The curriculum reportedly made its way into Ugandan schools through a collaboration with SchoolNet Uganda, an NGO housed within the Ministry of Education’s headquarters—an arrangement typical in Uganda, where the government relies on public–private partnerships to provide social services and where ...
A small cluster randomized trial of an adapted version of the Irie Classroom Toolbox in 14 Jamaican primary schools further showed that grade 1 primary school teachers in intervention schools used significantly less violence against children than teachers in control schools [45]. In the context of ...
Cost-effectiveness will be determined using an activity-based ingredients approach to examine the costs of the component combinations to achieve a unit of effect across the primary outcome. The cost portion of the CEA will be measured during the 24 months that the intervention is delivered using t...
The international public health curriculum attracts overseas postgraduate and doctoral students, including many from Africa. Robust links with health promotion practitioners, environmental health professionals, and community volunteers in Nottingham have led to participatory research focusing on the grassroots ...
Community-based education (CBE) is part of the training curriculum for most health workers in Uganda. Most programs have a stated purpose of strengthening clinical skills, medical knowledge, communication skills, community orientation of graduates, and encouragement of graduates to work in rural areas...
Targeted training on rights principles as part of an exist- ing curriculum embedded in provider pre- and in-service trainings can effectively generate attitudinal and behavioral change. The concept of rights-based FP resonated with service providers and prompted changes in counselling practice and in ...
Wright, (1978) as cited by Rothman, 2001; analyses secondary school-level data in Virginia, surveying schools on their attendance rates and aspects of the curriculum, organisation and staff. The researcher found statistically significant differences by location: urban schools had the lowest attendance...
According to the trainers at the nurse training school, enrolled and registered nurses/midwives have similar curriculums regarding prenatal and newborn care; but important differences exist. Enrolled nurses/midwives together with the registered nurses mainly received a theoretically oriented training with ...
Targeted training on rights principles as part of an exist- ing curriculum embedded in provider pre- and in-service trainings can effectively generate attitudinal and behavioral change. The concept of rights-based FP resonated with service providers and prompted changes in counselling practice and in ...
In 2011, Uganda’s Ministry of Health switched policy from presumptive treatment of malaria to recommending parasitological diagnosis prior to treatment, resulting in an expansion of diagnostic services at all levels of public health facilities including hospitals. Despite this change, anti-malarial drugs...