since about four years ago, total quality management (tqm) has been informally introduced into our integrated healthcare and medical education system. with the aim of getting feedback/ learning from the experiences of the universities/schools of medical sciences in setting the ground for tqm implementation, an assessment was done. the survey results show that out of 31 universities/ schools of ...

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 ...

pathological changes in pulp and periapical tissues are addressed by endodontic treatment. the material used in this treatment must be biocompatible. the aim of this study is to compare the skin reaction of calcium enriched mixture (cem) and mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) produced in iran on rabbit. sixteen male newzeland albino rabbits weighting 2 kg were used. the animals back hair was shav...

distribution is one of the most important topics in industrial engineering and logistics and supply chain that all organizations are dealing with it in the upper echelons and are looking for the optimum distribution of resources and equipment among the echelon. generally, it is seen that organizations cannot have a good distribution if there is not a suitable criterion for the distribution of e...

at the threshold of new millennium, the period of application of traditional methods of management is terminating, and new horizon in the form of knowledge based organizations, and knowledge management (km) are coming to the world of organization and management.the first attempts regarding application of km, in most of the organizations are facing a fundamental challenge: despite of investing o...