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Improving Community Health Program: Perspective of Community Health Workers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa [PDF]

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Uchenna Benedine Okafor,1 Iyabo Obasanjo,2 Daniel Ter Goon3 1Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, 5117, South Africa; 2Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD,
Okafor UB, Obasanjo I, Goon DT
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Role of community-based measures in adherence to self-protective behaviors during first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia [PDF]

Health Promotion Perspectives, 2021
Background: The expected second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has started in various regions of the world. Public health experts warned that it could be as lethal as the first wave if people did not comply with self-protective measures.
Asma Ayyed AL-Shammary, Sehar un-Nisa Hassan, Aqeela Zahra, Fahad Bin Zafir Algahtani, Shadi Suleiman   +4 more
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No Health without Mental Health: Taking Action to Heal a World in Distress—With People, Places, and Planet ‘in Mind’

Challenges, 2022
The unprecedented global rise in mental anguish is closely linked with the erosion of our social fabric, economic and political systems, and to our natural environments. We are facing multiple new large-scale threats to health, safety, and security, with
Susan L. Prescott, Jeffrey M. Greeson, Mona S. El-Sherbini, The Planetary Health Community Convened by the Nova Institute for Health   +3 more
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Training and experience outperform literacy and formal education as predictors of community health worker knowledge and performance, results from Rongo sub-county, Kenya

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThere is a growing recognition that Community Health Workers are effective at improving health outcomes and expanding health access. However, the design elements that lead to high-quality Community Health Worker programing are relatively ...
Ash Rogers, Lou L. Goore, Jane Wamae, Joseph R. Starnes, Stephen O Okong’o, Vincent Okoth, Sandra Mudhune   +6 more
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Incentivising Higher Level Outcome Achievement in Continuing Education: Five-Year Experience from the ACCME Commendation Criteria

Journal of European CME, 2023
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) Menu of Criteria for Commendation was created to incentivise a variety of behaviours and outcomes from accredited providers.
Graham T. McMahon
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Anishnabeg children and youth's experiences and understandings of oral health in rural Quebec

Rural and Remote Health, 2021
Introduction: Children's oral health is a prevalent health concern in Indigenous communities in Canada and globally. Compared to an early childhood caries prevalence rate of 57% in non-Indigenous Canadian school-age children, some Indigenous ...
Ye Na Kim, Louise-Esther Bond Rouleau, Franco Carnevale, Georgina Whiteduck, Denise Chief, Mary Ellen Macdonald   +5 more
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The Learning Collaboratory: developing and evaluating public health students’ skills while promoting community health

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionComplex and continuous developments in health and healthcare require innovative changes in programs that educate public health scientists and professionals. Public health change agents need critical competencies to confront today and tomorrow’
Viviana E. Horigian, Tatiana Perrino, Julie Kornfeld, Renae D. Schmidt, Sophia T. Gonzalez   +4 more
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Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rollerine Yönelik Tutumlarının Meslek Seçimine Etkisinin Belirlenmesi

Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Dergisi, 2023
Giriş: Toplumun hemşirelik mesleğine cinsiyetçi yaklaşımının o toplumda yetişen öğrencilerin görüşlerini ve öğrencilerin hemşirelik mesleğine uygunluklarını etkileyebileceği düşünülmektedir.Amaç: Araştırmada hemşirelik bölümü öğrencilerinin toplumsal ...
Berna Bayır, Beyza Nur Ay, Hamza Özcihan   +2 more
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Ethnobotanical Insights: Qualitative Analysis of Medicinal Plants in Colón Putumayo for Traditional Knowledge Preservation

Plants, 2023
The ancestral knowledge of the community of Colón Putumayo unfolds in several dimensions that allow us to recognise the ethnomedicinal properties of plants.
Maira Alejandra Bastidas-Bacca, Dayana Dayve-Bacca-Descance, Adriana del Socorro Guerra-Acosta, Erika Perea-Morera, Lucia Ana Díaz-Ariza, Diana López-Álvarez, Ana Milena Osorio-García   +6 more
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Low health-related quality of life in school-aged children in Tonga, a lower-middle income country in the South Pacific [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Ensuring a good life for all parts of the population, including children, is high on the public health agenda in most countries around the world.
Solveig Petersen, Boyd Swinburn, Helen Mavoa, Kalesita Fotu, Caroline Tupoulahi-Fusimalohi, Gavin Faeamani, Marjory Moodie   +6 more
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