Improving History Literacy among Adolescences: Towards Hoax Prevention through KCBS (Kumpulan Cerita Buku Sejarah)

Towards Improving Hospital Managers’ Performance in Iran: History of a Pioneer Program Among EMRO Countries

Prevention through Design (PtD): history and future.

To give you a history of the evolution of the Prevention through Design (PtD) concepts, upon which I will base suggestions for possible future activities, I commence with a review of how an Institute for Safety through Design was created at the National Safety Council. In the early 1990s, several safety professionals recognized, through their studies of investigational reports of occupational i...

Improving technology literacy and skills among minority nursing students.

A curriculum that incorporates the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008) essentials, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses guidelines (Cronenwett et al., 2007), and the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform initiatives (TIGER Informatics Competencies, 2009) should include formative experiences for students in nursing informatics. The challenge of creating a formativ...

Improving refugees' reproductive health through literacy in Guinea.

Adult literacy programmes, particularly literacy-for-health programmes that integrate health material in their curricula, are gaining momentum as a means to improve women's and children's health and increase women's empowerment. However, the relationship between literacy skills and these benefits remains unclear. This paper presents results from a study on the Reproductive Health Literacy (RHL)...

Improving cardiovascular prevention through patient awareness.

OBJECTIVE Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) or coronary artery disease (CAD) must have their risk factors rigorously controlled, but there is a gap between practice and ideal. This study aimed to demonstrate how cardiovascular prevention is performed for these patients in a Brazilian university hospital, and to identify predictors of good practice. METHODS 192 patients with CAD or...