BACKGROUND Good decision-making requires gathering and using sufficient information. Several knowledge translation platforms have been introduced in Burkina Faso to support evidence-informed decision-making. One of these is the rapid response service for health. This platform aims to provide quick access for policy-makers in Burkina Faso to highquality research evidence about health systems. Th...

This paper examines transitions in living arrangement decisions of the seniors using the first six cycles of the Canadian longitudinal National Population Health Survey microdata. Transitions from independent to intergenerational and institutional living arrangements are uniquely analyzed using a discrete-time hazard rate multinomial logit modelling framework and accounted for unobserved indivi...

introduction: this study carried out to investigate the causes and motivations of older people residing in nursing home. methods: a qualitative description study was designed by choosing a sample of the elderly residing in a nursing home in tabriz, iran. based on purposive sampling, fifteen residents in the age range of 65-85 participated in the study. data was collected through unstructured in...

Using concepts of neoinstitutional economics, such as transaction cost economics, institutional economics, property rights theory, and information economics, the development of the Open Source movement is investigated. Following the evolution of institutions in Open Source, it is discussed what the comparative institutional advantages of this model are. The conclusion is that it is the institut...

This article presents reactions in the development of the Guide to Community Preventive Services, which brings public health to the same level of scientific scrutiny with evidence-based recommendations for community prevention services. The first reaction found this development a good change that should be supported, encouraged, and continued. It would help health providers know which practic...

The importance of Hesychastic theology for contemporary catechesis is indisputable. Church the space in which Tradition and grow empirically place this becomes an essential attribute Orthodox ecclesiology. By very term hesychia we mean attitude withdrawal from “communion at any cost” to a state internalization, which, without excluding communion, does not absolutize it. Any attempt introduce an...