Interdisciplinary Culture?

Theorising Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Changing unit culture: an interdisciplinary commitment to improve pain outcomes.

Patients discharged from The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, are contacted post discharge and asked to assess the care provided; specific questions are focused on pain management. Responses to these questions were initially unfavorable: only approximately 72.4% of patients were completely satisfied. An interdisciplinary team was developed on an acute-care unit at the hospital to individualize ...

Creating a Culture for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Professional Practice.

The future of the health system is dependent on health professionals re-tooling the way we practice together. No longer can a multi-disciplinary model support the complex health needs of many clients nor can any one-health profession have all the knowledge needed to provide total patient-centred care. However, our current education and health systems are structured around a multidisciplinary mo...

Transmitting Mediterranean food culture through art: a creative interdisciplinary approach.

OBJECTIVE As a qualitative problem solving method, to manage the accelerating phenomenon of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents as well as to promote the Mediterranean Diet and the diversity of the Mediterranean Food Cultures heritage, it is presented a creative interdisciplinary approach through art. DESIGN Taking into account that young generations are becoming the highest...

Career: Building an Interdisciplinary Program in Culture and Cognition

For most of the 20 century the fields of anthropology, psychology and economics have become increasingly insular, despite the substantial overlaps in their domains of inquiry. Recently however, with a growing recognition across these disciplines that human psychology, culture and behavior cannot be understood independently from one another, researchers have begun to integrate across these field...