Emerging technologies, such as the Internet and text messaging, have an ever-growing role in providing services to problem drinkers. This article summarizes selected examples of emerging technologies that have been developed and implemented as stand-alone interventions and as part of other face-to-face interventions. It provides a taste of the different opportunities available for implementing ...

The feasibility, use, and acceptability of text messages to track methamphetamine use and promote antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence among HIV-infected methamphetamine users was examined. From an ongoing randomized controlled trial, 30-day text response rates of participants assigned to the intervention (individualized texting for adherence building (iTAB), n = 20) were compared to those ...

BACKGROUND Effective interventions in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), if achieving high level of population coverage, could prevent most of deaths in children under five years of age. High-quality measurements of MNCH coverage are essential for tracking progress and making evidence-based decisions. METHODS MNCH coverage data are mainly collected through fieldworkers' interview with...

Gwen R Rempel, RN, PhD; Ross T Ballantyne, BScN-Honors, RN; Joyce Magill-Evans, PhD; David B Nicholas, RSW, PhD; Andrew S Mackie, MD, SM 1Athabasca Unversity, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca, AB, Canada 2University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing, Edmonton, AB, Canada 3University of Alberta, Department of Occupational Therapy, Edmonton, AB, Canada 4University of Calgary, Faculty of Soci...

This paper introduces the term ‘supervernacular’ as a descriptor for new forms of semiotic codes emerging in the context of technology-driven globalization processes. Supervernaculars are widespread codes used in communities that do not correspond to ‘traditional’ sociolinguistic speech communities, but as deterritorialized and transidiomatic communites that, nonetheless, appear to create a sol...