Conceptual barriers to understanding physical barriers

Dissolving the Conceptual Barriers to Teamwork

Teamwork forms the basis for innumerable approaches to workplace reorganization and its popularity appears to continue unabated. This is despite the predictions of institutional economics and social psychology that teamwork is an intrinsically inefficient form of organization. This paper examines the objections to teamwork raised by these two disciplines, focusing on the problems of “free ridin...

Understanding the barriers to multiprofessional collaboration.

Multiprofessional collaboration is key to delivering quality patient care. Many developments in health care such as supplementary prescribing or the single assessment process rely on the premise that such collaboration already exists. This article focuses on barriers to interprofessional collaboration and explores whether 'new ways of working' in health care can survive in an environment with a...

Thought barriers to understanding rheumatic diseases.

Perceived Barriers to Walking for Physical Activity

INTRODUCTION Although the health benefits of walking for physical activity have received increasing research attention, barriers specific to walking are not well understood. In this study, questions to measure barriers to walking for physical activity were developed and tested among college students. The factor structure, test-retest and internal consistency reliability, and discriminant and cr...

Epithelia: not just physical barriers.

E are tissues consisting of sheets of similar cells bound closely together, which include the epidermis, the surfaces of the eyes, the surfaces of the hollow tubes and sacs that make up the digestive, respiratory, reproductive, and urinary tracts, and the secretory cells and ducts of various glands. Depending on their predominant function, epithelia can be described further as barrier, secretor...