Volunteers are increasingly being relied upon to provide home-based care for people living with AIDS in South Africa and this presents several unique challenges specific to the HIV/AIDS context in Africa. Yet it is not clear what motivates people to volunteer as home-based caregivers. Drawing on the functional theory on volunteer motivations, this study uses data from qualitative interviews wit...

Introduction. The problem of vindictive behavior in modern pedagogy is poorly studied both at the theoretical and empirical level. It only indirectly touched on studies disciplinary measures educational environment, prevention non-normative activity children.The aim research to learn genesis problematization a pedagogical format, as well study experimentally features vindictiveness at-risk adol...

MayJune 2008 To the Editor: Charity Scott’s “Belief in a Just World” (Jan-Feb 2008) contains valuable insight about the shape of public ethical discourse in America. However, she is so concerned with how to “sell” social reform in the short term that her essay misses an opportunity to subject the so-called belief in a just world (“you deserve what you get, and you get what you deserve”) to crit...

BACKGROUND The use of peripheral vascular catheters (PVCs) is an extremely common and necessary clinical intervention, but inappropriate PVC care poses a major patient safety risk in terms of infection. Quality improvement initiatives have been proposed to reduce the likelihood of adverse events, but a lack of understanding about factors that influence behaviours of healthcare professionals lim...

PURPOSE We undertook an in-depth exploration of the unintended consequences of pay-for-performance programs In England and California. METHODS We interviewed primary care physicians in California (20) and England (20) and compared unintended consequences in each setting. Interview recordings were transcribed verbatim and subjected to thematic analysis. RESULTS Unintended consequences report...