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Wahiba Abu-Ras; Basil H. Aboul-Enein; Fatmah Almoayad; Nada Benajiba; Elizabeth Dodge – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: Religious institutions play a crucial role in health promotion and hold significant influence in the public health field. Aim: The aim of this review is to examine outcomes of health-promoting interventions involving the use of mosques as the intervention venue, its role in promoting health behavior change, and the role of theory in…
Descriptors: Islam, Public Health, Health Promotion, Religious Factors
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Debendra Nath Roy; Md. Shah Azam; Ekramul Islam – Discover Education, 2024
Public health education is a powerful tool for improving communicable disease awareness and prevention protocols. Despite the fact that health education is crucial for the advancement of COVID-19 awareness and vaccination decisions, how a teacher approaches students to learn about health education during COVID-19 vaccination is a challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Universities, Public Colleges
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Zanuzdana, Arina; Khan, Mobarak; Kraemer, Alexander – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Quality of housing plays one of the key roles in a public health research, since inadequate housing may have direct or indirect negative impact on health. Higher satisfaction with housing was shown to be associated with higher income, higher age, a smaller family, higher education, being female and being an owner of a dwelling. The aim of our…
Descriptors: Public Health, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Medical Services
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Sambisa, William; Angeles, Gustavo; Lance, Peter M.; Naved, Ruchira T.; Thornton, Juliana – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study explores the prevalence and correlates of past-year physical violence against women in slum and nonslum areas of urban Bangladesh. The authors use multivariate logistic regression to analyze data from the 2006 Urban Health Survey, a population-based survey of 9,122 currently married women aged between 15 and 49 who were selected using a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Marital Status, Females
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Rafi, Mohammad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
Training has increasingly turned into an important NGO tool for rural development in Asia and Africa. Such a use has made it essential to assess the impact of these training sessions. Again a good portion of these sessions are offered through cascades. There has been skepticism on the effectiveness of this mechanism. In response to the above need…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Rural Development, Trainees