Providing business support to SMEs – how to encourage firms’ engagement

How do we encourage patient engagement?

F ollowing on the theme from my previous editorial (Mayer, 2014), I want to address another goal identified in Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (Institute of Medicine, 2013): engaged patients. The report identified patient engagement as the number one recommendation. The recommendation states that patients and their families should be given under...

Tailoring patient information to encourage patient engagement

This paper proposes a new method for tailoring health information based on an individual’s dominant attitudes and information processing style which can be digitally operationalized and delivered direct to the patient. This individualized approach is based on principles previously used as the basis for mass-marketing campaigns, including smoking and other public health issues but not previously...

Providing a Pattern to Prioritize the Branches of Service Firms

The purpose of this note is to show how some of the mainresults existing in the insurance service quality utilizing SERVQUALscale and ANP model can be effectively used in scientifically rankingstrategies instead of the traditional models, which is unfortunately morepopular in ranking the branches of insurance companies. This approachis used to show how the ranking decisions changes as a functio...

O6: How to Encourage Building a New Road Traffic Culture for Children in Developing Countries

Road traffic accidents (RTA) are one of the most important causes of death and disability all over the world. In developing countries the problem is more complicated. Based on the estimation by UNICEF, rate of RTA in Iran is 20 times more than world’s average. In Iran among all unintentional fatal injuries inflicted on children under five, traffic related fatalities are the leading cause ...

Gamification of the Laboratory Experience to Encourage Student Engagement †