Participatory medicine refers to the equal participation of patients and interdisciplinary healthcare team (IHT) members as part of care delivery. Facilitating workflow execution is a significant challenge for participatory medicine because of the need to integrate IHT members into a common workflow. A further challenge is that patient preferences should be considered when executing a workflow....

Participatory modeling is increasingly recognized as an effective way to assist collective decision-making processes in the domain of natural resource management. This article introduces a framework for evaluating projects that have adopted a participatory modeling approach. This evaluation framework--known as the "Protocol of Canberra"--was developed through a collaboration between French and ...

introduction: there must be a dynamic relation between leadership and people's knowledge. this relationship takes place through motivation and encouraging people attitude for acquiring knowledge. the purpose of this article was to study relation between knowledge management and chairperson's leadership styles at isfahan university medical sciences from faculty point of views. methods: research ...

This study forms part of a participatory action research project, undertaken in four Spanish schools, analysing the planning and development educational practices that link each school with its territory through community participation processes. The article describes how leadership can help to develop processes order foster such practices. Multiple case methodology was used. Information gather...

abstract introduction: hospital is one of the most important parts of a health- ‎providing network which requiring an experienced and efficacious ‎managing system thus a weak managing system would result in increase in ‎expenses, loss of economic sources, and decrease in optimal usage. ‎therefore current study has performed to evaluate the association between ‎leadership styles of managers and ...

Recent attempts to integrate geographic information systems (GIS) and participatory techniques, have given rise to terminologies such as participatory GIS and community-integrated GIS. Although GIS was initially developed for physical geographic application, it can be used for the management and analysis of health and health care data. Geographic information systems, combined with participatory...

BACKGROUND Many approaches to improving health managers' capacity in poor countries, particularly those pursued by external agencies, employ non-participatory approaches and often seek to circumvent (rather than strengthen) weak public management structures. This limits opportunities for strengthening local health managers' capacity, improving resource utilisation and enhancing service delivery...