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This article updates and further develops the reflections of "Urbanization and Sustainability after the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Motta 2020). It is now even more urgent to focus on the urban–rural relationships that are being modified by the pandemic, climate change, and the impacts of conflicts, causing serious human insecurities and increasing precarious circumstances worldwide. The fast-changing situation and recurrent emergencies confirm the need for a new urban development approach, related to the specificities of the surrounding environment and based on the revival of towns and settlements spread over territories. This should function as a complementary tool to mitigate urbanization flows and urban–rural gaps, identifying new relationships. This requires the review of current urban paradigms, which are no longer able to respond to modified conditions and demands with an innova-tive vision. This is actualized on the basis of the principles of the social quality theory (SQT) and approach (SQA) and their emphasis on processes in and between the four relevant dimensions of societal life. In the past decade, these principles have been developed tentatively in working papers about sustainability and urban issues from a social quality perspective. © The Author(s).
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Background: Workplace violence (WPV) has consequences both for healthcare workers and healthcare organizations. Nurses are the most exposed healthcare workers to vertical WPV. Aims and Objectives: Describe the Italian WPV and identify its predictive factors. Method(s): This is a secondary analysis conducted in hospital pneumology settings from a larger study between January and April 2021. Data were collected through the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI;Likert scale 1 to 4) and the Violence in Emergency Nursing and Triage (VENT) Questionnaire. Result(s): The analysis was conducted on 484 pulmonary nurses (72.9% female;mean age 38.9 years, SD 9.8). Thirty-four per cent (n=164) of them have had an experience of WPV in last year and/or their last week and 16.7% (n=81) only in their last week. Comparing main results between nurses with WPV vs no WPV the number of patients was higher for nurses with WPV (MD +4.8;p<.001). The PES-NWI results were significantly worse for nurses with WPV: global mean scores (MD +0.2;p<.001);nurse participation in hospital affairs (MD +0.3;p<.001);nurse manager ability leadership, and support of nurses (MD +0.2;p<.001);physician-nurse relationship (MD +0.2;p<.001). Conclusion(s): Public health companies should reduce WPV by investing in resources for the management and prevention of the phenomenon. Integrated and multimodal programs of prevention and management of WPV are useful to combat it. Improving the work environment and job satisfaction should reduce WPV.
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The Covid 19 pandemic has certainly caused changes that are destined to remain in many sectors, processes already underway for some years, among these the impacts on the entire tourism sector are most significant. Mass tourism of large numbers is unlikely to return as it was before the pandemic, due to a lower economic budget of average users in the coming years, to the logistical difficulties of long-range travel, and to a substantial exhaustion of the all-inclusive and low-cost model. In this renewed scenario, cultural tourism, also including the environmental one relating to cultural landscapes, assumes a particular role, also taking into account a growing demand from increasingly consistent flows to visit and learn about destinations different from traditional cities. art and territories still not well known. There is the opportunity to further enhance all aspects of cultural heritage, both the material one of monuments and sites, and the specific intangible one for each site and local community, overwhelmed by models of globalized tourism in recent decades, starting with the revival of traditions, music, handicrafts, gastronomy, etc. intangible assets to be preserved and re-evaluated. similarly, an action to safeguard and recover tangible assets, represented by the built heritage, monuments and minor sites. The session purpose is to animate the scientific debate on Cultural tourism as a fundamental element of the integrated and sustainable development of smaller towns, villages and rural agglomerates and their surrounding territories, supported by public authorities and private operators, collaboration with local communities. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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In Italy, SARS-CoV-2 outbreak registered a high transmission and disease rates. During the acute phase, oncologists provided to re-organize services and prioritize treatments, in order to limit viral spread and to protect cancer patients. The progressive reduction of the number of infections has prompted Italian government to gradually loosen the national confinement measures and to start the "Second phase" of measures to contain the pandemic. The issue on how to organize cancer care during this post-acute SARS-CoV-2 phase appears crucial and a reassessment of healthcare services is needed requiring new models of care for oncological patients. In order to address major challenges in cancer setting during post-acute SARS-CoV-2 phase, this work offers multidimensional solutions aimed to provide a new way to take care of cancer patients.