background : despite an increased need, residents of rural communities have decreased access to healthcare and often present unique healthcare challenges associated with their rurality. ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to these issues is complicated by the urban location of most medical schools. health fairs (fairs) conducted in rural communities can provide students exposure...

conclusions it seems that, the preventive instructions are not optimally respected by ers possibly due to the crowded wards, high work load and the need to work rapidly. results cleaning blood tainted skin before phlebotomy or iv line preparation and hand washing before donning latex gloves achieved the maximum (88/150) and minimum (0/150) scores. the most observed barriers of pm were frequent ...

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The Global Health Network and globalization of higher education

1 Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 African Malaria Network Trust, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 3 Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambr...

1 Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 4 Global Health Initiative, Boston Un...

The impact of participation in Head Start is investigated using a national sample of children. Comparisons are drawn between siblings to control for selection. Head Start is associated with large and significant gains in test scores among both whites and African-Americans. However, among African-Americans, these gains are quickly lost. Head Start significantly reduces the probability that a whi...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive health services. METHODS Analyses focused on longitudinal data on insurance status and preventive service use among a national sample of US adults who participated in the Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Findings showed that, among individuals who obtain insurance ...