OBJECTIVES This study aimed to describe the criteria used by US hospitals to grant surgical privileges for select gynecologic procedures and to compare the privileging processes between university-based and community-based hospitals. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study from January 2011 to December 2012 that included institutions represented by Fellows' Pelvic Research Network member...

Twenty years after Poverty and Famines elaborated the entitlement approach as an innovative and holistic approach to famine analysis, debates about some of its fundamental assertions remain unresolved. This paper examines four limitations acknowledged by Sen himself: starvation by choice, disease-driven rather than starvation-driven mortality, ambiguities in entitlement speciŽ cation and extra-...

The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of interaction. However, most investigations have taken a relatively narrow view of urban mobility. In consequence, design practice runs the risk of privileging particular viewpoints, forms of mobility, and social groups. ...

social system based on mutual trust among members continues to exist. social trust in modem era is more important than earlier periods. subject of current report is focused on the trust of iranian students in different aspects. main question in this investigation is about social-political trust of these students (based on trust in islamic republic of iran) at the past and present. this matter e...

The main aim of this research is to understand the genesis and nature an anti-consumption movement in India its emphasis on nationalism through localism. This adopted a case study design, including in-depth interviews discursive analysis. Through historical analysis shows influence anarchist political philosophy contemporary movement. It demonstrates that inflected with discourses freedom, anti...

The delivery of appropriate, expert, and equitable healthcare services underpinned by respect, negotiation, partnership, informed consensual decision-making would then align with the guarantee tino rangātiratanga (self-determination) made within Aotearoa New Zealand's founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. While rhetoric responsiveness, particularly in achieving mana taurite (equity) is evide...