OBJECTIVE This study compares pre- and posttest Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI-Self) scores for public health leaders who completed the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) training program at least 2 years earlier; it seeks to identify factors contributing to changes in practices and overall leadership development for public health and environment leaders. ...

* There are many definitions of rural, even within the federal government.17 This In Brief uses the word rural in a general sense to refer to areas of the United States that are sparsely populated. communities and presents ways telehealth can help surmount some of these barriers. Challenges to implementing effective telehealth services in sparsely populated areas are also discussed. This inform...

OBJECTIVE: To develop an evidence-based protocol for initial evaluation and treatment of urinary incontinence and to design procedures that would facilitate the protocol's implementation into clinical practice. DESIGN: Descriptive report of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Continence for Women Project. SETTING: Twenty-one public, private, and other women...

More than any other group, today’s young women and men will impact how people in rich and poor countries live in the 21 century. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of youth—especially young women—lack education, skills and job training, employment opportunities, and health services effectively limiting their futures at a very early age. As a result, youth may react by unleashing risky or harmf...

BACKGROUND Few implementation strategies have been empirically tested for their effectiveness in improving uptake of evidence-based treatments or programs. This study compared the effectiveness of an immediate versus delayed enhanced implementation strategy (Enhanced Replicating Effective Programs (REP)) for providers at Veterans Health Administration (VA) outpatient facilities (sites) on impro...

CONTEXT Therapy assistants (TAs) are widely used in the delivery of therapy services in rural Western Australia (WA). Appropriate training for TAs is an essential part of their practice; however, to date most TAs are trained 'on-the-job', thus taxing the scarce resources of rural and remote allied health professionals (AHPs). There has been limited recognized training that is suitable to their ...

Regional as well as centralized authorities around Europe develop and offer an increased variety of online public services, which may be particularly useful for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in rural areas. Nevertheless, a major barrier towards their adoption has been identified to be the low degree of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) penetration that is usually recorded i...

Taking care of migrants constitutes a new challenge for the actual operative structures of the services in general and for the sanitary service in particular, requiring a global and permanent rethinking with regards to both the offer and the procedures for decoding the requests. What determines the complexity of offering care while respecting differences is the fact that it can not be done with...

nowadays export development approach is introduced as an accepted principle in my country's external commerce and managers attend trade facility. since top's mission is make policy, support, make needful infrastructure and facilities creation for businessmen, top's marketing services have been survey in my research until exporter's expectations is identified completely. mark...

purpose: this research is to present a plan to improve information services in libraries of islamic of azad university, so that more proper services can be presented to the university community through studying the processes. methodology: this research is descriptive survey. the target population includes 75 central, main units of libraries. collecting information tool is a questionnaire with 3...