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Få arbejdsløse kommer til jobsamtale

May 19, 2013 8:37 am | Leave a Comment |

Kun en ud af 25 ansgningerne til et akutjob har givet ledige adgang til en
jobsamtale.

Det viser en undersgelse, som fllesorganisationen FTF har lavet i samarbejde
deres fire a-kasser, skriver Avisen.dk.

Her er 570 langtidsledige medlemmer blevet spurgt om, hvad de har gjort for at
f et akutjob. Otte ud af 10 har sgt mindst et. Men kun fire procent af
ansgningerne har givet de arbejdslse adgang til en samtale.

Det fr FTF’s formand, Bente Sorgenfrey, til at rette en hrd kritik mod isr
de private arbejdsgivere for ikke at leve op til deres forpligtelser i
akutjobordningen.

S tag dog i det mindste de langtidsledige til samtale og giv dem chancen for
at fortlle, hvem de er, i stedet for at dmme dem p forhnd, siger hun
til Avisen.dk.

Det er utroligt, nr de ledige sger s bredt, at de ikke engang kommer til
samtale. Det er ikke godt nok fra arbejdsgivernes side, siger Bente
Sorgenfrey.
Mange ansgereBeskftigelsesminister Mette Frederiksen (S) har tidligere kritiseret
veluddannede ledige for at vre for forklede til at sge job ved kassen i
Netto.

Men de 570 FTF’ere i undersgelsen har i hj grad droppet drmmejobbet. Seks
ud af ti har sgt uden for eget fagomrde. I snit har de sgt 14 akutjob.

I Dansk Erhverv, der er talerr for arbejdsgivere inden for blandt andet
handel og service, erkender arbejdsmarkedschef Ole Steen Olsen
problemstillingen.

Som virkeligheden er, s fr arbejdsgivere rigtig mange ansgninger, og man
kalder dem ind, der ser bedst kvalificerede ud p papiret.

Man tnker ikke p socialt ansvar i den situation, men p hvem, der kan
bidrage til en sort bundlinje, siger Ole Steen Olsen til Avisen.dk.
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Flere danskerne sender e-mails til deres læge

May 15, 2013 2:01 pm | Leave a Comment |

Sdan gr danskerne til lgen
Danmarks Statistik har kortlagt danskernes lgebesg i 2012. Se hvem, der er
bedst til at g til lgen, og hvor mange der bruger mailen, nr de for
eksempel skal tale om forklelse, ondt i ryggen eller hovedpine.

5,2 millioner personer fik i lbet af 2012 en eller anden form for lgehjlp.

Der var 59,6 millioner kontakter til alment praktiserende lger, tandlger,
speciallger og lignende.

40,8 millioner af dem var til praktiserende lger.

3,5 millioner af dem var e-mailkonsultationer med de praktiserende lger.

Kvinderne havde 13,3 kontakter og mndene 9,5. Gennemsnitligt havde danskerne
11,4 kontakter til en eller anden for for lge i 2012.

Jo mere kvinder tjener, jo mindre gr de til lgen. Kvinder med de hjeste
familieindkomster gr til almen lge syv gange om ret, mens dem med de
laveste indkomster gr ti gange om ret.

Forskellen er ikke s udtalt blandt mnd, hvor dem med de laveste
familieindkomster gr til almen lge lidt mere end seks gange om ret, mens
mnd med de hjeste indkomster i gennemsnit har fem kontakter.

Kilde: Danmarks Statistik

Flere og flere danskere bytter ventevrelset ud med e-mailen, nr de skal i
kontakt med deres praktiserende lge.

Andelen af e-mailkonsultationer er i hvert fald steget fra 6,9 procent i 2011
til 8,5 procent i 2012. Det viser nye tal fra Danmarks Statistik.

Det er helt naturligt, mener man i Praktiserende Lgers Organisation (PLO).

Det er en naturlig udvikling, fordi flere og flere mennesker gerne vil
benytte sig af det her, s de kan stille sprgsml og f svar fra lgen p
tidspunkter, hvor det passer dem bedst, siger formand, Henrik Dibbern.
LS ARTIKELDanskerne har lang vej til
lgekonsultationer p skrmen
Effektivisering, blandt andet ved bedre brug af it, er netop et af de omrder,
hvor regeringen i forbindelse med de praktiserende lgers overenskomst
krver en forbedret indsats.

Men regeringen har ikke styr p fakta, nr de kritiserer lgerne for at vre
for drlige til at benytte e-mailkonsultationer – p trods af, at lgerne
indberetter brugen til regionerne, mener Henrik Dibbern.

Kendsgerningen er jo, at det er et middel, som lgerne for lngst har taget
til sig, siger lgeformanden og fortstter.

Derfor er det svrt at forst, hvordan regeringen kan finde p at rette
kritik mod os, nr virkeligheden er, at det bliver brugt i vidt omfang af
bde lger og patienter, siger Henrik Dibbern.
Vi skal have et moderne sundhedsvsenMen der er stadig plads til forbedring, lyder den klare besked fra regeringen.

Vi er meget glade for den meget store del af almen praksis, som allerede har
moderniseret, men der er alts stadig en femtedel af lgerne, som ikke har
taget det til sig, siger sundhedsordfrer i Socialdemokratiet, Flemming
Mller Mortensen.

Det er jo noget af det, vi nsker, med det her forslag, at alle fr
muligheden for et moderne sundhedsvsen siger ordfreren.

Selvom konsultationerne stadig udgr en lille del af den samlede kontakt med
lgen, s lb de i 2012 op i 3,5 millioner e-mailkonsultationer.

5,2 millioner danskere modtog i lbet af 2012 en eller anden form for
lgehjlp. I gennemsnit havde danskerne kontakt med enten praktiserende
lge, tandlge eller speciallge 11,4 gange i lbet af 2012.
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Fødevarestyrelsen advarer: Giv ikke jeres børn riskiks

May 15, 2013 11:12 am | Leave a Comment |

Fdevarestyrelsens anbefalinger
- Varir grden og srg for at brnene ikke fr risbaseret grd hver dag.

- Undg risdrik og riskiks til brn.

Alle brn br undg risdrik og riskiks.

Sdan lyder advarslen i en pressemeddelelse fra Fdevarestyrelsen, der har
foretaget en risikovurdering af indholdet af uorganisk arsen i ris.

Ud over riskiks og risdrikke br forldre ogs holde igen med risgrd.

Ris kan fortsat indg i en sund kost, men forldre til sm brn br variere
grden, s brnene ikke fr for eksempel risgrd hver dag, lyder rdet fra
Fdevarestyrelsen.
Kan vre krftfremkaldendeRis har et naturligt indhold af uorganisk arsen, som vurderes til at vre
krftfremkaldende ved et hjt indtag.

Det betyder, at mennesker, der i en rrkke dagligt spiser mad med uorganisk
arsen, har en forget risiko for krft.

Derfor skal man srligt vre ppasselig med sm brn p grund af deres
relative store indtag i forhold til kropsvgten.
LS OGSRiskiks kan vre farlige for
helt sm brn
Fdevarestyrelsen skriver, at udviklingen af krft er en meget langsom proces,
og at indtag af uorganisk arsen fra risbaserede produkter derfor ikke ger
risikoen for, at brn fr krft.

Fdevarestyrelsen har allerede ivrksat nye analyser af uorganisk arsen i
risprodukter, der ikke er omfattet af tidligere undersgelser.

Den nye undersgelse omfatter risbaserede morgenmadsprodukter, risnudler og
andre risbaserede produkter. Ogs ris og riskiks undersges.

Analyserne ventes frdige i juli.
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Denmark and Finland latest countries to upgrade Palestinians’ diplomatic status

May 4, 2013 10:15 pm | Leave a Comment |

Denmark and Finland plan to upgrade the status of their respective Palestinian representative offices in Copenhagen and Helsinki to that of an embassy, the Danish foreign ministry said Saturday. “It is with satisfaction that we announce our joint intention to work with the Palestinians to be…

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Copenhagen city council looks to legalize marijuana sales

March 15, 2013 7:47 pm | Leave a Comment |

Copenhagen city officials said Friday they want to legalise the sale of cannabis for a trial period in order to better control the sale and consumption of the drug. “A controlled legalisation would open the door to new solutions that would limit the bad effects and reduce some of the social…

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Environmental indifference: Financial crisis trumps climate issues – survey

March 1, 2013 12:01 am | Leave a Comment |

The findings, which were gathered by a GlobeScan Radar annualtracking poll, show that concerns about the environment havereached a two-decade low since the start of the financial crisis.The survey questioned 22,812 people in 22 countries.The poll interviewed participants on the importance of sevenenvironmental issues, ranging from auto emissions to depletion ofnatural resources. Most of the concerns were taken most seriouslyin the mid-2000s, but have dropped sharply since then.Only 49 percent of people now consider climate change a veryserious issue – far fewer than at the beginning of the crisis in2009.Water pollution is currently viewed as the most criticalenvironmental concern, rated by 58 percent as a very serious issue.However, that number is down from 2006, when around 75 per cent ofrespondents viewed it as a serious topic.The results come after years of studies which show the impact ofglobal warming on the planet.  “Evidence of environmental damage is stronger than ever, but ourdata shows that economic crisis and a lack of political leadershipmean that the public are starting to tune out,” GlobeScanChairman Doug Miller said in a statement.Fewer people now consider air pollution, animal species loss, andfresh water shortages to be very serious problems than at any timesince tracking began 20 years ago.Fears over global warming are significantly lower than they werebetween 2003 and 2008, with less than one person in every tworegarding it as a very serious issue.Many of the sharpest falls have taken place in the past twoyears, thanks to recent economic worries and high unemploymentrates.And although worries about climate change first dropped inindustrialized nations, they have now also fallen in developingeconomies such as Brazil and China.The survey also found a correlation between perceivedseriousness of climate change and the unsuccessful UN ClimateSummit in Copenhagen in 2009.The summit ended with political leaders failing to agree to adeal which would slow the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.But although environmental worries have waned, they have farfrom disappeared, according to the head of World WildlifeFederation UK, David Nussbaum.“The problems haven’t gone away…there are longer-term concernsthat may not seem imminent that are extremely serious,” he toldThe Independent. He said that it was only when “realindicators” of climate change came, such as floods and adrought, that public opinion was swayed.And Nussbaum says the general public is unlikely to regain aninterest in environmental issues unless a new and innovativecampaign is launched.”Those who care about mobilizing public opinion on theenvironment need to find new messages in order to reinvigorate astalled debate,” he said. … Read More

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Greenpeace Activism Kills Kids

February 20, 2013 4:05 pm | Leave a Comment |

Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen
Consensus Center, writes in his latest column, “A
Golden Rice Opportunity,” a terrific indictment of Greenpeace’s
homicidal activism against the development and deployment of
vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice. Golden Rice is a genetically
enhanced variety developed by Swiss researcher Ingo Potrykus and
his colleagues with the aim of addressing the serious health
problem of vitamin A defiency in poor countries whose citizens
chiefly consume rice. Back in 2000, I asked, “Where
is the Golden Rice?,” and the answer was that it was being
protected in grenade-proof greenhouses in Switzerland to prevent
its destruction by anti-biotech vandals. As I noted 13 years
ago:

Greenpeace is leading a global campaign against biotech crops,
asserting that they are unhealthy and environmentally unsafe. A
press release says that “Greenpeace opposes golden rice because it
has all the risks of any [genetically modified] crop.”

The lies and anti-science activism of environmentalist groups
like Greenpeace have delayed for more than a decade the day when
this life-saving crop could be offered to poor farmers in
developing countries and the result is that millions of children
have died who might otherwise have been saved by this technology.
As Lomborg reports:

Three billion people depend on rice as their staple food, with
10% at risk for vitamin A deficiency, which, according to the
World Health
Organization, causes 250,000-500,000 children to go blind each
year. Of these, half die within a year. A study from the British
medical journal The Lancet estimates that, in total,
vitamin A deficiency kills 668,000 children under the age of five
each year.
Yet, despite the cost in human lives, anti-GM campaigners – from
Greenpeace to Naomi Klein – have
derided efforts to use golden rice to avoid vitamin A deficiency.
In India, Vandana
Shiva, an environmental activist and adviser to the government,
called golden rice “a hoax” that is “creating hunger and
malnutrition, not solving it.”…
To be sure, handing out vitamin pills or adding vitamin A to
staple products can make a difference. But it is not a sustainable
solution to vitamin A deficiency. And, while it is cost-effective,
recent published estimates indicate that golden rice is much more
so.

CommentsSupplementation programs costs $4,300 for every life
they save in India, whereas fortification programs cost about
$2,700 for each life saved. Both are great deals. But golden rice
would cost just $100 for every life saved from vitamin A
deficiency…
Now, finally, golden rice will come to the Philippines; after
that, it is expected in Bangladesh and Indonesia. But, for eight
million kids, the wait was too long.

True to form, Greenpeace is
already protesting that “the next ‘golden rice’ guinea pigs
might be Filipino children.” The 4.4
million Filipino kids with vitamin A deficiency might not mind
so much. ;

Shame, shame, shame on Greenpeace, Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein
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