Health literacy is a concept that can be widely embraced by schools. Schools throughout the world contribute to the achievement of public health goals in conjunction with their educational commitments. In this paper, the interface between a school's core business of education and public health goals is identified, and examples provided in the area of nutrition demonstrating how these links can ...

This Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS) aims to synthesize current ecological information on the role that biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (agrobiodiversity) plays in providing ecosystem services. In recent years numerous studies aimed at examining the importance of agroecosystems to the conservation of biodiversity have been published. These studies focus on identifying the types of ag...

MEDICC Review: WHO defi nes social accountability of medical schools as the obligation to orient teaching, research and service activities to addressing the priority health needs of the communities they have a mandate to serve, defi ning those needs in collaboration with government, health service organizations, health professionals and the public.[1] How does this contribute to making universa...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Summary The issue of gender is an essential feature of the provision of sexual and reproductive health services and policy formulation should be directed towards the needs of men as well as women. This approach is especially important for youth services, with an emphasis on personal relationships and the provision of condoms for safer sex. The vi...

Individual risk assessment and behavior change dominate the content of high school health education instruction whereas broader social, political, and economic factors that influence health-known as upstream causes-are less commonly considered. With input from instructors and students, we developed a 10-lesson experiential Public Health Advocacy Curriculum that uses classroom-based activities t...

OBJECTIVE To develop and refine a complex intervention for diabetes support and education in minority ethnic groups, delivered through bilingual health advocates. DESIGN Action research framework-a variety of methods used in an emergent and developmental manner, in partnership with clinicians, managers, and service users, drawing especially but not exclusively on narrative methods. SETTING ...

The objective of this work is to describe the experience of the Uganda Public Health School Without Walls (PHSWOW) in training public health professionals at post-graduate level to offer leadership in planning, delivery of health services and research within a decentralized health system. As one of the constituents of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, the Uganda PHSWOW has the...

Nursing education and nurses' articulation with the working market are guided on the premise that the quality of nursing service is related to training workers to be reflexive subjects. The main object of the study was to understand nursing education based on the current political pedagogical projects (PPPs) of nursing courses and, more specifically, to verify with coordinators and/or former-co...

Aim: This article focuses on the gender-specific career differences of residents in their postgraduate medical education in Germany. In particular the structural obstacles female physicians have to overcome during residency are investigated. Moreover, the study examines the position preferences of male and female physicians in the hospital and in how far occupational self-efficacy corresponds t...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the relative effectiveness of three interventions designed to increase the uptake of breast screening. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial of a nurse visit with health education (group A), nurse visit without health education (group B), and GP letter (group C). SETTING The area of south east London served by the Butterfly Walk Breast Screening Unit in Camberwell...