Problem Demand for long-term care services for older people is increasing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. Countries need to establish national long-term care systems that are sustainable and equitable. Approach The Governments of Costa Rica and Thailand have implemented broadly comparable interventions to deploy volunteers in long-term home care. Both countries trained older volu...

Introduction: Based on the literature, unihemispheric concurrent dual-site anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (a-tDCSUHCDS) of primary Motor cortex (M1) and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) would be more efficient than conventional a-tDCS of M1 to induce larger and longer-lasting M1 corticospinal excitability. The main objective of the present study was to compare the effects ...

Highly motivated volunteers can greatly extend organizational andprogrammatic outreach to involve audiences which may otherwise be unserved. Determining what motivates individuals to volunteer is a key component of volunteer administration. The purpose of this study was to identify the motivators of adult volunteer 4-H Leaders and to determine if positive and negative motivations were similar f...

BACKGROUND Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a key approach to improving community-based maternal and child health services in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organization (NGO), has employed female volunteer CHWs in its community-based health programs since 1977, recently including its Manoshi project, a community-based maternal and child health int...

DAVIS, DONNA ELIZABETH. Best of Both Worlds: Do Hybrid Courses Have Better Outcomes Than Distance Only Courses in the North Carolina Community College System? (Under the direction of J. Conrad Glass, Jr.) The purpose of this research was to compare the outcomes of hybrid courses, which require a certain degree of classroom participation, with distance only courses, which involve no classroom co...

background: hepatitis b with its complications has become one of the universal problems. injection drug use is one of the most important risk factors in the transmission of hepatitis b. therefore, we assessed hepatitis b virus prevalence among cases with a history of intravenous drug use (ivdu) as the first announcement-based study in this regard. materials and methods: the announcement based d...