Many pharmacists have expressed a desire to become more involved in patient care, in part by being compensated for patient counseling, as well as by providing services traditionally offered by physicians and nurse practitioners. Recent efforts to develop collaborative care models, as well as major restructurings of US health insurance coverage, provide a unique opportunity for pharmacists to be...

Generally, activities for independent living at schools the Deaf include various instructions in order to promote language development. Meanwhile, needs of children with hearing impairment can be diverse. For example, some aim actively use their hearing, whereas others desire sign as first language. Therefore, this study suggests that support must tailored each individual. Additionally, it is n...

OBJECTIVE To assess the provisions made for the transfer of adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to adult rheumatology clinics in the UK and the impact of a transitional care programme. METHODS An audit of the documentation of the provisions made for transfer in 10 centres participating in a controlled trial of transitional care. Each centre conducted a retrospective case note audit...

This article offers a theory-of-change framework for social justice advocacy. It describes broad outcome categories against which activists, donors and evaluators can assess progress (or lack thereof) in an ongoing manner: changes in organisational capacity, base of support, alliances, data and analysis from a social justice perspective, problem definition and potential policy options, visibili...

Domestic and sexual abuse have been in the academic discourse for quite some time. In recent years United Kingdom, government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) charity sector doubled their efforts to tackle this challenge through different approaches. One of these approaches is establishment specialist services. A case study interventions two advocacy services within a community-based dome...

Expectancy value models of attitude have become increasingly popular in recent years and have inspired a large and growing body of research. The models to date are largely based on interpretations of Rosenberg's [13] or Fishbein's [6] model of attitudes. Although the literature has discussed different scaling procedures, most researchers employ fiveto sevenpoint Likert or bipolar type scales fo...

Transition-aged youth are those between the ages of fourteen to twenty-four, a period when one moves from school to employment and/or independent living. Transition-aged youth with disabilities and advocacy groups are essential to the survival of disability rights and those disability rights were passed as a matter of federal law in 1990, in the Americans with Disabilities Act. But, those right...

This study investigated strategies for people with intellectual disabilities to self-advocate inclusion of their priorities in social policy processes South Africa. Method: Self advocacy were identified through a scoping literature review, review self toolkits and semi structured interviews other stakeholders working at non-governmental disabled people’s organisations. These data sources triang...