Ntambwe Malangu The implementation of the comprehensive plan for the care, management, and treatment of HIV and AIDS in South Africa [1] needs to be supported by all. It is encouraging to note that Wilson and Blower [2] used South Africa to develop a novel method to determine the optimal strategy for allocating antiretroviral treatment (ART) sites among healthcare facilities (HCFs) in KwaZulu–N...

Medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. This tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. Multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.

Abstract Different disciplines have different research traditions, including the use of discipline-specific methods. However, adopting methods from other can provide fresh perspectives and lead to new insights. Community-based participatory (CBPR) originated in population public health field, but it has potential be applied a broader range disciplines. This article explains fundamental characte...

Population health is a concept that has been developed over several centuries by many disciplines. Over time various aspects of the concept have dominated as issues related to behaviors and beliefs surrounding health practices have emerged. This has created a cadre of terms that are often used interchangeably but have different meanings among various disciplines. This paper will review the conc...

In this paper, we investigate the modern issues of knowledge management and their impact on our living environment including business practices and health issues. We describe our vision through a highly computerised framework that combines technologies from different disciplines such as knowledge-based systems, database systems and multimedia technologies to support various knowledge management...

There have been many terms used to describe the One Health concept, including movement, strategy, framework, agenda, approach, among others. However, the inter-relationships of the disciplines engaged in the One Health concept have not been well described. To identify and better elucidate the internal feedback mechanisms of One Health, we employed a system dynamics approach. First, a systematic...

The perceived benefits of a One Health approach are largely hinged on increasing public health efficiency and cost effectiveness through a better understanding of disease risk-through shared control and detection efforts, and results that benefit human, animal and ecosystem health. However, there have been few efforts to identify and systematize One Health metrics to assess these perceived effi...

The goal of scheduling is to reduce mean delay for free! By simply serving jobs in the “right order,” we can often reduce mean delay by an order of magnitude, without requiring the purchase of additional resources. How can this be? What is the “right order” in which jobs should be scheduled? The answer depends on parameters of the system being scheduled, like load and the job size distribution....