De-democratising the Irish planning system

Democratising health care governance ?

New Zealand’s ‘district health board’ (DHB) system has been under implementation since the 1999 general election. A key factor motivating the change to DHBs is the democratisation of health care governance. A majority of the new DHB members are popularly elected. Previously, hospital board members were government appointees. Inaugural DHB elections were held in October 2001. This article report...

The De larative Planning System DLVK: Progress and Extensions

The Status of Curriculum Planning in the Iranian Educational System

The Status of Curriculum Planning in the Iranian Educational System A. R. Sharifi To assess the status of curriculum planning in the Iranian educational system, a sample of 35 elementary school curriculum experts, willing to cooperate, was given a questionnaire containing ten indices of quality for the elementary school curriculum, with a reliability of 0.81. The analysis of the colle...

The Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS).

In the acute hospital setting, the use of early warning scores (EWS) to monitor vital signs (including heart rate, respiratory rate [RR], blood pressure and temperature) has been shown to be beneficial in the early diagnosis and prompt initiation of treatment in adults with a critical illness 1 . This led to the development of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in Ireland by the Health Ser...

Approaches to democratising qualitative research methods

Voices advocating radical challenges to traditional research practice and to our conceptions of how and what sort of knowledge is generated by researchers, have grown louder over the past decades. They have questioned the model of research that positions the people who are the focus of study as subjects, and those who research them as experts who can analyse and evaluate. They have called for a...