Everyone Has a Role

Everyone has a role in building a health creating society.

TheWorld Health Organization in Europe has said that modern societies actively market unhealthy lifestyles. What if they actively marketed healthy lifestyles instead? How could we begin to build a health creating society, with all sectors working towards a healthy and resilient population? 2 In November I introduced a debate in the House of Lords on this topic, in an attempt to start to build t...

Now everyone has a donor for HSCT.

Now everyone has a donor for HSCT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Richard Champlin M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER Historically, the best results of allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation have occurred with an HLA identical sibling donor. The risks of graft rejection, GVHD, and treatmentrelated mortality increase with g...

Role release benefits everyone.

A s occupational therapists, we are typically members of treatmenr teams hired to address the needs of clients. It is assumed that we and the other team members (e.g., physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses, teachers) possess the skills to effectively meet the c1ienr's (and employer's) needs. Giangreco, Cloninger, and Iverson (1993) define the characteristics of effective teams:

Mentoring Is for Everyone--Make a Plan, Find Your Role.

Who has the authority to change a theory? Everyone! A commentary on Head and Noar

Head and Noar (2013) wrote an interesting and challenging paper; we agree with many of their statements but disagree on a number of essential issues. We think that Head and Noar are (1) too negative about the current state of health behaviour theories, for example, the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA; Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) and (2) too coercing with their recommendations. Head and Noar expect to...