The Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree is growing in popularity among a number of higher education institutions throughout the world as a distance education graduate program. This paper offers an overview of program design and development strategies that promote successful distance delivery of MPH programs. Design and development challenges are discussed in terms of type of distance deliver...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of short – term comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program in improving Exercise Capacity & Quality of Life in patients with severe COPD. To compare effectiveness of comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation over education based program in patients with severe COPD. Method: 14 Subjects in group A with mean age 60.64±3.23 received comprehensive pulmonary rehab...

This study develops a Science-Technology-Society (STS)-based science ethics education program for high school students majoring in or planning to major in science and engineering. Our education program includes the fields of philosophy, history, sociology and ethics of science and technology, and other STS-related theories. We expected our STS-based science ethics education program to promote s...

The National Diabetes Education Program, cosponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, employs mass media communications, public-private partnerships, and dissemination of information and education tools to address the diabetes epidemic in the United States. The program's goal is to help reduce the morbidity and mortality from diabetes and ...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate a complementary cyber education program for a required pathophysiology class for nursing students. METHODS The cyber education program comprised electronic bulletin boards, correspondence material storage, an announcement section, a report submission section, reference sites, and statistics on learning rates. Twelve online lectures co...

Student project are an essential part of the Mechatronics education program at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in Maribor. Mechatronics education program and the student projects conducted up to date are briefly described in the paper. Student project with a title Virtual robotic Lab for remote control is described in greater detail. This project enables execution of...

Given that poor asthma management leads to such devastating rates of morbidity and mortality in this country, efforts must be made to increase the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of persons with asthma. The suggestions and recommendations provided here represent a blend of academic opinion and practical advice on methods to implement an asthma education program. In developing an asthma educati...