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:\"In the first published anthology of writing from Catapult magazine, twenty writers share stories of migration, family, the search for home and belonging, and what it means to exist between languages and cultures.\"-- Publisher's description.

Sustainable development (SD) has become a popular catchphrase in contemporary development discourse. However, in spite of its pervasiveness and the massive popularity it has garnered over the years, the concept still seems unclear as many people continue to ask questions about its meaning and history, as well as what it entails and implies for development theory and practice. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discourse on SD by further explaining the paradigm and its implications for human thinking and actions in the quest for sustainable development. This is done through extensive literature review, combining aspects of the \"Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and the Recursive Content Abstraction (RCA) analytical approach. The paper finds and argues that the entire issue of sustainable development centres around inter- and intragenerational equity anchored essentially on three-dimensional distinct but interconnected pillars, namely the environment, economy, and society. Decision-makers need to be constantly mindful of the relationships, complementarities, and trade-offs among these pillars and ensure responsible human behaviour and actions at the international, national, community and individual levels in order to uphold and promote the tenets of this paradigm in the interest of human development. More needs to be done by the key players-particularly the United Nations (UN), governments, private sector, and civil society organisations-in terms of policies, education and regulation on social, economic and environmental resource management to ensure that everyone is sustainable development aware, conscious, cultured and compliant.

Job stress is one of the most common health issues in many organizations, particularly among women. Moreover, an increase in job stress with low social support may have an adverse effect on mental well-being. This study investigated the mediating role of social support in the relationship between job stress and mental well-being among working men and women in Europe. A cross sectional data set from the 2015 6th European Working Conditions Survey on 14,603 men and 15,486 women from 35 countries in Europe was analyzed. The study applied Hayes process macro 4 modelling technique to estimate the direct, indirect, and total effects of job stress on mental well-being among working adults. The study further used the Hayes process macro 59 model to estimate the gender difference in the mediating effect. The results showed that job stress had a direct negative effect on mental well-being among workers in Europe (β=−0.2352,p<0.05). However, there were significant gender differences in the relationship (β=−0.3729,p<0.05), with women having higher effect size than men (men: β=−3.9129,p<0.05 vs. women: β=−4.2858,p<0.05). Furthermore, the indirect effect showed that social support mediated the relationship of job stress on mental well-being (β=−0.0181, CI: −0.0212−0.0153). Nevertheless, the mediating effect of social support did not differ among men and women. This study provides evidence that job stress has a negative impact on mental well-being among working adults, and social support mediates this relationship. The results highlight the importance of the role of support from colleagues and supervisors at the work place, which may help reduce job stress, and improve mental well-being. Sociological and occupational health researchers should not ignore the role of gender when studying work environment and jobs in general.

In districts where lymphatic filariasis (LF) is endemic, the goal is to provide 100% geographical coverage of the essential package of care. Additionally, countries seeking elimination status must document the availability of services for lymphoedema and hydrocele in all endemic areas. To do this, the WHO recommends conducting assessments of the readiness and quality of services provided to identify service delivery and quality gaps. This study used the recommended WHO Direct Inspection Protocol (DIP), which consists of 14 core indicators related to LF case management, medicine and commodities, staff knowledge and patient tracking. The survey was administered in 156 health facilities across Ghana designated and trained to provide LF morbidity management services. Patient and health provider interviews were also conducted to assess challenges and feedback. The highest performing indicators across the 156 surveyed facilities were related to staff knowledge; 96.6% of health workers correctly identified two or more signs and symptoms. The lowest scoring indicators concerned medication availability, with the two lowest scoring indicators in the survey being availability of antifungals (26.28%) and antiseptics (31.41%). Hospitals performed best with an overall score of 79.9%, followed by health centers (73%), clinics (67.1%) and CHPS compounds (66.8%). The most commonly reported challenge from health worker interviews was lack of medications and supplies, followed by a lack of training or poor motivation. The findings from this study can help the Ghana NTD Program identify areas of improvement as they seek to achieve LF elimination targets and continue to improve access to care for those with LF-related morbidity as part of overall health systems strengthening. Key recommendations include prioritizing refresher and MMDP training for health workers, ensuring reliable patient tracking systems, and integrating lymphatic filariasis morbidity management into the routine healthcare system to ensure medicine and commodity availably.

Health information, over the years, has been regarded as one of the crucial assets in the landscape of health on the grounds of the myriads of benefits derived from it. It plays a major role in policy planning and implementation, quality improvement, clinical decision-making, care continuity, disease surveillance, etc., making it an integral part of healthcare delivery. This substantiates the pressing need for an appropriate information governance (IG) system, ensuring proper data stewardship, measures to ensure data quality and that preserving the privacy and confidentiality of patient data are in place. As part of conscious efforts to improve health information governance, this study examines the entire information governance structure of healthcare facilities used as study areas, taking into account the effectiveness of data stewardship, data quality management and compliance with regulatory requirements. Employing a cross-sectional study design, data was collected from 432 healthcare professionals emanating from Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH), Eastern Regional Hospital Koforidua (ERHK) and Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA) Hospital, all in Ghana. A semi-structured questionnaire, demarcated into five (5) parts, was used to collect the data. Closed-ended questions were analyzed with Stata 15.0 involving frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation, standard errors and confident intervals. A chi-square test of independence was deployed to ascertain relationships between variables. Open-ended questions were coded and analyzed with Qualitative Data Analysis Miner 6.0, deploying inductive thematic analysis. The level of understanding of data stewardship (2.87/4.0), familiarity with concepts of data quality (2.73/5.0) and ethical considerations and privacy (3.13/5.0) when dealing with patient health data were found to be varied among the professionals, overall rated as moderate and affirming the need for improvement. The level of knowledge and understanding on these pertinent areas were highly influenced by type of profession (p < 0.001; p = 0.031 and, p < 0.001) respectively and been indicative that some type of health workers is much concerned about data stewardship and health information governance than others. Various methods and efforts were in place to ensure the quality of data; however, hampering these attempts included factors such as poor data collection methods, lack of resources, inadequate competency and some behavioral factors. In addition to these factors is the low level of training on data stewardship (1.86/4.0), which heavily leads to skewness in knowledge. The majority of healthcare professionals were familiar with and advocated for adherence to regulatory requirements such as HIPAA (33.7%), GDPR (21.3%) and HITECH Act (14.4%), in making data governance much robust. Efforts were also identified in ensuring privacy and confidentiality during the storage, processing and transmission of patient data mostly by deploying methods such as authentication (58.9%), use of secured computers and software (71.2%) and using secure electronic platforms (66.0%) respectively indicating a keen attention for data stewardship and governance. About 70% of healthcare professionals attested to the regular conduct of monthly compliance audits, however, the rate of training on data stewardship was discovered to be very low (1.86/4.0). There is an existence of clear policies and procedures to guide data stewardship to enhance overall information governance, however, healthcare professionals' level of knowledge on subjects of information governance ought to be enhanced. There is a need to intensify training sessions on data quality, and regulatory requirements for health information governance to mitigate the gaps in knowledge among professionals.

Significant number of women present with advanced-stage breast cancer in Ghana. These women usually depend on family caregivers for their multi-dimensional needs. Yet, there are gaps in research about what motivates family caregivers to assume the caring role and their experiences with caregiving within the Ghanaian context. To explore and describe the caregiving motivations and experiences among family caregivers of patients living with advanced breast cancer. In-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 15 family caregivers who were providing unpaid care for women living with advanced breast cancer. Colaizzi's thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Family relationship normally prescribed the caregiving role among family caregivers. Due to the lack of home-based palliative services in Ghana, findings suggest that family caregivers are the main managers of advanced breast cancer-related symptoms in the home. These findings are discussed under three major themes: (i) motivation for assuming the caregiving role; (ii) meeting self-care and psychosocial needs of the patient; and (iii) symptom management and monitoring. Socio-cultural values influence the role of family caregivers in Ghana. This presents opportunities for health professionals and relevant stakeholders to develop a culturally-appropriate intervention to support informal caregivers in their home-based care for women living with advanced breast cancer in Ghana.

PurposeThis paper investigates the combined effect of internal environmental management (IEM) and green human resource management (GHRM) on corporate reputation (CR), environmental performance (EP) and financial performance (FP). The paper further explores the indirect effects of CR and EP between the direct paths.Design/methodology/approachData are garnered from 164 firms from three industries in Ghana. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is the methodological technique used to test the hypothesized relationships.FindingsThe result demonstrates that unlike IEM which has a significant effect on FP when implemented in isolation, GHRM does not have a significant effect on FP. However, the joint implementation of IEM and GHRM can provide better results in terms of improved CR, enhanced EP and significant FP improvement. CR and EP were further found to mediate the relationship between the direct paths.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that the joint implementation of IEM and GHRM is critical for firms that seek to enjoy superior reputation, enhance their environmental sustainability and achieve financial gains. Consequently, managers are strongly encouraged to create a sustainable and vibrant company via significant and rational investment in green initiatives like IEM and GHRM.Originality/valueThis study happens to be one of the first to develop a research model that investigates the joint effect of IEM and GHRM within the context of CR, environmental sustainability and FP.