A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Medicine

A Review on the International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Health Policy and Management: In Praise of Political Science; Comment on “On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): Mind the Theory-Policy Practice Gap”

Health systems have entered a third era embracing whole systems thinking and posing complex policy and management challenges. Understanding how such systems work and agreeing what needs to be put in place to enable them to undergo effective and sustainable change are more pressing issues than ever for policy-makers. The theory-policy-practice-gap and its four dimensions, as articulated by Chini...

Research and Application of Razi Theory With Conventional Medicine in Natural Childbirth

The goal of any health system is to improve health and reduce disease, mortality and disability in society. Razi is one of the most prominent practitioners. His works, including "Al-Hawi", are considered one of the most expensive scientific heritage of Iran and the world. He was successful in producing science, innovation and expanding knowledge. He had a tremendous and wide impact on the compl...

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

بازاندیشی نسبت نظر و عمل در کار معمار، با تکیه بر خوانش گادامر از آراء ارسطو دربارۀ «حکمت عملی»

This paper provides answers to one of the most commonly asked questions in architectural education, which is about the lack of coherence resulting in the separation of theory and practice in architecture, by exploring philosophical concepts and assumptions. A look into Aristotle’s views about practice and theory reveals a new meaning of “practice," dimensions of which have been...

نظریه پردازی بر فرآیند انتقال دانش نظری به حوزه عمل در پرستاری: رویکرد گراندد تئوری

Introduction & Objective: Knowledge transfer and in fact, the bridging of theory and practice is one of the main concerns of all academic disciplines. Getting prominent professional status is the thing that can be achieved by knowledge-based function, and of which would be called as successful discipline that it be able to transfer its theoretical paradigmatic claims into practice. Accordingly,...