Resilience thinking in health protection.

Critical Thinking: Moving from Infrastructure Protection to Infrastructure Resilience CIPP Discussion Paper Series Resilience: A Systems Design Imperative

The effect of positive thinking training on happiness and resilience of nurses in intensive care units: a randomized clinical trial

Background: Nursing in intensive care units is associated with various stressors that can affect the psychological state. In this study, the effect of positive thinking training on the happiness and resiliency of nurses in intensive care units was investigated. Materials and methods: A total of 60 nurses from Shohadaye Tajrish and Shahid Taleghani hospitals of Tehran City were randomly divided ...

Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems: Towards a New Conceptual Framework

The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on go...

The Effectiveness of Positive Thinking Skills Training on Increasing Happiness and Resilience of orphaned adolescent Girls

The aim of this study was to promote happiness and resilience in Adolescents Girls without Caregivers by using positive thinking skills. It is a quasi-experimental design with pre-test-post-test design with control group. The population of the study consisted of all adolescent girls without caregivers who were live in organization of Alborz Province. A sample of 40 individuals from this society...

Key Factors Influencing Lean Thinking Implementation in Health Services (A Study of Isfahan Health Centers)

Introduction: Health centers around the world are facing significant pressures to increase productivity. Therefore, in order to improve the quality of services and to create competitive advantages in these centers, we need to implement lean principles. The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the key factors affecting the implementation of lean thinking in the field of health se...