Towards an assessment for organizational participatory research health partnerships: A systematic mixed studies review with framework synthesis

Within the health sciences, organizational participatory research (OPR) is defined as a blend of research and action, in which academic researchers partner with health organization members. OPR is based on a sound partnership between all stakeholders to improve organizational practices. However, little research on the evaluation of OPR health partnership exists. This systematic mixed studies review sought to produce a new theoretical model that structures the evaluation of the OPR processes and related outcomes of OPR health partnerships. Six bibliographic databases were searched together with grey literature sources for OPR health partnership evaluation questionnaires. Six questionnaires were included, from which a pool of 95 OPR health partnership evaluation items were derived. The included questionnaires were appraised for the quality of their origin, development and measurement properties. A framework synthesis was performed using an existing OPR framework by organizing questionnaire items in a matrix using a hybrid thematic analysis. This led to our proposed Organizational Participatory Research Evaluation Model (OPREM) that includes three axes, Trust, Collective Learning and Sustainability (with specific dimensions) and 95 items. This model provides information to help stakeholders comprehensively structure the evaluation of their partnerships and subsequent improvement; thus, potentially helping to improve health organization practices.     

Parents’ perspectives of social support and social cohesion in urban contexts of diversity

Although provisions for young children are increasingly considered as ideal places to foster an inclusive and socially just society by embracing issues of social support and social cohesion, there is no in-depth understanding of the role these provisions can play in enabling supportive and cohesive encounters in contexts of diversity. Even more striking is the absence of parents’ voices in this discussion. Based on an analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 parents who use childcare services in urban contexts of diversity, our findings show the relevance of ephemeral contacts with diverse people that could offer bridging opportunities in terms of social connectedness to familiarise within diversity while decoding the other in urban contexts of diversity. However, neither bonding nor bridging contacts appear as self-evident. Our research shows that the role of childcare services might be vital in creating light and temporal communities as the prerequisite for social cohesion to flourish, in both individual as well as collective dimensions.     

The Effects of Neighborhood Variables on Needs of Social Care: A Hierarchical Multiple Regression of Senior Residents in China

Community-based elder care has become a dominant model in the world. However, the role of community-level factors in helping or hindering the individuals concerned in obtaining the needed care has not received much attention. This research aims to investigate how community-level factors, including neighborhood disadvantage, residential instability, and social service environment affect the need for instrumental, medical, and emotional services of Chinese senior residents. Employing the hierarchical multiple regression analysis, the results show that instrumental activities of daily living impairment contributed significantly to the need for instrumental, medical and emotional services. Living alone was found to be associated with the need for medical and emotional services. Objective socioeconomic status was only significantly related to the need for medical care. The type of urban community was positively associated with the need for instrumental services and was negatively related to the need for medical care. Residential instability was positively associated with of the need for instrumental services and medical care. Social service environments had heterogeneous effects on the need for social services. However, neighborhood disadvantage had no significant impact on the need for social services. Implications for future research and policy reform were also discussed.     

"中心"的心理暗示——视觉审美研究

具有中心感的视觉形象能给人以强大的心理统摄力,并对审美产物的最终形成产生决定性影响。将这种中心感定义为一种能明确感知的、直观的整体视觉特征,并将其丰富的心理暗示划分为三个方面,即归属感、等级感和稳定感。归属感代表着人们对母体、源头等身心归宿的强烈回归愿望,等级感则与归属感一脉相承,其在人们心中高于它物的崇高地位使之成为权利象征,一些皇权建筑形象的选择就源于此。而稳定感则顺利完成了从空间概念到时间概念的转换,在审美过程中常作为永恒的象征出现。通过这三方面对"中心"的详尽分析,揭示出视觉审美研究的核心问题应该是欣赏者的心理分析,并期望以此研究方式对其作出一些有益探索。     

加入WTO后中国法律服务贸易制度的完善

法律服务是一种特殊形式的商业服务,法律服务实际上主要是律师所提供的服务。中国服务业发展存在严重的不均衡状态,根据WTO的有关原则,发展中国家的缔约国可享有分阶段、分程序地逐渐开放其本国内的服务市场的权利,但必须尽以法律法规的形式通知其他缔约国的义务,所以,中国应相应调整、补充现有的法律服务规则,将从WTO中受到的相关法律服务优惠待遇用法律法规的形式固定下来,以便在一个有序的法律环境下,发展自己的法律服务业。     

福建省养老服务问题及对策初探

在分析福建省养老服务事业发展所面临的问题基础上,对发展福建省养老服务事业提出对策和建议,指出要以科学发展观为指导,发展养老服务理念;加快政府职能转变,推进养老服务体系建设;建立社会多元筹资模式,鼓励社会力量投入养老产业;提升社区服务水平,优化社区养老服务体系运行机制;建立专业化养老工作者队伍,充分发挥志愿者作用,力图为发展养老服务需求提供政策理论依据,积极有效地应对福建省人口老龄化以及社会变迁。     

基于系统论的行政区划规划研究——以海南省为例

依据系统规划论,对海南国际旅游岛战略规划中的行政区划的某些技术经济问题进行量化分析研究。通过系统分析海南国际旅游岛战略规划对海南经济社会的影响,重构海南行政区划系统,增设区域、区位中心城市琼中市和陵水市,扩充区域、区位中心城市人口容量,提升海南省城市化率水平。提出建设海南热带雨林生态旅游区设想,为加快海南国际旅游岛建设,促进经济欠发达的琼中、西部区域的旅游业发展指明了方向。     

中心与边缘的关系重建：南京国民政府时期的西北开发活动分析

时势危机促使国人关注西北。南京国民政府时期的西北开发经由朝野互动,最终演变成中心与边缘关系的重建,其最终目标仍是指向国家生存和复兴。它依赖的路径则是在中心与边缘的身份认同中通过文明与野蛮的界定,尤其是通过把“野蛮”标注于西北的具体人物阶层,使作为文明的代表者、阐释者的中央获得了无上的威权,使中央威权能在地方重建。这也是传统的经营边疆的政治手法在近代中国向现代民族国家转型过程中的再次回归。     

集成化供应链药事服务项目在药品流通管理中的应用

面对新医改的要求以及医院间日益激烈的竞争,如何在提高医院的整体服务质量的同时不断降低医院的运营成本,更好地为患者服务已经成为医院管理的重要内容.其中降低药品流通成本又是最核心的因素,也是社会普遍关注的热点话题.为此,采用信息化手段,通过对医院药品流通的数个环节的整合重构,采用一体化的管理模式开发集成化供应链药事服务项目.通过该项目的实施减少了药品流通环节及药品流通成本,提高了药品周转率,降低了药品库存量及药品占用款,实现了医院药品流通的精细化管理.为医院药品流通的科学管理奠定了实践基础,同时转变了管理理念,提升了医院的核心竞争力.