The aim of this essay is to investigate the impact of different financial crisis since 1950 till today especially on the labor market of Greece. Specifically the phenomenon of migration to other developed countries is examined in depth with emphasis on the phenomenon of brain drain. Expanding the causes and effects of each crisis, we concentrate on the recent crisis and it is peculiarities. In ...

Crisis intervention, as it has evolved over the last five decades, has clearly demonstrated its effectiveness as a tool to reduce human distress. Nevertheless, as with any effort to alter human behavior, there are risks associated with crisis intervention. One such risk is that of premature intervention. Premature intervention may not only waste valuable intervention resources, but may serve to...

The proliferation of text-based crisis counseling platforms in recent months has opened an exciting opportunity for applied machine learning to (1) provide practical assistance for human counselors who provide emotional and practical support and (2) analyze counselor-caller interactions to build a landscape of the distribution of mental health issues experienced by callers on an unprecedented s...

In the crisis management environment, tunnel vision is a set of bias in decision makers’ cognitive process which often leads to incorrect understanding of the real crisis situation, biased perception of information, and improper decisions. The tunnel vision phenomenon is a consequence of both the challenges in the task and the natural limitation in a human being’s cognitive process. An informat...

The winter bed crisis is a cyclical phenomenon which appears in British hospitals every year, two or three weeks after Christmas. The crisis is usually attributed to factors such as the bad weather, influenza, older people, geriatricians, lack of cash or nurse shortages. However, a possible alternative explanation could be that beds within the hospital are blocked because of lack of social serv...

In a crisis situation, several heterogeneous actors have to work together in a hurry to solve or at least reduce the crisis. Their coordination and the transfer of information between them in such context are a crucial point. Unfortunately, lacks of coordination and collaboration have often been underlined as a major weakness of humanitarian crisis response. To help the whole of actors to work ...