Sheahan, Kate L. Speizer, Ilene S. Orgill-Meyer, Jennifer Curtis, Siân Weinberger, Morris Paul, John Bennett, Antonia V.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundUnmet need for postpartum contraception is high. Integration of family planning with routine child immunization services may help to satisfy unmet need. However, evidence about the determinants and effects of integration has been inconsistent, and more evidence is required to ascertain whether and how to invest in integration. In this stu...
Khodi, Ali Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad Karami, Hossein
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Language Testing in Asia
The present paper appraises a standardized test, the entrance exam of Iranian universities, known as “Konkur” that is administered annually as a means of gaining admission to higher education in Iran. This norm-referenced test is administered for students majoring in mathematics, experimental sciences, and humanities whose scores along their weight...
Vogel, Ruth G. M. Bours, Gerrie J. J. W. Rooijackers, Teuni H. Metzelthin, Silke F. Erkens, Petra M. G. van Rossum, Erik Zwakhalen, Sandra M. G.
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BMC Nursing
BackgroundThe Nurses in the Lead (NitL) programme consists of a systematic approach and training to 1) empower community nurses in implementing evidence, targeted at encouraging functional activities of older adults, and 2) train community nurses in enabling team members to change their practice. This article aims to describe the process evaluation...
Shi, Meihong Zhang, Fengying He, Xinxin Huang, Siyuan Zhang, Mingfeng Hu, Xiuying
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThe novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a challenge for nursing homes in China. Nursing homes are particularly dangerous places in terms of the spread of COVID-19 given that they house vulnerable, high-risk populations. As such, several useful guidelines for coping with COVID-19 in nursing homes have been provide...
Tiemann, Aline Melzer, André Steffgen, Georges
Although numerous media literacy training sessions on internet safety for children and adolescents have been conducted, their number contrasts sharply with the few systematic studies on their effectiveness. In this study, we describe the evaluation of nationwide-implemented training sessions on internet safety in Luxembourg, which included percepti...
Plamondon, Katrina M. Brisbois, Ben Dubent, Leslie Larson, Charles P.
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Globalization and Health
BackgroundGlobal health partnerships (GHPs) are situated in complex political and economic relationships and involve partners with different needs and interests (e.g., government agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, universities, professional associations, philanthropic organizations and communities). As part of a mixed methods s...
Wever, Cas (author)
Music indexing, the practice of identifying songs contained in an audio sample, is an approach that is widely used. As an underlying technique, "audio fingerprinting" can be used. In this technique, an audio sample is converted to a fingerprint; a smaller representation of the audio. This fingerprint is compared to a database of fingerprinted songs...
Millar, Robyn Morton, Alec Bufali, Maria Vittoria Engels, Sven Dabak, Saudamini Vishwanath Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee Chalkidou, Kalipso Teerawattananon, Yot
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundHealth technology assessment (HTA) agencies have an important role to play in managing the rising demands on health systems. However, creating and running such agencies potentially diverts resources from frontline services. A large number of studies address the question of ‘what is the impact of HTA?’. Several points of heterogeneity in t...
Lambert de Cursay, C Akliouat, N Karamé, C Gagnon-Lépine, S-J Porteils, C Brière, A-L Bussières, J-F
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Annales pharmaceutiques francaises
Ethics are at the heart of pharmacy practice. This is a literature review. The main objective is to carry out a review of studies relating on the evaluation of ethics in pharmacy practice. Documentary research on Pubmed was carried out from 1990 to 2020. All studies relating to pharmaceutical ethics that may be applied to the pharmacy practice in p...
Qureshi, Samera Azeem Igland, Jannicke Møen, Kathy Gele, Abdi Kumar, Bernadette Diaz, Esperanza
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundNorway implemented a regular cervical cancer screening program based on triennial screening in 1995, recommending participation of all women between 25 and 69 years of age. Somali and Pakistani women have the lowest participation in cervical cancer screening in Norway. This study evaluates the effect of a community-based intervention aime...
