E-commerce is an emerging technology. Impact of this new technology is getting clearer with time and results are tangible to the user community. In this paper we have tried to focus some of its issues like paradigms, infrastructure integration, and security, which is considered to be the most important issue in E-Commerce. At first we have elaborated the paradigms of E-Commerce (Business-to-Bus...

Community health workers are ideally suited to the care coordination niche within the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) team, but there are few case studies detailing how to accomplish this integration. This qualitative study documents how community health workers (CHWs) were integrated into a PCMH in South Bronx, New York. Results show that integration was linked to clear definition of thei...

The purpose of this study was to examine the contrihution of community integration to quality of life (QOL) for people with disahilities who were the participants of community-based adaptive sport programs. Specifically, it was hypothesized that community integration contributes to physical, psychological, social, and environmental QOL. Out of 240 individuals from the mailing list of the Adapti...

Integration means change for professionals and for organisations: such change has frequently been resisted. Using a case study of the integration of community health and social services, the presentation will reflect on the way evidence and action research can be used to sustain change and help secure the benefits of integrated care for individuals, organisations and taxpayers.

Community integration is one of the most important as well as most frequently identified goals of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities. Although rehabilitation professionals have identified community integration as an important goal, the role of community leisure ser vice providers in this process has not been as clear. This article offers the core ideas associated with ...

Despite the consensus regarding community integration as a major goal of mental health policy and the emergence of supportive independent housing as a critical component of community mental health services, mental health services research has not examined the extent to which housing and service characteristics are associated with community integration of persons with psychiatric disabilities in...

Effective measurement and optimization of re-entry into the community after injury depends on a degree of understanding of how those injured persons actually perceive their community. In light of the limited research about foundational concepts regarding community integration after spinal cord injury, this study investigated how a large number of adults with spinal cord injury described their l...

Background: Little is still known about what community, individual and program factors contribute to the successful community integration of formerly homeless persons diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI). Aims: The goal of this study was to use blended quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the impact of housing type (independent apartments and congregate settings) and neighborho...

OBJECTIVE To examine the factor structure and construct validity of the Community Integration Questionnaire, a widely used measure of community participation among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), among 3 racial/ethnic groups. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Enrollment in acute inpatient TBI rehabilitation with follow-up at 1 year after injury. PARTICIP...