background: obesity is a major problem in both developed and underdeveloped countries. the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of a physical education program (pep) on promoting health belief model (hbm) scores, increasing physical activity (pa), and reducing obesity among iranian high school students. methods: this quasi‑experimental study was accomplished at four high schools that...

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background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) represent one of the most common occupational health education problems in both developed and developing countries. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of an occupational ergonomic training educational programon awareness, attitude and work-related musculoskeletal disorders behavior among office workers. material and methods: firstly,200 o...

introduction: despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. this article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the faculty of medicine, university of gezira (fmug). this analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricu...

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Asthma is the second leading admitting diagnosis at Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), having an impact on many patients and families annually. To improve education for parents of patients hospitalized with asthma and increase health care providers' completion of individualized asthma action plans (AAPs), nurse experts established a comprehensive inpatient asthma education program based on the 2...

FIGURE 2. Mortality. In 1988, 4,580 people died from asthma in the United States. Asthma mortality has increased slightly over the past decade. The greatest increase in the asthma death rate has occurred in those older than 65 years of age. In 1979, blacks of both sexes were about twice as likely to die from asthma as whites. Over the past decade this ratio has increased, and by 1987 the asthma...

background: continuous evaluation is required in order to ensure the university system’s efficiency. one of the important aspects of evaluating the educational system’s effectiveness is judging the system’s ability in meeting environmental needs. the present research’s goal has been to investigate nursing education’s efficiency through investigating the graduate’s condition and their views on e...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...