Distinguished between partnership models of service delivery and consumer-run services. In order to understand the role of self-help and other consumer-run approaches in community support of persons with severe mental illness, we must appreciate the importance of (a) consumer choice and (b) diversity of service alternatives within consumer-run options. These issues are discussed in relation to ...

There is strong scientific evidence from clinical and epidemiological studies that tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is linked to periodontal disease as well as other serious but less common oral health diseases. Given the strength of this evidence, dentists must include tobacco cessation services (TCS) as part of their routine care. This paper describes barriers to the adoption of T...

The purpose of this study is to investigate computing professionals’ perspectives on services offered by a professional association. A conceptual framework was developed based on a review of relevant literatures to explore the motivations of professionals to join and maintain professional association membership. A survey instrument was developed based on the conceptual framework, and was subseq...

OBJECTIVE To explore the boundaries and overlap of practice profiles of primary care physicians (PCPs), including FPs and GPs, and community medicine specialists (CMs), particularly in the area of community-oriented clinical care. DESIGN Analysis of data from the 2004 National Physician Survey. Analyses included frequencies, cross-tabulations, and chi(2) statistics. SETTING Canada. PARTIC...

The scarcity and diversity of resources among the devices of heterogeneous computing environments may affect their ability to execute services within the users' requested Quality of Service levels, particularly in open real-time environments where the characteristics of the computational load cannot always be predicted in advance but, nevertheless, response to events still has to be provided wi...

This paper discusses a novel architecture of intelligent user services that address the domain of networked home environments. The work described in this paper represents the central achievements of the first 1.5 years in the work package on intelligent user services within the EU-IST funded research project Amigo. The discussed service architecture consists of five distinct services that addre...

Non-physically abusive acts (underpinned by coercive control) are more prevalent than physical or sexual violence within intimate partner relationships. Yet, little is known about survivors’ help-seeking journeys the efficacy of existing services in addressing this need. We present findings from a survey UK-based domestic and abuse (DVA) (SV) practitioners (n = 279) exploring experiences provid...

Building nurses' resilience to complex and stressful practice environments is necessary to keep skilled nurses in the workplace and ensuring safe patient care. A unified theoretical framework titled Health Services Workplace Environmental Resilience Model (HSWERM), is presented to explain the environmental factors in the workplace that promote nurses' resilience. The framework builds on a previ...

An environmental scan of the demand for and varied levels of success of online learning products and services suggests that dropout numbers are higher in online learning. One response is to enhance strategies for supporting learners who are engaged in online distributed learning environments. These strategies are examined within the ADDIE framework. A comparative analysis of learner evaluations...