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Lukas Boser; Kaspar Staub – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Outbreaks of respiratory infections have impact on schools. The present article draws upon sources from the school archives of the former teachers' seminary Muristalden in the city of Bern in Switzerland. The aim is to ascertain how the various pandemic waves 1918/1919 affected school operations and the people living at Muristalden. During the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communicable Diseases, Pandemics, Educational History
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Nkrumah Agyabeng, Anthony; Ahwireng, Patience Obeng; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah; Mickson, Michael Kwame; Ahenkan, Albert – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the electricity challenges confronting slums in order to understand the health implications thereof. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilized purposive sampling techniques supported by the convenience sampling method within the context of qualitative research to select 30 interviewees of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slums, Energy, Barriers
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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
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Dimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
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Batir, Betul – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The pandemics and epidemics experienced in Turkey after the second quarter of the twentieth century had a profound impact on society and education. The "General Hygiene Law", which came into force in 1930 in an attempt to fight against increasing epidemic diseases, was a service provided by the state to improve health conditions in the…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Epidemiology, Diseases, Educational History
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Mugoni, Petronella Chipo – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: Rising incidence of acquired multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in South Africa suggests low knowledge and implementation of infection prevention and control strategies in household and congregate settings. This study contributes to the under-researched area of non-biomedical responses to sub-adherence to treatment. Design: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disease Control, Females, Late Adolescents
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Adama, E. A.; Arabiat, D.; Foster, M. J.; Afrifa-Yamoah, E.; Runions, K.; Vithiatharan, R.; Lin, A. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
Living with a long-term medical condition is associated with heightened risk for mental health and psychosocial difficulties, but further research is required on this risk for children and adolescents with a rare disease in the educational setting. The aim of this study is to describe parents' perceptions of the psychosocial impact of rare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diseases, At Risk Persons, Mental Health
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Yuri Akizuki; Shoko Kusunoki; Eri Maeda – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This study aimed to assess the fertility knowledge of Japanese education undergraduates who plan to become schoolteachers and examine related factors. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with 252 first-year education undergraduates at a Japanese university. The Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale (CFKS) was used to measure fertility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Sex Education
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Kezia H. Mkwizu; Kathija Yassim – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
The trends in higher education's post-pandemic recovery and towards sustainability are not new concepts and are still being discussed in various contexts. Evidence shows that higher education suffered greatly from the pandemic due to closures of institutions. Hence, more post-pandemic studies are necessary to understand its effects and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Sustainability, COVID-19
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Wang, Wanqi; Shi, Xiao; Jiang, Yifan; Zhao, Hanrui; Ong, Jason J.; Wu, Dan; Tucker, Joseph D.; Terris-Prestholt, Fern; Pan, Stephen W. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test uptake among college and university students in China remains suboptimal. This study aimed to identify and weigh the relative importance of HIV testing preferences among university students in China. Participants and methods: Qualitative interviews and discrete choice experiments (DCE) were used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), College Students, Student Attitudes
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Nworgu, Queen Chioma; Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the policy of lockdowns, on business in general, and certain sectors of the economy, has been widely discussed during the last year. Less is known, however, about the impact on specific groups of economic actors within the UK economy. This small-scale research project explores the impact that the pandemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Entrepreneurship
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Adhikari, Devendra – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely hit the lives of the people of Nepal. The country witnessed two phases of lockdown over 10 months from March 2020 until August 2021. I completed my PhD data collection in Nepal through February to April 2021, when the pandemic's risk was naturally lowered. My research explores local value systems of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Möhring, Julian Valentin; Schäfer, Dennis; Brosig, Burkhard; Huth, Martin – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2023
The paper begins with the prerequisite assumption that social deprivation is a fragile and porous category. Thus, our hypothesis is, that how people are affected by the restrictions against the spreading of the coronavirus is often discussed in far too general and simplistic terms. It is often taken as a given, that the virus and the restriction…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Barriers
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Hirose, Naoki; Morita, Kojiro; Jo, Taisuke; Hagiwara, Yasuhiro; Matsui, Hiroki; Fushimi, Kiyohide; Yasunaga, Hideo – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: We examined the association between intellectual disabilities (ID) and pneumonia severity at admission. Methods: We extracted patients admitted to hospital for pneumonia from July 2010 to March 2018 using the Diagnosis Procedure Combination database. We measured pneumonia severity using the A-DROP system. After 1:4 cohort matching…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Diseases, Hospitals, Patients
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Celik, Melike Yavas – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study aims to determine the changing routines of nurses in maternal role due to COVID-19 outbreak. This is qualitative interview research and is based on the descriptions of the interviews with the participants. Interviews were recorded on the phone with nurses. It was semi-structured and used a snowball sample, and in-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Nurses, Mothers, Parent Role, COVID-19
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