Utilizing the Source-Position-Performance (SPP) framework of competitive advantage and the literature on information technology (IT) and sustainability as the guiding theoretical lenses, we posit that the government and business IT readiness (i.e., sources of advantage) leads to differentiation in government and business ICT usage (i.e., positional advantage), which in turn affects the national...

There has been increased awareness of child maltreatment in Saudi Arabia recently. This study assessed the readiness for implementing large-scale evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs in Saudi Arabia. Key informants, who were key decision makers and senior managers in the field of child maltreatment, were invited to participate in the study. A multidimensional tool, developed by...

Electronic health records provide a valuable resource to improve evaluation, surveillance and informs effective clinical decision making. Although electronic medical (EMR) are introduced in many different settings, yet little is known about the readiness, effectiveness progress of centralized information system like NUMR across United Arab Emirates. This study aims determine readiness for natio...

The research objectives are as follows: to examine the communicative component of future teachers’ readiness for organizing online communication and identify pedagogical conditions students’ activity acquire this competence. article analyses structure communication, describes methodology develop type readiness, considers possibility academic disciplines into blocks taking account their potentia...

al. The San Francisco men's health study: continued decline in HIV sero-conversion rates among homosexual/bisexual men. A. The influence of women's changing roles and status in Bangladesh's fertility transition: evidence from a study of credit programmes and contraceptive use. (Development policy and practice working paper 41.) 21 Ahmed SM. Intimate partner violence against women: experiences f...

Parent and child readiness to change have been identified as emerging areas informing pediatric obesity interventions. The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of child and parent readiness to change in obese youth by examining how these constructs are related to demographic variables, as well as to psychosocial functioning, in a sample of obese youth presenting for weightmanagem...

BACKGROUND A community's readiness for change is a precursor to the effective application of evidence-based practices for health promotion. Research is lacking regarding potential strategies to improve readiness to address obesity-related health issues in underserved communities. COMMUNITY CONTEXT This case study describes SaludABLEOmaha, an initiative to increase readiness of residents in a ...

i s H s c H 2 l a HE TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11, anthrax attacks, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and ther recent infectious disease outbreaks have heightened ur awareness of the need for health care system readiness nd response capabilities. At the same time, the economic ealities of our modern health care system are reflected in ost-containment strategies toward low-volume inventori...