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According to Aristotle as outlined in the Nicomachean Ethics written in the 4th century BC , friendship is a reciprocal mutually recognised desired for goodwill between two people. He identified three types of friendship , namely that based on (i) utility which emphasises usefulness rather than mutual affection eg business partnership (ii) pleasure ie enjoyment or shared interests such as a hobby and (iii) good /virtuous - drawing on admiration, mutual respect and shared c

NOT IF these crucial elements are attended to: 1. PURPOSE The identification of the purpose of the program -see Fig. below. (a) Universal Programs: targeted for the whole population group that has been identified as at risk e.g. childhood measles immunization (b) Populations at Risk. interventions are directed towards individuals or sub-groups of a population known to be at risk of developing problems e.g. literacy programs (c) ‘High Risk’ Individuals. Programs

As a personal observation a few years ago I was on a plane and seated across the aisle from my wife and I was a family with 2 children – the youngest being a toddler. In the course of the 3 hour trip I became aware of the youngest child looking over at me and ‘inviting’ me to engage with her in some way. We then began a short game of ‘peek-a-boo’ which we both enjoyed before I went back to my reading. At the end of the trip as we stood up to take our bags from the over-h

The word system is derived from the Greek sunistánai, meaning ‘to cause to stand together’. Systems thinking emphasizes that the properties of the system are properties of the whole which none of the parts possesses. An important feature of systems theories is their transdisciplinary nature. This is at odds with the tendency towards neatly compartmentalizing the understanding of a phenomenon, and instead proposing the need to embrace complexity. Systems thinking has been inf