 valid questionnaire responses indicated that the respondents were generally interested in domestic urban tourism despite the pandemic threat. Moreover, 187 respondents regarded themselves as urban tourism seekers. Their demographic features were consistent with the typical primary urban tourism market profile: they were young, highly educated, and employed in skilled occupations. In terms of psychological features, the push factors, representing the individuals' intrinsic urban tourism motivations, were more potent than the pull factors, representing a city's tourism opportunities, as motivational drivers for increasing seekers' urban tourism intention during the pandemic. The methodology and findings of this study strengthen the literature on urban tourism and pandemic recovery.
By tradition, the human trafficking discourse focuses on cross-border sex trafficking from impoverished countries to countries with a high standard of living. This article explores whether identified ...trafficking in the Netherlands corresponds to this. We introduce a model that identifies all possible trafficking situations, and with this, intends to prevent tunnel vision and identify blind spots. Subsequently, we analyze 768 trafficking cases identified by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (2008-2012) and categorize each case according to our model: by form of exploitation and route of trafficking. The data show that (near-)domestic sex trafficking where victims are not pushed out of impoverished countries, but are recruited on native (or neighboring) soil, is the human trafficking situation most commonly identified.
Surges of international fund flows Li, Suxiao; de Haan, Jakob; Scholtens, Bert
Journal of international money and finance,
04/2018, Letnik:
82
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
•We examine determinants of occurrence and magnitude of surges in international equity and bond fund flows.•Global factors are statistically significant, but not economically so.•It shows that ...especially domestic pull and contagion factors drive surges.•Domestic factors specifically affect the magnitude of surges.
We examine the determinants of the occurrence and magnitude of surges of fund flows, i.e. aggregate cross-border investments in local equity and bond markets by global funds, such as mutual funds, exchange traded funds, closed-end funds and hedge funds. Our analysis, based on monthly data for 55 countries, suggests that although most global factors are significant, they can only explain a small part of the surges in fund flows. Domestic pull factors and contagion factors increase the explanatory power of the model. Our results also suggest that notably domestic factors affect the magnitude of surges.
Working holidays have become a fast-growing phenomenon in China, yet research pertaining to this segment is scarce. This study explores the travel motivations, expectations and satisfaction Chinese ...Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) experienced with respect to their working holiday experiences in Australia. Fifteen interviews were conducted with Chinese WHMs pursuing a variety of work placements. Four key motivations and five important destination attributes were revealed along with a number of satisfaction determinants. Practical solutions for destination marketers as to how to reach and appeal to this viable market segment and improve the working holiday experience for Chinese youth are provided.
This study examines the effects of push and pull motivations linked to an individual's personal and social identities as key antecedents to escape for travel. In terms of push factors, escape for ...travel is driven from a personal identity perspective by the need for evaluation of self and regression and from a social identity perspective by the need for social interaction but not enhancement of kinship. Cultural motives that reflect personal identity positively influence escape for travel than destination pull factors linked to social identity. Overall, the study contributes to the existing knowledge on push and pull tourist motivations.
•Manufacturing allows dynamic, sustained gains in skill, technology, and innovation.•Not all countries can simultaneously industrialize to develop their economies.•Competition in global markets has ...led some countries to deindustrialize prematurely.•The high-productivity services have limited potential to absorb a lot of labor.•Thus, there is need to strengthen private economic fundamentals and public policy.
This paper takes a fresh look at the current theories of structural transformation and the role of private and public fundamentals in the process. It summarizes some representative past and current experiences of various countries vis-a-vis structural transformation with a focus on the roles of manufacturing, policy, and the changing nature of global production in shaping the trajectory of structural transformation. The salient aspects of the current debate on premature deindustrialization and its relation to a middle-income trap are described as they relate to the path of structural transformation. Conclusions are drawn regarding prospective future paths for structural transformation and development policies as well as for the need for further empirical analysis to inform our current understanding of the process of economic development.
By conducting a case study on eight large family firms, the aim of this article is to identify push and pull factors motivating family firms to internationalize and how they relate to ...decision-makers’ risk taking. We identified different types of internationalizing family firms. While some are pushed towards international markets by competition and put at risk the stock of affect-related value that the family has invested in the firm (socioemotional wealth), others face a “mixed gamble” of push and pull factors especially when they are led by non-family managers.
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