Robert Wieczorek is a senior Schreyer Honors Scholar, Paterno Fellow, and Strategic and Global Security Scholar majoring in International Politics with minors in Global Security and Sociology. He has interned for a United States Congresswoman, the International Center for the Study of Terrorism, and Toffler Associates consulting firm. Rob was inspired to write “ANC Dominance and Democratic Cons...

The importance of ergonomics across several scientific domains, including biomechanics, psychology, sociology, and physiology, have been extensively explored. However, the role of other factors that may influence the health and productivity of workers, such as nutrition, is generally overlooked. Nutra-ergonomics describes the interface between workers, their work environment, and performance in...

The European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ) defines its scope as being ‘multidisciplinary, embracing all related fields including psychology, sociology, child health and social...

This article uses a socio-phenomenological methodology to develop knowledge and understanding of the healthcare consultation based on the concept of the lifeworld. It concentrates its attention on social action rather than strategic action and a systems approach. This article argues that patient-centred care is more effective when it is informed through a lifeworld conception of human mutual sh...

The Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, consists of Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas at the Toronto site (see profile in CJNL Volume 21 Number 1) and Dr. Andrea Baumann at the McMaster site. The NHSRU has a multidisciplinary team of 46 co-investigators and more than 50 researchers representing nursing, bus...

A new masters-level course, 'Medicine and the Arts" will be offered in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, setting a precedent for interdisciplinary education in the field of medical humanities in South Africa. The humanities and social sciences have always been an implicit part of undergraduate and postgraduate education in the health sciences, but increasingly they are becoming an explicit a...

OBJECTIVES To systematically identify, define, and classify emerging knowledge synthesis methods through a scoping review. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Methodology Register, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Social Sciences Abstracts, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Philosopher's Index, and Education Resources Information Cente...

OBJECTIVE In health, accountability has since long been acknowledged as a central issue, but it remains an elusive concept. The literature on accountability spans various disciplines and research traditions, with differing interpretations. There has been little transfer of ideas and concepts from other disciplines to public health and global health. In the frame of a study of accountability of ...

(b) The administration of the Health Department to be per medium of a Governing Board representative of the various sciences concerned in the maintenance of racial health, i.e., Applied Biology, Chemistry, Dentistry, Economics, Education, Endocrinology, Ethics, Eugenics, Hygiene and Sex Hygiene, Medicine (including the establishment of a Chair of Pediatrics), Nutritional Physiology, Pharmaceuti...