BACKGROUND In order to reduce the high maternal mortality ratio, Morocco is strongly committed to strengthen its midwifery professional role. This study aimed to identify barriers that could potentially hinder an action plan to strengthen the midwifery professional role from achieving desired outcomes. We used a conceptual framework, which is derived from Hatem-Asmar's (1997) framework on the i...

Learning to ride a bicycle and enjoying the pleasures of cycling are synonymous with childhood; unfortunately, cycling does not come without risk of serious injury. Children under 15 years old account for the majority of cycling time in the United States, and on average, 1 child dies every day from a bicycle-related injury. Health care professionals can play an important role in making cycling ...

This study questions the validity of the assumption that the workplace culture and experiences of health personnel are largely similar. The study compares nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech therapists concerning their perceptions of professional issues within their own profession, and their perceptions of professional issues within the medical profession. Respondents c...

This paper reports on a qualitative study of South Australian General Practitioner (GP) attitudes towards adopting Health Informatics (HI) technology. The study suggests attitudes are determined by GP perceptions of competing managerial, technological and political factors. Findings indicate increased exposure to HI use in performance of their role influences GP perceptions of the importance an...

This dissertation examines the careers and collective professional identity of nurses working in India. It analyses the impact of gender, caste and class on the decision to enter nursing, the types of career opportunities envisaged by nurses, accounts of nursing practice in hospital settings and the professionalizing strategies debated by the profession's leaders to achieve greater social and p...

589 Evidence-based practice has been a dominant theme in professional literature for over a decade. “Evidence” has been considered synonymous with research evidence, and there are no reasonable arguments against the value of systematically infusing research evidence into clinical practices. The compelling logic of integrating the best available research evidence into professional practices has ...

Whilst an integrated team effort is needed to provide increasingly complex solutions to our increasingly complex built environment needs, procurement in the UK, with it's linear transfer of information, appears to be culturally opposed to integrative processes. Interprofessional disharmony causes innovation in design to suffer. Calls for improvements in multi-disciplinary working are familiar. ...