Association of Rural Setting With Poorer Disease Outcomes for Patients With Rheumatic Diseases : Results From a Systematic Review of the Literature

This work was conducted within the Versus Arthritis and Medical Research Council Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work although there was no specific financial support for this project. The authors have no conflict of interest to report. We acknowledge the work of Svenja Kleiser from the Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany who conducted the literature search during an internship at the Epidemiology Group, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.Peer reviewedPostprin

Fostering teacher community development: A review of design principles and a case study of an innovative interdisciplinary team

To deal with recent reforms and the accompanying complexity of work in secondary education, ongoing collaboration between teachers has become more important. A community is seen as a promising learning environment to support and embed collaboration into the culture of the school. However, community theory for the design of teacher communities seems underdeveloped. Therefore, this study aims to formulate a set of design principles to foster the development of teacher communities in secondary education. The set of design principles is based on a review of literature, as well as on a best-practice case. The case study was used to validate design principles from the literature in the target context. The resulting design principles were based on context-intervention-mechanismoutcome logic that takes into account the context-dependency of interventions as well as the mechanisms that help with understanding of how interventions produce certain outcomes. Implications for practice relate to ownership and co-design of the arrangement. The set of design principles provides a practical basis for teachers and administrators aiming to facilitate community building in their school. Future research is recommended on testing the effectiveness of the arrangement in the target context by means of a multiple case study.NWO-pro