Improving the delivery of efficient and effective surgical care in rural South Africa is a mammoth task bedevilled by conflict between the stakeholders, who include rural doctors, surgeons, ancillary staff, researchers, educators and administrators. Management training is not part of most medical school curricula, yet as they progress in their careers, many clinicians are required to manage a h...

Conflict and containment on acute inpatient psychiatric wards pose a threat to patient and staff safety, and it is desirable to minimise the frequency of these events. Research has indicated that certain staff attitudes and behaviours might serve to accomplish this, namely positive appreciation, emotional regulation, and effective structure. A previous test of an intervention based on these pri...

This study aims to identify the acute effects of physical exercise on specific cognitive functions immediately following an increase in cardiovascular activity. Stair-climbing exercise is used to increase the cardiovascular output of human subjects. The color-naming Stroop Test was used to identify the cognitive improvements in executive function with respect to processing speed and error rate....

The inclusion of conflict parties in independent commissions through power-sharing has been found to reduce the reoccurrence conflict. Yet, theoretical and empirical literature explaining why include is very limited. Previous publications have focused on in-depth case studies that explain how prevents recurrence specific post-conflict societies but do not provide a general argument or widescale...

Incongruence between our motor intention and the sensory feedback of the action (sensorimotor conflict) induces abnormalities in sensory perception in various chronic pain populations, and to a lesser extent in pain-free individuals. The aim of this study was to simultaneously investigate sensory and motor disturbances evoked by sensorimotor conflicts, as well as to assess how they are influenc...

A programme of research into conflict (e.g. violence, absconding, medication refusal) and containment (e.g. seclusion, special observation, physical restraint) in inpatient psychiatry has been under way at City University, London, UK, for the past 10 years. Recent research findings, plus the challenges posed by ongoing projects, have made apparent the need for greater clarity about the overarch...

SARS, like HIV, placed healthcare workers at risk and raised issues about the duty to treat. But philosophical accounts of the duty to treat that were developed in the context of HIV did not adequately address some of the ethical issues raised by SARS. Since the next epidemic may be more like SARS than HIV, it is important to illuminate these issues. In this paper, we sketch a general account o...

a tightly knit band of acute observers of human behaviour in health and disease. He made significant contributions to the understanding of a number of infectious diseases and was in the forefront of rational medical thinking, a position that was not necessarily comfortable and sometimes drew him into conflict with his more traditionally minded colleagues. This originality of thought was particu...

coach's emotional intelligence inspires health and development of sport teams. balancing emotion and thought, emotional intelligence influences conflict conditions in workplace environment. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles in the active karate coaches in isfahan province in 2012. 285 subjects were selected f...