Abstract The formation of networks as a strategy for professional action is broadly advocated theme within the framework social policies, which have been historically organized in sectors and need to their actions reorganized view increasingly complex demands. Networking understood resource confront question its consequences, tool effecting proposals intervention. Occupational therapy can use c...

OBJECTIVE To build a national Cuban capacity for training environmental health professionals directly linked to the needs of policy-makers and communities. PARTICIPANTS The University of Manitoba and University of British Columbia collaborated with an established training centre in Cuba (the Instituto Nacional de Higiene y Epidemiologia--INHEM) and new centres in the Central (Santa Clara) and...

Australia’s Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) was developed in 1996 to provide a cost-effective strategic early warning system for emergent trends in problematic drug use. Through the use of specific case-scenarios, the present article demonstrates the manner in which information obtained from drug information systems such as IDRS can broaden the knowledge base from which evidence-based poli...

Interprofessional education (IPE) is the basis for interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in health care systems. It has beneficial effects for both patients and health care professionals. IPC is paramount for adequate care of patients and their families, especially in pediatrics. To determine the attitudes of medical doctors (n=121), nurses (n=15), psychologists (n=14), and social workers (n=19...

BACKGROUND The causes of health inequalities are complex. For the reduction of health inequalities, intersectoral collaboration between the public health sector and both social policy sectors (e.g. youth affairs, education) and physical policy sectors (e.g. housing, spatial planning) is essential, but in local practice difficult to realize. The aim of this study was to examine the collaboration...

BACKGROUND The scientific literature continues to advocate interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as a key component of primary care. It is recommended that primary care groups be created and configured to meet the healthcare needs of the patient population, as defined by patient demographics and other data analyses related to the health of the population being served. It is further recommended ...

Two high-level multisectoral global conferences on road traffic safety (Moscow, 2009 and Brasilia, 2015), held under the auspices of the United Nations, adopted formal declarations on both occasions. Given the potential of these documents to establish positions, propose guidelines, policies and legal frameworks, this paper compares these charters, in order to identify the emphases, expectations...

This paper presents unexpected findings from a series of workshops conducted with firms involved in interorganizational collaboration (IOC). The scope for the workshops was to identify design criteria for a Knowledge Management System (KMS) for firms involved in IOC. As a starting point, five general Knowledge Management (KM) theoretical assumptions were introduced to IOC practitioners. Surpris...