Using participatory action research to empower district hospital staff to deliver quality-assured essential surgery to rural populations in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania by Pittalis, C, Drury, G, Mwapasa, G, Borgstein, E, Cheelo, M, Kachimba, J, Juma, A, Chilonga, K, Cahill, N, Brugha, R, Lavy, C, Gajewski, J

“…<br><strong> Methods: </strong>Participatory Action Research workshops were held in the 3 countries in July–October 2017 and in October 2018–July 2019, involving representatives of key local stakeholder groups: district hospital (DH) surgical teams and administrators, referral hospital SOTA specialists, professional associations and local authorities. Through semi-structured discussions, qualitative data were collected on participants’ perceptions and experiences of barriers to the provision of SOTA care at district level, and on the training and supervision needs of district surgical teams. …”

The Presence of Women in the Dental Profession: A Global Survey by Guglielmo Campus, Anastasia Maclennan, Juliane von Hoyningen-Huene, Thomas Gerhard Wolf, Michele Aerden, Ihsane Benyahya, Jeannine Bonaventura, Eliane Lucia Koller Brolese, Jina Lee Linton, Ketevan Gogilashvili, Irene Marron-Tarrazi, Duygu Ilhan, Makiko Iwasaki, Kinga Grzech-Lesniak, Paula Perlea, Nahawand Thabet

“…Family life with children influences perceptions and has an impact on professional life, especially in academia and political/professional associations, so that taking on leadership positions poses additional challenges.…”
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Defining the capabilities and competencies of high-performing family physicians: a mixed methods study by Alan Katz, Ross E G Upshur, Kristina Marie Kokorelias, Kulamakan Kulasegaram, Monica Aggarwal, Geoffrey Scott

“…The second (qualitative) phase involves conducting workshops with stakeholders, including educators, professional associations, regulators and colleges, to test the veracity of the results. …”
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Social perception of forest multifunctionality in southern Italy: The case of Calabria Region by F. Pastorella, G. Giacovelli, M. Maesano, A. Paletto, S. Vivona, A. Veltri, G. Pellicone, G. Scarascia Mugnozza

“…Besides, the representative stakeholders were classified into four groups of interest according to their characteristics: public administrations, associations-non-governmental organizations, academia and research institutes, professional associations of the forest-wood-energy chain. …”
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Elements of organisation of integrated maternity care and their associations with outcomes: a scoping review protocol by Soo Downe, Ank de Jonge, Pim P Valentijn, Suzanne Thompson, Hester Rippen, Corine J M Verhoeven, Jolanda Liebregts, Bahareh Goodarzi, Jan Jaap Erwich, George Burchell, Ronald Batenburg, Eline F de Vries, Irene de Graaf, Puck van Heemstra, Jeroen Struijs, Susanne Zuidhof, Inge Boesveld, Anouk Kaiser, Mirjam Fransen, Durk Berks, Pauline Haga, Katarzyna Burzynska, Joland Vermolen, Lucienne Bakker, Mariëtte Hoogsteder, Lillian Peters, Conny Vreugdehil, Aimée Sparendam-Bruijnincx, Betty de Vries, Elle Struijf, Lillianne van der Velde, Bert Horlings, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Marc Roosenboom, Simone Plaizier

“…Findings will be published in a peer-reviewed international journal, discussed in a webinar and presented at (inter)national conferences and meetings of professional associations.The findings of this scoping review will give insight into the nature and effectiveness of elements of integrated care and will generate hypotheses for further research.…”
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Causes, consequences, and policy responses to the migration of health workers: key findings from India by Margaret Walton-Roberts, Vivien Runnels, S. Irudaya Rajan, Atul Sood, Sreelekha Nair, Philomina Thomas, Corinne Packer, Adrian MacKenzie, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Ronald Labonté, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

“…We also conducted structured interviews with key stakeholders representing government ministries, professional associations, regional health authorities, health care facilities, and educational institutions. …”
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Професіоналізація порівняльної педагогіки в Україні: здобутки і виклики у вимірі педагогічної компаративістики у зарубіжжі... by Олена Локшина

“…In the article the professionalization is understood as the transformation of the comparative education into a separate area of pedagogical knowledge (with its subject, aim, tasks, methods and conceptual ideas) based on the infrastructural grounds (comprising professional associations, journals, and university courses). …”
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Change in depression during the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Firehiwot Workneh, Alemayehu Worku, Nega Assefa, Yemane Berhane

“…A total of 577 study participants were randomly selected based on registers obtained from professional associations. Computer-assisted telephone interviewing technique was used for data collection. …”
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How do postnatal care guidelines in Australia compare to international standards? A scoping review and comparative analysis by Amanda Blair, Annie Tan, Caroline S. E. Homer, Joshua P. Vogel

“…A database search and a manual search of state and national government health departments, professional associations and research institute websites was performed to identify relevant guidelines and recommendations. …”
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Precision dairy farming: Opportunities and challenges for India by PRAKASH KUMAR RATHOD, SREENATH DIXIT

“…The progressive farmers or the farmers’ groups, with guidance from the public and private sectors, and professional associations, can adopt it on a limited scale as the technology shows potential for raising yields and economic returns on fields with significant variability, and for minimizing environmental degradation. …”
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‘I believe respect means providing necessary treatment on time’ - a qualitative study of health care providers’ perspectives on disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Southwest... by Hirut Megersa Werdofa, Lisbeth Thoresen, Belayneh Lulseged, Anne Karin Lindahl

“…To ensure respectful maternity care, a collaborative effort of administrators, teaching institutions, professional associations and researchers is needed. Such collaboration is essential to create a respectful teaching environment, ensure availability of resources, sustained in-service training for providers, and establishing an accountability mechanism for respectful maternity care.…”
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Towards comprehensive early abortion service delivery in high income countries: insights for improving universal access to abortion in Australia by Angela Dawson, Deborah Bateson, Jane Estoesta, Elizabeth Sullivan

“…However, to implement such directives leadership is required from Australian medical, nursing, midwifery and pharmacy practitioners, academic faculties and their associated professional associations. In addition, political will is needed to nationally decriminalise abortion and ensure dedicated public provision that is based on comprehensive models tailored for all populations.…”
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The concept of responsible artificial intelligence as the future of artificial intelligence in medicine by Nikolai S. Germanov

“…Hence the problem of determining responsibility in the case of erroneous conclusions, i.e. its distribution between the program itself, the developer, and the executor. Numerous professional associations design ethical standards for developers and a statutory framework to regulate responsibility between the links described. …”
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System design and production practices of aquaponic stakeholders. by D Allen Pattillo, Janelle V Hager, David J Cline, Luke A Roy, Terrill R Hanson

“…An electronic survey of aquaponic stakeholders was conducted from December 2019 to June 2020 targeting hobbyists, producers, and educators from various aquaponic-focused professional associations, email and social media groups. Of 378 total responses, 84% came from the United States and were clustered in plant hardiness zones five to nine. …”
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The systemic thinking of the school middle-manager. Ideas for professionalization by Laura Sara Agrati

“…Through the comparison between the proposals by the Italian professional associations’ debate and the well-established experience of the English National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership, a professional profile of the middle-manager is outlined, focusing on the systemic thinking, as a characterizing common trait. …”
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The institutional theory trend of land organization and land planning development by A. Tretiak, V. Tretiak, T. Priadka, N. Kapinos

“…On the other hand, the institutional theory of land  planning opens the possibility and substantiates the need for the use of state regulatory bodies, scientific schools, professional associations of land surveyors, the ideology of «land planning engineering» and «land planning imperialism» in land policy. …”
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Paragonimiasis: A knowledge and awareness survey of clinicians in southern Nigeria on a neglected tropical disease by Oloyede IP, Ekanem AM, Eduwem DU

“…We therefore recommend intensified efforts in training clinicians and other health workers on the aetiology and diagnosis of paragonimiasis through regular continuous medical education of their professional associations, departmental academic programs and update courses of the various postgraduate colleges in order to prevent misdiagnosis and delayed treatment of patients with paragonimiasis. …”
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Awareness, attitudes, barriers, and knowledge about evidence-based medicine among family physicians in Croatia: a cross-sectional study by Danijel Nejašmić, Davorka Vrdoljak, Valerija Bralić Lang, Josip Anđelo Borovac, Ana Marušić

“…The physicians were approached during mandatory continuing medical education courses and through their professional associations. We compared results from two groups of physicians, one with family medicine specialization and the other without. …”
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The Role of Intersectoral Action in Response to COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of the Roles of Academia and the Private Sector in Colombia by Simon Turner, Ana María Ulloa, Natalia Niño, Vivian Valencia Godoy

“…Between March and November 2020, data was collected via semi-structured interviews conducted online with 42 key actors, including representatives of governmental bodies, universities, and professional associations. The dataset was analysed thematically using a combination of inductive and deductive methods. …”
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Labor markets for health supply chain management in Rwanda: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives by Erin Meier, Andrew N. Brown, Bridget McHenry, Inès K. Gege Buki, Michael Egharevba, Joseph Kabatende

“…Improving the SCM labor market in Rwanda and the availability of the skilled cadres required for the effective management of health supply chains in Rwanda requires a coordinated effort by the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, private SCM companies, professional associations, education sector, and policy makers.…”
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