Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Romanian Labor Market

Rădulescu, Carmen Valentina; Lădaru, Georgiana-Raluca; Burlacu, Sorin; Constantin, Florentina; Ioanăş, Corina; Petre, Ionuț Laurentiu

doi:10.3390/su13010271

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“…Governmental policies have reduced economic activity by deciding to suspend the activity of certain sectors in order to limit the spread of coronavirus. Since the second half of last year, layoffs have been made, including in the lower-wage sectors of the economy [49,50].…”

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Economic Crisis: A Factor for the Delayed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Petrovici

Ionică

Neagoe

2021

IJERPH

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Considering the constant increase in breast cancer patients, identifying factors that influence the moment of diagnosis is essential for optimizing therapeutic management and associated cost. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of the economic crisis on the moment of a breast cancer diagnosis. This retrospective observational study analyzed a cohort of 4929 patients diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of 19 years in the Western region of Romania. The time interval was divided based on the onset of the economic crisis into 3 periods: pre-crisis (2001–2006), crisis (2007–2012), and post-crisis (2013–2019). The disease stage at the moment of diagnosis was considered either early (stages 0, I, II) or advanced (stages III, IV). Although recording a similar mean number of patients diagnosed per year during the pre- and crisis periods, a significantly higher percentage of patients were diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer during the economic crisis period compared to the previous interval (46.9% vs. 56.3%, p < 0.01). This difference was further accentuated when accounting for environmental setting, with 65.2% of patients from a rural setting being diagnosed with advanced disease during the crisis interval. An overall improvement of 12% in early-stage breast cancer diagnosis was recorded in the post-crisis period (55.7%, p < 0.001). The findings of this study support periods of economic instability as potential factors for a delay in breast cancer diagnosis and highlight the need for the development of specific strategies aimed at reducing cancer healthcare and associated financial burden in times of economic crisis.

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Economic Crisis: A Factor for the Delayed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Petrovici

Ionică

Neagoe

2021

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“…SDs have been used to assess attitudes toward certain topics or objects in a variety of research disciplines, such as social studies, economics, marketing, geology, and architecture [43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. It is regarded as an effective psychological tool for measuring multidimensional traits such as personality, attitude, or communication [50].…”

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COVID-19 and lockdown schooling: how digital learning environments influence semantic structures and sustainability knowledge

2021

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Promoting sustainable lifestyles through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is part of the UN’s Agenda 2030. Earlier empirical studies proved direct interactions with and in natural environments to be effective ESD methods. Pandemic-related lockdowns rendered such courses nearly impossible, which raised concerns about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in general. To evaluate what young learners know about the concept sustainability so far and how it can be taught effectively online, we designed an online learning module tackling sustainability issues and compared it with data from an on-site intervention module for Bavarian 5th graders (~ 10 years old). Cognitive learning as well as attitudinal preferences of 288 learners were monitored in a pretest–posttest design. The learning module comprised two sections: One about botany, plant characteristics, and plant families; the other about the advantages and disadvantages of traditional as well as sustainable farming methods. The customized cognitive test and semantic differentials for sustainability and environmental protection produced three major findings: (1) A digital learning environment successfully and significantly increased sustainability knowledge (2) Learners clearly distinguished the concepts Sustainability and Environmental Protection (3) There is no direct correlation between semantic differential scores and learning outcome.

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“…Compared with other spatial differentiation analysis methods, geographic detectors can detect not only data, but also the interaction between different factors [55,56]. Therefore, the geodetector can not only analyze the main role of different factors, but also judge the relationship between factors, which cannot be achieved by other spatial differentiation analysis methods [57].…”

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COVID-19 Risk Assessment: Contributing to Maintaining Urban Public Health Security and Achieving Sustainable Urban Development

Zhang

Yuan

2021

Sustainability

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As the most infectious disease in 2020, COVID-19 is an enormous shock to urban public health security and to urban sustainable development. Although the epidemic in China has been brought into control at present, the prevention and control of it is still the top priority of maintaining public health security. Therefore, the accurate assessment of epidemic risk is of great importance to the prevention and control even to overcoming of COVID-19. Using the fused data obtained from fusing multi-source big data such as POI (Point of Interest) data and Tencent-Yichuxing data, this study assesses and analyzes the epidemic risk and main factors that affect the distribution of COVID-19 on the basis of combining with logistic regression model and geodetector model. What’s more, the following main conclusions are obtained: the high-risk areas of the epidemic are mainly concentrated in the areas with relatively dense permanent population and floating population, which means that the permanent population and floating population are the main factors affecting the risk level of the epidemic. In other words, the reasonable control of population density is greatly conducive to reducing the risk level of the epidemic. Therefore, the control of regional population density remains the key to epidemic prevention and control, and home isolation is also the best means of prevention and control. The precise assessment and analysis of the epidemic conducts by this study is of great significance to maintain urban public health security and achieve the sustainable urban development.

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Romanian Labor Market

Cited by 69 publications

References 41 publications

Economic Crisis: A Factor for the Delayed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Economic Crisis: A Factor for the Delayed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

COVID-19 and lockdown schooling: how digital learning environments influence semantic structures and sustainability knowledge

COVID-19 Risk Assessment: Contributing to Maintaining Urban Public Health Security and Achieving Sustainable Urban Development

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