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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Disadvantaged community"”.
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Examining the Association of Environmental Degradation and Poor Cardiovascular and/or Respiratory Health Outcomes in a Disadvantaged Community
… health outcomes in the residents of Southeast community in Newport News, Virginia. Logistic regression was conducted to assess this association using the self-reported demographic and health outcomes data from the surveys completed by the residents of the community. Exposure to air pollution …
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Treatment adherence among primary care patients in a historically disadvantaged community in the Western Cape : a qualititative study
… system and as such were all historically disadvantaged. Participants were selected by means of convenience sampling and were asked to participate in qualitative interviews under confidential conditions. The interviews addressed various aspects of the participants' experience of their …
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School organisation development as a strategy for developing leadership and management : the case study of Intlanganiso Secondary School
… Intlanganiso, a secondary school located in the disadvantaged community of Khayelitsha (a township situated approximately thirty kilometres from Cape Town), and the relationship of these processes to the school organisation development approach (OD) used by the Teacher Inservice Project (TIP). It …
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The study of a long term sign language intervention programme for hearing caregivers of deaf children : the challenges and successes of community-based rehabilitation and evaluation
… deaf children living within a socio-economically disadvantaged community. The programme was implemented by a deaf signing adult from the same community as the caregivers, and was undertaken within the naturalised contexts at a community-based level. It involved the instruction of more complex …
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Physical activity interventions in socio-economically disadvantaged communities
… have been classified as being socioeconomically disadvantaged. The reasons for this disparity and effective methods of intervention to increase levels of PA participation within these communities are not clear with previous research showing that health behaviour change is a complex process. …
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DIGITALLY ENABLED COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
… PERSPECTIVE, THEREBY UNDERMINING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY IN RESOLVING THEIR PROBLEMS. ADOPTING AN EMPOWERMENT PERSPECTIVE, THIS STUDY EXAMINES HOW ICT EMPOWERS THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY. THREE CASE STUDIES OF THE THAILAND FLOODING 2011, CHINA TAOBAO E-COMMERCE VILLAGES, AND MALAYSIA …
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Domestication of free Wi-Fi amongst high school learners in disadvantaged communities in the Western Cape, South Africa
… municipalities. Municipalities prioritised disadvantaged communities in an effort to bridge the digital divide for the citizens. It was anticipated that learners from disadvantaged communities in high schools would potentially benefit from this highly publicised project. Using the …
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Influencers and Barriers to Consumption of Healthful Diets in Rural Youth in Context of the Bioecological Model
… as part of Ignite, a tri-state, five-year, community based partipatory research (CBPR) intervention were conducted with 6th to 8th grade adolescents from an economically disadvantaged community of rural South Dakota. Results were categorized into the context of the bioecological model. …
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Experiences of parenting learners with regards to learner pregnancy policy
… that is located in Khayelitsha, a historically disadvantaged community in the Western Cape. Semi structured interviews of approximately ninety minutes each were conducted and audio taped. A thematic analysis was used to analyse the audio taped data from the transcribed interviews. The key …
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How socio-cultural factors affect cervical cancer screening adherence and treatment in disadvantaged communities in the greater Cape Town, South Africa.
… cervical cancer screening adherence within a disadvantaged community in South Africa, a developing country. To identify the social-cultural factors four focus groups consisting of men and women between the ages of 18 and 60 were conducted. A combination of the Health Belief Model (HBM) and …
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In Search Of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil
… occurred in the lives of music students from a disadvantaged community rife with social problems, in a school that struggled with frequent political and financial challenges that affected the students’ learning. The other case study explores the life of a Chinese immigrant who mastered música …
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Schooling Habitus: An auto/ethnographic study of music education's entanglements with cultural hegemony
… and thus inappropriate to impose upon disadvantaged youth by the dominant culture. Such diverging viewpoints have resulted in an ideological impasse regarding the role of youth orchestras in respect to social justice. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘habitus’, ‘cultural …
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"Stuck in limbo?" : an unregistered community organisation and treatment provision for substance abuse disorders : a case study in Michells Plain
… by a Church in Mitchells Plain, a historically disadvantaged community (HDC) in the Western Cape. In addition, the challenges that the Organisation faces in meeting the policy requirements set by the Department of Social Development (DoSD) to obtain accreditation by subscribing to evidence-based …
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Community participation in planning practice : analysis of Sydney Metropolitan Strategy 2005
… and help improving the effectiveness of community participation in urban planning practice. To address this aim it is hypothesised that effective community participation must empower local communities, particularly disadvantaged community groups within communities; and this empowerment …
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Living drosscapes, remediating urban disconnections
… the N3 act as a barriers between the previously disadvantaged community of Alexandra and the future development and economic potential of Linbro Park. The design objective is to reprogram the landfill into a public green space that contributes to reconnecting urban fragmented communities, improve …
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Rising to the Challenge: Towards enhancing the wellbeing of an urban community in New Zealand
… of life of the people of an urban, diverse and disadvantaged community in Auckland, New Zealand. It was an attempt to facilitate greater connectedness and solidarity within that community so that they would be empowered to act together to achieve common goals. The theoretical aspect of this …
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A study of young volunteers and volunteering in a Cape Town based, international NGO
What motivates a group of young people from a disadvantaged community spend between 20 and 50 hours every week in a voluntary organisation in their area? This dissertation has studied young volunteers aged between 18 and 28, who are working in a non-govemmental organisation (NGO) operating in a …
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Service learning in postsecondary technology education: Educational promises and challenges in student values development
… training course (INIS) that has incorporated community service projects since fall 2000. Guided by Dewey's vision of democratic education, this study inquires into the nature, reality, and implications of a practice of interdisciplinary, service learning. Through this journey, it derives …
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A case study into how Muslim stakeholders in England perceive Islamic education at their Islamic school.
… schools. This situation undermines the Muslim community’s efforts to offer quality, holistic educational services to children and young people and also risks portraying Islamic education inaccurately and is particularly problematic given the widespread hostility the sector faces. This study …
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School improvement in an era of change : attempting development planning at public local school level in the Western Cape
… taken by a high school from a previously disadvantaged community in the Western Cape (S .A) , to enhance its pedagogical role in society. It evaluates the processes followed by the school in its quest towards school improvement at local level. This research qualitively explores the …
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