Seizing the Opportunities

Seizing the opportunities of adolescent health.

Economic and social change have brought great opportunities and threats to adolescent health for rich and poor nations alike. The health transition, together with changes in adolescent social roles, has shifted the burden from childhood infectious diseases towards adolescent injuries and health-jeopardising behaviours in all but the poorest countries. Fortunately, research has clarifi ed many d...

The New Enterprise Mobility: Seizing the Opportunities and Challenges in Corporate Mobile IT

A new generation of mobile IT is driving new thinking and innovation in most areas of organizations and is challenging corporate IT. From a “computing” perspective, this second-generation enterprise mobility (SGEM), such as smartphones and media tablets, enables pervasiveness, much more intuitive computing, and contextual intelligence. This changes what can be done with IT in enterprises and cr...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Seizing the Opportunities of a New Economy: Challenges for the European Union

The economic performance of the EU has taken on a new dimension with the notion of a “new economy”. While ICT has become a major factor in explaining the prolonged, non-inflationary boom in the United States, the EU is lagging behind in most aspects of ICT. Arguing that the impact of ICT is inter-related with a range of factors, including innovation, human capital and organisational change, thi...

Seizing opportunities under the Affordable Care Act for transforming the mental and behavioral health system.

The Affordable Care Act, along with Medicaid expansions, offers the opportunity to redesign the nation's highly flawed mental health system. It promotes new programs and tools, such as health homes, interdisciplinary care teams, the broadening of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services option, co-location of physical health and behavioral services, and collaborative care. Provisions of t...