Twenty years have passed since the philosophy and principals were formulated in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion. A critical reflection of the content and success of the Ottawa Charter was published before the IUHPE World Conference in Vancover in June 2007. This paper contextualizes and discusses Salutogenesis and Antonovsky in the development of health promotion practice and research a...

Competent and trustworthy physicians who act for the benefit of patients naturally embrace quality improvement. As mentioned in my article, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education lists “accountability,” “commitment to excellence,” and “responsiveness” in its definition of professionalism. These attributes and behaviors are necessary for quality improvement. The Physician Chart...

At the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the Patient's Rights Charter was declared by Ministry of Health and Medical Education to all medical universities in September 2009. This paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of Patient's Rights Charter and...

Given the very clear and limited role that states created for judicial settlement in the United Nations Charter, a serious attempt to expand the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction would inevitably involve an amendment of the Charter itself. In light of the hostility that all but a few states have shown with regard to compulsory adjudication, such an effort would be doomed to failure....

The Belfast Medical Society – a forerunner of the Ulster Medical Society – was founded in 1806. Following the Act of Union, in 1801, Ireland lost its own Parliament but Dublin remained the administrative capital of the country. Indeed, at that time, many regarded Dublin as the second city in the Empire. It was only natural that all the seats of learning – University and College – had been estab...

How does information management and control affect bank stability? Following a national holiday in 1933, NY state regulators suspended the publication of balance sheets state-charter banks for two years, whereas national-charter regulator did not. This divergence policies is used to examine how suspension bank-specific affected depositors portfolio assets held by banks. State-charter benefited,...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 65, No. 2, 2016 (“Libraries in the Political Process,” edited by Christine Stilwell, Peter Johan Lor, and Raphaëlle Bats), pp. 198–216. © 2016 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary of democracy in South Africa, it is...