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School-Based Deworming Program Yields Small Improvement in Growth of Zanzibari School Children After one Year. [PDF]

, 1997
Efficacy trials of antihelminthic therapies conducted in Africa have reported improvements in children's growth, but nutritional evaluations of large-scale deworming programs are lacking.
Albonico, Albonico, Diggle, Ferguson, Hababu M. Chwaya, James M. Tielsch, Kruger, Latham, Lawless, Lorenzo Savioli, Marco Albonico, Must, Must, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Renganathan, Savioli, Savioli, Shiff, Stephenson, Stephenson, Stephenson, Stephenson, Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus, Warren, World Bank, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization Expert Committee   +29 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing for School Improvement Dollars: State Grant-Making Strategies [PDF]

, 2012
Outlines early findings about the the revamped School Improvement Grant program's impact on states and three approaches to evaluating district and school grant applications, including the use of external reviewers and cutoff scores.
Melissa Lazarin
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mandated School Facilities Improvement: What Have Other States Done? [PDF]

, 2005
In most school districts, funding for the construction and improvement of school facilities comes from local property taxes, sometimes solely, and sometimes with additional state support.
McKenzie, Sarah C., Ritter, Gary W.
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A High‐Sensitivity Circulating Nucleic Acid Sequencing Assay for Assessing Treatment Response to Alectinib in a Pediatric Patient With ALK‐Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Alberto D. Guerra, Nicholas F. Evageliou, Vandana Batra, Kristen L. Dalton, Stephanie Ortel, Usman Ashraf, Tricia R. Bhatti, Lisa J. States, Lea F. Surrey, Theodore W. Laetsch   +9 more
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Building Will and Capacity for Improvement in a Rural Research-Practice Partnership

The Rural Educator, 2019
This study addresses two questions: (1) In what ways and to what extent does a research-practice partnership (RPP) using improvement-science (IS) based processes and tools impact educators’ will and capacity to engage in improvement efforts? and (2) What
Kristen Campbell Wilcox, Sarah J. Zuckerman   +1 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada, Makoto Harada, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takeshi Nakata, Koji Hashimoto, Tsuneo Konta, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
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The Development of Educational Leadership and Teaching Professions in Germany

Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, 2015
Teachers and school leaders are agents in a complex, ever-evolving system. Over time, there has been a shift towards team-orientation, the professionalization of teachership and leadership. This article presents a brief overview of several aspects of the
Pierre Tulowitzki
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Public School Choice: Action Guide for Parents and Communities [PDF]

, 2006
School districts are required to provide ALL parents the opportunity of transferring their children to another public school if their current school, funded with Title I money, has been identified for school improvement, corrective action, or ...

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