The widest range of message inputs available giving information directly related to the needs and interests of potential users must be communicated in order to get people to change their contraceptive behavior. Both communication and clinical services are necessary for an adequate population and family planning program. The communication aspect requires many diverse information and education ...

This paper looks at the role of pre-primary education in Germany using the German SocioEconomic Panel data set to determine if attending an early education program increases the probability of attending a higher level secondary school at age fourteen. In order to disentangle the effect of the early education program from family specific characteristics, I employ both family fixed effects estima...

An ethically problematic clinical case is used to illustrate the potential importance of understanding clinical ethics in an interdisciplinary context. Whilst much has been written on ethics education for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, we argue that it is important that both healthcare professions and healthcare teams are able to look outside their own disciplinary ethos and som...

Background & Objective: Patient’s rights seem to be accepted theoretically, but often neglected in practice. Respect to patient’s rights by health care providers may optimize health outcomes and quality of life and create a perfect connection between health care services and patients needs as well as their expectations. This study was aimed to identify deficits in respect to patientschr('39') r...

Does long-term professional development in educational technology impact teachers’ integration of technology in the classroom? According to a recently published 5-year study, the answer is “Yes!” This paper presents the evaluation results of a threeyear, hybrid professional development program established through an innovative partnership between an East Texas school district and and a South Te...

We present a computer program for the simulation of Mie scattering in case of arbitrarily large size parameters. The elements of the scattering matrix, efficiency factors as well as the corresponding cross sections, the albedo and the scattering asymmetry parameter are calculated. Single particles as well as particle ensembles consisting of several components and particle size distributions can...

BACKGROUND In November 2006, an email-based health promotion program for pregnant women was implemented nationally in the Netherlands. The program consisted of emails containing quizzes with pregnancy-related questions tailored to the number of weeks of pregnancy. Emails were sent out once every 4 weeks, up to a maximum of nine emails. OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were (1) to assess the r...