نتایج جستجو برای: outreach programs

تعداد نتایج: 204245  

2013
Amanda Hambrecht Matthew J. Duenas Edward J. Hahn Henry E. Aryan Samuel A. Hughes Dawn Waters Michael L. Levy Rahul Jandial Jorge Lazareff

BACKGROUND With growing interest in global health, surgeons have created outreach missions to improve health care disparities in less developed countries. These efforts are mainly episodic with visiting surgeons performing the operations and minimal investment in local surgeon education. To create real and durable advancement in surgical services in disciplines that require urgent patient care,...

Journal: :Ethnicity & health 2009
Ricardo J Wray Stephanie McClure Santosh Vijaykumar Christopher Smith Andrae Ivy Keri Jupka Richard Hess

OBJECTIVES To understand obstacles to and opportunities for improving prostate cancer communication to and within African American communities. DESIGN Researchers conducted interviews with 19 community leaders and five focus groups with healthy men and survivors. The team also conducted process evaluations of two outreach projects in which survivors spoke to African American men about prostat...

1999
Susan M. Fritz

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

2006
Clare Strawn

An analysis of baseline data collected by the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning (LSAL) offers a glimpse of the formal and informal learning activities underlying adults' literacy development. Few adult educators will be surprised to hear that many in the LSAL population participate in adult basic or secondary education programs to improve their reading, writing, and math skills. After all, t...

2012
Mechthild Meyer Wendy E. Peterson

The article describes how service access barriers (language, trust) were addressed at different levels (organization, service provider, community) by involving Family Home Visitors to support Nurse Practitioners in providing preand postnatal services to linguistic minority women in Ontario. The investigators undertook a secondary analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with health unit inform...

1999
James L. Hanson

A new project-based teaching method emphasizing laboratory experimentation is being used at Lawrence Technological University. It has excited and energized the students about civil engineering applications. Engineering concepts are introduced early in the students’ academic careers using civil engineering materials. Laboratory activities related to a Civil Engineering Materials course are being...

2012
Victoria Salin

The report reviews studies on the costs incurred by companies in complying with food safety regulation across meat, leafy greens, almond and orange industries. The cost comparison is based on changes in average costs from surveys of companies affected by government regulations and by voluntary industry programs. The results show that the compliance costs varied across companies of different siz...

Journal: :Taehan Kanho Hakhoe chi 2004
Surin Shin Hee Sun Kang Soon-Bok Chang

PURPOSE With the continuous spread of the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) throughout Asia, it has become imperative for HIV/AIDS prevention outreach programs to stress the need for using prophylactics as one form of protection. This is particularly true for commercial sex workers. This pilot study was conducted to investigate the rate of condom use among the commercial...

2016
Cheryl Stroud Bruce Kaplan Jenae E. Logan Gregory C. Gray

BACKGROUND The One Health (OH) concept, formerly referred to as 'One Medicine' in the later part of the 20th century, has gained exceptional popularity in the early 21st century, and numerous academic and non-academic institutions have developed One Health programs. OBJECTIVES To summarize One Health training, research, and outreach activities originating in North America. METHODS We used d...

2013
Mahbubur Rahman Brenna Blackwell Nilanjan Banerjee Dharmendra Saraswat

Weed infestation is a common problem in agriculture that adversely affects crop production. Given severe constraints on the budget of many landgrant universities due to the economic downturn, outreach services have taken a hit. To adapt to current economic climate without adversely affecting the quality of outreach program for weed management, we present a hierarchical system that uses image ca...

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