Cath volunteers with the PONT Mbale (www.PONT-mbale.org) link and chairs their primary care committeewhich is embedded in a community to community partnership between Rhondda Cynon Taf in SouthWales and a district in Uganda called Mbale. Since 2005,PONThave trained60operational level health workers (OHWs) across three nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), 450 community health workers (CHWs) acr...

Save the Children International (SCI) implements a school health and nutrition program in 45 schools in El Salvador. The program’s overall goal is to increase the consumption of protein and micronutrients while reducing intake of sugar and fats among school children. Save the Children International started this program because the Latin America and Caribbean region is at the forefront of the do...

BACKGROUND The obesity pandemic has now reached children, and households should change their lifestyles to prevent it. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the effect of a comprehensive intervention on body mass index z-score (BMIZ) in schoolchildren. METHODS A yearlong study was conducted at 4 elementary schools in Mexico City. Intervention group (IG) and control group (CG) were split equ...

Although many governmental institutions have provided their costumers with access to electronic government documents there is still a lack of accessibility for handicapped citizens. In this paper we present an approach to improve access to governmental forms for handicapped citizens, in particular for people with visual impairments, elderly people, illiterates or immigrants. We describe a syste...

Abstract Background There is growing recognition of the important role breakfast in children’s nutrition, and potential harms related to skipping breakfast, including its contribution obesity non-communicable diseases. The patterns associated with may be nutrition transition. This study aimed at exploring composition consumed by Palestinian school children their perceptions toward this meal. It...

This article was written to provide a brief history of the medical educational system in the USA, the current educational structure, and the current topics and challenges facing USA medical educators today. The USA is fortunate to have a robust educational system, with over 150 medical schools, thousands of graduate medical education programs, well-accepted standardized examinations throughout ...

Donald A. Schon is among our generation’s most influential philosophers of design and design education, yet remains uncelebrated in both philosophy and design education. This paradox dissolves when we consider Schon’s specific contribution. He was, by his own account, a displaced philosopher working in (among other places) a management consulting firm, a governmental agency, a non-profit center...

In his article we explore how educational institutions are faced with changes in the modern global business environment, and how this leads to need for changes in curricula for business schools and information systems schools. Most of academia still uses a strict disciplinary model of education resulting in a high degree of specialization within each discipline while the modern business environ...

BACKGROUND Schoolchildren form an important target group for a nation, as any ocular morbidity in this age group has huge physical, psychological and socio-economical implications. Childhood eye disorders can contribute to the burden of blindness in any society. This study aims to highlight the prevalence of ocular morbidity in governmental schools in a sub-urbanised area of Nepal, in relation ...