This paper outlines a model of accountability for Pakeha practitioners developed over many years as a practising community psychologist involved in research and development projects in Aotearoa in the 1980s and 1990s, during an era of contract-funded health projects, and increasing prominence of the Treaty of Waitangi. The model could be termed 'transformative' in that it reverses the usual flo...

Projects are about the planning and delivery of beneficial change. This beneficial change may involve the creation of a desired physical asset or some less tangible organizational change. In either case, the pursuit of opportunities is an inherent central concern. Throughout any project what can be achieved is subject to uncertainty. Uncertainty underlies risk and the pursuit of inherent projec...

BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

This article starts by summarising the history of socially-engaged research on disadvantaged groups, pointing out that many social methods currently in use field originated outside academy, carried protagonists with a mission to draw attention injustices and bring about change. It then discusses often-problematic relationship between researchers people whose working lives they research, especia...

This article aimed to describe and evaluate the extension program "Integrating knowledge to the family integral care" composed of five projects that aimed to enrich knowledge and develop skills in the academic field, to accomplish health actions, based on the families' and community' needs. A total of 33 faculties from the nursing, medical and biomedical schools at the "Triângulo Mineiro Federa...

BACKGROUND In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. DISCUSSION This article...

We describe the implementation of a pilot project to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of providing PrePex circumcision from a mobile clinic. We analyzed available project diary entries and staff meeting minutes to identify challenges encountered. The main challenges identified were (1) daily time constraints because of setting up procedures, (2) transportation logistics for clients when t...