Exploring Autoethnographic and Arts-Based Approaches to Planetary Health: Honoring Diversity through Creativity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Loving Relationships by Vanessa de Araujo Goes, Bwalya Lungu, Menzi Maseko

“…The Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment (ACOPPHE), through its Art and Indigenous action team, seeks to explore this integration by interrogating and engaging in research using self-study methodologies and arts-based research methods. …”
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Creating a Food System Report Card to Advance the Minnesota Food System by Liana R. N. Schreiber, Abby Gold, Allison Anfinson, Kristen Boelcke-Stennes, Caitlin Caspi, Nishesh Chalise, Michael Dahl, Amanda Hane, Tim Jenkins, Mary Marczak, Ellen Nikodym, Emily Saunoi-Sangren, Amy Shanfelt, Jared Walhowe, Ann Zukoski

“…To bridge this gap, a shared measurement action team (SMAT) was created to recommend indicators that could be used to monitor the state of the Minnesota food system, as well as to advance place-based food systems that support unique communities statewide. …”
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Applying an Evidence-Based Community Organizing Approach to Strengthen HIV Prevention for Cisgender Women in US South: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study by Anandi N Sheth, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Celeste Ellison, Deja L Er, Adaora Ntukogu, Kelli A Komro, Jessica M Sales

“…We will then recruit and train community action team members to develop action plans to implement the curriculum during community-located events. …”
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Bloodstream Infections in a COVID-19 Non-ICU Department: Microbial Epidemiology, Resistance Profiles and Comparative Analysis of Risk Factors and Patients’ Outcome by Efthymia Giannitsioti, Christina Louka, Vasiliki Mamali, Elisavet Kousouli, Lemonia Velentza, Vaia Papadouli, Georgios Loizos, Panagiotis Mavroudis, Georgios Kranidiotis, Nektaria Rekleiti, Alexandra Stamati, Ioannis Speggos, Ioannis Daniil, Panagiotis Kouvatsos, Chrysanthi Sidiropoulou, Garifallia Linardaki, Styliani Gerakari, Georgios Chrysos, Katina Themeli-Digalaki, Olympia Zarkotou

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建構離島特殊教育支持系統之研究 Constructing Special Education Support Systems in Outlying Taiwanese Islands by 柯惠菁 Hui-Ching Ko, 胡心慈Shin-Tzu Hu, 鄭聖敏 Sheng-Min Cheng

“…The research was conducted by several individuals in teams. An action team consisted of a professor, a postdoctoral researcher, and resource classroom staff. …”
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Range-wide trends in tiger conservation landscapes, 2001 - 2020 by Eric W. Sanderson, Dale G. Miquelle, Kim Fisher, Abishek Harihar, Abishek Harihar, Chris Clark, Jesse Moy, Peter Potapov, Nathaniel Robinson, Lucinda Royte, Dustin Sampson, Jamie Sanderlin, Charles B. Yackulic, Michael Belecky, Urs Breitenmoser, Christine Breitenmoser-Würsten, Pranav Chanchani, Stuart Chapman, Arpit Deomurari, Somphot Duangchantrasiri, Elisa Facchini, Thomas N.E. Gray, John Goodrich, Luke Hunter, Matthew Linkie, Willy Marthy, Akchousanh Rasphone, Sugoto Roy, Detrit Sittibal, Tshering Tempa, Mayuree Umponjan, Karen Wood

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Validating estimates of problematic drug use in England by Heatlie Heath, Frisher Martin, Hickman Matthew

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Questionnaire study, in which the 149 English Drug Action Teams were asked to evaluate the MIM estimates for their DAT.…”
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Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change / by London, Manuel., Morfopoulos, Richard G.

When is it good to feel bad? How sadness and fear differ in their effects on routine development by Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Patrick J. Oehler, Marlen Rimbeck, Matthias Spörrle, Isabell M. Welpe

“…Individuals and teams going through organizational change often experience sadness and fear.MethodsWe conducted a laboratory experiment with 84 teams to study the effect of sadness and fear on routine development.Results and discussionIn the sadness condition, we observed positive effects on repetitiveness, speed, reliability, and attentiveness in action. Teams experiencing fear reacted better to ‘performance traps’ in which pre-established routines are ineffective. …”
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ZERO HARM : HOW TO ACHIEVE PATIENT AND WORKFORCE SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE / by Clapper, Craig, editor, Merlino, James, editor, Stockmeier, Carole, editor

“…Using these field-tested methods, healthcare professionals can educate their workers on the universal skills that can save lives, organize and train safety action teams, implement reliability management systems, and create long-term, transformational change. …”

City-Level Action in a City-Wide Urban Commons. Amsterdam, 1977-1983 by Hans Pruijt

“…Operating outside the city-level organization, autonomous action teams formed. They perfected the skills involved in the defense of squats, and had informal leaders. …”
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Testing the Recommendations of the Washington State Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan: The Moses Lake Case Study by Donna B. Johnson, PhD, RD, Lynne T. Smith, PhD, MPH, RD

“…Initial measures of success were collected by each of the three first action teams. Environmental changes will be monitored by comparison with the initial inventory of local policies. …”
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Open Sourcing Social Change: Inside the Constellation Model by Tonya Surman, Mark Surman

“…Constellations are self-organizing action teams that operate within the broader strategic vision of a partnership. …”
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Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients by Loganathan, Santhosh, Srinath, Purushothaman, Kumaraswamy, Mohan, Kalidindi, Satyanarayana, Varghese, Koshy

“…The identifed issues were consolidated to 10 Action Items. Seven Action Teams were then mobilized to work on the 10 Action Items. …”
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2087 by Erica Francis, Brianna Hoglen, Kara Shifler, Jennifer Kraschnewski, Jeanne Donlevy Arnold, Ruth Ellen Hogentogler, Pamela Witt

“…Currently, we have members committed to further this work through Action Teams within the sectors of Physical Activity, Healthy Food Access and Family and Community Engagement. …”
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Transformations in Local Social Action in Portugal by Hermínia Gonçalves, Jorge Ferreira

“…Municipalities are now dealing with more work and a focus on working in partnerships, which calls for greater dynamism of the local social action teams. This process has pushed the social workers to practices that alternate between mediation through the construction of access to a universal standard of social rights and the development of social intervention models with specific access to certain contexts and social groups. …”
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Using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability for qualitative assessment of the "COMBAT" VAW intervention in Ghana by Ruby Hornuvo, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, Deda Ogum Alangea, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke

“…Considering that the sustainability of community-based VAW interventions is largely dependent on ownership, this study used the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (TFA) to assess the COMBAT (Community Based Action Teams) intervention (for example, ethicality, self-efficacy, and intervention coherence) which was implemented to prevent violence against women in Ghana. …”
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Using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability for qualitative assessment of the "COMBAT" VAW intervention in Ghana. by Ruby Hornuvo, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, Deda Ogum Alangea, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke

“…Considering that the sustainability of community-based VAW interventions is largely dependent on ownership, this study used the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (TFA) to assess the COMBAT (Community Based Action Teams) intervention (for example, ethicality, self-efficacy, and intervention coherence) which was implemented to prevent violence against women in Ghana. …”
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Male characteristics and contraception in four districts of the central region, Ghana by Terence A. Longla, Deda Ogum-Alangea, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, Adom A. Manu, Richard M.K. Adanu

“…Methods This study is a secondary analysis of quantitative data obtained from the baseline assessment of the Ghana Community-Based Action Teams Study that aimed to prevent violence against women in the Central Region of Ghana in 2016. …”
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How do frontline staff use patient experience data for service improvement? Findings from an ethnographic case study evaluation by Locock, L, Montgomery, C, Parkin, S, Chisholm, A, Bostock, J, Dopson, S, Gager, M, Gibbons, E, Graham, C, King, J, Martin, A, Powell, J, Ziebland, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Organizational recognition, or rejection, of specific forms of patient experience intelligence as ‘data’ affects whether staff feel the data are actionable. Teams combining a diverse range of staff generated higher levels of ‘team-based capital’ for quality improvement than those adopting a single disciplinary approach. …”