On the European Union's new eastern border: health promotion, HIV and Ukraine

On the European Union's new eastern border: health promotion, HIV and Ukraine.

HIV control in Ukraine is a pressing public health challenge and national efforts to control the epidemic have been hindered by a lack of capacity and resources. One component of control is the need to raise awareness. Implementing a health promotion strategy through the education system and through multi-sector network with early stakeholder ownership resulted in a limited budget being spent p...

A new channel for health promotion: building trade unions.

PURPOSE Labor unions are a largely unevaluated channel for health promotion interventions for working class populations, who are at increased risk for smoking and poor diet. We conducted qualitative and quantitative research to understand the meaning and function of union membership in workers' lives and applied this information to health promotion intervention design. METHODS Cross-sectional...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Ukraine: On the border between old and new in uncertain times

This chapter provides an overview of the demographic situation in Ukraine, including explanations for the decline to very low fertility and changes in family policy. Drawing on official statistics, survey data, and focus group interviews, the analysis shows that the country’s decline to lowest-low fertility is primarily due to the postponement of or the reduction in second births, as opposed to...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care