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Comparing the effectiveness of Family Support for Health Action (FAM-ACT) with traditional community health worker-led interventions to improve adult diabetes management and outcomes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2022
Background Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) programs have struggled to deliver sustainable, effective support for adults with diabetes (AWDs) to improve self-management behaviors, achieve glycemic goals, and reduce risk for ...
Denise J. Deverts, Michele Heisler, Edith C. Kieffer, Gretchen A. Piatt, Felix Valbuena, Jonathan G. Yabes, Claudia Guajardo, Deliana Ilarraza-Montalvo, Gloria Palmisano, Glory Koerbel, Ann-Marie Rosland   +10 more
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Effectiveness of a Ward level target accountability strategy for hand hygiene

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2019
Background Hand hygiene is a simple and effective solution in prevention of Multi Drug Resistant Organisms. Hand Hygiene campaigns have mostly taken the form of a generalised hospital approach with visual reminders and rewards for improvement in ...
Surinder M. S. Kaur Pada, Poh Ling Chee, Sarathemani Rathenam, Kim Sim Ng, Lilibeth Silagan Alenton, Lishi Poh, Paul Anatharajah Tambyah   +6 more
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Community Mental Health Services in Egypt

Consortium Psychiatricum, 2022
As far back as the 14th Century, Egypt had already developed mental health care in a community-based sense in Kalaoon Hospital in Cairo, 600 years before similar institutions were founded across the globe. By 2001, an Egyptian-Finnish bilateral comprehensive reform program was incorporated.
Tarek Ahmed Okasha, Nermin M. Shaker, Dina M. Elgabry   +2 more
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The Development of Community Health Services

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1959
TODAY S PRACTICE of providing community health services through local units was developed nearly a half century ago. It was well suited to the most critical health problems of that time and has continuously proved its value in bringing public health to the people. In recent years.
Jack C. Haldeman, Evelyn Flook
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Health and community services for trafficked women: An exploratory study of policy and practice [PDF]

, 2011
The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian ...
Hepworth, Julie, Jones, Mairwen, Schofield, Eugene, Schofield, Toni   +3 more
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Patient-level predictors of temporal regularity of primary care visits

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Patients with chronic diseases should meet with their primary care doctor regularly to facilitate proactive care. Little is known about what factors are associated with more regular follow-up.
Adam J. Rose, Wiessam Abu Ahmad, Faige Spolter, Maram Khazen, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Shlomo Vinker, Ilan Green, Ariel Israel, Eugene Merzon   +8 more
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Experience of psychologists in the delivery of cognitive behaviour therapy in a non-western culture for treatment of substance abuse: a qualitative study

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2022
Background Psychotherapy is the preferred form of treatment for psychological disorders worldwide. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely used psychotherapies due to its proven efficacy for psychological disorders, including ...
Abrar Hussain Azad, Shahzad Ali Khan, Ijaz Ali, Hina Shafi, Nisar Ahmed Khan, Shaaray Abrar Umar   +5 more
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The Future of Community Health Services [PDF]

Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1962
T WENTY years ago, when I first entered the field of public health, I had the good fortune to become an apprentice epidemiologist in the New York State Department of Health. The epidemiologic tradition was very strong in New York at that time; our seniors preferred to be members of the epidemiology section rather than the health officers section of the
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Building community resilience in mine impacted communities : a study on delivery of health services in Papua New Guinea : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the building of Community Resilience in mine-impacted communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The study aimed to establish the general relationship between community resilience, community capitals and the delivery ...
Kuir-Ayius, Dora Dau
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