Interview with the Hon. Ken Wyatt: improving Indigenous health outcomes from a political viewpoint

Interview with Ken Forbus

I think analogy is one of the core operations in human cognitive processing. There is evidence that the principles of Gentner‘s structure-mapping theory are applicable from mediumlevel vision to everyday reasoning to cognitive development to scientific discovery. That‘s quite a range of phenomena. Our computational modeling efforts do not yet span anything close to that range. But that‘s one of...

Effectiveness of Motivational Interview on Improving Physical and Mental Health in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory, debilitating and progressive disease that has wide physical and psychological dimensions. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of motivational interview on improving the physical and mental health of this disease. Methods and Materials: For this purpose, 24 patients with MS referred to Ghaem and Imam Reza (AS) hosp...

Improving Indigenous health through education.

In 2007, the online publication Crikey (https://www. crikey.com.au) estimated that over 20 such reports had been issued since the above comment was made. While clinicians focus on medical advances to benefit health care, real improvement in Indigenous health will come through attention to factors such as education, gender, power, racism and employment conditions. These daily living factors cons...

In conversation with Will Falk, partner, Accenture Health and Life Sciences. Interview by Ken Tremblay.

illiam Falk has walked the back halls of power and has managed projects and teams that have set directions, shifted public policy and made headlines. No stranger to the complexities of the healthcare system, academic medicine and the drivers of change, Will has formed strong ideas and possible solutions from his observations in Canada and the US. Armed with these experiences, a passion to impro...

Housing strategies that improve Indigenous health outcomes