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The Promise of Open Educational Resources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This whitepaper defines OER, discusses what underlies the open educational resources movement and the current status of open educational resources, presents MIT's OpenCourseware project as a case-study, and concludes with future visions for teaching and ...
Catherine Casserly, Marshall Smith
core   +1 more source

Group education for rheumatoid arthritis patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This article reviews the effectiveness of group education programs in improving the knowledge, behavior, and health status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and evaluates to what extent various programs fulfill certain criteria for educational ...
Rasker, Johannes J.   +2 more
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Social Status, Education, and Growth

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 1996
This paper investigates the implications of social rewards on the allocation of talent in society and consequently on the process of economic growth. We consider two sources of heterogeneity among workers: nonwage income and innate ability. A greater emphasis on status may induce the "wrong" individuals, that is, those with low ability and high wealth,
Fershtman, Chaim   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Socioeconomic participation of persons with hemophilia: Results from the sixth hemophilia in the Netherlands study

open access: yesResearch and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2022
Background and objectives Treatment availability and comprehensive care have resulted in improved clinical outcomes for persons with hemophilia. Recent data on socioeconomic participation in the Netherlands are lacking.
Erna C. van Balen   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Five-minute Apgar score and educational outcomes: retrospective cohort study of 751 369 children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: The Apgar score is used worldwide for assessing the clinical condition and short-term prognosis of newborn infants. Evidence for a relationship with long-term educational outcomes is conflicting.
Cooper, Sally-Ann   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A comparative study of health, nutritional status, and dietary pattern of primary school going and dropout slum children in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

open access: yesAsian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: Health affects not only current well being and future outcomes at individual and society level but also directly reflect the efficiency of health care system and the influence of surrounding environment.
Sharmina Yeasmin
doaj   +1 more source

Semantic memory, but not education or intelligence, moderates cognitive aging: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Aging studies regularly assume that years of education are a protective factor for baseline cognition. In developing countries with specific sociocultural issues, this relationship may not work as expected, and an unmet need remains for ...
Laiss Bertola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Associations between Sociodemographic and Behavioral Variables, and Educational Practices on Mother-Child Dyads

open access: yesActa Colombiana de Psicología, 2023
The association between the sociodemographic variables of children with behavior problems and mothers with maternal depression is widely acknowledged in the literature.
Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying principles of health system strengthening to eye care

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
Understanding Health systems have now become the priority focus of researchers and policy makers, who have progressively moved away from a project-centred perspectives.
Karl Blanchet, Daksha Patel
doaj   +1 more source

Validade da hipertensão autorreferida associa-se inversamente com escolaridade em brasileiros Validity of self-reported hypertension is inversely associated with the level of education in Brazilian individuals

open access: yesArquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2012
FUNDAMENTO: A hipertensão autorreferida é um dado de interesse para saúde pública e acessível em estudos epidemiológicos, cuja validade deve ser verificada para o adequado emprego dessa informação.
Soraya Sant'Ana de Castro Selem   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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