PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the structural mechanisms that facilitate or counteract collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and other providers of municipal healthcare. Good collaboration between these actors is crucial for high-quality care, especially for persons in need of coordinated services. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study is based on semistructured intervi...

In the academic and professional literature on freight transportation, computer-based planning methods have a long time ago been identified as a means to achieve cost reduction through enhanced transportation operations efficiency. More recently, inter-firm collaboration in transportation planning has been investigated as a means to provide further gains in efficiency and, in turn, to achieve a...

OBJECTIVE The goal of Brighter Smiles was to improve children's dental health in a remote First Nations community in British Columbia in the context of a service-learning experience for pediatrics residents. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The provincial Ministry of Health had competitive funds available for collaborations between remote communities and medical educators. Hartley Bay (Gitga'at), a t...

Lack of inter-professional collaboration and practice among Health care professionals could impede effective HIV health services delivery leading to poor outcomes in people living with HIV. Adopting Inter-professional Education by using innovative teaching methods such as the jigsaw technique foster professional. The School Nursing Sciences at University Zambia Lusaka implemented Strengthening ...

The issues raised for inter professional collaboration are reviewed through data positive attitudes to collaboration but secondary school staff saw themselves as having the least to gain. In general staff need continuing support from managers and funders as well as persistence and patience in building up their work over time. In were set major tasks to achieve and links were not made between th...