BACKGROUND This study aims to promote occupational health in the informal sector in Thailand by using a participatory approach. The success of the intervention is based on an evaluation of the informal sector workers, a) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in occupational health and safety, b) work practice improvement, and c) working condition improvement. METHODS This study applies the Part...

Maintaining engagement of large audiences is not easy. Traditionally, lectures and presentations have relied on one-way mmunication from the presenter to the listening audience. Without receiving ongoing feedback, speakers cannot be sure that their delivery is at an appropriate pace, or that their message is being received and understood by their audience. This study suggests using a real-time ...

based on existing literature social capital is defined as a set of norms and rules and informal networks that provide association, trust and collective action to obtain the public good. the empowerment projects of world bank that has been implemented in many third world countries in the late 1980s followed by a non-reductionist non- physical approach integration of cultural and socio- economic ...

BACKGROUND Patient's Informal payments is among the main source of health care financing in some countries. This paper aimed at determining the patient informal payments and relative factors in Cardiac Surgery Departments (CSD) in hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) in 2013. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 316 discharged patients were selected using mu...

Background: The informal caregivers of the patients with COVID-19, who are in direct contact with patients and Coronavirus, experience many psychological issues and are prone to illness anxiety disorder. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of virtual training of Benson relaxation technique on illness anxiety disorder in the informal caregivers of the patie...

ACTIVEMAP is a visualization tool that enables users to gain greater awareness of the location of people in their workplace environment, increasing each person’s ability to seek out colleagues for informal, face-to-face interactions. Our initial implementation of the tool places images of each person’s face on a map of the building. We have explored variations on how to best represent a range o...

the informality of possession and lack of security in residence are among the characteristics attributed to the informal settlements, as well as, they are a key to other problems’ solutions. this essay investigates some of the typical cases of iran’s informal settlements, and this intends to find out the possession conditions, as well as, the conditions necessary for the recognition of the ...

Traceability and rationale management are highly important—especially in distributed collaborative software development projects due to a lack of mutual awareness and informal coordination among the participating stakeholders. Therefore this papers presents a tool for extracting, visualizing, and analyzing the relationships between requirements and other artifacts, activities as well as users w...