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Leung, Margaret P. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Internet-based health information has become increasingly important for ensuring health equity for all populations. The lack of studies reporting on Internet use among patients of public health clinics has obscured the needs of diverse patient groups. Guided by social cognitive theory, this quantitative cross-sectional study used a 30-question…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Patients, Health Education, Internet
Bourgoin, Angel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Today, the majority of American adults uses the internet and looks for health information online. Of interest in this dissertation are people who do not subscribe to mainstream views of health, and may use the internet to discover, bolster, or share their alternative views. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have named…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Seeking, Public Health, Health Behavior
Belayhun, Nebiat – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The use of various Health Information System (HIS) interventions such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), telemedicine, and videoconferencing technologies have greatly transformed the healthcare system in developing nations by supporting the provision of medical care and public health services. However, minimal information is available in the use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Intervention, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Chakaryan, Hasmik – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Domestic Violence (DV) continues to be a worldwide public health problem. Research in the area indicates that domestic violence has damaging, long-term serious mental, emotional, as well as physiological consequences both for the partners of the perpetrators and for their children. Even though various programs focused on treatments of the damaging…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Family Violence, Public Health, Intervention
Appel, Anize M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The HIV/AIDS pandemic's dramatic impact on African life and culture has influenced educational sector significantly. As a result of the chronic crisis, teacher retention in Zambia has reached abysmal lows. This qualitative narrative inquiry study explored teacher retention in a Zambian school through the lens of social constructivism. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
Keeling, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Institute of Medicine has stated that legal structures and the authority vested in health agencies and other partners within the public health system are essential to improving the public's health. Variation between the laws of different jurisdictions within the United States allows for natural experimentation and research into their…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Public Health, Laws, Taxonomy
Brinkerhoff, Kristina Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many nutritional assessment techniques, including food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) and 24-hour dietary recalls have innate limitations such as expensive protocols, high respondent burden, and self-reporting biases. Supermarket sales data have shown promise as a new, indirect, inexpensive nutritional assessment method in recent studies. The…
Descriptors: Information Science, Nutrition, Data, Information Retrieval
Conn, Katharine – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The aim of this dissertation is to identify effective educational interventions in Sub-Saharan African with an impact on student learning. This is the first meta-analysis in the field of education conducted for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper takes an in-depth look at twelve different types of education interventions or programs and attempts to not…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Intervention
Earley, Elvia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In emergency response training, it is essential that the learners are able to apply their classroom knowledge and implement the practical and critical thinking skills they learned. A quasi-experimental methodology with a non-randomized control group and a pretest-posttest was used in this study to evaluate the training level of satisfaction as a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Public Health, Emergency Programs, Training
Aaltonen, Pamela Massie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Two distinct but converging activities have the potential to alter the way local public health departments conduct business. These activities are the emergence of e-government and the addition of preparedness as a basic function of the public health system. Preparedness implies timely collaboration with government entities, community partners and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Local Government, Public Health, Information Dissemination
Brobst, John L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem addressed by this study is the observed low levels of compliance with federal policy on website accessibility. The study examines the two key federal policies that promote website accessibility, using a side-by-side policy analysis technique. The analysis examines the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 508 of the…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Compliance (Legal), Public Policy, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Gopalakrishna-Remani, Venugopal – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Timely identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases has important economic, social and health implications. In this study, we investigate how different stakeholders in the existing reporting system influence the timeliness in identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases. Building on the vision of the information supply…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Information Systems, Disease Control, Identification
Gharawi, Mohammed A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation contributes to the growing base of theory relating to Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks (TPSKNs) presented by Dawes, Gharawi, and Burke (2012). A case study explores the TPSKN formed between the United States Center for Disease Control and the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health ahead of the 2009 Hajj, one of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Networks, International Cooperation, Knowledge Management
Lee, Jung A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Web-based tailored approaches hold much promise as effective means for delivering health education and improving public health. This study examines the effects of interactive tailored health videos on attention to health messages using neurophysiological changes measured by Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electrocardiogram (EKG). Sixty-eight…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Metabolism, Intervention, Health Education
Dias, Martin A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine information systems-enabled interorganizational collaborations called public safety networks--their proliferation, information systems architecture, and technology evolution. These networks face immense pressures from member organizations, external stakeholders, and environmental contingencies. This…
Descriptors: Safety, Networks, Peer Influence, Environmental Influences
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