Facilitating a change model in age-friendly hospital certification: Strategies and effects

Assessing the Isfahan Hospitals based on the World Health Organization's Age-Friendly Hospital Model: A Mixed Method Study

Objectives: The rapid growth of the elderly population requires the design of age-friendly healthcare systems in order to respond to the complex needs of the elderly. We aimed to assessing the hospitals in Isfahan based on the age-friendly hospital criteria and to identify challenges and solutions in order to realize these criteria according to experts' view. Methods & Materials: A mixed-metho...

RUNNING HEAD: Facilitating Instructional Change Facilitating Change in Undergraduate Science Instruction: Synthesis of Change Strategies across Disciplines

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Implementing change: becoming baby-friendly in an inner city hospital.

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative of the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Health Organization dramatically raises breastfeeding rates when implemented. To date, only 27 of the 16,000 Baby-Friendly hospitals worldwide are located in the United States. Barriers to becoming Baby-Friendly in the United States include the strength of the infant formula industry, suboptimal clinician ...

Schedulability Analysis for Certification-friendly Multicore Systems

This paper presents a new schedulability test for safety-critical software undergoing a transition from single-core to multicore systems a challenge faced by multiple industries today. Our migration model, consisting of a schedulability test and execution model, is distinguished by three aspects consistent with reducing transition cost. First, it assumes externally-driven scheduling parameters,...