Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter? The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood programs vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, early childhood ...

214 Theresa Hoke is scientist II, Aurélie Brunie is scientist I, Kirsten Krueger is senior technical officer and Crystal Dreisbach was, at the time this article was written, a technical officer, all at FHI 360. Angela Akol is country director at FHI 360/Uganda. Ny Lovaniaina Rabenja was, at the time this article was written, a program officer at FHI 360/Madagascar. Alice Olawo is research assoc...

SEVERALRECENT REPORTS describe the important role medical homes play in ensuring favorable outcomes for children. Central to the success of a medical home is the practice of family-centered care (FCC). The purpose of this commentary is to describe the evolution of FCC, provide an updated definition of FCC, and discuss implications for practice, programs, and policy. The development of the FCC d...

Background As psychiatric treatment shifts from the hospital to the community, policy debates have increasingly focused on the use of legal compulsion to mandate treatment in the community. In service provision, however, it is apparent that legal compulsion is just one form of leverage used to engage patients in community treatment. Research from the USA indicates that approximately half of com...

Background Economic disadvantages in developing countries have resulted in health care per capita spending that is almost two orders of magnitude lower than in developed countries [1]. In addition, tertiary-care hospitals in developing countries typically consume a large proportion of overall health care spending, and less than a quarter of government spending is devoted to public health measur...

Continuous exhortations to innovate and modernise health care are producing significant changes to the delivery of services, and far-reaching effects on how health professionals work in primary and communitybased care. Changes to services that have led to reductions in waiting times, increased patient choice, and encouraged community-based care are rightly applauded, but the systemic effect of ...

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