Labor Relations Azucena Pdf
Vannessa Rataj
Azucena obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Ateneo Law School, a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines, and has attended courses in the Master of Business Administration program of De La Salle Professional Schools.
Azucena was once an organizer and president of a labor union of teachers. He worked as a human resource manager in business firms and non-profit organizations for more than twenty years. He was accredited as a Fellow in Personnel Management by the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines, the umbrella organization of all human resource practitioners in the country.
Azucena is currently Chairman of the Labor Law Department at Ateneo Law School. He is also a faculty member and bar reviewer in San Beda College of Law and the University of the Philippines. He is a professorial lecturer in the MBA-JD Consortium of De La Salle Professional Schools and Far Eastern University Institute of Law.
Azucena is a partner in IDLAMA Law Offices, a Makati-based law firm. He remains a retained consultant to several business firms and a frequent lecturer and resource speaker in corporate and public seminars throughout the country.
Azucena has written a gamut of books and articles on labor law and labor-management relations in the Philippines. His works are often cited in decisions penned by justices of the Philippine Supreme Court. His widely published books are either required or suggested reading material in several law, business, and graduate schools in the country.
Azucena has received awards for professional dedication, leadership, and scholarly work. He received Sikap-Gawa Industrial Peace Award from the Bishops'-Businessmen's Conference of the Philippines, Outstanding Achievement Award from the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines, and the Supreme Court Centenary Book Award from the Supreme Court of the Philippines during its centennial anniversary celebrations on June 8, 2001.
Purpose: Illinois DocAssist (IDA) works to improve the ability of primary care providers to screen, diagnose, and treat the mental health and substance use problems of children, adolescents, and perinatal women.
Background: With the gap in mental health care especially within the Medicaid population, primary care providers have assumed an increasingly important role in mental health care. However, primary care doctors often do not have the time, knowledge or training to fill this gap.
Method: Through telephone consultation and education of primary care doctors, Illinois DocAssist seeks to improve access to evidence-based mental health care for all children and perinatal women across Illinois who receive Medicaid and other vulnerable populations. Illinois DocAssist is funded by the Illinois Medicaid system (DHS and HFS) and has been completing it's mission since 2008. The program collects a variety of data points including provider demographics and patient demographics such as the nature of the consultation, profession of the consulting provider, patients presenting problem, age and the geographic region. HIPPA protected data is not collected or stored.
Results: Across the state, Illinois, healthcare providers have come to depend on the services provided by Illinois DocAssist in order to meet the mental health needs of their most vulnerable patients. About 75% of consultations are within Cook County with 7% of consultations being for perinatal women and the remainder being for children and adolescents. Physicians make up the majority of callers to the consultation line followed by nurse practitioners and the majority are in either Pediatrics or Family Medicine specialties.
Conclusion: In order to meet the mental health needs of their patients, primary care doctors require reliable and accessible information and support by experts. Illinois DocAssist is one solution to a growing mental healthcare gap in Illinois.
Purpose: Equal Hope addresses health disparities through three programs: Equal Access, Equal Care, and Equal Voice. Equal Access is an outreach, education, and patient community navigation program aimed at improving interpersonal and health system barriers that contribute to disparities in health outcomes for minority and uninsured women. Equal Care brings together healthcare institutions from across Chicago to share quality data and work on quality improvement projects to improve care for Chicago's safety net. Equal Voice is our grassroots advocacy and community engagement initiative that build support for uninsured and underinsured women and encourages health system change.
Background/Significance: Equal Hope was originally established in 2008 as the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force after publication of research showing that Chicago had large and growing racial disparities in breast cancer mortality. From 2005 to 2007, Black women in Chicago died of breast cancer at a rate 62% higher than White women even though they were diagnosed less often. This suggested to the founders of Equal Hope that instead of biological differences, this health inequity was driven by structural racism.
Method: The Equal Hope model follows these steps: landscape analysis, developing quality scorecard/consumer report, creating a big tent, assess how the healthcare system works in real life, listen and learn from patients, and design evidence-based interventions.
Results: We currently have six CHWs and six Patient Navigators as part of the team. In the past fiscal year, Equal Hope has successfully reached 211,679 and educated 92,736 individuals, participating in 544 community events, community canvassing and radio series. There were 2,598 navigation cycles initiated with 1,252 clients navigated to a breast or cervical screening, having a 71% completion rate, and 159 clients navigated to a medical home or COVID vaccine appointment, having a 55% completion rate. From November 2021 - April 2022 we collected mammography data from 74 facilities to describe the impact COVID-19 had on facilities and how this differs based on accreditation status, screening volume, and patients served. We are using social media (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok) to educate and encourage women to get regular cancer screenings, be up to date with their HPV, COVID-19 and flu vaccines, and get paired with a primary care provider. Lastly, in June 2022, Gov. Pritzker signed SB 3682, legislation drafted by Equal Hope, into law to expand access to cervical cancer screening, prevention, and treatment across Illinois.
Purpose: Work opportunities that are precarious in nature are clustered in Black and Latinx neighborhoods in the U.S. due to the forces of structural racism in the form of historical housing segregation, discrimination, and power differentials relating to social position (by the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, gender and immigration status). While precarious work causes stress due to unpredictability of work and working hours, less time to take care of family members, and less time for civic engagement, low-income workers are less able to refuse work that they know is unsafe and exploitative. Further, when precarious work is common at the neighborhood level, with most of one's social network engaging in work employment conditions and jobs that are unstable, with irregular hours or pay, low wages, without benefits, and/or the inability to speak freely with employers, the norm of precarious work can perpetuate the status quo. The Greater Lawndale Lotera is a worker-justice themed card game that is historically grounded, evidence-informed, and asset-based which seeks to inform critical dialogue and challenge knowledge, attitudes and beliefs related to work and health at the neighborhood level. The Greater Lawndale Lotera is a community intervention of the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) Project, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project at the UIC Center for Healthy Work, a NIOSH Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health, investing in community intervention science toward building power, building equity, and building community capacity in Greater Lawndale (GL). Greater Lawndale Lotera is part of a larger action roadmap produced by our community-based participatory research to promote healthy work in North Lawndale and Little Village, two Chicago neighborhoods with large proportions of residents engaged in precarious work. Greater Lawndale Lotera includes 54 cards of worker types, workplaces, and neighborhood landmarks found in GL designed by a local artist. Each card is accompanied by a narrative that describes the precarious nature of work that workers are exposed to such as workplace hazards and systemic exploitation; the valuable contributions that workers provide in their workplace and community; findings from our research and history about the labor movement in Chicago; and know-your-rights information about laws affecting workers. Strategic community stakeholders play the game, such as faith leaders, small business owners, youth, and workers. A mixed-methods evaluation on participants' knowledge, attitudes and belief as well as a participatory, qualitative head, heart and feet component is administered to participants at the end of the game.
The use of machine learning to build predictive models often requires the harmonization of disparate data sources. For instance, at our institution at the University of Illinois at Chicago, we have found a need to meld real-time geographic data with prehospital data and enriched geospatial information. This required a complex architecture for data analytics over cloud services which had not been published in the literature over the past decade. This poster aims to discuss the construction and design of synthetic syndromic surveillance cloud architecture for hospital data integration.
c80f0f1006