Commentary: Leveraging Accountability for Advocacy

Commentary: advocacy perspective.

A supporting research for a new generation of medications to treat major mental illness, recognizing that the old medications had significant problems with side effects and, in some cases, efficacy. About 10 years ago, new medica-tions—atypical antipsychotics and new antidepressants— began to appear. There was great celebration within NAMI because, for the first time, scientific advances joined...

Leveraging Communities for Sustainable Innovation: A Commentary

The concept of using future innovation to achieve “right to market” (R2M) (Koudal & Coleman, 2005) is the focus of this paper. This paper discusses the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation and posits that they form a system where innovation is optimised when these capabilities are closely linked. The authors contend that innovation activities are best ‘managed’ by an organizatio...

Commentary: Sustained advocacy produces success in the Philippines

After a protracted 14-year debate, Republic Act 10354, ‘The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012’ (hereby referred to as The Law) was passed on 17 January 2013. In response to severe assaults on The Law, the Supreme Court on 8 April 2014 finally upheld its constitutionality and supported the validity of most of its key provisions. Among other points, The Law affirms women’...

Commentary: impaired physicians and the new politics of accountability.

Several recent articles, including the one by Schroeder and colleagues in this issue, document violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by state medical boards that ask applicants for initial licensure and relicensure whether they have any history of mental illness. The authors of these articles argue that the boards' violation of the ADA is a disincentive for applicants to seek ...

Information Systems and Non-Governmental Development Organisations: Advocacy, Organisational Learning, and Accountability