The aim of the research was to study a city-wide approach to meet the mental health needs of UK students involving a range of professional and non-professional support. The creation of a network for agencies and individuals concerned with the mental health of students in further and higher education offered an opportunity to examine issues of access to services, transitions between services and...

There is a clear need to design more effective professional learning environments, particularly in sport coaching as developing educational profession. The purpose of this study was investigat...

prevalence of chronic disease could be adversely having an effect on the capability of the driver. in addition, it must increase probability of accidents. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic medical conditions and contribution in crashes among drivers. in this cross-sectional study, the populations were professional truck drivers. the numbers of 323 people were...

BACKGROUND LaVigna, Christian, and Willis (2005) reported on a project where Institute for Applied Behaviour Analysis (IABA) staff trained a professional team in New Zealand (NZ) to provide behavioural services that met defined criteria. The NZ team was then trained to train other practitioners to meet the same professional standards. However, no client outcomes were reported in that study. M...

The most negative effects caused by noise exposure related to the hearing system are well known and may produce professional or even permanent deafness. Since these effects have very important influence on worker’s health and well-being, it is necessary to evaluate the hearing loss caused by occupational exposure to noise in order to propose preventive solutions. A large number of compensation ...

This paper presents a model of professional development through the participation in a virtual CoP. This model is rooted in a definition of professional development and of professional practice. The model is then used for analyzing the activity of a virtual CoP of tutors involved in a computersupported collaborative learning training. The analysis provides guidelines for developing online servi...

in spite of all the progress and achievements in the establish meat and development of health services in the world to date there is still a great and urgent need for new system of delivery of health and medical care particularly in developing counties. until now universities and medical institutions have been training high level professional personnel for delivery of hospital based medicaid ca...

Ten years' experience of paediatric outreach clinics is reviewed and evaluated. The advantages and disadvantages of paediatric outreach and its possible place in the new era of contracting and more developed community paediatric services are discussed. It is concluded that paediatric outreach increases parental and professional choice and access to paediatric consultant services, increases serv...