BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

The term neurodiversity encompasses neurological differences such as clinical labels of autism, learning disabilities, synesthesia, hyperactivity disorders, and more. Proponents the movement argue that current therapeutic medical practices often attempt to “normalize” behaviors ways participation originate from these in neurology contribute an individual’s sense identity. This paper argues ethi...

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...

This paper explores the preferences of urban gardening farmers for various training modules, learning resources, and timing participation in programs. Capacity building programs are critical to empowering gardeners sustain farming. Using data collected 2021 from 14 Maryland, results show that preferred audio-visual modules such as digital videos comprehensive manuals most. These were followed b...

BACKGROUND Incorporating private healthcare providers into social health insurance schemes is an important means towards achieving universal health coverage in low and middle income countries. However, little research has been conducted about why private providers choose to participate in social health insurance systems in such contexts, or their experiences with these systems. We explored priv...