Health Education

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Skills, knowledge, and abilities of graduates from accredited environmental health science and protection undergraduate programs.

The National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC) has the mission of enhancing the education and training of students who intend to become environmental health science and protection practitioners/professionals. ...
Gary S Silverman, Marian K Silverman (J Environ Health, 200303)
skills-knowledge-abilities-graduates-accredited-environmental-health.asp

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Tufts Health Sciences Database: lessons, issues, and opportunities.

The authors present their seven-year experience with developing the Tufts Health Sciences Database (Tufts HSDB), a database-driven information management system that combines the strengths of a digital library, content delivery tools, and curriculum ...
Mary Y Lee, Susan A Albright, Tarik Alkasab, David A Damassa, Paul J Wang, Elizabeth K Eaton (Acad Med, 200303)
tufts-health-sciences-database-lessons-issues-opportunities.asp

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Associations of mass media exposure with family planning attitudes and practices in Uganda.

This study examines the associations between multimedia behavior change communication (BCC) campaigns and womens and mens use of and intention to use modern contraceptive methods in target areas of Uganda. Data are drawn primarily from the 1997 and 1999 ...
Neeru Gupta, Charles Katende, Ruth Bessinger (Stud Fam Plann, 200303)
associations-mass-media-exposure-family-planning-attitudes-practices.asp

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A comprehensive "Healthy Schools Programme" to promote school health: the Hong Kong experience in joining the efforts of health and education sectors.

Both health and education are linked to economic performance. The success of education depends on good health, and vice versa. Modern education should help young people to determine values, and accept responsibility for their health and social behaviour. ...
A Lee, C Tsang, S H Lee, C Y To (J Epidemiol Community Health, 200303)
comprehensive-healthy-schools-programme-promote-school-health-hong.asp

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"The pieces fall into place": the views of three Swedish habilitation teams on conductive education and support of disabled children.

A survey concerning how Swedish habilitation staff view the support of disabled children and their families was conducted in 2001. It focused on what support the staff knew about, offered and considered good for the children and parents, and on how they ...
Lena Lind (Int J Rehabil Res, 200303)
pieces-fall-place-views-three-swedish-habilitation-teams-conductive.asp

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General parental education in Sweden: participants and non-participants.

OBJECTIVE: To study factors of importance for participation in parental education within routine child health care. DESIGN: All parents of children born during 1 year were invited by the district nurse to participate in parental education; their ...
Christer Petersson, Kerstin Petersson, Anders Håkansson (Scand J Prim Health Care, 200303)
general-parental-education-sweden-participants-non-participants.asp

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Health education: a case for resuscitation.

Health education is the component of health promotion designed to achieve learning related to health or illness. While often described by other names, an educational element features in nearly all health promotion activities. Unlike most other public ...
J Kemm (Public Health, 200303)
health-education-case-resuscitation.asp

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Community participation for perinatal health in Istanbul.

This study aimed to evaluate the success of a project in achieving community participation in efforts to improve perinatal health. A 10-step structured process was used to work with a community in Istanbul, Turkey. To evaluate the success of the project ...
Janet Molzan Turan, Lale Say, Ayse Köybasioglu Güngör, Renee Demarco, Sule Yazgan (Health Promot Int, 200303)
community-participation-perinatal-health-istanbul.asp

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MMR vaccine information on the Internet World Wide Web.

OBJECTIVES: To review world wide web sites that contain information about the MMR vaccine to determine whether the content is accurate compared to recognized standard sources of information. In todays internet age, patients search for information on the ...
Marc R Miyasaki, Randy S Alejo, Loren G Yamamoto (Hawaii Med J, 200303)
mmr-vaccine-information-internet-world-wide-web.asp

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Strategies for intervention: commentary and debate.

The typical American diet is top-heavy in comparison with the Food Guide Pyramid-high in added sugars and fats at the Pyramids tip, and low in most other food components at the Pyramids base, especially fruit and green leafy vegetables. Improving the ...
Elizabeth Frazao, Jane Allshouse (J Nutr, 200303)
strategies-intervention-commentary-debate.asp