Interprofessional education is a collaborative approach to develop healthcare students as future interprofessional team members and a recommendation suggested by the Institute of Medicine. Complex medical issues can be best addressed by interprofessional teams. Training future healthcare providers to work in such teams will help facilitate this model resulting in improved healthcare outcomes fo...

Bangladesh has made significant social, economic, and health progress in recent decades, yet many reproductive health indicators remain weak. Access to television (TV) is increasing rapidly and provides a potential mechanism for influencing health behavior. We present a conceptual framework for the influence of different types of TV exposure on individual's aspirations and health behavior throu...

Teamwork is integral to a working environment conducive to patient safety and care. Team training is one methodology designed to equip team members with the competencies necessary for optimizing teamwork. There is evidence of team training's effectiveness in highly complex and dynamic work environments, such as aviation and health care. However, most quantitative evaluations of training do not ...

The relationships between leadership clarity (i.e. team members’ consensual perceptions of clarity of, and no conflict over leadership of their teams), team processes and innovation were examined in health care contexts. The sample comprised 3,447 respondents from 98 primary health care teams, 113 community mental health teams, and 72 breast cancer care teams. The results revealed that leadersh...

Primary health care team members need to communicate effectively with each other in order to provide integrated care. Using interviews with practice managers about team practice and observation of cross-disciplinary team meetings, we describe communication in primary health care teams, explore the relationship between communication and team effectiveness, and discuss the ramifications of our fi...

Background and aims: Teamwork is a way of organizing activities in health and health care that provides a broad approach to health needs. Due to the key role of teamwork for care and nursing profession, the study of the motivational factors and job barriers has considerable importance. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between team work, job motivation and job...

INTRODUCTION Teamwork and interprofessional practice and learning are becoming integral to health care. It is anticipated that these approaches can maximize professional resources and optimize patient care. Current research, however, suggests that primary health care teams may lack the capacity to function at a level that enhances the individual contributions of their members and team effective...