European Community: Programmes hanging fire

Community Health Worker Programmes

Community Participation in Community-based Rehabilitation Programmes

Central to the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approach is the concept of community participation. While many projects are based on the CBR approach, it is not evident how many CBR projects indeed use and measure community participation. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyse the extent of evaluation of community participation in CBR studies evaluated over the last thirty y...

Operations Management Teaching on European MBA Programmes

A comprehensive review of the literature established that several investigations have been made of operations management teaching in the United States, whereas almost nothing has been published on European teaching. Therefore, an exploratory investigation was made of operations management teaching on the MBA courses of ten leading European business schools. The results show that course content ...

Are European immunisation programmes recession proof?

The activities during the European Immunisation Week demonstrate a common momentum by member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region to increase the success of immunisation programmes through advocacy and targeted communication. These efforts ultimately aim to raise awareness and reach people who have not been immunised or did not receive all recommended vaccinations. Fift...

What promotes sustainability in Safe Community programmes?

BACKGROUND The theory and practice of safety promotion has traditionally focused on the safety of individuals. This study also includes systems, environments, and organizations. Safety promotion programmes are designed to support community health initiatives taking a bottom-up approach. This is a long-term and complex process. The aim of this study was to try to empirically identify factors tha...