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Showing 1 to 20 of 659 for “"Community Health"”.
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Cayucos Community Health Plan
… leading causes of death and primary driver of health care costs, cannot be effectively addressed through education or preventative health alone. A physical environment that promotes health—through access to healthy food, opportunities for physical activity, quality housing, transportation …
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Oceano Community Health Plan
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Oceano Community Health Plan</p> <p>Phillip Brennan</p> <p>Recent, mounting research shows that chronic disease, the leading causes of death and primary driver of health care costs, cannot be effectively addressed through education or preventative health alone. A physical …
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Designing with community health workers: feedback-integrated multimedia learning for rural community health
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an integral part of the rural health system, and it is imperative that their voices are accommodated in digital health projects. In the mobile health education project discussed in this thesis (The Bophelo Haeso project), we sought to find ways to amplify CHWs' …
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Participatory theater in community health
… describes the need for innovative strategies in health education through a comprehensive literature review, detail of forty-three participatory theater activities for use in a health context, and field observations of employing participatory theater activities at three different application …
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Community health workers in Kajiado County: an evaluation of the community health strategy in rural Kenya
… to rise until 2005 when the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced the Kenya Essential Package for Health (KEPH) in an effort to reverse its declining health indicators. The KEPH defined six service delivery levels which included the new community level, also known as level one. The Ministry …
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Integrating community health workers in schools
… (PPACA) has set the tone for a radically revised health landscape in America that focuses on community-based care. Our health care system, however, has neither the infrastructure nor the vision to properly account for these demands. One possible solution is to redefine how established positions …
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Benchmarking Community Health Centers; Efficiency: Multivariate Analysis
Community Health Centers (CHCs), designed to provide accessible and affordable health care services to low-income families, were first funded by the Federal Government as part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s. Improving healthcare organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an …
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Community Health Needs Assessment and American Hospital Association
… of this analysis is to examine the effect of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) as established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This includes an analysis of the implementation process and the intervention development. The analysis includes five cases of the …
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A Population Health Approach for Community Health Improvement
<p>Providence Health & Services (Providence), a not-for-profit Catholic health care system serving five western states, established an organizational vision of <em>Creating healthier communities, together</em> (Providence Health & Services, 2014). This vision served as the catalyst for the …
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Information systems design for the community health services
… with the design and implementation of a community health information system which fulfils some of the local needs of fourteen nursing and para-medical professions in a district health authority, whilst satisfying the statutory requirements of the NHS Korner steering group for those …
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A Procedure for Teaching Local Community Health Problems
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:33:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0015288.pdf: 9397492 bytes, checksum: 2627364d06ec4a2539e0052cdb1653d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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Community participation in the recruitment of community health workers: a case study of the three community health worker programmes in South Africa
… research investigates the nature and extent of community participation and involvement in the recruitment and selection processes for Community Health Workers (CHWs), primarily through detailed case studies of three CHW programmes, one in the Western Cape, another in KwaZulu-Natal, and a third …
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The application of effective facilities management techniques to best optimise the provision of community health services within the community health care premises
… within theorganisational context of the Community Health Care National Health ServiceTrust. The thesis commences with an examination of corporate andorganisational strategy and how organisational philosophy and goals impactupon facilities management activity and effectiveness. This …
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Job satisfaction and role conflict among community health nurses
… level of job satisfaction and role conflict of community health nurses in the province of British Columbia, and to examine the relationship between these two constructs and age, length of job tenure, experience in nursing, and educational background. Although other studies have reported on …
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Factors That Influence Mammography Use of Community Health Workers
<p>Community health worker (CHW) interventions promote early detection of breast cancer and mammography use to help eliminate health disparities for minority and low-income women. Data trends show lower mammography use among this population although CHW interventions have been shown to promote …
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Advancing equity in dementia care through community health workers
… These groups encounter systemic healthcare disparities, cultural barriers, and discrimination, leading to mistrust toward the healthcare system and underutilization of services. Given the limited culturally sensitive dementia interventions and cultural humility in the healthcare …
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Performing autoethnographic praxis in kinesiology and community health scholarship
The student, Yvette Castaneda, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-10 at 00:15.
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The impact of the subprime mortgage crisis on community health
… different groups of factors that indicate the health of a community. The four groups are: physical, institutional, socioeconomic and the residential body. The residential body factor group refers to the citizens of a community and their civic involvement. The analysis uses binary logistic …
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A study of continuity in Cape Town community health centres
This study sought to determine: i) the extent of continuity in Cape Town public sector clinics; ii) patients' views of continuity; iii) senior managers ideas of how continuity can be improved; iv) clinical managers' views of a proposed practice team model to improve continuity. Continuity, defined …
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Consultation and training challenges at the Mamre Community Health Project
South African mental health services are in a crisis. Rural areas are particularly neglected. While shortage of resources is readily acknowledged, there have been various suggestions mooted to address these inadequacies. These solutions include: decentralisation, promotion of primary mental health …
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