The Takemi Program in International Health was established at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1983 as a research and advanced training program for midcareer health professionals concerned with the allocation of resources for health, especially in developing countries. This essay describes the origins of the Takemi Program and presents seven principles that underlie the concept and practi...

background & aim: breastfeeding self-efficacy is an important factor affecting the success and duration of breastfeeding. self-efficacy of people is influenced by four sources including performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion and the physiological responses which seem to be modified by breastfeeding intervention.  this study was conducted to compare the effect of p...

background and objectives: hand hygiene (hh) is crucial for preventing of infectious complications in health care settings. informing healthcare workers on the recommended hand washing method can promote this practice in the clinical staff. this study aimed to evaluate the impact of training the who-recommended five-moment hand washing method in promoting hand hygiene in a health care setting. ...

The purpose of this study was to use the constructs of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to gain a better understanding of the factors influencing older adults' participation in strength training. Two hundred men and women age 55 years and older were purposely sampled from seniors' centers in Ontario Canada. Participants completed a TPB questionnaire and reported their current physical activ...

BACKGROUND Research training for public health professionals is key to the future of public health and policy in Africa. A growing number of schools of public health are connected to health and socio-demographic surveillance system field sites in developing countries, in Africa and Asia in particular. Linking training programs with these sites provides important opportunities to improve trainin...

BACKGROUND training of Community Health Agents on hearing health through videoconference. AIM to verify the effectiveness of a training program for community health agents, through videoconference, on child hearing health. METHOD participants of the study were 50 professionals who were randomly divided in two groups: 31 community health agents were physically present in the training program...

introduction: the people’s mental, intellectual and physical nonreadiness to confront earthquake may result in disastrous outcomes. this research aimed to study of effects of a training intervention on health connector’s knowledge regarding their approach to earthquake in health-training centers in east of tehran. methods: this research which is a semi-experimental study was designed and execut...

health workforce shortages in sub-saharan africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, leading the training and deployment of non-physician clinicians (npcs). the paper by eyal et al provides interesting and legitimate viewpoints on evolving role of physicians in context of decisive increase of npcss in sub-saharan africa. certainly, in short or mid-term, npcs will continue to be a...

today, discussions on health have considered the spiritual – mental health on a par with physical health. a close relationship can be seen between two points, mental health and ethical, training issues, so that individuals who do not have spiritual virtues and religious training are not healthy individuals. due to the considerable importance of moral and mental health about children, this study...