نتایج جستجو برای: outreach programs

تعداد نتایج: 204245  

Journal: :Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2006
Elizabeth M Whitley Rachel M Everhart Richard A Wright

Community health workers (CHWs) are effective in improving access to health care, promoting client knowledge and behavior change, and contributing to improved health status of individuals. However, few outreach programs have evaluated the financial impact of CHWs on health care systems and policies. A longitudinal repeated measures design was used to assess the return on investment (ROI) of out...

Journal: :CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2007
Gina Ogilvie Mel Krajden Juanita Maginley Judy Isaac-Renton Greg Hislop Ruth Elwood-Martin Chris Sherlock Darlene Taylor Michael Rekart

To study the feasibility of self-collected specimens for testing human papillomavirus (HPV) status among hard-to-reach women, outreach nurses recruited women in women's centres, shelters and alleys in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Of the 151 participants for whom samples were available, 43 (28.5%) tested positive for high-risk HPV. Outreach nurses were able to recontact 81.4% of the participan...

Journal: :Social science research 2012
Lisa A Kort-Butler Kimberly A Tyler

Our paper examines service usage (e.g., shelter) as well as a typology of individuals who are most likely to use groupings of services among 249 homeless youth. Our results revealed that the majority of homeless young people have used food programs (66%) and street outreach (65%) on at least one occasion within the past year. Cluster analysis of services revealed four distinct groups: (1) basic...

Journal: :Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2013
Victor A Molinari Lisa M Brown Kathryn A Frahm John A Schinka Roger Casey

PURPOSE To understand the needs and challenges encountered by older homeless veterans. METHODS We conducted six focus groups of older veterans, two focus groups, and one semi-structured interview of VA staff liaisons, and two focus groups and one semi-structured interview of housing intervention providers. RESULTS Major themes for older veterans: 1) negative homelessness experience; 2) bene...

Journal: :Journal of environmental health 2012
Thelma Gamboa-Maldonado Helen Hopp Marshak Ryan Sinclair Susanne Montgomery David T Dyjack

Partnerships among local public environmental health (EH), emergency preparedness and response (EPR) programs, and the communities they serve have great potential to build community environmental health emergency preparedness (EHEP) capacity. In the study described in this article, the beliefs and organizational practices pertaining to community EHEP outreach and capacity were explored through ...

Journal: :Journal of prosthodontics : official journal of the American College of Prosthodontists 2017
Pandora Keala Lee Wojnarwsky Yan Wang Kumar Shah Sreenivas Koka

PURPOSE The decision by prosthodontic residency program directors to employ the Match process highlights the need to understand applicant priorities that influence their choice of which programs to rank highly. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that were most important to residents when choosing from among nonmilitary based prosthodontics dental residency programs in the Uni...

2003
Peter G. Szilagyi

One measure of a society’s goodness is how well it cares for its children. This standard has particular importance for vulnerable groups of children, such as those facing special health challenges. Thus, the level of care that children with special needs receive through public programs could be seen as a critical marker of the success of the nation’s publicly funded health insurance programs. T...

Journal: :Contraception 2005
Ndola Prata Farnaz Vahidnia Malcolm Potts Ingrid Dries-Daffner

Community-based distribution (CBD) programs are the optimum way of reaching people in rural areas of developing countries where conventional methods of delivery do not exist or fail. This paper reviews findings and experiences from over 30 years of efforts to implement CBD of family planning methods around the world. Although research suggests that community-based service delivery can contribut...

Journal: :Journal of community health nursing 2007
Micaela H Coady Linda Weiss Sandro Galea Danielle C Ompad Kathryn Glidden David Vlahov

With growing fear of a worldwide influenza pandemic, programs that can rapidly vaccinate a broad range of persons are urgently needed. Vaccination rates are low among disadvantaged and hard-to-reach populations living within urban communities, and delivering vaccines to these groups may prove challenging. Project VIVA1 (Venue-Intensive Vaccination for Adults), staffed by teams of nurses and out...

Journal: :AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2003
Yuri Quintana Ayda Nambayan Raul C. Ribeiro Lynne Bowers Ana Shuler Richard O'Brien

The International Outreach Program of St. Jude Childrens' Research Hospital has been developing programs to help countries with limited resources develop treatment centers to treat children with catastrophic diseases such as pediatric cancer and AIDS. Cure4Kids (www.cure4kids.org) is the Internet learning network that delivers medical education to doctors and nurses on pediatric cancer and AIDS...

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