Taking problem structuring methods forward

Taking Behavioral Sciences Forward

It has been almost one year now since I agreed to become the Editor-in-Chief for this important open access journal, for which I have served as a member of the editorial board since its early inception.[...].

Taking medical humanities forward

(page number not for citation purposes) 2011, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health...

Understanding behaviour in problem structuring methods interventions with activity theory

This article argues that OR interventions, particularly problem structuring methods (PSM), are complex events that cannot be understood by conventional methods alone. In this paper an alternative approach is introduced, where the units of analysis are the activity systems constituted by and constitutive of PSM interventions. The paper outlines the main theoretical and methodological concerns th...

Structuring managerial problem situations

Insulin Guidelines: Taking It Forward

Majority of type 2 diabetic subjects require insulin administration at some stage in their natural history of diabetes. Notwithstanding the virtuosity of insulin in achieving glycemic control, every aspect of insulin therapy is unfortunately beset with huge differences in opinion. Furthermore as 70-80% of diabetic subjects are treated by primary care physicians, guidelines need to be simple, ef...