Community Experience (community + experience)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Community Experience as Health and Medical Professional Education

ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 2 2001
Assistant Professor Sue Cena Lurie Ph.D.
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Community experience with bortezomib in patients with multiple myeloma

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, Issue 7 2007
Adedayo A. Onitilo
Abstract Community practice experience allows a nonselective care of patient using information derived from a more controlled clinical trial environment. We present our community experience with multiple myeloma patients with advanced age, long disease duration since diagnosis, advanced stage, multiple prior therapies including stem cell transplantation, co-morbidities, and other poor prognostic features, such as low albumin, high B-2 microglobulin, renal failure, and the presence of poor risk chromosomal abnormalities. Our response rates are comparable to those from clinical trials. Bortezomib is well tolerated in this population of multiple myeloma patients with the exception of infection adverse events that are generally mild grade 1,2. Am. J. Hematol., 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Social Capital, Networks, and Community Environments in Bangkok, Thailand

GROWTH AND CHANGE, Issue 4 2002
Amrita Daniere
This paper considers the case of Bangkok where, as in many Asian cities, the expansion of urban areas has outpaced the ability of public entities to manage and provide basic services. One potential way to improve the capacity of neighborhoods to assist in provision or improvement in environmental services is to enhance the positive contributions provided by local social networks and social capital. A conceptual framework is presented to explore the role of social networks in environmental management in polluted urban environments. This is followed by a brief description of the methodology and survey instrument used to collect information from a sample of community households in Bangkok and an analysis of the results from this survey regarding environmental practices, community action, and social networks. Some of the results suggest that increasing the number of social interactions that residents of a community experience is associated with increased community participation as, apparently, is increasing knowledge about what happens to waste or waste water after it leaves the community. Local public education efforts that focus on useful knowledge about environmental impacts may well be an effective way to encourage community participation. [source]


Toward a community-oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives

JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2001
Paul R. Dokecki
Spirituality, once an old and honorable religious term for the "exploration into what is involved in becoming human" (McFague, 1997, p. 10), is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, albeit highly diverse and ambiguous in its usage. In our active interchange involving two community psychologists and a theologian,carried on in the spirit of Lewinian action research and pastoral theology's method of congregational studies, we have returned to that earlier tradition. We are developing a framework for spirituality encompassing human development and community development as two sides of the same coin. The framework provides a community-oriented theoretical account of the dynamics of spirituality and a foundation for action research on the interrelationship of spirituality and community. We begin by describing the context for the development of the framework,the St. Robert project, a participant,observer action research and consultation project ongoing for more than ten years in a Roman Catholic parish. We then present the framework's elements and conclude by outlining an ongoing empirical inquiry at St. Robert into the nature of spirituality, which has implications for the field's address to the spiritual dimensions of personal and community experience, especially psychological sense of community. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source]


Community experience with bortezomib in patients with multiple myeloma

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, Issue 7 2007
Adedayo A. Onitilo
Abstract Community practice experience allows a nonselective care of patient using information derived from a more controlled clinical trial environment. We present our community experience with multiple myeloma patients with advanced age, long disease duration since diagnosis, advanced stage, multiple prior therapies including stem cell transplantation, co-morbidities, and other poor prognostic features, such as low albumin, high B-2 microglobulin, renal failure, and the presence of poor risk chromosomal abnormalities. Our response rates are comparable to those from clinical trials. Bortezomib is well tolerated in this population of multiple myeloma patients with the exception of infection adverse events that are generally mild grade 1,2. Am. J. Hematol., 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]


Constructive Resilience: The Bahá'í Response to Oppression

PEACE & CHANGE, Issue 2 2010
Michael Karlberg
Against the backdrop of dramatic struggles for social change in the twentieth century, characterized by non-violent opposition and civil disobedience, the Bahá'í community of Iran has pursued a distinctively non-adversarial approach to social change under conditions of violent oppression. This non-adversarial model has received little attention in the literature on social change. This article therefore seeks to bring the model into focus by outlining the Bahá'í community's experience of oppression, by examining the principles that inform their collective response to oppression, by discussing the results of their response, and by deriving from this a set of heuristic insights that can guide further inquiry into the dynamics of peace and change. [source]