Objective: To evaluate the effect of an educational campaign for reducing the breeding places of Aedes aegypti, the principal vector of dengue; and to compare its effects with the ones obtained by spraying of malathion at ultralow volume. Design: Randomised community trial. Setting: Colima city, in the State of Colima, Mexico. Participants: Householders of 187 houses, randomly selected from the...

The study, on Leadership of institutional educational management in the San Cayetano unit city Chone 2022, is part research units Chone, which starts from a wide field inquiries about type direction that applied basic general education centers, objective to know leadership currently exists unit, work focused constant search improve quality its centers often limited by lack proper functioning in...

BACKGROUND To compare the effectiveness of BASNEF and Classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. METHODS The 60 high school male students from Shiraz City, Fars Province Iran, were participated in this study. They were randomly divided in two groups (groups A and B). The group A attended in designed educational planning based on BASNEF model a...

Premenstrual syndrome is a syndrome that includes behavioral and physical symptoms occurring in the second half of the menstrual cycle and this syndrome affects millions of women universal. With regard to the importance of spouse participation in promoting reproductive and women's health, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational intervention for spouse on women's premens...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the reform syndrome, bottle-neck effects and their impacts on teachers and school education in the last ten years and highlight the direction of new developments. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines educational reforms in Hong Kong in the last decade. Findings – Echoing the international trends of educational reforms, Hong Kong, as an internatio...

One of the most important sources of noise pollution in urban areas is traffic noise. The aim of the present study was to determine noise pollution in the different parts of Yazd city in 2010 and to compare them with current standard levels. In total, 135 samples were obtained from both residential and commercial areas according to the ISO 1996-2002 method in order to measure noise pressure lev...

The FoCaS (Forsyth County Cancer Screening) Project was one of six projects funded by the National Cancer Institute "Public Health Approaches to Breast and Cervical Cancer" initiative. The goal of this project was to improve the use of breast and cervical cancer screening among low-income, predominately African-American, women age 40 and older. Strategies implemented in the intervention city in...

Background Most health-care professional training programs lack educational curricula on substance use disorders and strategies for early intervention or referral to treatment. The University of Missouri-Kansas City Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (UMKC-SBIRT) training project educates baccalaureate nursing, advanced practice nursing, and master’s of social work students...

Stigma regarding viral hepatitis and liver disease has psychological and social consequences including causing negative self-image, disrupting relationships, and providing a barrier to prevention, testing, and treatment. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare HBV knowledge and stigma in Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City and Chicago and to begin to evaluate the cultural context of HB...

Ken Kiyono, Zbigniew R. Struzik, 2 Naoko Aoyagi, Seiichiro Sakata, Junichiro Hayano, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto 2, ∗ Educational Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, 7–3–1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–0033, Japan PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332–0012, Japan Core Laboratory, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical S...