Objective: Describe the quality of life of elderly informal workers in an intermediate Colombian city. Method: A descriptive study of 320 randomly selected informal workers aged older than 18 from Manizales was performed. A sub-sample of 153 people aged older than 50, representing 47.8 percent of the study population, was performed. Two instruments were applied: one testing demographic variables and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire. Univariate and bivariate analyzes were performed using frequency distributions and the chi-squared test was used to identify association between variables. Results: 69.9% of the participants were men, the average age was 59.4 (+7.2) years, 62.0% had no or basic education, 52.0% belonged to social class 1 and 2; 6.5% had no affiliation with the health and social security system. The different dimensions of quality of life were perceived favorably, as was health. More than 50.0% were autonomous, had strong social and family networks, had not experienced negative feelings and found meaning to life. Statistical differences ( p<0.05) by gender and age were found for environment, sex life, daily living skills, and satisfaction with work capacity. Conclusion: The quality of life of older informal workers is well perceived and is related to a positive assessment of health. From the perspective of human development, work gives meaning to the lives of older people and encourages active, healthy and productive aging.
RESUMENObjetivo: Identificar en las unidades académicas miembros de la Asociación Colombiana de Facultades y Escuelas de Enfermería (ACOFAEN), la situación en el componente de investigación, sus fortalezas y necesidades académicas. Material y método: Estudio descriptivo realizado entre 2010 y 2011, universo 30 unidades académicas de enfermería de Colombia, de las que 27 respondieron el instrumento, constituyéndose finalmente en la población del estudio. El instrumento utilizado fue una encuesta diagnóstica autodiligenciada con 123 preguntas, de las cuales 27 correspondían a investigación. La información fue procesada en el programa SPSS versión 11,5; se realizó distribución de frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Resultados: La investigación es transversal en el currícu-lo; el 51% de las publicaciones se encontraban en revistas nacionales, un 20% en revistas internacionales. Como líneas temáticas prioritarias se destacan: cuidado por ciclo vital y por áreas temáticas, epidemiología, salud colectiva, epistemología, gestión y gerencia. Como necesidades investigativas: fortalecimiento de competencias por enfoques de investigación y apropiación de metodologías basadas en la evidencia, la Teoría fundada para el abordaje cualitativo. Las prioridades nacionales en investigación fueron: investigación por ciclo vital, por campos de acción, por áreas de desempeño, en problemas prioritarios, investigación en determinantes sociales de la salud, objetivos del milenio, interdisciplinariedad, estrategias de difusión, visibilidad de la producción, nuevos métodos de investigación, más allá de la descripción. Conclusiones: La discusión y el abordaje de la investigación es un elemento que debe integrarse a los currículos; para que la investigación pueda ser un eje articulador en la formación de profesionales de enfermería debe responder a las necesidades de la población y del país. ABSTRACTObjective: To identify in ACOFAEN academic units members, the situation in research component, the strengths and academic needs. Method: A descriptive study was conducted between 2010 and 2011. 27 academic nursing units from Colombia were included. The instrument used was a diagnostic survey self-served out; 123 questions in total of which 27 corresponded to research. The information was processed using SPSS version 11.5; it was done an absolute and relative frequency distribution. Results: Research is transversal in the curriculum, 51% of the publications were in national journals, 20% in international journals. As subject areas include: care for life cycle and by subject, epidemiology, collective health, epistemology, administration and management. As research needs: building skills for research approaches and appropriation of evidence-based methodologies, grounded theory for qualitative approach. The national research priorities were: research for life cycle for action areas, for performance areas in priority problems, research in social determinants of health, millennium development goals, interdisciplinary, dissemination strategies, producti...
Resumen:1 El artículo aborda la propuesta temática de las nuevas realidades del contexto socio histórico y, en especial, el laboral, y su relación con la condición juvenil contemporánea, entendida ésta como noción que instituye un referente desde el cual se puede entender la multiplicidad de formas de ser joven en los diferentes contextos. En un primer momento se desarrolla el recorrido de la noción de condición juvenil, a la luz de los cambios y desplazamientos teóricos de ésta, según las diferentes tendencias que la han reconceptualizado, y en un segundo momento se pretende dar cuenta de cómo el contexto laboral, desde sus diferentes formas adoptadas en la modernidad tardía, configuran la construcción de las identificaciones de los jóvenes en el ámbi-to laboral como espacio social de relaciones.Palabras clave: condición juvenil, desplazamientos, contexto sociohistórico, contexto laboral. Youth's contemporary condition: an analysis in regards the realities of the present social, historic and labor contextAbstract: The article discusses the proposal of the new realities of social and historical context and, in particular, the labor context, and its relation to youth's contemporary condition, understood as a concept that establishes a reference from which we can understand the multiplicity of ways of being young in the different contexts. The first part develops the route of the notion of youth condition, in the light of its theoretical displacements, according to the different trends that have reconceptualized it, in a second stage, it gives account of how the employment context, from its different forms it has taken in late modernity, build up the identifications of young people in the workplace as social space for relationships.
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