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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"information campaigns"”.
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The experiences of health committes of community participation in health information campaigns during the COVID-19 pandemic
… During the COVID-19 pandemic, a need arose for information to be provided to communities in a way that is understandable, practical and suited to their context, in order to empower communities to mobilize and actively participate in prevention measures against COVID-19.The People's Health …
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Permeating the wall: Transmitting knowledge remittances as a strategy for health information campaigns in The Republic of Moldova
… an effective strategy to spread public health information amongst Moldovans. Specifically, two studies examined whether remittance behavior among Moldovans living in The United States and Canada predicted their perceptions that a "knowledge remittance" strategy for public health information …
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Discrete Emotion and Motivation: Relative activation in Appetitive and Aversive Motivational System as a Function of Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Joy embedded in the Content of Televised Information Campaigns.
The goal of this study was to examine whether predictable motivational activation in the appetitive and aversive systems underlies the production and experience of discrete emotions (anger, sadness, joy, and fear) experienced while viewing televised PSAs. The current study was conducted from the …
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Addressing water scarcity in urban Tanzania: household preferences, behavioural interventions, and technological adoption
… for reliable water supply, (ii) the impact of information campaigns on water-saving behaviours, and (iii) the adoption of water-saving technologies. Each study is presented in a separate chapter. The first study (Chapter Two) examines household preferences and willingness to pay for reliable …
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The Effect of Road Safety Measures in Reducing Road Traffic Accidents in Dar Es Salaam: The Case of Kinondoni District
… the study, in gathering and analysing required information’s related to the topic under study. The findings of the study found that road safety measure have little contributions in reducing the problem of road traffic accidents. It was noted that the causes of road accidents are many and varied …
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Developing best practice for effective and integrated sustainable waste management for the regions of England : key areas for informing future enhanced waste strategy in the East Midlands
… issues of concern for designing waste prevention campaigns. Thirdly, a case study of Northamptonshire to identify potential suitable areas for siting of waste management facilities, using GIS tools, so as to identify possible target areas for future public information campaigns was developed.
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Preferences of Louisiana agronomic crop producers and crop consultants regarding sources of information related to agricultural production
The dissemination of information related to agronomic crop production is crucial to the success of the agriculture industry in Louisiana. This information is distributed by various sources and through multiple methods. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the preferences of Louisiana …
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Geographic Information System Methodologies to Evaluate Relationships Between Land use and Groundwater Quality in South Central Kentucky
The development of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has provided techniques for a holistic approach to the study of karst groundwater contamination. While karst groundwaters supply water to a large percentage of the earth's population, its complex environments often have lacked the …
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Promoting positive changes in physical activity through behavior economics
… price signals (taxes and subsidies) and information campaigns. The use of financial incentives has been suggested as a possible policy tool to promote desirable health behaviours and discourage unhealthy ones. The apparent enthusiasm for using incentives to influence health behaviours has …
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Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods in Europe : structure and changeability
… stong anchoring effects on the processing of new information. Communication of benefit arguments can trigger boomerang effects and backfire on the credibility of the communicator when the arguments contrast with preexisting attitudes held by the consumer. Only direct sensory experience with …
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A determination of the attitudes towards energy use and conservation of users (homeowners) and providers (housebuilders) of domestic dwellings and their influence upon co2 emissions
… energy is low, despite two decades of cognitive information campaigns regarding energy conservation from the Government. The study also determined that previous government campaigns to reduce energy use have been largely ineffective, their effects at best, transitory. Finally, the study …
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Ambiguity and credence quality: Implications for technology adoption
… policy interventions, and show that subsidies, information campaigns, and plot-specific fertilizer recommendations improve beliefs, but do not cause beliefs to fully converge to the truth. Instead, policy makers should consider programs that address the misattribution problem.
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Mathematical modelling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the effect of public health education
… community benefit of public health educational campaigns. We illustrate the results by way simulation The following papers form the basis of much of the content of this dissertation, [1 ] L. Cai, Xuezhi Li, Mini Ghosh, Boazhu Guo. Stability analysis of an HIV/AIDS epidemic model with treatment, …
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Facilitating educational access for children with learning disabilities: The implementation of inclusive education in South Africa
… in 1948, UNESCO-led conferences began to endorse campaigns worldwide that encouraged governments to reform their segregated education systems and promote the inclusion of children with disabilities in formal and mainstream schools. Following the demise of apartheid in 1994, the newly elected …