BACKGROUND Effective co-practice is essential to deliver services for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). The necessary skills, knowledge and resources are distributed amongst professionals and agencies. Co-practice is complex and a number of barriers, such as 'border disputes' and poor awareness of respective priorities, have been identified. However social-relationa...

casual, pre-marital and marital, with and without physical and sexual contact. In order to better understand the context in which young people live, the study explored young people's own capabilities, notably their decision-making authority, perceptions of selfworth, mobility, gender role attitudes and awareness about sexual and reproductive matters, as well as their family relations and social...

Guidance Clinic, Harrogate. Stephen Coates, M.A. (Cantab.), Principal Clinical Psychologist, Middlesex Hospital; Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street; Portman Clinic; Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. David Jones, O.B.E., Lecturer, National Institute for Social Work Training: formerly General Secretary, Family Service Units. To mark the occasion the Inner London Ed...

“Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy...As an instrument of rationally organizing authority relations, bureaucracy was and is a power instrument of the first order for one who controls the bureaucratic apparatus...Where administration has been completely bureaucratized, the resulting system of domination is practically indestructi...

We prospectively assessed whether providing social services with information on the immunisation status for a cohort of looked after children in the care of an urban unitary authority in England improved uptake rates. The provision of such information did not improve immunisation coverage in these children.

*Alaska Section of Epidemiology, Anchorage, Alaska, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Center of Expertise for Rabies, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; §University of AlaskaFairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA; ¶Stanton Territorial Health Authority, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada; #Department of Health and Social Services, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada; and **...

N NITROSOBIS (2 OXOPROPYL) AMINE (NBOP), a postulated 3-metabolite of di-n-propyl-nitrosamine, has been found to be a potent carcinogen in different species of animals (Pour et al., 1977a; Rao & Pour, 1978; Pour et al., 1979). In hamsters, a single or repeated s.c. administration of NBOP (Pour et al., 1977a, 1978) is reported to cause a high incidence of pancreatic ductal tumours. Because of th...

Organizations are evolving from the bureaucratic form based upon hierarchy to the new-form or radix organization that has the value chain as its relatively fluid foundation. This article explores the relationship between the radix organization and leadership, viewed through an organization-environment coevolution framework. It explicates the changes in the leader’s role-sets and relationships b...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...