The scope of this study is to identify contributions and limits of teaching-service integration between the School of Medicine of Marília and the Municipal Health Department of Marília for academia, for the health teams and for the community. The study involved cross-sectional research using a quantitative approach. A questionnaire with 20 affirmations structured around a Likert scale was appli...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between the degree of integration in community mental health teams (CMHTs) and: (i) the costs of service provision; (ii) rates of mental health inpatient and care home admission. METHODS An observational study of service use and admissions to institutional care was undertaken for a prospectively-sampled cohort of patients from eight CMHTs in England. Tea...

Modern Internet communities need to integrate and query structured information. Employing current information integration infrastructure, data integration is still a very costly effort, since source registration is performed by a central authority which becomes a bottleneck. We propose the community-based integration paradigm which pushes the source registration task to the independent communit...

Multi-relational networks (in short as MRNs) refer to such networks including one-typed nodes but associated with each other in poly-relations. MRNs are prevalent in the real world. For example, interactions in social networks include various kinds of information diffusion: email exchange, instant messaging services and so on. Community detection is a long-standing yet very difficult task in so...

Introduction. There is an obvious gap between traditional medical education and occupational expectations of medical graduates. So in order to eliminate this problem and promote students competence in clinical process, a new educational strategy, entitled “ambulatory care education (ACE)” have been suggested which is based on integration of individual clinical expertise and the medical educatio...

Based on the theoretical model of multidimensional, two-way, dynamic integration refugee and host community, a qualitative study was done determining views experiences with refugees from Syria community in Croatia. Five focus group discussions were held, three members (N = 21) two 11). Four overarching themes emerged data both groups: "Perspectives integration", "Socioeconomic "Intergroup relat...

the change in the concept of social development over the last few decades, from the physical aspects to human dimensions has increased women’s participation in socio-economic activities and enhancement of their capabilities has been regarded as key strategies in sustainable development. the present study attempts to achieve the following objective: investigation of the impacts of ngo’s activiti...

The Court Report' was a prescription for more competence in child health care, more emphasis on prevention, and the integration of therapeutic and preventive child health services. These represented the underlying philosophy and spirit of Court that was accepted and commended,2 and recently re-affirmed3 as a starting point for alternative patterns of health services for children, after the reje...

South Africa is called "the rainbow nation" because it has so many different cultures. These have an impact on the provision of primary health care. The purpose of this research is to foster good relationships between community health nurses and traditional healers and to explore, identify and describe the attitude of community health nurses towards the integration of traditional healers into p...

Regional integration agreements (RIAs) are examples of second best and have an ambiguous impact on welfare. This paper builds a model where RIAs unambiguously raise welfare by correcting for externalities. It assumes that trade between neighboring countries raises trust between them and reduce the likelihood of conflict. The optimum intervention in that case is a subsidy on imports from the nei...