Oita City Medical Association's Activities Aimed at Comprehensive Medicine.

Development Activities Aimed at Future Missions

Space missions of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) can be categorized into two major areas: deep-space exploration and Earth remote sensing. As scientists have learned from the previous missions, higher capabilities and more stringent system requirements are being placed on future missions, such as longer distance communications, hi...

A comprehensive medical student wellness program--design and implementation at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Research suggests that student burnout and mental illness are increasing in U.S. medical schools. In response, students and administrators developed the Vanderbilt Medical Student (VMS) Wellness Program to promote student health and well-being through coordination of many new and existing resources. This program consists of three core components: The Advisory College Program, The Student Wellne...

Training aimed at nurses

Efforts of Medical Associations to Support Home Care Services: The Cases of Ichikawa City and Chiba Prefecture Medical Associations.

In order to firmly establish and expand home care in communities, it is important to build systems taking regional characteristics into account in which the family physician trusted by the patient plays the leading role and affiliations with district medical associations and the municipality form the base. At the same time, prefectural medical associations should utilize the unique features of ...

Effect evaluation of a comprehensive community intervention aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities in The Netherlands.

To date, comprehensive community health projects have not been evaluated in terms of their effect at the individual level, because outcomes are usually not defined at this level. In a community health project in The Netherlands, evaluation outcome mapping, a technique derived from intervention mapping, was used to identify distal as well as proximal programme objectives from which outcome measu...