OBJECTIVE This study explored National Health Service (NHS) pharmacists' perceptions and experiences of pharmacist-led research in the workplace. DESIGN Semistructured, face-to-face discussions continued until distinct clusters of opinion characteristics formed. Verbatim transcripts of audio-recordings were subjected to framework analysis. SETTING Interviews were carried out with 54 pharmac...

As part of efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5--to reduce maternal mortality by 75% and achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015--the Malawi Ministry of Health conducted a strategic assessment of unsafe abortion in Malawi. This paper describes the findings of the assessment, including a human rights-based review of Malawi's laws, policies and international agreements...

BACKGROUND Recent studies show adolescent health-related behaviours to co-occur synergistically. This paper describes the study design for an exploratory trial on the effects of a comprehensive, whole-school health promoting school intervention. This intervention tackles seven different behavioural domains simultaneously via a combination of education, creating a healthy environment and introdu...

The framework of ecosystem services (ES) and disservices (ED) has increasingly been used in various science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including soil science. objectives this study were to use ES/ED concepts extend test an existing lecture laboratory exercise on organic carbon (SOC) online introductory science course (FNR 2040: Soil Information Systems) taught Cle...

This paper presents a development paradigm for Ethiopia, based on appropriate services and innovative use of mobile communications technologies via applications tailored for sectors like business, finance, healthcare, governance, education and infotainment. The experience of other developing countries like India and Kenya is cited so as to adapt those to the Ethiopian context. Notable applicati...

purpose: with the entrance of information and communication technologies (ict) in the context of libraries and with the development of electronic services, the evaluation of these kinds of services has become more important. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of electronic services at the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad (fum) form the point of view of librarians –...

background and purpose:the tasks of faculty members and their weights particularly in integrated system of iran are not well defined. methods:to address this issue, in a comprehensive project, we explored all rules, regulations and officialdocuments in national level, collected the opinion of experts around the country using in-depthinterview and defined the weights of main tasks in a group dis...