Witnessing social injustice downstream and advocating for health equity upstream: "the trombone slide" of nursing.

"Upstream" nursing practice and research.

Nursing practice often brings the nurse into an intimate relationship with suffering individuals and vulnerable communities. To fully and effectively conduct our practice and pursue our scholarship, the socially unjust systems that maintain the vulnerability of whole populations must be addressed through broader political participation and the examination of broken systems (Bekemeier & Butterfi...

Acoustical properties of the vocal-tract in trombone performance

The study of the acoustical in uence of the upstream (vocal-tract) airway in wind instrument performance has been a growing subject of interest in musical acoustics. In a recent study performed on trombone players, we observed a noticeable increase of the acoustic pressure near the fundamental frequency at the input of the vocal tract relative to the acoustic pressure at the input of the instru...

Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods

Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

A System Dynamics Model for Joint Upstream and Downstream Partner Selection in a Supply Chain Consisting of Suppliers and Retailers

Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to join in a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a great impact on strategic partnering and success of a firm in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chain. Our mo...

Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries