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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Environmental barriers"”.
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Searching for Inclusion: The Impact of Environmental Barriers on People with Physical Disabilities
… day when trying to navigate a world filled with environmental and architectural barriers. Research indicates that environmental barriers isolate and prevent many people with physical disabilities from accessing and participating in the community and society. This research study directly applied …
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Environmental Barriers Affecting Students with Disabilities at a Selected South African Institution of Higher Learning
… institutions of learning. These ills include environmental challenges such as lack of architectural structures like ramps, elevators, and others, which affect the students with disabilities' academic success. These barriers work contrarily with the notion of inclusion in education which seek …
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SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND UTILIZATION FOR LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA.
… access and utilization. While there are known barriers to healthcare access the literature does not examine how multiple social identities influence healthcare access in sexual minorities. Intersectionality posits that the interconnected nature of social identities creates an overlapping and …
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An evaluation of dietary behaviors among West African immigrants in Chicago, IL: Understanding social, cultural, and environmental barriers
… IL. Aim 2 identified social, cultural, and environmental barriers to healthy eating (e.g., perceived cost, access to food, discrimination) and their relationship with dietary behavior among West African immigrants in Chicago, IL. Aim 3 examined the relationship between dietary behaviors and …
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Health-Related Behaviors In Low-Income, Minority Youth: The Role Of Motivation, Basic Needs, Mental Health, And Environmental Barriers
… that higher levels of psychological symptoms and environmental barriers will be significantly, negatively associated with motivation for and engagement in health-related behaviors, which will be positively related. We also expected that needs satisfaction will moderate the relation between risk …
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Factors leading to low employment rate of people with physical disability in Tanzania: A case study of Temeke Municipal Council
… with disability at the workplace and identified environmental barriers of people with disability. The work also determined the challenges facing people with disability at the workplaces. The study findings showed that there were several factors which lead to low employment rate to people with …
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An Ecological Exploration of the Impact of Residence Hall Living on Fitness and Nutritional Behaviors
… students due to personal, interpersonal and environmental facilitators. College is a time when students are beginning to develop habits that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. In order to combat this epidemic, college health professionals must examine strategies to increase …
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Examining the Influence of the Patient Declaration of Values on Hospital Policies and Practices
… structures, (4) organizational and environmental barriers, and (5) reflection and improvement. This study has highlighted the role of the PDoV within a leading Ontario hospital. It lends itself to providing a process with core strategies for creating change in an acute health care …
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Examining the intention-behavior gap: The impact of the food environment on the eating behaviors of low-income African American women
<p>The current study investigated environmental barriers to the intention-behavior gap. The food environment was examined as a moderator between motivation for healthy living and actual eating behavior. A sample of 55 low-income African American women (<em>M<sub>age</sub></em> = 30.25, <em>SD</em> …
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Disability in South Africa : collective recourse for family members as right bearers
… with the individual. These attitudinal and environmental barriers infringe upon the living philosophy of Ubuntu. This philosophy emphasises and continually reinforces the concept of "l am, because you are". In other words, a person is a person through other people, each sharing a common …
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Barriers to provision of psychiatric nursing care : a case study of a teaching hospital, Nigeria
Barriers to the provision of psychiatric nursing care have been reported worldwide, although literature on these barriers in Nigeria is limited. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the barriers to provision of psychiatric nursing care, using the case study methodology. A sample of …
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Harnessing Family Empowerment To Promote Healthcare Transition For Youth With Special Healthcare Needs: The F.a.m.e. Project
… for YSHCN that traverses institutional and environmental barriers.</p> <p>Keywords: Family Empowerment, YSHCN, I/DD Healthcare Transition</p>
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Yugoslavian immigrant women learning English
… study are as follows: 1) are there cultural or environmental barriers which may inhibit the ability of immigrant women to learn and use English, and 2) are there role expectations which may prevent women from taking full advantage of opportunities to learn the new language? Such barriers may …
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Performers' Experiences of Participation in Sensory Friendly Performances
… of community social participation and encounter environmental barriers that limit access to community participation in cultural arts, which negatively impacts quality of life. Existing literature on sensory friendly theatre focuses on parent and organizational stakeholders and supports the …
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Exploration and Development of Methodology for Accessibility Assessments: Based on the Notion of Person-Environment Fit
… different functional capacity. Sixty-one core environmental barriers in terms of accessibility problem detection were identified. This represented a preliminary version of an accessibility screening tool, which can be efficient for research and policy interventions focusing on accessibility. …
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Exploring the quality of life needs of pregnant women who use substances in low-income rural communities in the Western Cape
… in the Western Cape; in particular, the environmental barriers and opportunities that could improve or hamper the women’s QoL and recovery. To do this, this study utilised an interpretive phenomenological analysis to conduct secondary data analysis of in-depth, semi-structured interviews …
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Evaluation of Soil Aquifer Treatment in a Lab Scale Soil Column Experiment
… been studied as a method of providing additional environmental barriers to pathogens and contaminants in indirect potable reuse (IPR) applications. A soil column study was conducted by Hampton Roads Sanitation District in order to evaluate the effectiveness of SAT, as a component of its IPR …
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Developing Your Community Toolbox: An Online, Face-to-Face, and Hands on Training Program
… in programs offered in their local community. Environmental barriers, such as the limited knowledge and skills of some staff who work with these individuals and the negative attitudes members of the community have towards those with I/DD, limit the participation of this population. During the …
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Community based mental health care: a necessity for realising the right to independent living and community inclusion of persons with mental disabilities in Uganda
… health facilities and prisons. The social and environmental barriers manifested in negative attitudes, stigma and discrimination are characteristic of the populace. Institutionalisation, isolation and segregation of PWMDs in violation of Article 19 of the UNCRPD and other related articles is …
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The environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy generation.
The thesis discusses the environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy. Using an iterative approach and drawing upon a number of different methodologies the thesis attempts to evaluate the development potential of tidal current energy in terms of the resource and …
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