Practical Math for Health Fitness Professionals

Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals

Benson and Thistlethwaite are general practitioners who have written an introductory yet thorough practical guide on mental health to assist all health professionals working in multicultural contexts. While some book introductions (Chapter 1) can be quite tedious, theirs is quite fascinating as it provides some examples of their personal and professional cross cultural experience with refugees ...

Determining Skill Mix: Practical Guidelines for Managers and Health Professionals

This paper provides practical guidelines for managers and health professionals looking to skill mix as a potential solution to health service delivery problems. These guidelines emphasise the need to evaluate the problem, and examine the context, before deciding if skill mix is the answer. The guidelines are provided in the knowledge that skill mix is rarely examined in a “pure” theoretical sen...

Evidence-based management: a practical guide for health professionals

HYPOTHESIS Are different events involved in the development of sporadic versus hereditary tumours? The possible importance of the microenvironment in hereditary cancer In a recent review, Weinberg (1989) has discussed apparent violations of multistep carcinogenesis when in some cases full transformation of primary cultures by single oncogenes (ras) has been reported. Normally at least two coope...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

Developing health science students into integrated health professionals: a practical tool for learning

BACKGROUND An integrated sense of professionalism enables health professionals to draw on relevant knowledge in context and to apply a set of professional responsibilities and ethical principles in the midst of changing work environments 12. Inculcating professionalism is therefore a critical goal of health professional education. Two multi-professional courses for first year Health Science stu...