Reducing poverty through community empowerment with integrated coconut product program in Bujjulu district of Gowa regency

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Reducing poverty through preschool interventions.

Greg Duncan, Jens Ludwig, and Katherine Magnuson explain how providing high-quality care to disadvantaged preschool children can help reduce poverty. In early childhood, they note, children's cognitive and socioemotional skills develop rapidly and are sensitive to "inputs" from parents, home learning environments, child care settings, and the health care system. The authors propose an intensive...

Reducing antimicrobial resistance through population empowerment

Many steps can be taken to reduce antimicrobial resistance. Since the most important driver for resistance is antibiotic consumption, primary care physicians should reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, mainly for respiratory tract infections, for which it continues to be very high in Europe and with vast differences across countries. The majority of resistance-control strategies recommen...

Reducing Poverty And Promoting Growth In Ghana THE LIVELIHOOD EMPOWERMENT AGAINST POVERTY (LEAP) PROGRAMME

With regards to Ghana, in order to tackle extreme poverty and achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government has, in recent years, adopted a number of initiatives, including the launch of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2007. The strategy, which represents the Government of Ghana’s vision of ‘creating an all-inclusive society through the provisi...

The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Education Program on Reducing Risk Factors with Community Based Approach in soldiers and military staff

Background and Aim: AIDS is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases which is spreading among adolescents and young people. Soldiers and military staff are among the target groups in national AIDS prevention program. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of AIDS prevention education program to reduce the risk factors of this disease with a community-based approach. M...