Are Stakeholders in Slovakia Ready for Community-Led Local Development? Case Study Findings

Stakeholders' experience of teledermatology in a nurse-led community clinic: a case study

Dermatology is regarded as especially suitable for the application of telemedicine because it relies to a large extent on visual information for diagnosis and holds promise as an alternative means of delivering care. Interest in teledermatology has come at a time when there is an increased demand for dermatological services and teledermatology has been advocated as a mode of delivery that may d...

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Rural Mmanagement, Empowerment of Local Stakeholders and Physical Transformation of Rural Settlements(Case Study: Semnan Province)

Following the occurrence of environmental challenges, socio - economic and especially physical inequalities in most countries are affected by the dominance of policy and approach of development management from top to bottom, the ground for paying attention and change the approach to development from the bottom to top, in order to balance the physical - spatial organization of rural settlements ...

Local Stakeholders’ Perceptions about the Introduction of Performance-Based Financing in Benin: A Case Study in Two Health Districts

Background Performance-Based Financing (PBF) has been advanced as a solution to contribute to improving the performance of health systems in developing countries. This is the case in Benin. This study aims to analyse how two PBF approaches, piloted in Benin, behave during implementation and what effects they produce, through investigating how local stakeholders perceive the introduction of PBF,...

Changes in community readiness among key school stakeholders after Ready for Recess.

School community readiness (CR) for health promotion efforts may be critical to the effectiveness of school-based interventions aimed at promoting youth physical activity and reducing childhood obesity. The purpose of this study was to: (i) identify key informants who scored highest on school CR at baseline and (ii) determine the effects of Ready for Recess on changes in CR among school key inf...