This small descriptive study examined the professional development activities of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers at university in Tanzania, particular their awareness organizations such International Association Teachers Foreign Language and TESOL Association. Basing her inquiry on teaching community practice, researcher used questionnaire, interviews, personal observations. Univer...

Since the advent of COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face outreach has been gradually replaced by dissemination through social networks. However, use networks for outreaching is not easy since there an important risk biasing communication converting it into exclusively one-way channel. In this contribution, we explain how a transmedia perspective can transform regular activity, as photo contest Inter...

BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes have increased frequency of hospital admissions and longer lengths of stay compared to patients without diabetes. Our specialist diabetes inpatient service was reconfigured to deliver a proactive diabetes outreach service to improve the overall care of this population. AIMS To ascertain the effect of a structured diabetes outreach service to acutely admitted ...

OBJECTIVES This paper provides the most complete accounting of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Native outreach since 1995, when there were only a few scattered projects. METHOD The descriptive overview is based on a review of project reports, inventories, and databases and input from the NLM Specialized Information Services Division, National Network Office of the Library Operation...

BACKGROUND Community outreach programs are important vehicles for reducing the discovery-delivery disconnect by bringing cancer education and screening services directly to community members. Such programs are consistent with the priority areas of the Department of Health and Human Services' initiatives for reducing health disparities by 2010, and they support the use of culturally, linguistica...

BACKGROUND Although the model of assertive outreach has been widely adopted, it is unclear who receives assertive outreach in practice and what outcomes can be expected under routine conditions. AIMS To assess patient characteristics and outcome in routine assertive outreach services in the UK. METHOD Patients (n=580) were sampled from 24 assertive outreach teams in London. Outcomes--days s...