Model Registration: A Call to Action

Proposing a Model for Patient Admission and NFC Mobile Payment by Biometric Identification and Smart Health Card

Abstract Following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. The current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. Traditionally, patie...

Single Versus Multi-Faceted Implementation Strategies – Is There a Simple Answer to a Complex Question? A Response to Recent Commentaries and a Call to Action for Implementation Practitioners and Researchers

Action Research: The National Medical Ethics Film and Photo Festival; an Experience Report

The National Medical Ethics Film & Photo Festival was held in February 2020 and ended with the registration of 487 works which 80 films and 36 photographs of them were finally selected and peer reviewed. The present article focuses on the films of this festival and tries to explain the experience of attracting, selecting, and judging films through the design and holding a festival by using acti...

Spirituality as a sociocultural determinant of health in the context of medical curriculum: A call for action

Background: This study aimed to investigate the state of spirituality in the general medicine curricula in Iran.    Methods: Reference books for general medicine were reviewed and data were analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis method.    Results: After reviewing references, it was found that only 35 paragraphs of the educational reference pages dealt with this subject. Relat...

Backwards Design or looking Sideways? Knowledge Translation in the Real World; Comment on “A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation”

El-Jardali and Fadllallah provide an excellent summary of the many dimensions of knowledge use, and the breath of issues and activities that must be considered if knowledge is to be put into practice. However, reliance on a continuum (rather than a cyclical, multidirectional, systems) model creates a number of limitations, particularly when promoting evidence-informed action in the areas of hea...

Big Tobacco, Alcohol, and Food and NCDs in LMICs: An Inconvenient Truth and Call to Action; Comment on “Addressing NCDs: Challenges From Industry Market Promotion and Interferences”

In their editorial, Tangcharoensathien et al1 describe the challenges of industry market promotion and policy interference from Big Tobacco, Alcohol, and Food in addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). They provide an overview of the increasing influence of corporate interest in emerging eco...