Promoting health, preventing disease – making it happen

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen

Making it happen, level 2

F yson Kasenga (1) describes the detrimental effect HIV has had on public health in Malawi. This was recently highlighted particularly for maternal mortality (2). Malawi is one of the countries where the impact of the HIV epidemic is clearly visible on the maternal mortality rate (MMR) (Fig. 1). Only after the year 2000 it is possible to see some positive trend in the MMR in Malawi, supposedly ...

Field Studies in Practice: Making it Happen

Field studies and user requirements analysis are highly valued practices in the human-computer interaction community. However, in companies, field study methods are not widely used and they still encounter resistance. In this paper, we describe a longitudinal research effort conducted in two companies to introduce field studies and make them a part of the product development process. A strategy...

The virtual university: Making it happen

Teaching at universities is mostly constrained to using blackboards, overhead transparencies and sometimes flip– charts as basic tools. In order to consolidate the course material, and as a preparation to written or oral exams, students have been using course notes, textbooks or copies of transparencies for decades. However, with the advent of powerful hardware and network technology, the conce...

Transit Oriented Development – making it happen

Transit oriented developments (TODs), be they greenfields developments, in-fill or redevelopments of existing sites, have been included as a key component within a number of recent metropolitan strategies within Australia, including the South East Queensland regional plan. Responding to increasingly extended journeys-to-work and other trip movements, TODs are one land use planning intervention ...