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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Health programs"”.
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Articulation Trends in Allied Health Programs
… access to instructional opportunities. Many health programs are located in community colleges or hospitals, and in order to advance educational status, students must be able to transfer credits between multiple educational institutions. Unfortunately, programs are not uniform and many fields …
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Health Programs in Four Large Public School Systems
Most schools have health programs and policies. Written or unwritten, consistent or inconsistent, these policies and programs affect the present and future welfare of all school personnel, as well as students, and the community. The study reported here deals with the school health service areas of …
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Evaluating the sustained psychological benefits of on-site employee health programs
… conducted to explore whether employee wellness programs actually promote long term changes in participating employees’ psychological health. Forty four participants were included in the final sample from a large southeastern organization currently offering three different structured wellness …
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Measuring safety climate as an indicator of effective safety and health programs in the construction industry
The purpose of this study was to measure the safety climate, safe behaviors, and EMR, of construction companies in southeastern Louisiana, and to measure selected demographic variables of construction workers employed at these companies. Two hundred and eight workers from twenty nine construction …
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Identifying and Exploring Capacity and Readiness of Faith-Based Organizations Implementing Lifestyle-Related Chronic Disease Health Programs
… experience a disproportionate burden of adverse health outcomes related to these diseases. Collaborative partnerships with faith-based organizations (FBO) present a unique platform to effectively implement lifestyle-related health programs, especially in minority communities. Studies have …
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Evaluation of health programs: application of social cost benefit analysis in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listing of Australia
… in this thesis that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs (normative health economics) should be based on these recent advances. However, an appropriate integration of moral philosophy in the area of health economics has not yet been done. The objectives of this thesis …
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Operating ratios and institutional characteristics affecting the responsiveness of black colleges and universities to professional allied health programs
… universities had implemented professional allied health education programs. Several authors have hypothesized that certain factors (which could be specified as operating ratios and institutional characteristics) affected an institution's ability and willingness to adapt. However, the power of …
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Advancing Health and non-Health Security, Diplomacy and International Relations through the Enlightened Design and Delivery of Smart Global Health Programs
… supportive manner. In the realms of global health, diplomacy, security and international relations, as addressed in the following, such synergistic, interdigitated and smart approaches are also in play. In all such cases, such enlightened approaches are the hallmark of enlightened human …
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Promotora-Led Programs: How Do Program Planners Conceptualize the Role of Promotoras and Select and Train Promotoras to Deliver and Sustain Obesity-Related Health Programs Among Hispanic Women?
… affect Hispanic women. Successful health programs that prevent or control obesity-related diseases have used promotoras de salud to teach and model lifestyle behaviors aimed at reducing obesity. This study explored planners' conceptualizations of promotoras' roles and how they …
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A Methodological Framework for transnational Global Health workforce development as an intervention for health disparities utilizing the CDU GHL Zambia Program
… is a dearth of much needed diverse global health leaders from marginalized communities to meet the health challenges emerging in the Global South (WHO, 2016). According to the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030, (WHO, 2016) only a small …
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Developing And Validating Learning Domains, Competencies, And Evaluation Items For Global Health Clinical Immersion Practicums For Graduate-Level Nursing Programs
… evaluation tool for experiential nursing global health programs at the graduate level.</p> <p>Background: Standard competencies have not been synthesized and delineated nor have evaluation tools been developed for global health programs at the graduate level.</p> <p>Design: An integrative review …
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Beyond Crisis Response: Characterizing First Responder Interest in Mental Health Services
… responders are at increased risk for mental health conditions such as depression and PTSD. Emergency medical services (EMS) organizations have identified the increased need for mental health programs to support first responders. Worksite mental health programs must be tailored to the needs …
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Epidemics, Politics and Public Health: Ludwig Rajchman, MD, The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Institution
… the most successful work was carried out by the Health Section led by Dr. Ludwick Rajchman. Using primary sources from the League archives in Geneva, documents from organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, articles from medical journals and other relevant secondary sources, I argue that …
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Welfare organization: The case of worksite health promotion
… the corporate motivation for offering worksite health promotion. Three possible motivations are presented: efficiency (reduction of health care costs), control (monitoring of employees' lifestyle), and demography (aging of the workforce). Data from the 1985 ""National Survey of Worksite Health …
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"""I'm Just a Guy."": Narratives of Mexican American College Students' Constructions of Masculinity and Sexual Health Beliefs"
… to examine 6 Latino college students' sexual health beliefs about the human papillomavirus (HPV). Data were collected through the use of in-depth interviews and analyzed utilizing a thematic analysis. Participants' narratives showed complexity in the way issues of racial/ethnic identity, …
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Health care and social justice evaluation : a critical and pluralist approach
… systemic and pluralist approach to evaluating health programs. It examines ways in which efforts to promote equality and plurality are undermined by the application of foundationalist and universal conceptions of social justice and evaluation. This approach is developed within the current …
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Improving access through stochastic modeling in Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
… the delays veterans face in a network of mental health programs. Based on queueing theory, including blocking and reneging, different operations management strategies are compared using this discrete event simulation tool. To simulate wait times, users input arrival rates, service times, …
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A New Vision for Primary Care: Strategic Planning with the Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut
… dialogue taking place on the future of our health care system. It is probable that there will be more health care legislation and system reform in the next several years than in any period in our history. Integration of the health care system must occur to improve accessibility, …
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The SIDE workshop: examining the influence of a substance abuse intervention on the readiness for change of men who are incarcerated
… and steadily becoming the highest behavioral health concern in the United States (SAMHSA, 2012). The impact of substance abuse is especially evident in the criminal justice system. Although an estimated 45%-53% of people who are incarcerated meet criteria for a substance abuse disorder, only …
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