Strains on professional resources and complex experiences of isolation despair have taken their toll communities, adding to the challenges for social workers work as a profession. In context austerity locational stress, communities are increasingly relied upon enhance or, indeed, replace need state intervention. However, grass-roots mutual aid collectives potential both community support resist...

BACKGROUND Community health workers (CHWs) can play vital roles in increasing coverage of basic health services. However, there is a need for a systematic categorisation of CHWs that will aid common understanding among policy makers, programme planners, and researchers. OBJECTIVE To identify the common themes in the definitions and descriptions of CHWs that will aid delineation within this ca...

The challenges facing efforts in Africa to increase access to antiretroviral HIV treatment underscore the urgent need to strengthen national health systems across the continent. However, donor aid to developing countries continues to be disproportionately channeled to international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rather than to ministries of health. The rapid proliferation of NGOs has prov...

This poster presents an implementation of data mining techniques to obtain a probabilistic process model from the low-level event log of the activity of a knowledge worker, In these settings, knowledge workers are often involved in numerous projects, that require accessing different data sources, interacting with different individuals, exchanging messages, browsing the web, etc. An individual's...

BACKGROUND The high incidence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among healthcare workers suggests that the introduction of ergonomic interventions could be beneficial. While laboratory studies have clearly documented the efficacy of ergonomic devices, few studies have examined their effectiveness in the healthcare workplace. METHODS This study evaluated a statewide program that provided erg...

Technology development opens up for new possibilities to facilitate the production processes through digital information systems. To optimize systems’ value, form, content, and medium must fit needs of workers. This article aims contribute discussion on use design assistance systems production. It presents empirical data from a case study at Norwegian shipyard, workers’ perception coordinative ...

Shift work results in a misalignment between circadian timing and the sleep/wake schedule, leading to irregular and poor quality sleep. Inconsistent input from the daily light cycle further interferes with circadian entrainment. It has been hypothesized that scheduling the sleep/dark cycle on the night shift could aid in promoting adaptation to night shift work by facilitating appropriate phase...

In recent years there has been an increased interest in investigating how technology can be used to aid the millions of people living in low-income countries [2]. Mobile phones are emerging as powerful, affordable and pervasive computing devices that can serve the needs of widely deployed applications in resource-constrained environments. Previous work has emphasized the importance of working c...