OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION: IS IT RIGHT FOR SOCIAL WORK?

early marriage: is it right?

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Combining routine outcomes measurement and 'Payment by Results': will it work and is it worth it?

The Department of Health in England has long encouraged the routine measurement of clinical outcomes in mental health services but has now decided to use outcome measures as part of a new payments system - Payment by Results. We examine how these two policies should or might interact.

Culturally Grounded Methods of Social Work Practice PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK IS A WESTERN INVENTION, BUT OFTEN IT IS

PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK IS A WESTERN INVENTION, BUT OFTEN IT IS taught as if its methods of interventions are culturally neutral. Because of this oversight, not only do practitioners run the risk of implementing interventions that are ineffective due to a lack of cultural fit between the intervention and the targeted population, but they also miss opportunities to incorporate culturally ground...

Airway Inflammatory Biomarker: Could It Tailor the Right Medications for the Right Asthmatic Patient?

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, in which asthmatic patients present with different clinical phenotypes, variable endotypes, and different response to asthma medicines. Thus, we are faced with an asthma paradox; asthma is diagnosed subjectively by clinical history and treated with biologically active drugs. To solve this paradox, we need objective airway biomarkers to tailor the proper medica...

Getting It Right : Capacity Building for Local Stakeholders in Education