Afro-Chinese partnership in missions. A similar history, a shared vision

Towards a History of Medical Missions

Scholars concerned with the European colonial period have been able to draw on a vast body of primary sources preserved in official archives. While the military may have been the ultimate arbitrators of their power, the colonial states were highly bureaucratic. They generated, and indeed depended upon, an unending flow of information that was collected, collated and archived as an organized bod...

Translating an Afro-European partnership into tangible hand hygiene action

Methods Hospital representatives convened in 2009 to build the programme foundation, followed by hospital situational analyses to determine priority action areas. Among 12 patient safety action areas, reduction of health care-associated infection (HAI) was chosen as a common platform of action. Subsequently, 2-year partnership action plans were developed, finalized at a workshop in 2009 in Ugan...

A natural history of vision

strictly European. This classification has certainly given her difficulties in writing her narrative histories but it lends itself readily enough to a bibliography. Perhaps the structure leaves too little to chance. It is odd to find Buffon and Walter Charleton bracketed in the same time span ('Biologists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries') and counter-intuitive to search for Blumenba...

control of hepatitis c in iran: vision and missions

The importance of inspiring a shared vision

Background: Leadership programmes have been used to support nurse leaders in developing their skills and equiping them as transformative change agents in healthcare organisations around the world. For this purpose, the Royal College of Nursing’s Clinical Leadership Programme has been adapted, implemented, and evaluated in Switzerland. Although a shared vision is a key element in leading organis...