BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that patients can meaningfully feed back to healthcare providers about the safety of their care. The PRASE (Patient Reporting and Action for a Safe Environment) intervention provides a way to systematically collect feedback from patients to support service improvement. The intervention is being implemented in acute care settings with patient feedback collected by ho...

Rumah Pintar YAFSI is one of the programs managed by Yayasan Fajar Sejahtera Indonesia to help develop character education and child protection in community. Increasing literacy interest children an important aspect that must be instilled. Improving children's requires adequate facilities high quality. As a result, this service activity, team has provided goods services YAFSI, namely assistance...

Green-tree retention is a forest management method in which some living trees are left on a logged area. The aim is to offer 'lifeboats' to support species immediately after logging and to provide microhabitats during and after forest re-establishment. Several studies have shown immediate decline in bryophyte diversity after retention logging and thus questioned the effectiveness of this method...

Background: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), human resources is the key ingredient to the effective functioning of health systems. The growing human resource crisis in low-income countries has re-energized the debate concerning the role of community health volunteers in health service delivery. Researchers have studied task-shifting among community volunteers focusing on its im...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of management practices for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in improving the competency of community health volunteers in diagnosing and treating acute respiratory infections among children. METHODS Data were collected by a group of research physicians who observed the performance of a sample of 120 health volunteers in 10 sub-districts in Bangladesh in which ...

Meals on Wheels of Tampa (MOWT), a 501(C)3 tax-exempt organization founded in 1975, delivers hot meals to people need the community, mostly elderly and homebound that live alone. The are prepared, packaged delivered by daily basis, approximately 870 per day. Beneficiaries program truly depend it, not only because their inability procure own meals, but also for some, this is nutritious meal they...

BACKGROUND Malaria as a leading cause of death in many developing countries requires urgent interventions. In order to improve access to healthcare, trained volunteers are used to distribute health commodities. The present study aims at determining knowledge and factors that may predict willingness to volunteerism in a developing country. METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional descriptive stu...

This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides broad classes of benefits to the participants of the network and suggest how volunteerism can be expected to increase the social capital of a network. We present survey data collected from 62 members of ICC to examine h...