Setting up an action group: advice from an "activist".

Discharge against Medical Advice: an Interventional Study

Background and Objectives: Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. In order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. This study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of DAMA, and s...

Toward an Activist Political Theory

An Activist Model of Democracy

The focus of this paper is that actual political systems do not appear to satisfy the property of convergence to an electoral center that is often predicted by formal vote models. The key theoretical idea is that the convergence result need not hold if there is an asymmetry in the electoral perception of the “quality” of party leaders (Stokes 1992). The average weight given to the perceived qua...

An Introduction to Action Research

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 18، تیر 1398، 323-324             مقدمه‌ای بر پژوهش عملیاتی   An Introduction to Action Research     محسن رضائیان[1]   M.Rezaeian   کرت لوین (1947-1890) Kurt Lewin را بنیانگذار پژوهش عملیاتی Action Research می‌دانند. کاربردی که وی از پژوهش عملیاتی در نظر داشت عبارت بود از: پاسخ‌گویی به یک مسأله اجتماعی که با مشارکت فعا...

An Umbrella Named Action Research

Action research is a means for creating meaning and promoting understanding of complex social situations, and improving the quality of human interactions and performance in those situations. Action research is one of the words that can be heard now frequently in the educational cycle, but there are several definitions for it. Literature review shows that several writers have referred to this co...