There is a long history of problems in the relationship between doctors and managers. The reasons for this stem from the values of each group and the effect that these have on their views on a number of key aspects of healthcare and its delivery. Managers have been seen as the malign embodiment of changes in society and the instrument of the wishes of governments, which are often viewed with su...

The Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease discuss ideas, policies, and practices that can be used to produce a healthier population in the United States and globally. The articles pose the following questions: 1) How do we best measure long-term wellness at the population level?, 2) How do we provide incentives to organizations to...

The 2022 Mary MacKinnon lecture reminds us of some the history development out hospital specialist diabetes services in United Kingdom. There have been multiple clarion calls across years to collaborate, share information and values break down traditional boundaries pursuit improved patient care outcomes. Along with this, we note roles clinical managerial leadership, followership partnership wo...

the relationship between individual s perception of organizational justice and their social capital has been studied in this research. social capital analyzes with trust, involvement and civil leadership, giving and volunteering, informal social ties, diversity in friends. organizational justice divided in three dimensions: they are distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional jus...

Background Emerging evidence that meaningful relationships with knowledge users are a key predictor of research use has led to promotion of partnership approaches to health research. However, little is known about health system experiences of collaborations with university-based researchers, particularly with research partnerships in the area of health system design and health service org...

Eisler’s cultural transformation theory suggests that the global crises we face can be addressed only through movement to a partnership model of social organization. Drawing on cultural transformation theory and systems theory, a partnership model of family organization (PMFO) is outlined as a practical framework to guide families toward partnership relations. Eight components of PMFO are prese...

the focus on public policy and health equity is discussed in reference to the current global health policy discussion on universal health coverage (uhc). this initiative has strong commitment from the leadership of the international organizations involved, but a lack of policy clarity outside of the health financing component may limit the initiative’s impact on health inequity. in order to add...

Despite the normative view that Quadruple Helix collaborations (with government, academia, industry and civil society) such as living labs are prescribed to enhance regional innovation performance, there is scarce knowledge of sustainability from perspective stakeholders who supposed engage in initiatives. To address this gap, purpose paper empirically explore implementation for a stakeholder p...