Macro/Policy Environmental Social Work Perspective
Economic globalization become a worldwide trend (Han, 2019). With globalization comes technology. Technology and the environment should be of growing concern. Now more than ever. Given COVID-19, are legislators and enforcers thinking of the stimulus and social welfare in terms physiological rhythms in humans?
Studies show that relevant to the environment (the built environment that is, the once we are all confined to… if heavily impacted by environmental cues; light, noise, and temperature are synchronizing to Sleep-wake rhythms in humans.
As the current state of our lives will have it, much of work is being done in the same spaces we often strive, or should strive to keep sacred. This is because our rhythms are extremely effected by noise pollution, night work, social media, blue light. Thanks to open data it has been found that
“Extensive open-access databases now focus on these disturbing environmental and societal cues”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc
The fields associated with sleep are: noise, light, radio frequencies, transportation, and internet”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc
These environmental open data may help us in understanding better sleep rhythms globally”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc
- Insight of the day: “the development index of Digital Economy and Society (DESI), an instrument that can detect a data system in order to quantify the level of technological development at the macro level and the micro level” (Vanessa Russo : Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work pp 427-442| Cite as Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). European Guidelines and Empirical Applications on the Territory)