• make a “thumbnail” assessment of the likely health impacts of the overall programme; • to help identify gaps in Delivery Plan in order to strengthen it in its early stages; • to start to make the links between the proposed plan and health status more explicit and to facilitate the process of “joined up” thinking and working; and • to start to identify the benefits which might be gained by a m...

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Developing countries currently face internal and external migration of their health workforce and interventions are needed to attract and retain health professionals in rural areas. Evidence of multidimensional interventions, however, is scarce. This study explores a long-standing strategy to attract and retain doctors to rural areas in Chile: the Rural Practitioner Programme. The main objectiv...

Authors’ Note: The authors would like to thank Richard Matland, Kenneth Benoit, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. This study was made possible by grants under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions of the National Development Plan and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Candidate Gender and Voter ...

NHS England recently published a national plan to develop community services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism who display challenging behaviour by using resources from the closure of a large number of hospital beds. An ambitious timescale has been set to implement this plan. The bed closure programme is moving ahead rapidly, but there has been little progress in developing c...

The UK Government has made improvements in cardiac care a high priority. The publication in 2000 of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease and the NHS Plan set out national standards for the management of suspected heart attack, including challenging targets for reducing treatment delays for administration of thrombolytic therapy. This paper discusses the background, evidence...

AIMS The objectives of this study were to design a structured prenatal education programme on breastfeeding and to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme. Indicators of effectiveness were selected based on Kirkpatrick's Training Evaluation Model, including satisfaction with the programme, breastfeeding knowledge, breastfeeding attitude, breastfeeding satisfaction, breastfeeding problems an...

As Leifer et al. have argued, the management of radical innovation projects necessitates different strategies and practices, including different ways of measuring performance. This paper discusses our efforts to explore indicators of progress for radical innovation in basic and applied research and technology development at both the project and programme levels. The paper provides examples of o...

Donnees scientifiques produites :https://centrejeanberard.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article34&lang=fr Chroniques de l’EFR : https://journals.openedition.org/cefr/990 Introduction En 2001, le Centre Jean Berard a lance un programme recherche pour etudier la necropole Cumes qui s’etend l’exterieur des fortifications septentrionales (fig. 1‑2). Fig. 1. Le site et au premier plan Porte mediane. E. Botte, CN...

http://fnp.nhs.uk/ The Family Nurse Partnerships (FNPs) is a preventive, intensive home visiting programme for vulnerable, first time young mothers, aged nineteen or under where a specially trained family nurse visits the young mother regularly, from early pregnancy until the child is aged two. The service also supports young fathers via the mothers. Based on international evidence, the FNP pro...