To what extent do Socratic seminar activities encourage engagement in Classical Civilisation lessons?

How do we encourage patient engagement?

F ollowing on the theme from my previous editorial (Mayer, 2014), I want to address another goal identified in Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (Institute of Medicine, 2013): engaged patients. The report identified patient engagement as the number one recommendation. The recommendation states that patients and their families should be given under...

Tailoring patient information to encourage patient engagement

This paper proposes a new method for tailoring health information based on an individual’s dominant attitudes and information processing style which can be digitally operationalized and delivered direct to the patient. This individualized approach is based on principles previously used as the basis for mass-marketing campaigns, including smoking and other public health issues but not previously...

To what extent do smokers plan quit attempts?

AIMS Little is known about the extent to which quit attempts are planned ahead or initiated immediately following a sudden decision to quit. This is important because if most smokers quit abruptly, rather than plan ahead, this could impact heavily upon recommendations to health care professionals on the kind of smoking cessation advice they deliver to patients. This paper aims to address this g...

To What Extent Vital Signs Are Important to Medical Toxicologists When Conflicts Arise in Defining Toxidroms

Activities to encourage speech and language development.

2 to 4 Years ● Use good speech that is clear and simple for your child to model. ● Repeat what your child says indicating that you understand. Build and expand on what was said. "Want juice? I have juice. I have apple juice. Do you want apple juice?" ● Use baby talk only if needed to convey the message and when accompanied by the adult word. "It is time for din-din. We will have dinner now." ● ...