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São Paulo - A City Without Ads + BBC Paxman and secular sanity*
2007-08-25 12:37:00
It's not often I get to bookshops and less often still that I buy anything. I did both recently - walking out with a copy of the latest Adbusters magazine. I've listed their website for quite a while [POLITICAL: activism] and must say as a consumer, community mental health nurse and would-be human ecologist there's a lot to read and think about....Sustainability : Advertising : Well-being : Public Mental HealthNow, subscribed to their e-letter the Sao Paulo item proved a real revelation. A breathe of fresh... fresh... vision no less!“The Clean City Law came from a necessity to combat pollution . . . pollution of water, sound, air, and the visual. We decided that we should start combating pollution with the most conspicuous sector – visual pollution.”So, add to this the news at the end of 2006 or early this year of European cities starting to take light pollution seriously, to the extent of turning the lights off for a night and hey change really can happen.If amid the adver...
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Geel, Belgium A Model of "Community Recovery"
2007-08-25 11:52:00
This message appeared on the PSYTEACH list and may be of interest:----------------Dear Colleagues,Those of you who teach courses dealing with mental illness or history ofpsychology will be interested in a new website produced by my colleague,Jackie Goldstein, on the city of Geel, Belgium , which has a 700 year oldcommunity-based system for caring for people with mental illness. If youare unfamiliar with Geel, I think you will find both the system and itshistory of great interest. The system, founded on the legend of St.Dymphna, presents an approach where the citizens accept, support andintegrate people with mental illness into the community. It presents aninteresting alternative to the medical model of treatment, andstigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness.The website is a good teaching resource for instructors and for studentsdoing research in the area of mental illness.Jackie has been doing research on Geel for a number of years and hasproduced the website in resp...
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TED Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo and other links
2007-08-24 00:45:00
Here are some links as we head for the weekend....TED CONFERENCE - Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo(Thanks to David McKendrick at Open Software Library for this item)Internet Maps [c/o the MAPPING-CYBERSPACE list]Voyager - (so just how far can you run in 30 years?)LearnByDoing with Pam McLean who led me to -Minciu Sodas: Social EnterpriseWorknets wikiRegenerosity - Community-Building through Active Participationand last but not least...Move On: Recruiter TrainingNext time - Lemon Washing-Up Liquid....
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Perceptions Of Nursing And Of A Midwestern Associate Degree Nursing Program
2007-08-24 00:15:00
Last October I posted that Asst. Prof. Shannon Frodge [Maysville Community & Technical College, KY] had contacted me about her Master's study:Study on Student's Interest in Nursing (Grades 6th-12th)Shannon found that h2cm provided an appropriate framework and wondered if I could help with an image of Hodges' model. Well Shannon's study is now successfully completed and I've some reading to do. To see h2cm represented in work like this makes the effort so worthwhile, but it's the focus of Prof. Frodge's that really counts as nursing competes for recruits.Many congrats and thanks Shannon for the reading I've to catch up on and more to follow...
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POLITICAL links: Holistic Bliss or Tristram Shandy ... II
2007-08-18 09:23:00
Having mentioned the other day that health and social care related subjects are placed at the top of the links pages, of course the POLITICAL page - as awkward a cuss as ever - differs. The political topflight is missing some obvious candidates. Although there are related links in there somewhere amongst the four links pages I have not explicitly listed:mental health law(patient - carer, long-term) advocacyconsent and capacityconfidentialityprofessional (and other) codes of conducthealth and safetyor global healthPerhaps I should list these or other missing political categories? If we stop and think about it though - what do you need before you can deliver coherent health and social care? That top row are the critical determinants: the starting blocks. If DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE and LAW are absent or taken away where is care? Why in so many developing countries is health care so poor - native/ethnic medicine practices can only go so far?In promoting 'DEMOCRACY' this in itself is a chal...
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Holistic Bliss or Tristram Shandy and the Web Hydra I
2007-08-16 22:05:00
Building the h2cm website a decade ago the links pages -INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCESSOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL- were planned as a feature from early on. They started as TWO pages but have become FOUR and far more general in nature than originally planned. I first envisaged a core h2cm nursing set into which students - life-long learners could all dive.Perhaps there's a project there for students: Specify what you consider to be a core set of links resources and justify your answer in terms of either one of the following or a combination of - models of care, health-social care policy, self-care, multidisciplinary teams? .....Like many potential h2cm developments (XML templates, ...) which I've shared with contacts over the years the core h2cm links set never saw the light of an HTML page. The main target audience for the links pages remains as the health and social care community (although given h2cm's universal scope I'm jumping around on this (sadly) cold-tin-roof shouting: "Hey everyon...
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Assen NL + Northern England CHE group Oct 13 Rivington Park Arts, Horwich
2007-08-12 16:01:00
Sunday 0500 last week arrived home from Assen, Netherlands with Matt and Lawrence my son's friend having attended the Assen cycle Tour. It really was an international field and they really flew. Some unfortunately more than others.... The first race Matt came off!! - scaphoid # so we got to see the Dutch health service at work and very impressive too. Thanks to the staff at Wilhelmina Hospital - great job (I notice the TT circuit also keeps them busy). Closing my eyes while waiting for the Radiographer (like you do) Wilhelmina did not sound like a hospital. Excellent attention to the 'hospital' environment - the colour, some nice curves, the signage was spot on too.At the close of the holiday-cycle tour the sunset at Calais was beautiful.Returning to the human ecology thread, I can confirm that the next Northern England CHE group event will be on Saturday 13th October 11-3pm at Rivington Park Arts . The group would like to thank David Ruaux for providing us with a room and facilit...
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Naive holism II - Hodges' model and String theory
2007-07-24 23:31:00
Where were we? Oh yes, maybe string theory can help...?Health is complex, labyrinthine and while there is no Minotaur to slay (?) we must constantly mine* for information. If we venture forth then best to take some string for reassurance:Fully navigate the labyrinth (use technology if you must - audit trails count);Find your way out and then you can report your deeds to the wider world.The maze entrance is revealed when the pin is 'stuck' onto the referral source map. Post or ZIP code: "use it for geographies sake." You want to get out don't you?Then start laying the thread - REASON-4-REFERRALweight loss, fatigue, tremor: SCIENCES domainlow mood, anxiety, agitation: INTERPERSONAL domaincarer under stress: SOCIOLOGY domain - and so on.Check the health policies hurriedly scrawled on the walls (you may well find the Garden of Policy Delights#, but otherwise make do with the graffiti). Are you truly client-centred or service-centred?What do you mean you don't know?OK, well check th...
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Thanks BGS & CPNA-T: NCRS* Project secondment ends; back to clinical pr
2007-07-23 00:17:00
I would like to publicly thank the British Geriatrics Society# and CPNA Trustees who have covered my travel costs to the SPT conference 2007. I could not have attended otherwise.You may notice a lack of advertising on the website and blog. I've tried to focus on the message - but funds do matter. If an 'appropriate' organisation(s) would like to fill the vacant space here that could feature advertising to help sponsor future conference attendances please get in touch!Come August 1st - I'm back in clinical harness (Community Mental Health Nurse Older Adults) after an almost three year secondment, which has been a great experience. The highlights? Well, that would include...Working with new colleagues - Barbara, Jeremy, Tracey and Heather - good luck all! - and change consultants, learning the ropes and being let loose on the service.Working on data quality, comms materials...Explaining to clinicians what's coming down their way (locally and nationally), why it's needed and the...
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SPT 2007 InfoVis / Infoaesthetics & history
2007-07-21 08:08:00
I missed out the initial plenary at the conference the other day on The Moral Significance of Technical Artifacts. Reading Michel Serres introduced me to Latour, and the speaker Peter Kroes linked Latour and Verbeek - "What Things Do". There's lots of reading as discussed on design and technology blogs.Peter Kroes' plenary included a slide with a PHYSICAL domain and an INTENTIONAL domain. Once I swapped these around (INTERPERSONAL - SCIENCES) something (at least) made sense to me. Like the other plenaries this was totally engaging.This session on Tuesday 10 July 9:00-11:00Session J: Aesthetic Computing (Laurens Room)Michael Kelly (UNC Charlotte)Robert Kosara (UNC Charlotte)- resulted in 6+ pages of notes. Michael Kelly presented the paper and then Robert Kosara displayed and discussed examples of information visualization - which included:Sick leave in Germany (striking approach)Titanic visualizationMap of the MarketParallel Sets (could see Public mental Health here)DumpsterBus ti...
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Human Ecology: Northern England CHE Group - Sedbergh 30 June
2007-07-16 22:53:00
[Draft post: subject to change]As mentioned previously the 2nd Northern England Centre for Human Ecology group meeting was held in Sedbergh last month Saturday 30th 11-3pm.In addition to hosting the meeting the local organiser(s) also arranges the content for the session - with outside support if necessary. This time Deyna and Criggy took up the baton.To begin, Criggy shared her work working in rural communities. Referring to my notes many topics were discussed including: community halls as a focus of the community. Raising the profile of sustainable communities, transport in a rural vs urban context and climate change.Although we were not a legion the diverse experience represented that afternoon showed in knowledge of organisations, e.g. the work of the Commission for Rural Communities and publications - 'What are sustainable rural communities? - 5 Thinkpieces'.We discussed the car and private transport, the state of public transport, housing, community engagement, belongingness...
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Soc. Philosophy & Technology Conf: Charleston, S.C. 8-11 July 2007
2007-07-13 21:59:00
Home - safe and sound and really pleased I travelled despite the air-miles.Charleston is beautiful and the heat was actually refreshing given June in the UK. I passed by New York in the day going, and at night coming home - it was an amazing sight.The Society conference is biennial and alternates between the USA and Europe.So, if jet-lag has not fogged my recall the 2009 conference will be at the University of Twente and I certainly plan to attend, even if I don't present.The organisers, session chairs and assistants did a great job. I really do hope to meet again the fellow delegates I managed to speak to and share ideas - China, Netherlands, South Korea, UK, USA, Portugal...I did not get to meet everyone and while I wish more people attended my presentation that's par for the course. I was prepared for that. You learn patience if not anything else riding the h2cm quad bike. Those who did attend appreciated the content and more people are aware of Hodges' model. I'm really grat...
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Google Health Advisory Council - no nurses, what a surprise
2007-07-03 22:49:00
Three days - three posts... but this is very important as highlighted already c/o Rod Ward, Peter Murray and Bob Pyke. Please find message copied below from Peter Murray with my added graphic [TM acknowledged!] ...As you may be aware, Googl e have set up a 'Google Health Advisor y Council ' - further details are at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/ne w-advisory-group-on-health.htmlAnd, what a surprise, there don't seem to be any nurses on it ;-)) - as others have also pointed out, most other health professions, apart from physicians, also seem to be absent.There has been a growing discussion on various nursing informatics email lists in recent days, where many people have expressed concern/outrage at Google's actions in not having any nurses on their new 'health advisory group'. US male medics are vastly over-represented (what a surprise!?!), and many other health professionals are also not represented; representation of patient/citizen advocacy is also poor.Their advisory ...

Nursing Times and mind mapping: All my slides are packed, I'm ready to go..
2007-07-02 23:11:00
Well this Saturday I leave for the Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference in Charleston, SC. Still awaiting news regards funding with £200 gratefully received thus far.I'm really looking forward to this, not just being able to contribute, but listening to the other presentations. Must admit that after the weather here in the UK, warmer climes will be most welcome.The past weeks Nursing Times included a feature on mind mapping in research. I haven't checked the full paper, but in NT noticed two references to Buzan (1997 and 2003).I'm keen to differentiate h2cm from mind mapping, even though of course there are a lot of similarities.I wonder if Hodges' model gets a mention in the full paper? If not then of course other people realise h2cm isn't about mind mapping!The reason why I ask (beyond the obvious) is that for many people models of nursing are old-hat. When were they really in fashion? The 80s...When did Buzan's mind mapping arrive? I think 'Use your Head' air...
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Smoke gets in your eyes, hair, socks and underwear....
2007-07-01 16:37:00
July 1 2007 England: at last smoke free indoor public spaces!I don't smoke. Hate cigarettes, but not people who smoke.I've seen cigarettes used to control patients in the past and seen the effects on people when if the supply of cigarettes was not 'managed' then major problems ensued.Both patients, staff and nicotine were well and truly locked in an institutionalised embrace. This relationship was strongest in the old mental health institutions on the long-stay (or 'rehab' wards).I used to arrive home from work and ALL my clothes absolutely reeked of cigs. Into the shower. Nausea as the water ran over my hair.As I prepare to return to work in the community: on home visits if someone goes to light up, I beg their pardon and acknowledge that I am a guest in their home - but could they please possibly hold-on a while. This isn't just a strategy to shorten visits. The first lesson of first aid is DO NOT become the next casualty. I also take the role of health promotion seriously....
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Naive holism, Hodges' model and a lesson from NeuroLinguistic Programming
2007-06-27 23:30:00
The pen is mightier than the sword.Words are indeed very powerful, which means we should be careful how we use them.In the mid 1980s when artificial intelligence (AI) had a temperature well above normal limits, personal studies brought me to the words that represent commands in expert system and artificial intelligence applications. The question - how might language influence our expectations of such programs? In what was a major personal project at the time (which never saw the light of day - but whose effects may be evident in the main website and this blog?) I discovered and referenced work on problems discussed by McDermott (1985).This included the choice of mnemonics used in AI programs, with McDermott comparing the mnemonics in two systems - Planner and Conniver.True: things have moved on - but history, history....Planner : ConniverGOAL : FETCH & TRY-NEXTCONSEQUENT : IF-NEEDEDANTECEDENT : IF-ADDEDTHEOREM : ...
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Well-being: a great place to be!
2007-06-24 22:34:00
Working in mental health you certainly don't take mood, mental state and that nebulous notion of well-being for granted.Depression is a terrible thing and given the thin red line that we all walk in terms of mental health, it's a place no one wants to venture.There's a lot of emphasis being placed on well-being (happiness!) at present. The usual retinue of number of this and that measures count for little if at the end of the day well-being or the individual's happiness is not improved, or perhaps more accurately 'satisfied'.Watching Glastonbury it's all about music and well-being amid lots of mud.Well-being is taken for granted like so many things in life. Take it away and it's noticed - very quickly.They say that the best lessons are those we learn for ourselves. Bein g lost and finding your way is another pivotal lesson. At key times and places this journey can be a rite of passage no less.In order for health promotion to deliver, people need to understand well-being, that...
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i3: Inclusion, Integration, Informatics
2007-06-13 21:00:00
As well as studying Bortoft over several months (time...!), I've been reading Oberski's (2003) paper 'A Goethean way of seeing inclusively' (ref. below) which discusses inclusion within special education. The second page in - I sat up. Although the subject is education, inclusion and integration are central drivers in care service development and improvement. Let's face it, you can't read or listen anywhere without coming across 'i' this and that.Usually, ask a philosopher to justify their existence and amongst other earnest pursuits they will point to their detailed critique and qualification of the way words are used in our routine daily lives, both domestic and working. They do us a great favour, as the world would grind to a halt if everyone was blinded by the light of uncertainty and what would be perpetual philosophical deliberations.In this paper, Oberski refers to sources that highlight some crucial differences between inclusion and integration. In this context incl...
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Northern England CHE group; links and Mind Canvas
2007-06-10 23:24:00
The Northern England Centre for Human Ecology interest group are meeting on the 30th June at Sedburgh. I've no exact details as yet, but plan to attend even though the following w/e I'm off to Charleston for the SPT conference. My wife and daughter may come along, we've never been to Sedburgh before, so we could meet up again after the meeting and have tea up there....Here are a few links including an interesting site called Mind Canvas .http://www.slideshare.net/Slide share is really cool and well worth exploring.http://www.themindcanvas.com/de mos/At the above link you will find the following methods and visualizations you can explore. I like the category sorting example. Now what could we use that for...?MindCanvas Methods Research Method Visualizations OpenSort Sort top 20 movies from American Film Institute Dendogram (to see structure) VocabularyBrowser ...
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Holistic care 3: Location
2007-06-09 00:56:00
Through February and March I looked at holistic care definitions and other aspects. Now for location.The place to look for holistic care is literally everywhere. Every - where?Well yes, if we take holistic to really mean holistic.There is the obvious physical where that applies in the various care sectors such as; primary, secondary, community and tertiary care and the places they all encompass and contain. The locations associated with buildings and other architectural and organisational structures however permanent: hospitals, hostels, surgeries and clinics, homes, schools, prisons, refugee camps and workplaces - including inner and outer space.The other where comprises the cognitive and virtual. Our thoughts about care, the thought processes and conscious decision making about care assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation. Except in specific psychoanalytical therapies the unconscious is a less frequently acknowledged and yet undoubtedly factor. If valu...
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Help Wanted: Arts, Media and Health Studies Students
2007-06-04 21:00:00
It’s a regular student's dilemma: with assignment in hand find a worthy project that truly matches the brief and your creative talents.For arts students a project that is in the form of a commission is highly desirable, reflecting the real world and future artist-client relationships. If there are any tutors reading, I (or h2cm) can provide several commissions, although I'm afraid without financial reimbursement. ...The h2cm site would benefit from the attention of an artistic eye.• A banner is still needed for the blog, preferably something that changes dynamically.Here's one idea I worked up, but it's not exactly subtle?• There are numerous images on the website that need a refresh of more than a coat of paint.• Photoshop, Illustrator and other applications are often used to create montages. Hodges' model may at first appear blanc, but within the care domains lie hidden layers. A complex montage of ideas and concepts awaiting release and expression.• If none of the ...
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Ecotherapy: Hey Surf's Up - Better grab your sunbed
2007-06-01 00:29:00
Having an eye for 'therapy-this' and 'that-therapy', a report on ecotherapy has appeared on the MIND website, blogs and other media. It's not new really, although the researched approach is very welcome. The mental health benefits of volunteering and the great outdoors have been recognised for countless years.This summer - August in fact, there's an opportunity to do something different that also has an outdoor theme. It means putting that surf board down and getting the sun bed out: after midnight. Now is the time to do some networking and planning - at that time of night of course you must be safe and this is an experience to share with people you know and trust.This is 'astrotherapy' which is connected to ecotherapy because venturing out you realise how light it is at night - where is the night sky!Why go out and find dark skies? It's the PERSEID meteor shower and this summer with maximum the 12-13 August there is no full moon.You can also check on whether the Internatio...
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Four knowledge domains = four audiences?
2007-05-28 10:57:00
I don't know if there is any sense in this, but people look for 'signs' all the time - don't we? With the last front-end revision of the website (early 2005) I had twigged that there are at least four audiences that an introduction to Hodges' model needs to address.Looking at the care domains the following seemed to fall just right:Patients and Carers : Students - Lifelong LearnersPublic [Citizens] : Policy makers, ManagersThese may be lost to many visitors (but not you!) given the surfing attention span. If people do access and digest the first page above, which acts as a general introduction, they may not reach the second audience specific page.Should I swap these around?What is provided on the first page of each, is a basic h2cm graphic showing some relevant concepts for that particular domain. (It's this representation that trivialises h2cm).The introductions do need revising and updating. I found some typos on the student - sciences piece, so not the best effort.I think o...
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Invitation to post to the QUAD & human ecology
2007-05-27 21:30:00
I've sent out some invites to people I've either worked with, or had contact with over the years since starting the website in 1997. Invitees will be able to contribute directly to this blog.It would be great to have other authors on board, but of course I realise everyone is busy so I'm open minded. This move is long overdue and does me good in terms of 'letting go' and releasing H2CM into the wild.Switching to the latest Blogger I lost haloscan. I've added it again to manage comments: purely in response to a sense of anticipation than demand. In doing so it appears I've lost earlier comments; although the correspondence is saved the loss is still a pain.Job-wise things are a bit up in the air at present. Clinical - Informatics: both...?There are plans afoot for another meeting of folks interested in human ecology and establishing a NW England group. Possible dates are:Sat 9th or Sun 10th JuneSat 30th or Sun 1st JulySun 8th JulyThe venue could be Sedburgh (lots of bookshops...
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Holistic Bandwidth: All or Nothing
2007-05-25 00:06:00
Quite a few years ago (Jones, 2004), I took the term bandwidth from the information and communication technology (ICT) world and applied it to health and social care. We seem to have been trying to achieve holistic and integrated care for decades. When care assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation is limited in scope this creates a narrowing of perspective, a bottleneck. Just as bandwidth problems used to affect the quality of on-line experience, so the bandwidth in health and social services ultimately affects the quality of care.There's nothing wrong with perspective.It's essential to making sense of the world. And after all, that railway line travels all the way to the vanishing point and it doesn't stop there. Road or railway - there's enough space reading between the lines to launch a whole film and literary genre.I've said it before – but it really is ironic that many of the constraints in ICT have been overcome through broadband, memory costs/capacity and mult...
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"Where are we?" Take Two, Three, F.... (witheringcare?)
2007-05-20 00:26:00
In Five Senses, Serres does not overtly discuss mortality, loss, depletion and omission (Connor, 1999). Management consultants advise that to succeed ‘think outside the box’, but the population pyramid is casting an ever larger shadow, highlighting an ageing population and the box is frequently found full and yet empty? Plaques disconnect, disable the memory; the critical biological box no longer registers and connects. The noise that counts, the background bioelectrical hum is disrupted or absent. Memories once ready to roll downhill, surfing the wave of potential are inaccessible, if marshalled at all. Wither the neural crossroads; the informatique mote in Hermes’ eye?Our older people, those not yet ephemeral have become peripheral, their personal space an adjunct to furniture. New quantities in life, beg questions of quality, especially quality of care and what it means to care. The concept of self, person-hood is a prime distinguishing factor in terms of describing the att...
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New Scientist: Application of RFID technology in Alzheimer's disease
2007-05-19 00:33:00
Up to November 2004 I had worked in the community for some ten years with older people (and some well-under '65 years old') who were coping, usually supported by their families; sometimes struggling alone with "Oh, I'm fine!" dementia.As an ICT enthusiast I've attended presentations that highlight the role that telecare and telematics is playing in extending independence and maintaining quality of life for people with chronic medical conditions. Of course people and families who are robbed of so much, deserve all the help that can be provided.Having just completed 7,000 words on Hodges' model, selected works of philosopher Michel Serres and informatics, it has struck me the way that just as health and medicine has its many disciplines, so informatics has its various schools. There is community, social, health, e-government, biomedical and many others...There are two key characteristics of the (western) population pyramid: form and implications. It's getting top heavy as older ...
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News exclusive: Mind mapper is visited by guardian angel of Hodges' model
2007-05-16 22:11:00
On the web I found an interesting comment item from the Educational Guardian 2006 by Philip Beadle "Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice". Being an educational piece Mr Beadle is concerned with mind mapping in the context of children, although that's quite an age range in reality. As the title suggests, the piece as a whole does not rubbish mind mapping completely, but the start got my goat.... You see I thought of the first impressions and assumptions that people may form coming to Hodges' cognitive x-roads. Do they turn back or cross the divide?Beadle apparently mind mapped the article and asks the reader if they notice a rise in quantity. I don't know if it's a typo, but quality should be the factor here. He made several points:Mind-mapping is easySend people to search for coloured pencilsSharpen them - and again - and againDO NOT use a felt penThese instructions are c/o the books by Tony Buzan the mind mapping guru. Beadle declares them wrong - and continues:...
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What is a 'domain'? II
2007-05-15 00:00:00
Last week I referred to a definition of domain that included mention of:1. A territory over which rule or control is exercised.2. A sphere of activity, concern, or function; a field: the domain of history. See synonyms at field.3. Physics. Any of numerous contiguous regions in a ferromagnetic material in which the direction of spontaneous magnetization is uniform and different from that in neighboring regions.4. Law.a) The land of one with paramount title and absolute ownership.b) Public domain.The remaining definitions -5. Mathematics.a) The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function.b) An open connected set that contains at least one point.6. Biology. Any of three primary divisions of living systems, consisting of the eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea, that rank above a kingdom in taxonomic systems that are based on similarities of DNA sequences.7. Computer Science. A group of networked computers that share a common communications address.[Source: Answers...
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What is a 'domain'?
2007-05-10 23:00:00
With visitors to the website confusing the title Hodges' Health Career Model for job careers; the addition of 'Care Domain s' was intended to reduce confusion.I think this has helped, but because the future beckons and this blog plus the website appear to have a multidisciplinary readership more clarity may be of help, especially the use of this word 'domain'.The dictionary is a good place to start:do·main1. A territory over which rule or control is exercised.2. A sphere of activity, concern, or function; a field: the domain of history. See synonyms at field.3. Physics. Any of numerous contiguous regions in a ferromagnetic material in which the direction of spontaneous magnetization is uniform and different from that in neighboring regions.4. Law. a) The land of one with paramount title and absolute ownership. b) Public domain.5. Mathematics. a) The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function. b) An open connected set that contains at least one ...