Linking up with Video Salaets, Heidi; Brône, Geert
2020, 2020-01-15, Letnik:
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This volume is intended as an innovating reader for both interpreting practitioners as well as scholars, engaging with the multifaceted question addressed in the title "Why linking up with video?".
Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the ...demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides clear descriptions (with plentiful practical examples) of such methods, and the problems that can arise from their implementation. Both qualitative and quantitative methods that are commonly used are described and the problems and benefits that arise with their use are explained. Experiences in the practical implementation of evaluation are explained, with examples from a variety of different social, economic and cultural contexts. The third edition of this highly successful book has been fully revised and updated to reflect the ongoing developments in the field of health promotion. It will appeal to students and practitioners in health promotion and public health (including programme managers in both the government and the voluntary sector), and donors and funding agencies who commission health promotion interventions and evaluations. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/publichealthepidemiolog9780199569298/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Virginia Berridge, Professor of History, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Annie Britton, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Division of Population Health, University College London, UK Steven Chapman, Chief Technical Officer, Population Services International, Washington DC, USA Yolande Coombes, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, Nairobi, Kenya Jane Cowl, Programme Manager, Patient & Public Involvement Programme, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, UK David Ellard, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK Melvyn Hillsdon, Associate Professor of Exercise and Health Behaviour, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK Rachel Jewkes, Director, Gender and Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa Dalya Marks, Lecturer, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Suzanne Parsons, Senior Research Associate, Picker Institute Europe, Oxford, UK John Powell, Associate Clinical Professor in Epidemiology & Public Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK Warren Stevens, Health Policy Advisor, Population Services International, Washington DC, USA Carol Tannahill, Director, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Scotland, UK Margaret Thorogood, Professor of Epidemiology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK
To battle the obesity epidemic in America, health care professionals and policymakers need relevant, useful data on the effectiveness of obesity prevention policies and programs. Bridging the ...Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention identifies a new approach to decision making and research on obesity prevention to use a systems perspective to gain a broader understanding of the context of obesity and the many factors that influence it.
Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, public health ...centers, schools, and homes, and provide a continuum of services, including direct patient care, health promotion, patient education, and coordination of care. They serve in leadership roles, are researchers, and work to improve health care policy. As the health care system undergoes transformation due in part to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nursing profession is making a wide-reaching impact by providing and affecting quality, patient-centered, accessible, and affordable care.
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health , which made a series of recommendations pertaining to roles for nurses in the new health care landscape. This current report assesses progress made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/AARP Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and others in implementing the recommendations from the 2010 report and identifies areas that should be emphasized over the next 5 years to make further progress toward these goals.
Updates the policy context of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) patient safety initiative; documents the current priorities and activities undertaken; and assesses contributions ...of funded projects and dissemination actions to support adoption of evidence-based safe practices. Discusses implications for future AHRQ policy, programming, and research; suggests ways to strengthen AHRQ activities.
Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, ...such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. The approach is both an alternative to more traditional social assistance programs and a demand-side complement to the supply of health and education services. Unlike most development initiatives, conditional cash transfer programs have been subject to rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness using experimental or quasi-experimental methods. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. There is clear evidence of success from the first generation of programs in Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua in increasing enrollment rates, improving preventive health care, and raising household consumption. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the potential of conditional cash transfer programs to function well under different conditions, to address a broader range of challenges among poor and vulnerable populations, and to prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Featuring reports from low- and middle-income countries as diverse as Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, and Papua New Guinea, this book situates disability rights within the broader context of global ...health and the need for greater inter-sector collaboration.
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