Community Sport Social Benefits: A Basis for Continuous Improvement

Psychological and Social Benefits of Playing True Sport

physical health, sport plays a primarily positive role in youth development, including improved academic achievement, higher self-esteem, fewer behavioral problems, and better psychosocial. Many studies focus on the effects of sport on the five “C’s”—competence, confidence, connections, character, and caring—which are considered critical components of positive youth development. It has long bee...

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME): A BASIS FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES

According to the modern management, quality is defined from the view of customers. In health services, quality improvement requires appropriate measures to increase responsiveness and accountability of health system to increasing demands of the community. Regarding the ever-changing nature of health services protocols, there is no way but development and improvement of a CME system to make hea...

Knowledge of facts mediate “continuous improvement” in elite sport: a comment on Stanley and Krakauer (2013)

Traditional theories of motor skill learning (e.g., Fitts and Posner, 1967) and many contemporary perspectives in sport psychology (see Masters and Maxwell, 2008) and cognitive neuroscience (see Yarrow et al., 2010) argue that skilled action is guided by procedural or implicit knowledge. Researchers adopting this perspective believe that skilled performance proceeds rapidly, efficiently and wit...

Social drug policies for sport.

A TQM and JIT Integrated Continuous Improvement Model For Organizational Success: An Innovative Framework

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...