Peer Support Program for Cancer Clients – South Indian Experience

Pnm-16: A Peer Model Experience for UniversityStudents

Subway: Peer-to-Peer Clustering Of Clients for Web Proxy

Many cooperated web cache systems and protocols have been proposed. But, these systems need the expensive resources, such as core-link bandwidth and proxy cpu or storage, and need administrative cost to achive enough performance when the client population increases. This paper suggests a self-organizable caching system, called Subway, which is scalable and fault tolerant, with a distributed pee...

A peer support program for international medical graduates.

International medical graduates (IMGs) form a significant part of the Australian general practice workforce. Many experience social and professional problems and perform poorly inThe Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Fellowship Examination. This article reports on a pilot program in Mackay, north Queensland that addressed some of these issues.

Reaching out for hope - a peer support program

The value and need for consumer involvement in the delivery of mental health services is becoming increasingly recognised and acknowledged both throughout government and non-government organisations. The aim of consumer and carer involvement and engagement is, ultimately, to improve the quality of health care provided. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorders Prog...

Helping Friends: a peer support program for senior secondary schools

Peer support is used frequently in addressing the health of young people. Helping Friends builds on the existing peer helping networks in schools to improve the availability, accessibility and appropriateness of social and personal support. It increases young people’s knowledge of and access to referral options (in and out of school) and assists in the development of a safe and supportive schoo...