Search results
1 – 10 of 118The purpose of this paper is to consider primary prevention from the perspective of person-based crime prevention. This crime prevention measure is illustrated by an Australian…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider primary prevention from the perspective of person-based crime prevention. This crime prevention measure is illustrated by an Australian case study. The report also recognises the integral role the community plays in the delivery of primary person-based crime prevention.
Design/methodology/approach
This short paper adopts a case study approach.
Findings
The paper illustrates the purpose and achievements of primary person-based crime prevention, including the success it has in reducing crime and improving feelings of safety in the community. The important role of community members and their contribution to this crime prevention method is offered.
Practical implications
The practical implications this paper offers are to ensure community members are involved in the delivery of primary person-based crime prevention, to explicitly measure the contribution community members make to primary person-based crime prevention initiatives, to explicitly measure the contribution primary person-based crime prevention makes to the reduction of crime, and to build on the known success of primary person-based crime prevention through the implementation of more initiatives within this area of crime prevention.
Originality/value
Primary person-based crime prevention can be overlooked in favour of primary place-based crime prevention. This short paper offers an insight into an overlooked aspect of crime prevention.
Details
Keywords
The purpose of this paper is to construct a model for factors that affect on‐line consumer behavior intentions and post‐purchasing behavior by: integrating the decomposed theory…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to construct a model for factors that affect on‐line consumer behavior intentions and post‐purchasing behavior by: integrating the decomposed theory of planned behavior, technology acceptance model, and relationship quality; identifying the difference of industries in their effect on consumer behavior; and inferring management implications from implementing empirical data analysis based on the structural equation model.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper investigates samples of banking and travel agents' customers in Taiwan, selected from four metropolitan areas, using stratified random sampling and LISREL hypotheses testing.
Findings
The paper finds differences in the management of banking and tourism industries, regarding professional “brand image”; the affect of “subjective norm”; “perceived risk” and “gap of perceived service quality.” “Product involvement” has no significant influence on “actual behavior”. Intervening variables such as product attribute, personal character of consumers exist in the relationship of product involvement and actual behavior.
Research limitations/implications
The paper combines different theories and discusses many variables, so the verification and explanation of this study model may not be complete enough. It is suggested that researchers may aim at a single theory and discuss fewer variables to give a more comprehensive and deepened argumentation.
Practical implications
This paper gives very useful, practical marketing suggestions for person‐based services.
Originality/value
The value of this paper lies in its presentation of a model for factors that affect on‐line consumer behavior intentions and post‐purchasing behavior.
Details
Keywords
Inge Bongers, Hans van Oers, Henk Garretsen, Ien van de Goor and André Wierdsma
Background: The central issue of this paper is whether the intuitive relation between problematic drinking and seeking professional help holds. To shed light on this issue an…
Abstract
Background: The central issue of this paper is whether the intuitive relation between problematic drinking and seeking professional help holds. To shed light on this issue an ecological study is done in which the relation between different drinking patterns, alcohol‐related harm, and help‐seeking behaviour at the neighbourhood level of Rotterdam, The Netherlands is examined. Two questions are posed:1. Are there geographical differences in drinking patterns, alcohol problems, problem drinking, and number of alcohol clients within the city of Rotterdam?2. Is there a relation between drinking patterns, alcohol‐related harm, and help‐seeking behaviour at the neighbourhood level?Methods: Ecological analyses are conducted based on individual data originating from a survey and person‐based registers. Respondents to the survey were classified as abstainers, light, moderate or excessive drinkers, and were classified as having alcohol‐related problems and/or being a problem drinker. Person‐based registers were used to obtain data on the number of ambulatory and clinical alcohol clients in Rotterdam. The number of ambulatory and clinical clients measured help‐seeking behaviour.Results: The intuitive reasoning that the more problematic drinkers, the more professional help is sought does not stand. No association was found between the number of alcohol clients and the percentage of excessive drinkers and problem drinkers at the neighbourhood level. Large differences between neighbourhoods in prevalence of excessive drinking, alcohol‐related problems and problem drinking were found. The number of alcohol clients, however, varied much less between neighbourhoods. A notable result is that the higher the percentage of abstainers, the lower the number of alcohol clients in a neighbourhood.Discussion: It was concluded that in all neighbourhoods the number of problem drinkers outnumbers those seeking professional help, indicating a friction between need and supply of help with respect to problematic drinking. It is hypothesised that besides drinking behaviour and drinking‐related problems individual, as well as social and cultural factors, play a role in the process of help‐seeking behaviour.
Details
Keywords
The purpose of this study is to test a comprehensive routine activity framework on three types of online victimization. Prior research has utilized routine activity theory to…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to test a comprehensive routine activity framework on three types of online victimization. Prior research has utilized routine activity theory to explain varied online forms of victimization, but most have focused on its person-based forms. The present study, therefore, expands upon this research to examine the effects of online exposure, online target suitability and online guardianship upon phishing, hacking and malware infection victimization.
Design/methodology/approach
Secondary data from the 23rd Cycle of the Canadian GSS were used to address the study’s research questions using binary logistic regression analyses.
Findings
Particular online behaviors were consistently and positively related to all three types of online victimization, including booking/making reservations, social networking and having one’s information posted online. Other online routines exhibited unique effects on online victimization risk.
Originality/value
In support of the theory, the results suggest that online exposure and target suitability increase risks for phishing, hacking and malware victimization. Online guardianship was also positively related to victimization, a finding that runs counter to theoretical expectations.
Details
Keywords
Angela Me and Margaret Mbogoni
The aim of the paper is to review the experiences of developing countries in collecting disability data with regard to the methods and definitions used. The review is based on…
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to review the experiences of developing countries in collecting disability data with regard to the methods and definitions used. The review is based on data in the United Nations Disability Statistics Database, version 2 (DISTAT-2). We analyze the prevalence rates of disability in relation to the characteristics of questions used to identify persons with disabilities and the relationship between disability prevalence and other social and economic indicators. The wide difference in approaches used by countries to identify persons with disabilities result in very different rates of disability prevalence, thus making the comparison of these rates very problematic. The paper gives suggestions on how to improve methods to collect data on disability.
Kai N. Bergner, Tomas Falk, Daniel Heinrich and Jörg A. Hölzing
This paper aims to examine how direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in terms of endorser selection and message tonality affect patients' self-efficacy, response efficacy, and…
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to examine how direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in terms of endorser selection and message tonality affect patients' self-efficacy, response efficacy, and compliance.
Design/methodology/approach
This study employed a 3 (Endorser: physician, patient, or celebrity)×2 (Tonality: supportive vs threatening) experimental design. Subjects were 1,211 people with diabetes from Germany.
Findings
First, the study shows that the interaction between message sender and tonality significantly affects all dependent variables such as self-efficacy, response efficacy, and patient compliance. Second, physicians as endorsers work best when they use unfavorable, threatening arguments. The results are significant for all dependent variables such as self-efficacy, response efficacy, and patient compliance. Most surprisingly, patients judge attitude significantly higher if physicians use threatening instead of supportive argumentation. Third, tonality does not play a dominant role for patients as person-based testimonials. Fourth, a celebrity performs best by using a supportive message. With regard to stimulating health outcome (self-efficacy, response efficacy, and patient compliance) the celebrity has a significant impact in the supportive rather than in the threatening condition.
Originality/value
This is the first empirical study that examines the effects of DTCA in terms of endorser selection and message tonality on patients' self-efficacy, response efficacy, and compliance.
Details
Keywords
There has been considerable discussion of the nature and scope ofinformation that purchasers and providers must acquire and use in thepost‐review NHS. Somewhat surprisingly, this…
Abstract
There has been considerable discussion of the nature and scope of information that purchasers and providers must acquire and use in the post‐review NHS. Somewhat surprisingly, this has not been complemented by discussion of the potential for computer systems to support information management. This is in spite of the publication of the NHS Information Management and Technology Strategy, which seems set to shape the way in which purchasers and providers manage data into the next century, and expenditure on computer systems which will be in the order of hundreds of millions of pounds over the next few years. Discusses some of the key challenges involved in implementing an IT infrastructure across the NHS, and identifies five issues which will substantially determine the success of the strategy.
Details
Keywords
Felix Gradinger, Julian Elston, Sheena Asthana, Chloe Myers, Sue Wroe and Richard Byng
This integrated care study seeks to highlight how voluntary sector “wellbeing co-ordinators” co-located in a horizontally and vertically integrated, multidisciplinary community…
Abstract
Purpose
This integrated care study seeks to highlight how voluntary sector “wellbeing co-ordinators” co-located in a horizontally and vertically integrated, multidisciplinary community hub within one locality of an Integrated Care Organisation contribute to complex, person-centred, co-ordinated care.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a naturalistic, mixed method and mixed data study. It is complementing a before-and-after study with a sub-group analysis of people receiving input from the wider hub (including Wellbeing Co-ordination and Enhanced Intermediate Care), qualitative case studies, interviews, and observations co-produced with embedded researchers-in-residence.
Findings
The cross-case analysis uses trajectories and outcome patterns across six client groups to illustrate the bio-psycho-social complexity of each group across the life course, corresponding with the range of inputs offered by the hub.
Research limitations/implications
To consider the effectiveness and mechanisms of complex system-wide interventions operating at horizontal and vertical interfaces and researching this applying co-produced, embedded, naturalistic and mixed methods approaches.
Practical implications
How a bio-psycho-social approach by a wellbeing co-ordinator can contribute to improved person reported outcomes from a range of preventive, rehabilitation, palliative care and bereavement services in the community.
Social implications
To combine knowledge about individuals held in the community to align the respective inputs, and expectations about outcomes while considering networked pathways based on functional status, above diagnostic pathways, and along a life-continuum.
Originality/value
The hub as a whole seems to (1) Enhance engagement through relationship, trust and activation, (2) Exchanging knowledge to co-create a shared bio-psycho-social understanding of each individual’s situation and goals, (3) Personalising care planning by utilising the range of available resources to ensure needs are met, and (4) Enhancing co-ordination and ongoing care through multi-disciplinary working between practitioners, across teams and sectors.
Details
Keywords
Food waste behavior in the workplace or work-related gatherings has been less researched compared to that in household context. This study aims to bridge this gap through…
Abstract
Purpose
Food waste behavior in the workplace or work-related gatherings has been less researched compared to that in household context. This study aims to bridge this gap through unfolding how and when quality of food waste prevention communication mitigates food waste behavior among frontline employees in the hospitality workplace.
Design/methodology/approach
Participants in this research comprised employees from four- and five-star hotels operating in Vietnam.
Findings
The results lent credence to the dual mediation channels of moral attitudes toward food wasting and meaningfulness of food waste reduction for the impact of quality of food waste prevention communication on employees’ food waste reduction intention and their reduced food waste behavior. The contingency role of employees’ green role identity was marginally confirmed for the nexus between employees’ food waste reduction intention and their food waste behavior.
Originality/value
This inquiry advances the understanding of mechanisms underlying work-related food waste behavior among hospitality employees.
Details