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• ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BC Platforms (BCP), a global leader in healthcare data management and analytics, today announces the appointment of Dr. Ben M. W. Illigens, an experienced clinician and neuroscientist, as the company’s Chief Medical Officer.
• Dr. Ben M. W. Illigens, newly appointed Chief Medical Officer at BC Platforms, commented on his appointment, “I am delighted to join the BC Platforms team.
• I’ve long been fascinated by, and closely involved with, ways to optimize, accelerate, and innovate drug discovery and development using a data-driven, evidence-based, patient-centered approach.
• He conducted clinical practice and research at HMS, and has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, including editing a core medical textbook on Clinical Research (1).

• JOLIET, Ill., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Achieving overall wellness and whole health for patients are top priorities at Primary Care Joliet .
• We always put our patient's needs first and provide them with the individualized, compassionate care they deserve," says a Primary Care Joliet representative.
• We always put our patient's needs first and provide them with the individualized, compassionate care they deserve," says a Primary Care Joliet representative.
• More about Primary Care Joliet:
  Primary Care Joliet's medical centers combine preventive and routine health care along with urgent care and diagnostics all within their facilities.

• University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies announces the release of a white paper by Sandra G. Sessoms-Penny, Ed.D., faculty member of the University of Phoenix College of Education and fellow of the University’s Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Research (CWDIR), highlighting the alignment of emotional intelligence components with practical methods for building social capital: “Building Professional Connections and Networking to Enhance Social Capital.”
  Drawing upon data from the 2023 University of Phoenix Career Institute® Career Optimism Index® study and the shared project of University of Phoenix and Jobs for the Future (JFF), Building professional social capital for Black learners and workers , Sessoms-Penny explores cultural and social capital constructions and how emotional intelligence components can be adopted to support more formal efforts in building social capital in the workplace.
• “Emotional intelligence and its key elements – self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, compassion, and social skills awareness and relationship management – are needed to build and foster trustworthy relationships in all segments of society,” states Sessoms-Penny.
• She served over 21 years in the United States Air Force, culminating her military career as a senior-level non-commissioned officer and paralegal superintendent in military law offices throughout the United States and in Europe.
• Sessoms-Penny has been a faculty member with the University of Phoenix since 2009.

• In response, public, private, and civic organisations responded with various interventions to soften the impact, especially on the most vulnerable.
• In Ghana, government support also included tax waivers, and subsidies for water, electricity, and other household utilities.
• Government officials claimed that the interventions reduced the impact of the pandemic on urban residents.
• We suggest that this complex challenge should be an opportunity to rethink planning for and responses to future risks.

The realities of poor people in cities

• The city is characterised by poor planning, widening income inequalities and slow economic growth.
• Most households, especially those in informal settlements, are exposed to poor environmental and economic conditions.
• The first two cases of the virus were recorded in Ghana on 12 March 2020.
• The responses suggest that the pandemic affected residents’ access to economic activities and opportunities to enhance their well-being.

A package with no punch

• Firstly, they did not help people when it came to social, physical and human aspects of everyday urban living.
• For some residents, the inability to continue educational and skill acquisition programmes was due to cost and limited online learning options.
• For example, politicians and urban bureaucrats publicly claimed and highlighted the influential role of interventions by public authorities and their partners.
• Some residents reported that while free food and cash transfers were necessary, they didn’t address the root cause of their impoverishment and deprivation.

Towards multi-dimensional approaches to future risks

• This would help ensure that responses to current and future pandemics or uncertainties were aligned with the multiple aspects of urban living.
• Stephen Leonard Mensah, PhD Student at the University of Memphis, contributed to this study.