The education and training of ICT students and professionals with respect to Design for All is a vital part in the process of achieving eInclusion throughout Europe. This paper outlines the latest activity on the development of a curriculum in Design for All in ICT in higher education and professional development, and discusses some of the challenges of mainstreaming ICT Design for All. Concept...

meet the needs of handicapped children. In its almost poetic statement of goals, Public Law 94142 reflects a movement to develop programs designed to meet each handicapped child’s unique educational needs, &dquo;in order to help each child become all he is capable of being.&dquo; The thrust of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act is to provide each youngster, with the &dquo;least rest...

OBJECTIVES Education on occupational health and safety (OHS) is not a compulsory part of the curriculum of general secondary schools (GSSs) in many countries. Adolescence is a formative period. Mainstreaming education in OHS into GSSs is necessary in order to initiate in students a risk prevention culture. We explored the feasibility of using a photo competition (PC) concerning health protectio...

The majority of the existing research regarding mobile learning in computing education has primarily focused on studying the effectiveness of, and in some cases reporting about, implemented mobile learning solutions. However, it is equally important to explore development and application perspectives on the integration of mobile learning into computing education and identify practical implicati...

India has a severe shortage of human resources for health. It has a shortage of qualifi ed health workers and the workforce is concentrated in urban areas. Bringing qualifi ed health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas is very challenging. Many Indians, especially those living in rural areas, receive care from unqualifi ed providers. The migration of qualifi ed allopathic doctors an...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of common mental disorders and physical conditions on role functioning in Spain. METHODS Cross-sectional study of the general adult population of Spain (n = 2,121). Non-psychotic mental disorders were assessed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0) and physical conditions with a checklist. The role functioning dimension of the WHO-Dis...

While there has been growing recognition that considering environmental and social aspects of sustainability is important for a firm’s reputation and long-term survival, research so far focused on strategic goals and how sustainability becomes relevant and less so on how sustainability practices become embedded and mainstreamed. Our paper addresses the change process of initiating sustainabilit...

management are needed. The four areas cover integrated risk management, fiscal and financial risk management, social insurance and work status, and multinational approaches to address global risks. Why these four? They are by no means exhaustive, but they do represent a framework through which many specific recommendations provided in the Report could be implemented. They discuss innovative sol...