The use of mobile technologies to support medical care is often referred to as mHealth. In this paper we will look at how a mHealth knowledge sharing environment can support local communities in Ethiopia, by placing them in the solution space to fight communicable diseases. The research will use an interventionist action research approach to a community's problem. As such it will identify the k...

Issues about explanation in psychology and neurobiology have received a great deal of philosophical attention lately. To a significant degree this reflects the impact of discussions of mechanism and mechanistic explanation in recent philosophy of science. Several writers (hereafter mechanists), including perhaps most prominently, Carl Craver and David Kaplan (Craver 2000, 2006; Kaplan and Crave...

BACKGROUND Identifying factors associated with effective treatment for childhood obesity is important to improving weight loss outcomes. The current study investigated whether child or parent motivation throughout the course of treatment predicted reductions in BMI. METHODS Fifty 8- to 12-year-old children with overweight and obesity (BMI percentiles 85-98%) and their parents participated in ...

Recently, a number of philosophers of science have claimed that much explanation in the sciences, especially in the biomedical and social sciences, is mechanistic explanation. I argue the account of mechanistic explanation provided in this tradition has not been entirely satisfactory, as it has neglected to describe in complete detail the crucial causal structure of mechanistic explanation. I s...

Causal models show promise as a foundation for the semantics of counterfactual sentences. However, current approaches face limitations compared to alternative similarity theory: they only apply limited subset counterfactuals and connection logic is not straightforward. This article addresses these difficulties using exogenous interventions, where causal interventions change values variables rat...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is an effective treatment resulting in small to medium effect sizes with regard to changes in positive symptoms and psychopathology. As a consequence, CBTp is recommended by national guidelines for all patients with schizophrenia. However, although CBTp was originally developed as a means to improve delusions, meta-analyses have generally integrat...