Healthcare innovation and challenges

This paper seeks to develop a system for evaluating the implications of accountability and value-for-money (VFM) decisions in private finance initiative (PFI) projects from initiation through set-up, implementation and internal and external monitoring. By reviewing the extant literature on accountability and VFM, a mo…

A major part of the work of British social workers in children's departments is interacting with an IT system known as the Integrated Children's System (ICS) that implements both record-keeping and reporting functions. After a short time in operation, the system is now regarded as deficient and, disturbingly, there is…

Expanded complementary writing reflecting on the multi-output PAR project, including insights assembled and gleaned for a presentation for Storytellers and Machines (2024 conference at Manchester Metropolitan University) and the overall, 3-stage process of BOBBY....'s development (2019, 2021 and 2024).

This research was planned to evaluate postpartum discharge readiness situation of women who had vaginal deliveries at hospital as being a descriptive, cross sectional study. This research was made in a state hospital between 01.03.2012-01.04.2012 to 110 women who had vaginal deliveries. In data collection, individual…

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This research was planned to evaluate postpartum discharge readiness situation of women who had vaginal deliveries at hospital as being a descriptive, cross sectional study. This research was made in a state hospital between 01.03.2012-01.04.2012 to 110 women who had vaginal deliveries. In data collection, individual…

• AHSEN ŞİRİN

Engelli bireyler, toplum içerisinde yaşayan dezavantajlı gruplar arasında yer almaktadır. Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (WHO) tarafından bireyin sosyal hayata katılmasını engelleyen, bireyin eylem ve faaliyetlerini kısıtlayan zihinsel veya bedensel kısıtlılık şeklinde tanımlanan engellilik, günümüzün devam eden önemli sorunları…

• SAMİ KALAYCI

This paper examines the dynamics of care arrangements for children, persons with disabilities (PWD), and the elderly, who constitute the group of ‘the invisible’ in social policy in Turkey. The invisibility of these three groups stems from their systematic, consistent and diffuse exclusion from the social, political a…

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People with intellectual disabilities generally have poorer health outcomes compared with those who do not, including outcomes related to nutrition-related non-communicable diseases. Carers support people with intellectual disabilities in many aspects including habitual shopping and preparation of food, but their own…

• ASLIHAN ÖZDEMİR

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This article assesses whether the everyday experiences of disabled Istanbulites can be considered from an urban citizenship perspective. To this end, Lefebvre’s notion of the ‘right to the city’ and its relationship with the literature on urban citizenship and Disability Studies is discussed, and two broad categories…

Social assistance programs and the related literature are proliferating globally. This article conducts a critical systematic review of the literature with objective and transparent selection criteria and illustrates two major shortcomings: First, the literature is largely descriptive and impact-oriented as analytical…

Abstract Increasing knowledge, technological advances, growing elderly and disabled population, and the need to provide safe and quality patient care over the world have made the healthcare systems more complex. In the last 30 years, the need for interprofessional education has increased. The training and participatio…

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