A peer support intervention using ‘Mentor Mothers’ was implemented for mothers who had migrated to Sweden, living in socially disadvantaged communities. The Mentor Mothers had a high degree of freedom to develop strategies for facilitating empowerment of their clients according to perceived needs. Thi...
According to the fundamental cause theory, SES highly influences and addresses health inequalities over time as those with high socioeconomic status use resources at their disposal to utilize health services [46]. Strategies to improve the utilization of breast cancer screening must, therefore address ...
1, grounded theory I-III) explaining barriers and enablers in usual care (meeting criterion 2) [6, 16, 17], which directed the development of the supplementary Guided Self-Determination decision-making and problem-solving method. Although the framework was developed in the context of diabetes, ...
1.1. Event systems and the psychology of working theory In combination, EST and PWT provide complementary contextual perspectives (e.g., those associated with the pandemic) on employee well-being. EST (Morgeson et al., 2015) defines critical events as contextual circumstances that are novel, dis...
The ability of the electronic database search to identify all relevant primary research was verified by hand searching the reference lists of eight key peer reviewed articles and nine key electronic journals that were flagged through the initial test search as well as the main search. The journals...
They all point to the importance of giving nursing staff access to empowering structures, which according to Kanter’s organizational theory [18] are e.g., opportunities (to gain new skills and knowledge), information (related to one’s work and organization), support (feedback and help from...
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This paper examines the challenges and opportunities, in theory and practice, posed by the integration of two such citizen-based accountability strategies—social accountability and legal empowerment. It traces the foundations of each of these approaches to highlight the potential benefits of integration...
2. However, in their review of peer-reviewed literature on empowerment in tourism, Agahazamani and Carter found that 142 of 195 articles published since Scheyvens’ seminal work [1] were lacking substantial application of empowerment concepts [69] p. 336. Aligned with the growing research ...
The review of policies, strategies, and programmes was complemented by a secondary literature search of peer-reviewed research articles using online databases, namely, Web of Science, Cab Direct, and Science Direct, based on studies conducted on youth in agriculture in South Africa published between...