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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Health Educators"”.
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Continuing Professional Education Needs and Expectations of Health Educators
… professional needs and expectations of health educators. Data were collected using a mail questionnaire sent to a sample group composed of randomly selected members of the Association for the Advancement of Health Education, American Public Health Association, Public Health Education …
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Social Media Use and Acceptance Among Health Educators in Saudi Arabia
… in the region. The Saudi Ministry of Health encourages health-care providers, health professionals, and health organizations to accept and actively engage in using technology for improving health practices. Despite their increasing importance, there is little published literature on …
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Hair stylists' reflections on their role as lay health educators: A qualitative analysis
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Assessing instructional confidence of secondary health educators in Illinois: Implicatons for curricular and policy development
… instructional confidence levels in delivering health education information to high school adolescents across major topic areas established by the Illinois State Board of Education as critical content areas (I.S.B.E., 2010b). 283 participants completed the Health Education Confidence Survey …
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Perceptions of Fidelity and Adaptation in Evidence-Informed Interventions by Women of Color Sexuality Health Educators
<p>Sexuality health educators (SHEs) adapt interventions to the participants’ needs in the dissemination and implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programming. However, there is a lack of understanding of how, why and when SHEs make such adaptations. Success or failure of the …
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Profile of Health Educators in Virginia Institutions of Higher Education: The Value Attached to Work-related Competencies
… value of work-related competencies according to health educators in institutions of higher education in the state of Virginia. The health educators were surveyed regarding competencies perceived to be of high importance in their current position. Additionally, the study examined whether these …
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Health Educators as a Think Tank: Recommendations to Improve Health Care Reform Proposals and Potential Roles for the Profession
Health care reform has been a controversial topic in America since the early 1900s (PBS, 2010). Today, the United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation (National Center for Health Statistics, 2011), but despite spending more, the U.S. has 46.3 million citizens who …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Adult Thermal Burn Survivors: The Navigation Toward Recovery and Health
… and rehabilitation. There is an opportunity for health educators to affect the long-term wellness outcomes of adult burn survivors and to support their growth beyond survival status. This may not constitute recovery to their preinjury lives, but rather recovery to lives closer to optimal …
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The Impact of Health Education Among Communities w/ The Food Education Project: Exploring Healthy Eating to Modify Health Behaviors Among Youth, A Primary Intervention
… among adults and children remains a public health concern. Rates of obesity among both demographics are slowly increasing. A plethora of research is available that unveils demographics of those who are at risk of obesity and diabetes. Barriers to healthy eating have also been documented. …
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Genograms as threat appeals: Using the Extended Parallel Process Model with familial cardiovascular disease
… threat appeals in motivating intent to perform health promotion and disease prevention behaviors in participants with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) recruited by convenience and snowball sampling. The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) contends that efficacy must exceed threat for …
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION
… PIONTEK, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Education, presented on June 2, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION MAJOR PROFESSORS: Dr. Aaron Diehr and Dr. Roberta …
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Physical Activity Promotion for Older Adults in Extension through Domestic and International Efforts
… support and perceptions of Extension health educators who could develop, deliver, and evaluate these programs. A participatory approach that includes input at all delivery levels (program participants, delivery agents, and administrators) can aid implementation through considering …
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Coverage of alcoholism and the consequences of alcohol use in lay magazines: A content analysis
… injuries related to alcohol use and making healthy behavior change regarding alcohol use. The study revealed a representation of alcohol as being merely a fun and light hearted activity. Only a few articles mentioned the negative consequences of alcohol consumption such as injury, death, …
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS ON HEALTH
… lives and how they influence what we eat and our health. These three areas can not be separated easily when trying to determine why some people are healthier than others within the same neighborhood, or family, or why it seems that other people in different countries are healthier than we are in …
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Women's perceptions and attitudes regarding susceptibility to and prevention of breast cancer based on genetic testing
… of breast cancer. The implication for health educators is for design of primary prevention information to improve decision making for women.
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Determination of the message content for educating the public about the health education profession
… the contents of a marketing message that health educators need to transmit to the public about their profession. A questionnaire, developed by the researcher, was used to determine the message content. Four decision questions were asked of all participants. Data were collected by the …
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The Importance of Health Education and Promotion: Promoting the Right Message
… primary needs included access to preventative health measures and access to education and training programs. Through the needs assessment Kaiser was able to determine that the health needs of the community were based on access to training and educational programs, access to preventative care …
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A comparison of perceived self-efficacy and learner satisfaction between human patient and standardized patient simulations
… improve patient safety. Simulation, utilized in health education and other professions, is increasingly being employed in nursing schools to address these shortages. This descriptive post-test only study compared perceived self-efficacy and learner satisfaction between 91 undergraduate nursing …
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