Daniel Masterson, Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, Glenn Robert, Elisabeth Nylander et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore how the concepts of co-production and co-design have been defined and applied in the context of health and social care and to identify the temporal adoption of the terms. METHODS: A systematic scoping review of CINAHL with Full Text, Cochrane Central Register ...
Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sumit Kane, Rukhsana Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to strengthen the performance of CHWs. Performance partly depends on motivation, which in turn is influenced by incentives. This pape...
Scott Reeves
This paper presents final results from a 15-month project which evaluated the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) for first and second year medical, nursing and dental students on a community-based placement. The paper initially discusses the current issues within the IPE literature. ...
Karen Spilsbury, Julienne Meyer
Throughout the NHS, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are breaking down to promote more flexible ways of working to deliver patient-centred care. Registered nurses (RNs) have responded to changing care demands through the development of innovative roles and extended roles and re...
Della Freeth, Scott Reeves, C. Goreham, Pam Parker et al.
This paper describes the multi-method evaluation of an interprofessional training ward placement for medical, nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students. Unique in the UK, and an extension of pioneering work in Sweden (Wahlström et al. 1997, Wahlstroöm & Sandén 1998), this interprofess...
Sarah van Duijn, Nick Zonneveld, Alfonso Lara Montero, Mirella Minkman et al.
INTRODUCTION: To meet the needs of vulnerable people, the integration of services across different sectors is important. This paper presents a preliminary review of service integration across sectors in Europe. Examples of service integration between social services, health, employment and/or educat...
Baizid Khoorshid Riaz, Liaquat Ali, Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Md Ziaul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has established more than 13,000 community clinics (CCs) to provide primary healthcare with a plan of each covering a population of around 6,000. The inception of CCs in the country has revolutionized the healthcare delivery to reach the doorstep of people. The provision of he...
Abimbola Olaniran, Aduragbemi Banke‐Thomas, Sarah Bar‐Zeev, Barbara Madaj
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) have been identified as a critical bridge to reaching many communities with essential health services based on their social and geographical proximity to community residents. However, various challenges limit their performance, especially in low-and middle...
Jasneet Parmar, Tanya L’Heureux, Sharon Anderson, Wendy Austin et al.
BACKGROUND: While family caregivers provide 70-90% of care for people living in the community and assist with 10-30% of the care in congregate living, most healthcare providers do not meaningfully involve family caregivers as partners in care. Recent research recommends that the healthcare workforce...
Mahyuzar Rahman, Sonia Rahman, Aliyu Musa
An intervention study was carried out in Mymensingh Medical College between December 2002 to November 2003 to determine knowledge and attitude of clinical students on problem based learning (PBL) before and after exposure to a PBL course. This is an intervention study. A total of 17 health problems ...
Susanne Chowdhury, Zafrullah Chowdhury
In Bangladesh, social as well as economic factors strongly favour the use of women over men; and of papaprofessionals over qualified physicians, for tubectomy surgery. Of 600 tubectomies carried out in three centres, 366 were performed by female paraprofesional workers with an average of only two mo...
Emmanuelle Careau, Gjin Biba, Rosemary Brander, Janice P. Van Dijk et al.
Methods: A PubMed and Google Scholar search identified the frequency of key leadership education program terms and was adjusted for six major databases. From the 2,119 references, 250 were selected in a double-blinded manner. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed to determine the patterns...
S Morison, John Marley, S. Machniewski
Interprofessional education (IPE) should help to promote a team-based approach to professional practice but there are barriers to its implementation including professional identity. The aim of this study was to use a qualitative research methodology to explore dental and dental care professional (DC...
Dwi Tyastuti, Hirotaka Onishi, Fika Ekayanti, Kiyoshi Kitamura
Complex health care needs in developing countries are stimulating development and implementation of interprofessional education (IPE). To better understand IPE, it is necessary to develop and evaluate an educational program that focuses on interprofessional learning (IPL) in Indonesia. However, no i...
Annika Nordin, Kristina Areskoug Josefsson
Improvement knowledge is recognised as an important competence for healthcare professionals in many countries. Researchers have studied the effects of improvement knowledge education but there is a lack of knowledge educations’ operational effects. Research also lacks a system perspective. To addres...