Across the health disciplines, clinical prevention and population health activities increasingly are recognized as integral to the practice of their professions. Most of the major clinical health professions organizations have begun incorporating clinical prevention and population health activities and services into educational curricula, the accreditation process, and training to affect clinic...

not necessarily result in lack of illness. A psychosocial framework for understanding patient compliance is the Health Belief Model, which is based upon the value an individual places on the identified goal and the likelihood that compliance will achieve that goal. This Model has been useful to explain noncompliance, to make an "educational diagnosis," and for designing compliance-enhancing int...

Title of Document: A META-ANALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE PREDICTORS OF EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL GOALS FOR LATINA/O STUDENTS Cristina Maria Risco, Ph.D., 2011 Directed By: Professor Karen M. O’Brien, Department of Psychology Despite the growth of the U.S. Latina/o population, there exists a pattern of academic underachievement and low career attainment among Latina/o communities (U.S. Census Bu...

OBJECTIVE To examine current levels of educational debt among pediatric residents and the relationship between educational debt and career intentions. METHODS Annual national random samples of 1000 graduating pediatric residents from 2006 through 2010 were surveyed. Responses were combined. We used t tests and 1-way analysis of variance to compare debt, linear regression to examine factors as...

Background: Regular physical activity is one of the most important factors in creating, maintaining and promoting health, which is not enough in women with diabetes due to the high prevalence of obesity. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of educational intervention on self-regulation strategies in promoting physical activity in women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: This study was a r...

This chapter reports how affective computing (in terms of detection methods and intervention approaches) is considered in e-learning systems. The goal behind is to enrich the personalized support provided in online educational settings by taking into account the influence that emotions and personality have in the learning process. The main contents of the chapter consist in the review of 26 wor...

PIONEER (PIedmOnt NEt for Educational Robotics) is a schoolnet for K-12 "Educational use of robotics" project originated and carried out by primary school teachers and headmasters. Its goal is to promote Papert's constructionism in a cooperative environment for setting up a model of minirobot programming experiences in support to the standard curricula covered in school years K-12. Here we conc...

groups are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape, with black and Hispanic children regularly falling far behind white children. Although the achievement gaps narrowed somewhat during the 1970s and 1980s, they have since proved stubbornly resistant to closing further. If the nation is to achieve the goal of equal education as “a fact and a result,” to borrow President Lyndon Johns...

In recent years the concept of eLearning Framework emerged associated with several initiatives promoted by educational organizations. These initiatives share a common goal: to create flexible learning environments by integrating heterogeneous systems already available in many educational institutions. The paper provides an introductory survey on eLearning Frameworks. It gathers information on t...