Putting Knowledge to Work

Using Complexity to Simplify Knowledge Translation; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

Putting health theories, research and knowledge into practice is a challenge referred to as the knowledge-toaction gap. Knowledge translation (KT), and its related concepts of knowledge mobilization, implementation science and research impact, emerged to mitigate this gap. While the social interaction view of KT has gained currency, scholars have not easily made a link between KT and the concep...

The Booster Program for Malaria Control: putting knowledge and money to work.

Risks and Opportunities of Reforms Putting Primary Care in the Driver’s Seat; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”

Recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in Sweden. Many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

Knowledge and Business Processes: Approaching an Integration

This paper describes a principled approach towards creating an IT-support environment for knowledge workers. Starting in the analysis phase our approach paves the way for putting an intelligent assistant to work within a typical business process environment. Thereby, this support intelligence is centred around the interdependencies between documents providing the background knowledge and busine...

Peeking Over Cubicles: An Ethnographic Approach to Knowledge Management

For the new knowledge manager, the prospect of putting knowledge management theories into practice can be daunting. Different knowledge management schools of thought include various lenses through which knowledge work can be viewed and explained, and there is no unifying paradigm for the design and implementation of knowledge management strategies. The new knowledge manager faces the task of si...

A review on the place of Khadab in the history of Iranian civilization and its role in Iranian medicine

Khadab is one of the most important solutions used to beautify and strengthen hair, and Khadab has been used for a long time throughout history. Moreover, putting Khadab has been a long- lasting tradition in the course of history. Also, Iranian medical sources pointed out to the herbs used in Khadab and its role in human health. In this regard, the present study examines Khadab and its place in...