During the past several years numerous articles were published concerning the novel perioperative management method, the socalled ”fast track surgery”. The above-mentioned terminology was first used in case of colon surgery by Prof. Henrik Kehlet from the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen (currently section of Pathophysiological Surgery in Rigshospitalet...

Abstract Sociologists have long studied the ways people resist oppression but devoted far less empirical attention to resign it. As a result, researchers neglected mechanisms of resignation and how narrate their lived experiences. Drawing on 81 interviews with parents past child protective services cases, this article provides an account in institutional setting, documenting understand relinqui...

In Hungary, the wages of government workers were frozen and in some cases reduced between 2008 and 2012. Within this very diverse set of employees, resident physicians were the only group capable of taking successful collective action and achieving wage increases that were extended to the entire health-care sector. However, the 2011 mass resignation campaign organized by the Hungarian Associati...

BACKGROUND Kenya, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, has been affected by shortages of health workers in the public sector. Data on the rates and leading reasons for health workers attrition in the public sector are key in developing effective, evidence-based planning and policy on human resources for health. METHODS This study analysed data from a human resources health facilit...

Following the resignation crisis of 1999, the European Commission embarked on an ambitious programme of management reform in 2000. In 2003 the reform Progress Review claimed that it had been substantially implemented. From the body of literature which has developed examining the theory and practice of public management reform under different conditions, this paper analyses these claims. Using m...