New Work Forms: How to Integrate Them in Our Social Insurances

How will robots integrate into our world?

New coworker: The workplace robot Baxter from Rethink Robotics, on display here at the Science Museum London, can learn to carry out a wide variety of tasks and is safe for use next to human colleagues. (Photo: Michael Gross.) The Science Museum in London, UK, currently hosts a diverse crowd of around 100 very special guests from near and far. Harry from Japan plays the trumpet; Baxter from the...

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

How can we make them work ?

how to integrate social care services into primary health care? an experience from iran

background: social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. in iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. this study aimed to explore the roles and functions of primary health care (phc) system in providing social care services in iran.   methods: this was a qualitative study, for which data w...

How to Facilitate Social Contagion?

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provi...