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Professional Learning in Healthcare Settings in Resource-Limited Environments: What Are the Tensions for Professionals' Knowing and Learning about Antimicrobial Resistance?
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Charitonos, Koula; Littlejohn, Allison – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
This article examines tensions that professionals in healthcare settings in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) face in the evolving field around surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Few public health problems are of greater global importance today than AMR, that poses a threat to our ability to treat infections. In this context, the…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Health Services, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021: COVID-19 Special Evidence Brief. Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief. Innocenti Research Brief 2022-09
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White, Howard; Saran, Ashrita – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness of interventions to improve child wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with this brief mapping the COVID-19-relevant studies. This brief provides an overview of the…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Strategic Planning, Evidence, COVID-19
Children and Handwashing: Developing a Resource to Promote Health and Well-Being in Low and Middle Income Countries
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Crosby, Sapphire; Laird, Katie; Younie, Sarah – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: Using a participatory action research (PAR) model, this paper reports on findings from a mixed-methods study which aimed to discover whether specifically developed health education resources (A Germ's Journey) aid children's understanding of health-hygiene principles, and how these findings can inform the future development of…
Descriptors: Child Health, Health Education, Hygiene, Health Promotion
UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021 Goal Area 2: Every Child Learns. Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief. Innocenti Research Brief 2022-05
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White, Howard; Saran, Ashrita – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness of interventions to improve child wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Five of the six briefs summarize evidence as mapped against the five Goal Areas of UNICEF's…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Using Community Health Workers in Community-Based Growth Promotion: What Stakeholders Think
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Afulani, Patience A.; Awoonor-Williams, John K.; Opoku, Ernest C.; Asunka, Joseph – Health Education Research, 2012
The Nutrition and Malaria Control for Child Survival Project is a community-based growth promotion project that utilizes Community Health Workers (CHWs), referred to as Community Child Growth Promoters (CCGPs), as the principal change agents. The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of key stakeholders about the project and the role…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Stakeholders, Public Health, Health Personnel
Peer-Led Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk of Youth: A Review
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Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor; Barnett, Jessica Penwell – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
One approach in HIV prevention programming targeting youth is to use peer leaders in what is referred to as peer education programming. This paper critically reviews and synthesizes the results and lessons learned from 24 evaluated peer-led programs with an HIV/AIDS risk reduction component that target youth in the communities where they live and…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Program Evaluation, Youth, Low Income
Neonatal Klebsiella Septicaemia in Ibadan: Implications for Neonatal Care in Developing Countries.
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Omokhodion, S. I.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
The antecedent events, clinical features, prevalence, and complications of neonatal Klebsiella septicaemia in 73 infants admitted to a special care baby unit in Nigeria are retrospectively reviewed and compared with those of 72 infants who had no risk factors for sepsis admitted to the same unit during the same period. A nosocomial acquisition of…
Descriptors: Bacteria, Child Health, Communicable Diseases, Developing Nations