During the past two years an extensive and a very interesting program of malaria control has been in progress in the town of Chimbote, Peru. Chimbote lies on the cost of Perú about 250 miles north of Lima, and is, at the present time, a small fishing village of about 4,000 persons. Plans have been made to develop the Chimbote area into a large industrial center, and it is in connection with thi...

Objective This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic (DR), as they relate to the added value applied to their educational training. Methods A retrospective review was conducted on evaluation reports co...

PURPOSE Evaluate the impact of a multicomponent workplace health promotion program on employee health risks and work productivity. DESIGN Quasi-experimental 12-month before-after intervention-control study. SETTING A multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom. SUBJECTS Of 618 employees offered the program, 266 (43%) completed questionnaires before and after the program....

Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) have been providing integrated community case management (iCCM) for sick children in Malawi since 2008. HSAs report monthly iCCM program data but, at the time of this study, little of it was being used for service improvement. Additionally, HSAs and facility health workers did not have the tools to compile and visualize the data they collected to make evide...

OBJECTIVE Examine the cost-effectiveness of a 3-week interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain rehabilitation program. METHODS Self-reported health care utilization and parent missed work of youth with chronic pain (n = 127) at admission and 1-year follow-up were compared. Financials were calculated from program revenue and established national costs for health care and wages. RESULTS Data i...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze comprehensiveness elements in Primary Care Brazil, between 2012 and 2018, considering preventive assistance aspects, pointing out advances obstacles its improvement different contexts. Methods: a retrospective longitudinal study using data from the Brazilian National Program for Improving Access Quality Care. 15,378 teams were selected that participated both 1st ...

Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000), the recently revised set of accreditation criteria for engineering programs in the US, places considerable stress on outcomes assessments. EC 2000 requires the assessment results to be used to identify program improvements, and for such usage and the resulting improvements to be documented. While numerous assessment instruments have been developed and discus...

This study implemented an innovative new model of delivering a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program that replaces six of the eight traditional in-person sessions with group telephonic sessions (tMBSR) and measured the program's impact on the health and well-being of nurses employed within a large health care organization. As part of a nonrandomized pre-post intervention study, 36 n...

abstract background: appropriate quality achievement of a phd program requires frequent assessment and discovering the shortcomings in the program. inputs, which are important elements of the curriculum, are frequently missed in evaluations. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the input indicators of reproductive health phd program in iran based on the context, input, process, and product...