Universities

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Psychosocial determinants of cigarette smoking among college students.

Although the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents and adults consistently declined in the past decade, smoking among college students rose sharply. To reduce the morbidity and premature mortality caused by smoking, antismoking interventions ...
Mavra E Kear (J Community Health Nurs, 2002WINTER)
psychosocial-determinants-cigarette-smoking-college-students.asp

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A real-time case approach to teaching information systems in health services administration: hardwiring research to teaching.

The pace of change in the health policy and health administration environments supports the need for linking teaching and research. This article describes a successful effort to tap real-time synergies between faculty research on health care information ...
Larry Gamm (J Health Adm Educ, 2002WINTER)
real-time-case-approach-teaching-information-systems-health-services.asp

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The medical examination and biological selection of university students in Nazi Germany.

This article looks at the history of the medical inspection and biological selection of students in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. It discusses the emergence of regular medical inspection of various social groups, including students, in the 1920s ...
Béla Bodó (Bull Hist Med, 2002WINTER)
medical-examination-biological-selection-university-students-nazi.asp

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Bridge to dentistry: one dental schools approach to improving its enrollment of underrepresented minorities.

Presently, 25.7% of the U.S. population is comprised of Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. The dental school enrollment of underrepresented minorities (URM) does not reflect this demographic distribution. In 1994, URM students ...
Ernestine S Brooks, Tamara C Gravely, Sheryl A Hornback, La Chelle P Cunningham, Ann L McCann, Jack L Long (J Am Coll Dent, 2002WINTER)
bridge-dentistry-one-dental-school-s-approach-improving-enrollment.asp

105.

A new approach to assessing skill needs of senior managers.

Management of health care organizations must improve to meet the well-documented challenges of quality improvement and cost control. Other industries have developed the tools--entry education, mentoring, planned mid-career formal education and ...
John R Griffith, Gail L Warden, Kamilah Neighbors, Beth Shim (J Health Adm Educ, 2002WINTER)
new-approach-assessing-skill-needs-senior-managers.asp

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A statistical analysis of dental hygiene students grades in online and on-campus courses and performance on the National Board Dental Hygiene Exams.

The purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference between the academic performances--measured by grades and performance on national exams--of dental hygiene students enrolled in online and on-campus nutrition courses. Researchers ...
Eugenia B Bearden, Kim Robinson, Michael H Deis (J Dent Hyg, 2002SUMMER)
statistical-analysis-dental-hygiene-students-grades-online-campus.asp

107.

Facilitating access to consumer health information: a collaborative approach employing applied research.

Responsibility for the provision of consumer health information typically lies within the public library domain or the health sciences library arena. In many communities, both types of libraries provide support for consumer health information services, ...
Jeffrey T Huber, Mary Snyder (Med Ref Serv Q, 2002SUMMER)
facilitating-access-consumer-health-information-collaborative.asp

108.

An exploration of case management courses in university curricula.

Case management is an essential service for adults with severe mental illnesses. Case managers, however, often come to their positions with little formal case management education. This preliminary study examined the catalogues of one hundred public ...
Anna M Scheyett, Crystal Blyler (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2002SUMMER)
exploration-case-management-courses-university-curricula.asp

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Developments in the instruction of biostatistics at the Kuwait University Health Science Centre in a decade.

BACKGROUND: Kuwait has witnessed many changes that influenced, among other things, the structure of medical education including biostatistics. This article describes the developments in biostatistics instruction and curriculum in the Health Science ...
Mohamed A A Moussa (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
developments-instruction-biostatistics-kuwait-university-health.asp

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Perceived barriers to articulation: institutional characteristics.

It has been generally acknowledged that a number of obstacles, or barriers, exist in the articulation process. Based on literature review, student characteristics as well as institutional characteristics may act as barriers. This paper focuses on ...
Jeanne Krumpelmann (Clin Lab Sci, 2002SPRING)
perceived-barriers-articulation-institutional-characteristics.asp