Integrated thinking as a cultural control?

Cultural Humility: A Way of Thinking to Inform Practice Globally

We live in a world that is exceptionally diverse and tremendously unequal. In recent years the field of global health has grown through the recognition of these realities, but with a variety of perspectives on how they should be considered.1 Global health has also grown in physiotherapy, with increasing numbers of Canadian physiotherapists and students engaging in initiatives abroad. In one sen...

Thinking as a Production System

Since their birth (ca. late 1960s), production systems have been developed as a formal tool not only for describing but for explaining how humans think. Indeed, " to advance our understanding of how humans think " is the stated goal of Newell and Simon's classic (1972) book Human Problem Solving, where the first body of work on production-system models of human thought was presented. The main g...

Camphor as a promising insecticude for control

Thinking Tracks for Integrated Systems Design

The paper investigates systems thinking and systems engineering. After a short literature review, the paper presents, as a means for systems thinking, twelve thinking tracks. The tracks can be used as creativity starter, checklist, and as means to investigate effects of design decisions taken early in the process. Tracks include thinking about time, risk and safety, and different types of life-...

Epidemiology and anthropology: an integrated approach dealing with bio-socio-cultural aspects as strategy for the control of endemic diseases.

The control of endemic diseases has not attained the desired level of effectiveness in spite of the use of modern efficient technologies. The classic interventionist approach for the control of schistosomiasis is centered on systemic control of the snail hosts combined to large scale medical treatment and is usually carried out without social preoccupation due to the assisted communities. It is...