Building Community Systems for Young Children is a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act. Each installment is written by a team of experts and provides comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California. Building Community Systems for Young Children has...

T he American public tends to place a great deal of trust in those mechanisms that protect or serve the public interest. For example, we usually take it for granted that the hair stylist, plumber, or exterminator are competent because we recognize that each of these practitioners must pass a test or meet specified standards to qualify for a license. Similarly, we assume that public water suppli...

purpose: to determine the general population’s knowledge and awareness about cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (dr) in tehran, the most populated and capital city of iran, in order to assess the need for health education programs. methods: this cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted during 2010 and a structured questionnaire was filled by 5 trained interviewers via tele...

Introduction Through the 1990s, wide disparities in health status were recorded in Venezuela, a mirror of poor social conditions, decreasing investment in the public health sector and a health workforce distribution unable to meet population health needs or to staff effective, accessible public health services. Venezuelans' health status deteriorated as a result. In 2003-2004, the Venezuelan go...

background and objectives: as with most countries, in the developing communities, providing high quality services in the field of health care is affected by limited financial resources. applying the positive stimuli germane to the private sector to public hospital may be one solution to the public sector's problems, and the health care system, in general, for reducing hospital construction and ...

as a part of leisure time schedule education of art public has been carried out by public & private organizations and cultural institutions. not only leisure art learning will increase artistic skills and the familiarity with artistic styles but also sharing artistic experiences will increase teamwork skills, cultural collaborations and finally self-confidence. therefore, engaging in education ...

this paper presents participation of faculties and heads of department (hods) in environmental education. for this purpose 60 hods/faculties from polytechnic colleges of tamilnadu, india and 100 hods/ faculties from associate degree level technical institutions in iran from civil engineering branch were selected. several hypotheses were formulated to achieve certain objectives of the study. th...

Tuberculosis infection is prevalent in Korea and health care workers are vulnerable to tuberculosis infection in the hospital. The aims of this study were to develop and validate an education program that teaches senior medical students how to wear and choose the proper size and type of respiratory protective equipment (RPE), which may help reduce the risk of contracting Mycobacterium tuberculo...

This article explores the recent development of new spheres of public engagement within UK higher education through an analysis of the foundation degree qualification. These, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), were designed to equip students with the combination of technical skills, academic knowledge, and transferable skills increasingly being demanded by em...