BACKGROUND Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and culturally competent diabetes education is not available in many communities. CONTEXT People with diabetes often do not have access to regular medical care, cannot afford medication, and lack the community infrastructure that supports self-management practices. Self-management education and support have great ...

introduction: over the past few decades, two revolutionary approaches have emerged as a new form of medical education: electronic medical education and web-based medical education. a number of well-known medical institutions, such as harvard and johns hopkins used a wide range of cyberspace capabilities to increase their competitiveness. researchers have expressed that cyberspace will change he...

The most important strategy to modify high risk behavior, to prevent traffic accident and decrease death is effective education. It is necessary to have systematic steps with scientific background to educate effectively. The health educator has essential role in every education program; therefore the first question to ask is who should educate? The next in an education for reduce traffic accide...

BACKGROUND By the year 2030 the number of diabetic patients is expected to reach 366 million worldwide (World Health Organization [WHO], 2013). METHODS It was an intervention-facility based. The study focused on designing and implementing an educational and training program for health educators and to assess its effects on achievements of diabetes health educators; at Diabetic Health Centers ...

Background: Identifying the needs and priorities of accountable education is an important issue for providing needs based training and empowering students in responding to the real needs of the community. The present study was conducted to identify and prioritize accountable educational needs in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a qualitative research. The participants in...

Introduction: Lack of a clear policy for the development of healthhuman resources has created inconsistencies. These imbalancesare threats to the health system to achieve its goals. Therefore, thedevelopment of human resources through proper performance ofhigher education health system is an important part of the policydevelopment process of the health sector. The present paper aimsto introduce...