objective: to describe a home care service developed in roozbeh hospital for patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and report baseline and 6-month follow-up data. method: roozbeh home care program consists of home visits by multidisciplinary home care teams, including general practitioners, nurses, and social workers who are supervised by psychiatrists. home visits are scheduled as b...

The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative partnership among academic, community, and service to better meet the health care needs of underserved populations. The Center for Community Health Education, Research, and Service--a coalition of Boston education institutions, health services providers, and community agencies--was formed with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Th...

Service learning, which integrates community service into coursework, provides a pedagogical intervention that can promote the civic growth of students in unique and powerful ways. Research is reviewed that documents the capacity of service learning to meet learning objectives associated with a conceptual framework that focuses on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of a civic-minded colleg...

Since 2000, research in the broader service-learning field has included partnerships and community voice, but this research trend has received little attention among engineering education scholars. This study aims to fill this gap by developing a richer understanding of community-university partnerships in engineering service-learning programs by exploring the perspectives of advisors and commu...

E-commerce in community is a major application area of the EIS in community management industry. In this paper, by comparing three information integration structures of E-commerce in community, we arrive at a conclusion that application of E-commerce in community in China is still in its infancy of integration in single direction. In order to make workable integration in two-direction, then a w...

BACKGROUND Commitments to community participation are common in health policy, yet ways to maximise the input and impact of community representatives in health service delivery and care remain elusive, lack empirical evidence and are under-theorised. METHODS The role of Community Participation (CP) Coordinators involved in an Australian health service were examined in a triangulated multi-met...

South African service delivery paradigms are undergoing a period of decentralisation. Local government/local municipalities are the preferred vehicles, selected by national government, to implement national policy, manage and deliver water services to local populations. Municipalities face a significant challenge of reducing apartheid backlogs, raising the level of service delivery and maintain...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate the contribution of community pharmacy from NHS 111 referrals out of hours (OOH) for emergency supply repeat medication requests via presentation of service activity, community pharmacist feedback and lean thinking transformation. DESIGN Descriptive service evaluation using routine service activity data over the pilot period; survey of community pharmacists, and serv...