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“It Has Changed”: Understanding Change in a Parenting Program in South Africa
Annals of Global Health, 2017 BackgroundPoor parenting that leads to child maltreatment during adolescence presents a major public health burden. Research from high-income countries indicates that evidence-based parenting program interventions can reduce child maltreatment. Much less
Jenny Doubt +9 more
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Background: This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of a community-based primary care program focused on hypertension and diabetes in Korea.
Hee-Sun Kim +4 more
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Distinctive Mechanisms of Adversity and Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Development: A Review and Recommendations for Evidence-Based Policy. [PDF]
Policy Insights Behav Brain Sci, 2017 This review proposes separate and distinct biological mechanisms for the effects of adversity, more commonly experienced in poverty, and socioeconomic status (SES) on child development.
Amso D, Lynn A.
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Ecology and Society, 2019 Archetypes are increasingly used as a methodological approach to understand recurrent patterns in variables and processes that shape the sustainability of social-ecological systems. The rapid growth and diversification of archetype analyses has generated
C. Oberlack +16 more
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Barriers to evidence based policy [PDF]
BMJ, 1996 This month the policy for health promotion by Britain's general practitioners is changing again, for the third time since 1990. Decisions about health promotion will now be devolved to local general practitioners and health authorities. Effective health promotion depends on a close relation between science and policy.
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Personal Assistance for Children and Adolescents (0‐18) with Intellectual Impairments
Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2008 This review investigated the effectiveness of personal assistance versus any other form of care for children and adolescents with intellectual impairments.
Evan Mayo‐Wilson +2 more
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Personal Assistance for Adults (19‐64) with both Physical and Intellectual Impairments
Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2008 Personal assistance is here defined as paid support of at least 20 hours per week for people with impairments. This Cochrane/Campbell systematic review investigated the effectiveness of personal assistance versus any other form of care for adults with ...
Evan Mayo‐Wilson +2 more
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Evidence-based policy and higher education quality assurance: progress, pitfalls and promise
Impact Evaluation of Quality Management in Higher Education, 2018 Evidence-based policy has become a norm in the current policy-making rhetoric, affecting also higher education quality assurance. This article agrees with critics that rigorous ex-post impact studies are highly challenging in the field of quality ...
M. Beerkens
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2008 Studies urgently needed to assess effects of Personal Assistance for children and teens with physical impairments. Personal assistance is here defined as paid support of at least 20 hours per week for people with impairments. This review investigated the
Evan Mayo‐Wilson +2 more
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Evidence-Based Policy on Deworming
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 We read with interest “Does Deworming Improve Growth and School Performance in Children?” (published in this issue [1]), a summary of the 2007 Cochrane systematic review by David Taylor-Robinson and colleagues. Their previous systematic review [2], published in the BMJ, has been subject to substantial criticism by various authors and institutions [3 ...
Dirk Engels, Lorenzo Savioli
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