This article describes and evaluates the Jury Trial technique, an innovative educational instrument used in a pilot workshop on Social Control and Gender by health council members in Greater Metropolitan Florian polis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The reliability and validity were studied based on the participants' opinions, complemented by qualitative observation of the work. There was consensus in...

Research has estimated that approximately one out of four women will experience abuse by an intimate partner. There has been considerable effort directed toward understanding the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) (Franklin & Kercher, 2012; Franklin, Menaker, & Kercher, 2012). One approach to clarify why men perpetrate IPV has focused on power structures of male dominance and female ...

This work presents the prototype of the LARIISA, a context-aware framework that makes use of intelligent mechanisms for helping decision-making on health management system. It allows the implementation of ontologies reflecting different levels of public health (e.g. state-wide, locality-wide, etc.) mirroring LARIISA’s Local and Global semantic model. The prototype collects context-aware informa...

Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics, but she is recognised to have been an important motive-force in its progress and development, and she continued her untiring work on its behalf to the end of her life. Her work for midwives is also well known to all who have followed the progress of the movement to improve the standard of midwifery and the status of midwives. The memorial wil...

my shortcomings, in the kindness, courtesy, and help I have invariably received from the Council and from the Society at large?a support without which it would have been impossible for me to have attempted to maintain the dignity of the Chair which I am about to demit. This kindness on your part, moreover, has made my term of office one of the pleasantest of my life, and one which has not been ...

Some time back, in response to an invitation from your secretaries, I expressed my willingness to contribute a paper on some subject bearing on infectious disease, or the work in infectious disease hospitals. I afterwards experienced the usual difficulty of making up one's mind as to what particular theme would form a satisfactory basis for discussion. I was induced to take the subject which fo...

When the editor suggested that we write a piece for this 50 edition of the newsletter, it seemed appropriate to reflect on the longer term history of our field and, in particular, to focus on the topic of accident investigation which has been the focus of our previous work. In early 1928, the Assistant Secretaries for Aeronautics in the Departments of War, Navy, and Commerce in the United State...

Our longitudinal study examines the changing roles of health care professionals (physicians, nurses, medical assistants, practice managers, and secretaries) before and after an EHR implementation in a large, multi-location group practice. We take a social informatics perspective and focus on the changing social identities of health care professionals as they adapt to their EHR-enabled roles. A ...

In an earlier study that identified previously unrecognized writings of the young 15 Thomas Hobbes, questions were raised about the authorship of some of Francis Bacon's published works. This article reports a follow-up study in which two independent statistical analyses of Bacon's English works both conclude that, whereas Bacon's autographic writings show clearly that they are authored by the ...

This chapter explores the role end user perceptions in information technology adoption from the perspective of innovation diffusion theory. It is based on empirical data from a three-year longitudinal study of an information system implementation in an engineering organization. Data were collected on six different applications and their adoption by four categories of end users: engineering mana...