Klaipėdos universitetas

The research aim is to identify the key factors influencing patient engagement and, after analysing strategies for patient engagement used worldwide, to assess their suitability for involving patients in the Ga East Municipality, Ghana. Employing a qualitative desk review approach, the study examined existing literature. It analysed global patient engagement frameworks across 20 studies conducted over the last ten years, based on the subcategories of trust, education, leadership and shared understanding. While the review highlighted several implications for health outcomes and patient satisfaction related to patient engagement, it also revealed that various

Thearticle aims to show why and how trust and its components of are importantwithin organizational context. Trust in virtual teams is a rathernew and little studied field. Explicitunderstandings of what is a virtual team together with which dimensions definesuch team are provided. Afterwards, the article discuss what specificchallenges virtual teams face when attempting to establish trust between itsmembers providing knowledge on what actions and behaviors can build trust in avirtual team and overcome the challenges specific to virtual teams. Due tocertain virtual teams’ specifics (geographic dispersion, electronic dependence,dynamic structure and cultural diversity) trust in these teams is usually low. Basedon the empirical research results methods for building trust in the virtualteam are suggested.