Health systems research aims to understand the governance of health systems (i.e. how health systems function and perform and how their actors interact with each other). This can be achieved by applying innovative methodologies and concepts that are going to capture the complexity and dynamics of health systems when they are affected by shocks. The capacity of health systems to adapt to shocks ...

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the aim of this research was to explain the difference in the dimensions of learning organization between federations of team and individual sports. this research was a comparative survey. the statistical population consisted of 795 fulltime employees of iran sport federations. out of 212 returned questionnaires, 158 questioners were from individual sport federations and 54 from team sport fede...

the successful adoption of e-learning systems is mainly dependent on the learners’ attitude and willingness to use them. this survey was conducted to investigate agricultural extension workers’ attitudes toward using e-learning for on-the-job training in iran and factors which affect it. using the stratified sampling technique a sample of 379 extension workers were selected from six provinces. ...

Problem based learning is one of the highly acclaimed learning methods in medical education since its first introduction at Mc-Master University in Canada in the 1960s. It has now been adopted as a teaching learning method in many medical colleges of Nepal. B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), a health science deemed university is the second institute in Nepal to establish proble...

this paper describes how multi-agent system technology can be used as the underpinning platform for voltage control in power systems. in this study, some facts (flexible ac transmission systems) devices are properly designed to coordinate their decisions and actions in order to provide a coordinated secondary voltage control mechanism based on multi-agent theory. each device here is modeled as ...

BACKGROUND Climate change is expected to have a range of health impacts, some of which are already apparent. Public health adaptation is imperative, but there has been little discussion of how to increase adaptive capacity and resilience in public health systems. OBJECTIVES We explored possible explanations for the lack of work on adaptive capacity, outline climate-health challenges that may ...

Perspectives According to some estimates, the world needs more than 4 million additional physicians, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, midwives, community health workers (CHWs) and other front-line health workers. 1 However, there is also a shortage of faculty that can provide high-quality training and mentorship for current training programmes 2 and continuing education opportunitie...