Gender and leadership in healthcare administration: 21st century progress and challenges.

Going beyond the Hero in Leadership Development: The Place of Healthcare Context, Complexity and Relationships; Comment on “Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?”

There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

Annals of Medicine and Surgery – A modern Journal for Modern Trainees

At its core, the purpose of healthcare is simple: to maximise quality and quantity of life. To achieve this vision, doctors have assumed an array of roles across a number of domains beyond the one-to-one patient-doctor interaction. Such domains include; teaching, research, leadership, management and clinical governance to name but a few. These roles and the healthcare systems in which they oper...

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

مراقبت های بهداشتی اوَلیَه (PHC) همچنان راهبردی برای گسترش عدالت در سلامت

Introduction: The impact of PHC in providing and extending equity is valuable. To present the PHC role in health system, and providing some approaches to deal with its related challenges. Literature review: Alma Ata declaration is a valid document for defining principles and bases of PHC. In 1987 the PHC was accepted as a major key to achievement for Health For All (HFA)by the year 2000.But the...

Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” Policy (2011- 2016): the Case of China

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...