In this paper we introduce Location Based Community Services (LBCS) as a natural advancement of ordinary Location Based Services (LBS). We shortly review some basic notions of LBS and argue why embedding LBS into a collaborative environment such as a virtual community facilitates new possibilities for LBS. We describe how LBS can evolve to LBCS and investigate the prerequisites for establishing...

The real social network and associated communities are often hidden under the declared friend or group lists in social networks. We usually observe the manifestation of these hidden networks and communities in the form of recurrent and time-stamped individuals’ activities in the social network. Inferring the underlying network and finding coherent communities are therefore two key challenges in...

Studies on effective community-based intervention in areas inhabited by multiple ethnic groups are limited. The present study was performed to evaluate the impact of workshop activities in multiple local dialects guided by lay facilitators on vaccination coverage, sanitary living and health status in a northern district of Lao PDR. In target villages, facilitators were selected and trained to a...

Background: Social responsiveness of the curriculum is aimed at directing all medical education activities to the training of physicians able to meet the health needs of the target community. Since medical education has moved towards a community-centered and community-based approach, significant attention has been paid to the concept of social responsiveness of medical education. Therefore, the...

BACKGROUND Community-based interventions are a promising approach and an important component of a comprehensive response to obesity. In this paper we describe the Collaboration of COmmunity-based Obesity Prevention Sites (CO-OPS Collaboration) in Australia as an example of a collaborative network to enhance the quality and quantity of obesity prevention action at the community level. The core a...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences older adults (aged 60 and over) participating in community-based creative arts. With an ever increasing ageing population, understanding benefits leisure occupations such as community arts will be vital for Occupational Therapists facilitating participation active engagement. Design/methodology/approach An empirical qualitative re...