Supporting affordable healthcare through innovative research

Supporting Families through Early Intervention

Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the childchr('39')s impairments. The logic of early intervention was inequitable. For example, the soo...

Supporting nurses' transition to rural healthcare environments through mentorship.

INTRODUCTION The global shortage of rural healthcare professionals threatens the access these communities have to adequate healthcare resources. Barriers to recruitment and retention of nurses in rural facilities include limited resources, professional development opportunities, and interpersonal ties to the area. Mentorship programs have been used to successfully recruit and retain rural nurse...

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Affordable Fault Tolerance Through Adaptation

Fault-tolerant programs are typically not only difficult to implement but also incur extra costs in terms of performance or resource consumption. Failures are typically relatively rare but the fault-tolerance overhead must be paid regardless if any failures occur during the program execution. This paper presents an approach that reduces the cost of fault-tolerance, namely, adaptations to a chan...

supporting families through early intervention

internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. in many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the child's impairments. the logic of early intervention was inequitable. for example, the sooner...