The current local overweight-prevention protocols are not applied as intended by Dutch child healthcare physicians and nurses. The development of a training program for these practitioners, based on the Intervention Mapping framework, with the aim of improving overweight-prevention in a child's first year, is described in this study. The needs assessment showed three program objectives to be re...

In 1994 the City of Toronto Public Health Department conducted a needs assessment in the 235 child care centres (CCCs) in the former Toronto area. The purposes of the study were to construct a profile of Toronto's CCCs, to acquire a better understanding of these centres' operations and administration, and to assess their levels of compliance with current public health standards and regulatory r...

INTRODUCTION In the design of educational programs, much attention has been paid to teaching methods, needs assessment, an important part of the development of educational programs, generally is neglected. Another important aspect in educational program design is assessing effectiveness. The aims of this study were to design a formal needs assessment program to define the core contents of a fac...

BACKGROUND The importance of human rights education has widely been recognized as one of the strategies for their protection and promotion of health. Yet training programs have not always taken into account neither local needs, nor public health relevance, nor pedagogical efficacy.The objectives of our study were to assess, in a participative way, educational needs in the field of health and hu...

The study determined the priority training needs of KSULHS adopted school. Specifically, it sought to answer following objectives: determine basic education teachers along with different disciplines and among disciplines. To objectives, a descriptive type research was used by researchers. In which responses were gathered through questionnaire that administered twenty-five (25) in Balawag Nation...

AIM Student tutorials are now firmly anchored in medical education. However, to date there have only been isolated efforts to establish structured teacher training for peer tutors in medicine. To close this gap, a centralized tutor training program for students, culminating in an academic certificate, was implemented at Heidelberg University Medical School. The program also counts within the sc...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about how to develop collaborative multidisciplinary research teams. METHODS Following a comprehensive needs assessment, we developed a curriculum-based, multi-disciplinary, didactic and experiential Translational Leadership training program grounded in adult learning theory. In addition, we constructed collaborative clinical/translational research experiences for...