What do people value in Integrated Care? Core Values and Normative Integration from around the World

Primary care: core values. Core values in a changing world.

In 1920, the Dawson report advocated a population based approach to the organisation of health services, the allocation of resources, and the training of health care staff. It also introduced the concepts of primary and secondary levels of care and of primary care health centres. For several decades these ideas lay dormant, until medical specialisation, fragmentation of health services, and the...

NORMATIVE INFLUENCE ON RETIREMENT SAVINGS DECISIONS: DO PEOPLE CARE WHAT EMPLOYERS AND THE GOVERNMENT WANT? by

The need for Australians to increase retirement savings has been widely promoted. Yet, our understanding of the motivations of individuals to save at a higher rate remains sparse. This paper reports the findings of a survey of superannuation fund members and their motivations to contribute more to superannuation and to investment strategy. The paper uses the theory of planned behaviour to focus...

World Spine Care: providing sustainable, integrated, evidence-based spine care in underserved communities around the world.

What people say # what people do

suggesting that the higher status of the experimenter elicits physiological adaptations that reduce sensitivity to pain. Second, researchers may easily forget that the relationship between attitudes and behaviour is weak [2]. When we ask people what they think about separating waste (separate disposal of paper, glass, plastic etc.), many of them will say they are in favour of it. And when we as...

Treatment of suicidal people around the world.

BACKGROUND Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide; however, little information is available about the treatment of suicidal people, or about barriers to treatment. AIMS To examine the receipt of mental health treatment and barriers to care among suicidal people around the world. METHOD Twenty-one nationally representative samples worldwide (n=55 302; age 18 years and over) from the W...