School-Linked Services: Practice, Policy, and Constructing Sustainable Collaboration

School feeding, moving from practice to policy: reflections on building sustainable monitoring and evaluation systems.

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the status of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of school feeding across sub-Saharan Africa and to reflect on the experience on strengthening M&E systems to influence policy making in low-income countries. DESIGN Literature review on the M&E of school feeding programmes as well as data from World Food Programme surveys. SETTING Sub-Saharan Africa. SUBJECT...

Stroke services: policy and practice across Europe

If you had to have a stroke, where in Europe would you choose to suffer it? This is the central question in this book on the assessment of stroke services, raised in the final evaluating chapter. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in contemporary European countries, and often leaves its survivors disabled and dependent on professional and family rehabilitation services and care. Both ...

Discursive Approaches to Understanding Teacher Collaboration: Policy Into Practice

Pediatrics Functional Constipation and school-Whether are linked?

Background: Functional Constipation (FC) is one of the important digestive disorders in pediatrics. Its prevalence varies in different communities. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of FC in our area between the school children and the impact of school on it. Methods: This study was done on 4 to 12 years old children of nine schools and kindergartens...

Policy to practice: collaboration in the evolution of a nursing health human resources policy.

In 2007, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care made an investment to support full-time employment for new graduate nurses. This paper describes the collaboration of policy makers and researchers in the creation and implementation of the Nursing Graduate Guarantee (NGG). We provide historical context for the development of the initiative and discuss some of the issues related to its ...