BACKGROUND The Australian Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) is fostering a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to mental health care through the establishment of local interdisciplinary networks of mental health professionals. This paper reports on those factors seen by MHPN participants and staff as having affected the formation and continuation of interdisciplinary networks, an...

BACKGROUND This paper adopts a communication and sociocultural perspective to analyze the factors behind the lag in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in the United States. Much of the extant research on this topic has emphasized economic factors, particularly, lack of economic incentives, as the primary cause of the delay in EMR adoption. This prompted the Health Information Technology o...

We explain how and why people become motivated to participate in institutional processes. Responding recent efforts address the micro meso analysis, we introduce two interrelated constructs, a person’s embodied world of concern community’s shared concern, which shape experience, evaluate, arrangements. The is product people’s sedimented experiences thriving suffering, becomes basis for their co...

Background Priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system performance. However, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework. We reviewed literature with the aim of developing and proposing a framework for the evaluation of macro and meso level healthcare priority setting practices.   Methods We systematically searched Econlit, PubMed, CINAHL, and EBSC...

BACKGROUND People who inject drugs (PWID) are underserved by health providers but pharmacies may be their most accessible care settings. METHODS Studies in the U.S., Russia, Vietnam, China, Canada and Mexico employed a three-level (macro-, meso-, and micro-) model to assess feasibility of expanded pharmacy services for PWID. Studies employed qualitative and quantitative interviews, review of ...

Membrane receptors and proteins involved in signal transduction display numerous binding domains and operate as molecular scaffolds generating a variety of parallel reactions and protein complexes. The resulting combinatorial explosion of the number of feasible chemical species and, hence, different states of a network greatly impedes mechanistic modeling of signaling systems. Here we present n...

The development of effective anti-corruption measures relies on a sound understanding underlying country-specific cultural patterns corruption. However, finding these faces the problem ecological fallacies when tracing back results comparative macro-studies to national level or using ex-post explanations for variances in experimental research designs. Thus, we ask how can explain country differ...

In view of unprecedented severe impact the COVID-19 on micro-, meso-, and macro-levels service sector around world, Service Industries Journal initiated this special issue, approaching from transformative research perspective (TSR) to address issues associated with pandemic identify remedies business recovery strategies for sector. The issue includes six articles. Three are focused conceptualis...

The concepts of circular economy (CE) and sustainability (S) have lately gained momentum among scholars, theorists, academics, practitioners. Although these are considered necessary to solve many the existing global environmental social challenges (e.g., climate change, nature conservation equity), it seems there is no consistency relating their content. Some scholars consider two identical, wh...

As the digital reform unfolds at an incredible pace, continuing higher education faces opportunities to transform and upgrade. Although emerging technologies such as 5G, Internet artificial intelligence are gaining a foothold in education, must deal with challenges issues orientation, teaching mode, talent training, etc. There is urgent need of standardized management, development. This paper a...