Research on online communities has generated multiple insights into why people join and contribute to online communities. From this research, a theoretical understanding of how to design online communities is emerging. We contribute to this understanding by investigating the impact of an increasingly common but understudied design option available to online communities: whether to integrate wit...

As more individuals with spinal cord injuries survive into the later decades of life, they are faced with a variety of potential secondary conditions that limit their physical independence and affect community integration. This article describes, body system by body system, the various health issues that people with spinal cord injuries are likely to encounter as they age. Changes also occur in...

Huge volume of biological data, which is heterogeneous, autonomous and dynamic in nature, is being produced at a rapid pace throughout the community. Along with the increase in biological data, many tools are being designed to analyze them by different research groups. Integration of these biological data and tools is becoming one of the major topics in the bioinformatics community. Grid comput...

Community health workers are ideally suited to the care coordination niche within the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) team, but there are few case studies detailing how to accomplish this integration. This qualitative study documents how community health workers (CHWs) were integrated into a PCMH in South Bronx, New York. Results show that integration was linked to clear definition of thei...

BACKGROUND To address the huge human resources for health gap in Zambia, the Ministry of Health launched the National Community Health Assistant Strategy in 2010. The strategy aims to integrate community-based health workers into the health system by creating a new group of workers, called community health assistants (CHAs). However, literature suggests that the integration process of national ...

INTRODUCTION HIV services at the community level in Kenya are currently delivered largely through vertical programmes. The funding for these programmes is declining at the same time as the tasks of delivering HIV services are being shifted to the community. While integrating HIV into existing community health services creates a platform for increasing coverage, normalising HIV and making servic...

Biological databases face challenges in four main areas: (1). integration, interoperation and federation; (2). ontologies and definitions of semantics; (3). community annotation; and (4). integration of data analysis tools with databases. Each of these areas provides interesting targets for research and development.