Neurologic care exists within health systems and complex social, political, and economic environments. Identification of obstacles within health systems, defined as "constraints," is crucial to improving the delivery of neurologic care within its macroclimate. Here we use the World Health Organization's 6 building blocks of a health system to examine core services for priority interventions rel...

To ensure successful compliance with information security (InfoSec) policy and standards, organisations must harmonise their InfoSec training programmes with the national culture of the local workforce. A successful InfoSec policy must demonstrate the value of security, not just the requirement for security. We conducted a quantitative study of 177 professionals across 35 national cultures to i...

FOREWORD This paper is intended to stimulate discussion on ways in which the objectives of the Primary Health Care Strategy may be further progressed. It has made available to the Ministry of Health to serve as a resource for ongoing policy work. The paper provides a high-level discussion of a range of future directions for the Strategy, largely within the current institutional framework. It do...

Cardiovascular disease deaths are increasing in low- and middle-income countries and are exacerbated by health care systems that are ill-equipped to manage chronic diseases. Global health partnerships, which have stemmed the tide of infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, can be similarly applied to address cardiovascular diseases. In this review, we present the experiences of ...

Our aim is to foster close working and understanding between business and higher education so that world-class learning and research can improve the international competitiveness of both sectors and the capabilities of graduates and those already in the workforce. The Council leads in developing an agreed agenda on the higher level learning issues that affect our global competitiveness, social ...

Globalization and the rise of mobile technologies have significantly increased the mobile workforce in organizations. Enterprise App Store (EAS) is a rising phenomenon to harness mobile technologies for achieving enterprise solutions. These solutions are largely diversified and lack focus to address specific business areas. The concept of mobile knowledge management (mKM) is still in its infanc...

After a decade of steady growth, the tourism sector in Portugal is facing its most acute challenge modern times, wake COVID-19 pandemic. As inbound visitors return to Portugal, workforce will need digital skills make effective use new technologies, and exploit opportunities digitalisation opening up for marketing, as well product destination development. Successful uptake by businesses be drivi...

BACKGROUND Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are potential instruments to enable private collaboration in the health sector. Despite theoretical debate, empirical analyses have thus far tended to focus on the contractual or project dimension, overlooking institutional PPPs, i.e., formal legal entities run by proper corporate-governance mechanisms and jointly owned by public and private parties...