In 2011, the Florida Asthma Coalition (FAC) began offering its Asthma-Friendly Childcare Center (AFCC) training online. This course teaches childcare center employees the fundamentals of effective asthma management. It covers basic asthma physiology, ways to recognize asthma attacks, techniques to help children experiencing attacks, and strategies to create healthy environments for asthmatics. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Training partnerships between family medicine residencies (FMRs) and community health centers (CHCs) are a potential solution to the chronic problem of health workforce shortages in CHCs. We conducted a national survey to identify the barriers to training family medicine residents in CHCs. METHODS We asked US family medicine residency directors to identify barriers t...

BACKGROUND In the United States, one in three children is overweight or obese by their fifth birthday. In Georgia, 35 percent of children are overweight or obese. Contrary to popular belief, children who are overweight or obese are likely to be the same weight status as adults, making early childhood an essential time to address weight status. An estimated 380,000 Georgia children attend early ...

background: we aimed to assess the impact of health workers’ training program on preventive behaviors of leishmaniosis based on basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model in the families under the coverage of health centers. methods: the study was done in rural health centers of marvdasht city, fars province, iran in 2011. health workers completed a specific question...

PURPOSE Training family medicine residents in underserved settings, such as community health centers (CHCs), may provide a solution to the primary care workforce shortage. We sought to describe the facilitators and barriers to creating partnerships between CHCs and family medicine residencies (FMRs). METHODS We conducted 19 key informant interviews and 3 focus groups to identify the key facto...

for primary care services from new private health insurance markets and Medicaid coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congress authorized the creation of the Teaching Health Center (THC) Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, a $230-million, 5-year initiative that began in 2011.1 The program was designed to increase the number of primary care physicians and dentists train...

The study aimed to assess the quality of service in training centers Oman using SERVQUAL scale. It was applied 375 ‎trainees Muscat, South Al-Batinah, North Al-Batinah and Al-Dakhiliyah. reached a number ‎results, including following: level expected services large, while perceived ‎was medium, there negative gap between perceptions expectations all dimensions it favor expectations. also found s...

today, students spend only 10 percent of their time in training centers and the major part of their time is spent in home, society and other places. however, significant events happen in this limited time. in addition to training and learning, they are prepared and educated to interact with society. education is an important issue in global educating and training systems. there are different ap...

BACKGROUND Poor access to essential medicines is common in many low- and middle-income countries, partly due to an insufficient and inadequately trained workforce to manage the medicines supply chain. We conducted a prospective impact evaluation of the training and deployment of pharmacy assistants (PAs) to rural health centers in Malawi. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was used to compar...