Although leaders and other commentators have called for the medical profession's greater engagement in improving systems of care and population health, neither medical education nor the practice environment has fostered such engagement. Missing have been a clear definition of physicians' public roles, reasonable limits to what can be expected, and familiarity with tasks that are compatible with...

The current virtual and physical mobility of humans, ideas, knowledge and epistemologies has major implications for education, especially in settings where English is seen as the default medium of instruction. While diversity is inherent in mobility, English-only pedagogy is a denial of the richness and potential of diverse resources learners bring with them through their mobility. This paper r...

CONTEXT Physical violence is an important health problem, and low maternal education is a significant risk for the development of chronic physical aggression (PA). We hypothesized that nonmaternal care (NMC) services could prevent the development of childhood PA problems, depending on the age at which the services are initiated. Method Children who followed a trajectory of atypically frequent P...

The physical examination has a historically prominent role in medical practice, being an important tool in diagnosis and in developing rapport with patients. Yet, physicians have lost bedside skills in recent years, with increasing use of technology at the expense of time spent with the patient. This is concerning, especially in the present era of cost-containment in health care. Approaches to ...

Objectives. Worldwide, over 200 million children are involved in child labor, with another 20 million children subjected to forced labor, leading to acute and chronic exposures resulting in safety and health (S&H) risks, plus removal from formal education and play. This review summarized S&H issues in child labor, including forced or indentured domestic labor as other sectors of child labor. Sp...

Abstract Health professions underwent an intense institutionalization process (creation, organization and regulation) most saw their professional councils established regulated by the mid-20th century. To evaluate physical education professionals’ level of knowledge regarding PE code ethics, a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 63 professionals working in 27 gyms city Jequié, ...

educational needs assessment of information and communication technology (itc) determines basic and specialized skill needs of human resources in the ict. this study investigated educational needs of information and communication technology (ict) in faculty members of physical education, universities of east azerbaijan province. data were collected usinga researcher-made questionnaire (the reli...