جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "strengths" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Strategic management involves determining the organization’s direction, preparing a strategic vision and mission statement, and providing the basis for growth, profitability, and production. It also includes the inclusion of employee safety and health programs throughout the organization. The existence of a strategic plan for the scientific and practical strengthening of occupational health and safety is one of the country’s academic and industrial priorities. The purpose of this study is to present a strategic plan for developing the specialized field of occupational health and safety engineering in Iran.

The current study is a collaborative action research study that was conducted in 2021. The strategic planning committee consisted of 20 professors, experts, and doctoral students. Over the course of 14 weeks, they held regular weekly meetings, collected information from inside and outside the organization, analyzed the organization’s internal and external environment, and identified its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Based on this analysis, the committee determined the organization’s mission, perspective, values, and general and specific goals for 2021-2024. They also identified the necessary measures to achieve these goals and developed an operational plan to improve the performance of the specialized field of occupational health and safety.

Conducting this applied research led to the strategy of internal and external analysis of the specialized OHS field, determining the direction of the basic strategy, mission, perspective, values, and general goals. Finally, seven specific goals and 286 actions were determined to improve the performance of OHS. The SWOT analysis of OHS’s internal and external environment identified 27 strengths, seven weaknesses, 26 opportunities, and 12 threats. According to the results of the SWOT matrix, the strategic position of the OHS field is to implement preventive strategies and maintain existing conditions.

This plan aligns with the 4-year OHS plan. In developing the program, attention has been paid to the documents and policies of upstream organizations. The strategic position of occupational health and safety engineering is a prudent strategy. In this situation, strategies for maintaining existing conditions can be applied. Therefore, it is suggested to reduce the weaknesses of OHS as much as possible and increase its strategic capabilities by focusing on prudent strategies. From the second year of implementing the strategic plan, the OHS field can gradually focus on developing activities.

Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is recognized as a major threat to human public health. Obviously, accurate and in-depth identification of patients’ help-seeking behavior not only explains the process but also is able to identify the related factors, challenges, strengths, and weaknesses, and depicts participants' expectations for optimization and improvement.

This qualitative study was conducted based on content analysis and through individual interviews (in person and by phone) with people with a history of COVID-19 disease until data saturation was reached between June and September 2020 in Tehran, Iran.

In this study, 15 in-depth individual interviews were conducted. Strengths, weaknesses, and strategies to improve the help-seeking behavior were extracted in four levels: individual, family, social, and health system. The most important strengths were self-care (individual level), empathy of family members (family), charitable activities (social), and human resources (health system). The most important weaknesses in these levels included lack of attention to health protocols, lack of requirements for full quarantine, economic problems, and lack of proper monitoring by the health system.

The most important and key element to improve the help-seeking behavior is human resources and promoting the individual capabilities in various aspects.

The global approach to health care quality has led to efforts to manage resources and services more effectively, taking into account rising costs, competitive advantages in marketing, and patient safety. One of the main tools of health care quality and its improvement is accreditation. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the challenges and strengths of implementing the educational accreditation process of hospitals from the perspective of the employees of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences.

This descriptive cross-sectional study using the census method on 51 employees involved in the implementation of educational accreditation of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences using a two-part questionnaire consisting of general and professional information of the employees involved in the implementation of educational accreditation and 27 The component was carried out to measure the opinions of employees regarding the implementation of the accreditation process in the education sector in Jahrom city. Data analysis was done using spss software version 21 and descriptive statistical tests (mean, percentage and standard deviation).

The results showed that out of 51 employees, 66% were women and the rest were men. The average score of the implementation of the accreditation process in the university was 14.3 ± 0.75, which was almost at the average level. The majority of the staff believed that the accreditation program made the university more dynamic and efficient and had the highest score. The lowest score was given to the item "in the accreditation program, the tasks and tasks are fairly and equitably divided among the university staff".

Modifying the accreditation evaluation method can increase the credibility and trustworthiness of Iranian hospital accreditation results. Considering the mutual influence of strengths and challenges on each other, it is necessary to train and develop teamwork culture, budget allocation and planning and strategy design in the context of its implementation, creating appropriate information systems, clarifying information and changing the overall attitude of the organization. to be laid

Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of evaluation and quality assurance of an e-learning system can help design the systematic structure of the evaluation process in the higher education to elevate the quality of education. In view of this, this study endeavored to elaborate on the strengths and weaknesses of evaluation and quality assurance of e-learning in medical universities.

This qualitative study was conducted by conventional (inductive) content analysis method in the academic year 2020 in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences. The population consisted of professors, director of the EDC, educational vice-chancellor/president of university. The sample size was selected using purposive sampling. Semi-structured electronic questionnaire was used to collect data and Granheim and Landman content analysis approach was used to analyze the data.

The analysis of qualitative data obtained from 153 questionnaires from 46 universities of medical sciences was done in two main areas: strength and weakness including 17 main categories and 65 sub-categories. Strength includes providing e-learning evaluation tools, Stakeholders monitoring and feedback, assessment and adaptation of virtual lesson plans with curriculum, using the system for evaluation, developing protocols and evaluation mechanisms, forming an accreditation committee, so on. Weakness includes lack of comprehensive evaluation and quality assurance protocol, lack of evaluation infrastructure in Navid system, quantification and attention to the number of contents, ambiguity in ensuring the safety of final exams, so on.

Providing standards and developing an evaluation mechanism can increase the quality of the e-learning evaluation process and make it easier to implement.

Halal food have been consumed by Muslims for more than 1,400 years, but the halal industry has flourished in recent years and the demand for this food has increased significantly. There are currently 1.8 billion Muslims living in the world, about 27% of whom is estimated to be overwhelmingly devoted to religious eating habits. It was estimated that the Muslim population would exceed 2 billion by 2030. Arguably about 20% of Muslims live in non-Muslim countries.

The globalization of the ever-evolving halal red meat industry has opportunities and challenges, including opportunities for global awareness of the halal meat market by governments, non-Muslim companies and financial institutions, the emergence of reliable research data , widespread global advertisement on halal food, safety and quality of halal meat compared to non-halal meat, halal investment opportunities by Islamic countries, lack of clear strategies for regional and international cooperation, confusion over different standards in halal meat and conflict of interest,  Inadequate funding for startups and innovations, inadequate training, war and violence in the Middle East, fear of Islamism, widespread activity of vegetarians, counterfeit red meat standards, etc. are among the challenges and disadvantages of this activity.

Currently, the halal red meat brand is exclusive to non-Muslim countries. Although the opportunities and challenges of globalization mentioned in the article include these countries, but Muslim countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, considering these opportunities, challenges, weakness and strength, can seize the global halal red meat market in the future.

Hospitals are faced different conditions for effective management of crises and disasters. The current study aimed to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats from the viewpoints of the members of the disaster management committee (DMC) of Iran’s public hospitals.

This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018. The study population was Iranian public hospitals, of which 20 were randomly selected based on spatial planning. We interviewed members of DMC of 87 public hospitals. Data were collected using a 17-item researcher-made questionnaire that included two sections of individual variables, and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The questionnaire contained both open and closed-ended questions. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 23.

A total of 347 members were interviewed. In total, 3 524 items were extracted, which 784 (22.2%) were strength, 717 (20.3%) weakness, 344 (9.8%) opportunity, 649 (18.4%) threat, and 1030 (29.2%) solutions. There was a significant association between the city of work, years of experience as a committee member, the number of active beds, area of study, gender, age, occupation, type of hospital, and the total number of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and related solutions (P<0.05).

This study demonstrated that, concerning crisis and disaster management, Iranian public hospitals, while having strengths and opportunities, are faced several challenges and threats. Hence, there is a need to design and implement appropriate intervention programs.

Faculty development programs include all types of systematic support to improve faculty members as teachers, researchers, and citizens of universities, professions, and larger societies. Developing systematic and innovative faculty development programs is among the ways of improving the academic system. Due to the significance of such programs and their effective role in the quality of academic systems, it is essential for university managers to enhance the quality of such programs. Identifying and assessing the strengths of such programs can serve as an accelerator in setting guidelines for holding higher quality programs. For this reason, the present study was an attempt to identify the strengths of faculty development programs from the perspective of faculty members themselves, as the immediate stakeholders of the programs.

Using semi-structured interviews in a qualitative and phenomenological design, 29 lecturers at Shahid Beheshti University were asked about their attitudes on the strengths of the faculty development programs. The transcribed interviews were coded using the Strauss and Corbin framework.

Three strengths were identified for the programs: “prominent Lecturers”, “suitable topics and content” and “effective teaching-learning methods”.

Identification of only three strengths for faculty development programs  indicates that the mentioned programs lack the necessary quality and that fundamental revisions in policy-making, planning, and implementation are called for.

The strategy plan for talent identification of athletes plays an important role in talent identification and improving the performance of athletes. Therefore, the purpose of the current research was to examining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes based on the SWOT method and providing strategies for them.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive. The research population was experts and managers of the billiards federation, coaches of national and club billiards teams and heads of the talent identification committee, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 13 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposive sampling method. Data were collected by semi-structured interview and research-made questionnaire and analyzed by weighted average and rank methods in SPSS software.

The findings showed that for the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes were identified 12 strengths, 29 weaknesses, 18 opportunities and 8 threats. Also, the evaluation of the internal factors of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes showed that the amount of attention to strengths in compared to weaknesses was higher, and the evaluation of its external factors showed that the amount of attention to opportunities in compared to threats was higher. Finally, according to the analysis of internal and external factors were designed strategies for them.

According to the results of the present study, the attention of managers and officials to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the strategic plan for talent identification of athletes can have appropriate consequences.

The purpose of study was to formulate a strategic educational program for the university based on the SWOT model. In this research, a combination of two quantitative and qualitative research methods was used. Then, the statistical population consisted of educational experts of Quchan University (14 people) were considered as the sample by selected census method and the instrument was interviews. Then, the research findings showed that Quchan University has 13 strengths, 12 weaknesses, 16 opportunities and 12 threats that indicated Quchan Industrial University was located in weakness and threats area. By matching and comparing the SWOT matrix and the internal and external factors assessment matrix, appropriate strategies were developed for Quchan University which included Creation and development of educational, research and welfare infrastructure by consulting with city, province and country authorities as well as attracting charity support; Increasing the quality of education through the absorption of a competent faculty and establishing a network of scientific cooperation with the universities and industries of the city, province and country with a technical and engineering approach and meeting the industrial needs of society; and Compete with the same level universities, transforming the first-class university in the field of knowledge-based and Strength economy.

Wearable electronic devices, which are based on Internet of Things (IoT) and big data computing, are able to continuously collect and process the physiological and environmental data and exchange them with other tools, users, and internet networks. Therefore, despite their potential benefits in health monitoring, they can pose serious risks, especially in breach of privacy. Hence, the main question in this study was to identify the most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to wearable electronic technologies.

In this study, StArt 3.4 software was used for systematic review. Studies until November 30, 2019 were searched for keywords in “Scopus”, “IEEE”, “PubMed”, “Springer”, “Magiran”, “SID”, and “Sivilica” databases and Google search engine.

After deleting duplicate and unrelated documents, 80 documents were selected for final review and were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Accordingly, the main identified strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat were “improving lifestyle and human capabilities”, “low data reliability and user interface”, “applications in health and medicine”, and “information abuse and privacy breach” with 97.5%, 92.5%, 94%, and 99% frequency, respectively.

The results of this study showed that improving human capabilities and application in medicine and health care are the main driving forces for the development of wearable electronic technologies. Therefore, in order to take advantage of the opportunities and overcome the potential threats of this technology, planning for the development and application of indigenous knowledge, as well as the development of the required standards and rules, must be put on the agenda immediately