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Work–life balance is one of the challenges of a globalized world. The study described in this chapter aimed to identify the factors influencing the work–life balance of working mothers. Additionally, we will describe differences and similarities between the well-being and working styles of German and US-American working mothers. It is particularly difficult for mothers to be successful, because to do so, they must master the double burden of work and family. In this study, 320 working mothers were surveyed, 142 in Germany and 178 in the USA. It was found that the cultural concepts of work–life balance of these working mothers are comparable. Furthermore, differences in working styles were identified: US-Americans valued both well-being and work–life balance more strongly than Germans. In both cultures, younger mothers felt more burdened by work than older mothers. This may indicate that competences are learned with an increasing age, enabling a more successful mastery of challenges, even though an increasing age usually has a negative effect on health. The number of children, family status and education did not influence work–life balance. These findings are further discussed in this chapter.
Background: We see a growing number of older adults receiving long-term care in industrialized countries. The Healthcare Utilization Model by Andersen suggests that individual need characteristics influence utilization. The purpose of this study is to analyze correlations between need characteristics and service utilization in home care arrangements.
Methods: 1,152 respondents answered the questionnaire regarding their integration of services in their current and future care arrangements. Care recipients with high long-term care needs answered the questionnaire on their own, the family caregiver assisted the care recipient in answering the questions, or the family caregiver responded to the questionnaire on behalf of the care recipient. They were asked to rank specific needs according to their situation. We used descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
Results: Respondents are widely informed about services. Nursing services and counseling are the most used services. Short-term care and guidance and training have a high potential for future use. Day care, self-help groups, and mobile services were the most frequently rejected services in our survey. Women use more services than men and with rising age utilization increases. Long waiting times and bad health of the primary caregiver increases the chance of integrating services into the home care arrangements.
Conclusion: The primary family caregiver has a high impact on service utilization. This indicates that the whole family should be approached when offering services. Professionals should react upon the specific needs of care dependents and their families.
Reduzierung im Außer-Haus-Verzehr zu erleichtern, analysiert unsere Studie die Auswirkungen von zwei gängigen Interventionsstrategien zur Reduzierung von Speiseresten in einem ganzheitlichen Verhaltensmodell. Auf der Grundlage eines quasi-experimentellen Baseline-Interventions-Designs haben wir in einem Strukturgleichungsmodell untersucht, wie sich das Aushängen von Informationspostern und die Reduzierung von Portionsgrößen auf persönliche, soziale und umweltbezogene Faktoren auswirken. Anhand von Daten aus Online-Befragungen und Beobachtungen von 880 Gästen (503 Baseline, 377 Intervention) während zwei Wochen in einer Universitätsmensa erlaubt das vorgeschlagene Modell, die Effekte der beiden Interventionen auf die Tellerreste spezifischen Veränderungen von Verhaltensdeterminanten zuzuordnen. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass die Verringerung der Portionsgröße bei den Zielgerichten mit einer geringeren Menge an Tellerabfällen zusammenhängt, die auf bewusster Wahrnehmung, die sich in einer geringeren Bewertung der Portionsgröße ausdrückt. Die Auswirkungen des Sehens von Informationsplakaten auf veränderten persönlichen Einstellungen, subjektiven Normen und wahrgenommener Verhaltenskontrolle beruhen. Je nachdem, wie eine Person auf die Information reagiert (indem sie sich nur bemüht, alle Speisen aufzuessen, oder indem sie sich bemüht und zusätzlich ein anderes Gericht in der Kantine wählt), ergeben sich jedoch entgegengesetzte Auswirkungen auf diese Determinanten und folglich auch auf die Tellerreste. Insgesamt sprechen die differenzierten Ergebnisse zu den Interventionseffekten dafür, dass ganzheitlichere und tiefer gehende Analysen von Interventionen zur Reduktion von Essensresten und damit zu einem nachhaltigeren Lebensmittelkonsum in der Außer-Haus-Verpflegung beitragen können.
What determines ingredient awareness of consumers? : A study on ten functional food ingredients
(2014)
Given the importance of consumer awareness of functional food ingredients for healthy food choices, the aim of this study is to explore consumers’ ingredient awareness and the determinants which influence the awareness about functional food ingredients.
A sample of 200 German consumers was interviewed via CATI (computer aided telephone interview) during September 2011. The participants have been asked about their specific awareness regarding to ten functional food ingredients. Likewise, determinants like health status and health motivation have been assessed and their influence on the construct “consumers’ ingredient awareness” has been tested by employing structural equation modeling.
The study shows that consumers’ ingredient awareness varies throughout the sample. Overall it can be stated, that 19% of consumer awareness about functional food ingredients is explained through the described model based on the following predictors: age, educational level, health status, health motivation and information strategies. Among these factors, consumers’ health motivation seems to have the highest relevance to explain consumer awareness. But also the determinants information strategies as well as the education show a significant influence on consumers’ ingredient awareness. As health motivation shows the highest impact on consumers’ ingredient awareness this study underlines the importance of prevention propensity for healthy food choices.
Objectives: eHealth and innovation are often regarded as synonyms - not least because eHealth technologies and applications are new to their users. This position paper challenges this view and aims at exploring the nature of eHealth innovation against the background of common definitions of innovation and facts from the biomedical and health informatics literature. A good understanding of what constitutes innovative eHealth developments allows the degree of innovation to be measured and interpreted.
Methods: To this end, relevant biomedical and health informatics literature was searched mainly in Medline and ACM digital library. This paper presents seven facts about implementing and applying new eHealth developments hereby drawing on the experience published in the literature.
Results: The facts are: 1. eHealth innovation is relative. 2. Advanced clinical practice is the yardstick. 3. Only used and usable eHealth technology can give birth to eHealth innovatio. 4. One new single eHealth function does not make a complex eHealth innovation. 5. eHealth innovation is more evolution than revolution. 6. eHealth innovation is often triggered behind the scenes; and 7. There is no eHealth innovation without sociocultural change.
Conclusions: The main conclusion of the seven facts is that eHealth innovations have many ingredients: newness, availability, advanced clinical practice with proven outcomes, use and usability, the supporting environment, other context factors and the stakeholder perspectives. Measuring eHealth innovation is thus a complex matter. To this end we propose the development of a composite score that expresses comprehensively the nature of eHealth innovation and that breaks down its complexity into the three dimensions: i) eHealth adoption, ii) partnership with advanced clinical practice, and iii) use and usability of eHealth. In order to better understand the momentum and mechanisms behind eHealth innovation the fourth dimension, iv) eHealth supporting services and means, needs to be studied. Conceptualising appropriate measurement instruments also requires eHealth innovation to be distinguished from eHealth sophistication, performance and quality, although innovation is intertwined with these concepts. The demanding effort for defining eHealth innovation and measuring it properly seem worthwhile and promise advances in creating better systems. This paper thus intends to stimulate the necessary discussion.
Water retention properties of wood fiber based growing media and their impact on irrigation strategy
(2024)
Distribution of water and air in growing media during ebb-and-flow irrigation depends on water storage properties (water retention curve) and water transport properties (hydraulic conductivity) of the materials. Growing media with their high number of coarse pores are known to exhibit strong hysteresis, i.e., differences in the water retention properties during drying and wetting cycles. To account for potential ecological disadvantages of peat, wood fibers are commonly used as substitutes for peat in growing media. However, the wood fibers generally have higher air capacities and hydraulic conductivities and lower water capacities compared to peat which may results in necessary adaptions of the irrigation strategy. Tools to optimize irrigation systems are physically based water transport models, such as HYDRUS-1D, which is commonly used to describe water transport in soils, but not often for growing media. In this study, white peat and pure wood fibers were used to describe differences in their water retention behavior. Water retention curves (drying cycles) and hydraulic conductivities were measured with standard analytical procedures. Hysteresis of the water retention curves was analytically determined based on their capillary rise properties. The results were used with a modified HYDRUS-1D model to test model quality against measured water contents during ebb-and-flow irrigation cycles and to optimize the irrigation strategy for the different materials. The results showed that the model quality was sufficiently good only if the strong hysteresis of the water retention curves was considered during the simulation process. Different strategies were tested to modify ebb-and-flow irrigation (irrigation frequency, irrigation duration and irrigation height) in that way that the water suction in the root zone was similar to that of the peat material. Simulation results showed that significant improvements could only be reached by increasing the flooding depth in ebb-and-flow systems to ensure an optimum water supply of plants in the wood fiber based growing media.
Climate change is expected to exacerbate the current threats to freshwater ecosystems, yet multifaceted studies on the
potential impacts of climate change on freshwater biodiversity at scales that inform management planning are lacking. The aim of this study was to fill this void through the development of a novel framework for assessing climate
change vulnerability tailored to freshwater ecosystems. The three dimensions of climate change vulnerability are as
follows: (i) exposure to climate change, (ii) sensitivity to altered environmental conditions and (iii) resilience potential.
Our vulnerability framework includes 1685 freshwater species of plants, fishes, molluscs, odonates, amphibians, crayfish and turtles alongside key features within and between catchments, such as topography and connectivity. Several
methodologies were used to combine these dimensions across a variety of future climate change models and scenarios. The resulting indices were overlaid to assess the vulnerability of European freshwater ecosystems at the catchment scale (18 783 catchments). The Balkan Lakes Ohrid and Prespa and Mediterranean islands emerge as most
vulnerable to climate change. For the 2030s, we showed a consensus among the applied methods whereby up to 573
lake and river catchments are highly vulnerable to climate change. The anthropogenic disruption of hydrological
habitat connectivity by dams is the major factor reducing climate change resilience. A gap analysis demonstrated that
the current European protected area network covers <25% of the most vulnerable catchments. Practical steps need to
be taken to ensure the persistence of freshwater biodiversity under climate change. Priority should be placed on
enhancing stakeholder cooperation at the major basin scale towards preventing further degradation of freshwater
ecosystems and maintaining connectivity among catchments. The catchments identified as most vulnerable to climate
change provide preliminary targets for development of climate change conservation management and mitigation
strategies.