BACKGROUND Community involvement is one of the crucial principles in the implementation of successful community-based education programmes. However, a gap continues to exist between the rhetoric of this principle and the reality of involving or engaging communities in the education of health professionals. OBJECTIVES This study investigated the experiences of a community regarding its involve...

People use communication and information tools to meet existing needs and purposes. In Fischer's (1992) words, 'Americans used the telephone to enhance the ways of life to which they were already committed.' As such, media have 'dual effects' (Pool, 1982) depending on an individual's prior behavior, needs and interests. This paper brings evidence to bear on the question of the long-term effects...

this article studies organizational culture in irib based on denison model. the main objective of the research is recognize organizational culture features and dimensions in irib.to do this the survey method is applied. to test reliability, cronbach's alpha was calculated 0.924. the statistical community of the research comprises all employees in irib .after application of sampling formula...

Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source development involving collaborative investment decisions by multiple institutional partners. But research on the business value of community source is lacking. In this paper, we classify the adopters of community source into four types according to the degree of i...

Migrant farmworker communities present distinct challenges that require new approaches for community participation in research. In the State of Oregon an agency that advocates for the migrant farmworker community has collaborated successfully with university researchers to implement a research program directed to reducing pesticide exposures among the children of migrant farmworkers. The resear...

Objective: To evaluate the involvement of community pharmacists in primary health care; determine extent of the pharmacists’ participation in curative and preventive services, as well as partially assess quality of the involvement. Methods: A 27-item self-completion questionnaire with 0.92 reliability was administered to 110 community pharmacists in Benin City, Nigeria. Data were collected on a...

The proliferation of community-based collaborative approaches to public land management and planning has spawned many questions regarding issues of community representation and the effects of participation for local residents. This paper presents a longitudinal assessment of local resident participation in collaborative forest planning on local community–forest relations in southwestern Colorad...

OBJECTIVE Increasing attention is being focused on the need for pediatricians to promote child health in their respective communities. The objective of this study was to evaluate, retrospectively, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program. STUDY DESIGN Case studies of 12 Community Pediatric projects in existence from 1989 to 1995 with varying degrees...

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with representatives (n = 283) of community health agencies linked to heart health activity in Ontario in order to: 1) describe their levels of involvement in heart health promotion, 2) describe the nature and extent of partnering undertaken in the context of community-based heart health promotion, and 3) assess the extent to which community...