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Crowley, Emily P.; Kaitz, Robert M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
As COVID-19 rapidly changes the economic landscape throughout the country, higher education institutions (HEIs) are facing new, constantly evolving challenges. To address these challenges, federal and state governments are quickly drafting laws and regulations that are impacting colleges and universities, and their employees. This article briefly…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Disease Control, Hygiene
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Matthias, Anne Thushara; Kaushalya, Pingamage Dona Jayamini – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: This study aimed to assess the quality and readability of web-based information on familial hypercholesterolaemia. Design, setting and methods: Internet searches using the terms 'familial hypercholesterolemia', 'hypercholesterolemia', 'inherited high cholesterol', 'hereditary high cholesterol' and 'inherited high LDL' were conducted…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Dissemination, Web Sites, Reliability
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Farias, Cleilton Sampaio; Dantas de Oliveira, Ricardo Antunes; Luz, Maurício Roberto Motta Pinto – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
In this study we designed, implemented, and evaluated a Problem-based Learning (PBL) course to teach undergraduate students about Viral Hepatitis from a Health Geography perspective. The course was attended by undergraduate students with no previous experience with PBL from a college in the Brazilian Amazon state of Acre. The course design was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Communicable Diseases
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Regina Gairal-Casadó; Oriol Ríos-González; Beatriz Villarejo-Carballido; Ana Burgués-Freitas – Qualitative Research in Education, 2023
Research on the effects of social media has evidenced their influence on public opinion concerning health issues. However, there are scarce analyses that pay attention to this influence when health advice generalizes certain groups' sexual practices. This generalization occurred with monkeypox, men who have sex with men, after two World Health…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Negative Attitudes, Sexual Orientation, Public Opinion
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2020
This is the third in a series of snapshot reports on COVID-19's impact on practice. American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) has deployed guidance on a range of topics in support of institutions of higher education. This survey focused on the following: (1) The receipt and delivery of official transcripts and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disease Control, Epidemiology, Public Health
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Mohammadi, Samira; Ramezankhani, Ali; Montazeri, Ali; Nasrollahi, Akbar; Keshavarz Mohammadi, Nastaran – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Health-related issues are widely covered in news agencies by medical and health journalists. The quantity, format and quality of their coverage influence the general public as well as policymakers and professions. Current studies and observations suggest that news agencies are more dominated by medical topics (disease, symptoms,…
Descriptors: Journalism, Health Promotion, Public Health, Diseases
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Cheek, Ryan – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2020
Apocalypticism is a powerful brew of eschatological belief and political imagination that is extremely persuasive. This article addresses the intersections between apocalyptic rhetoric and the technical communication of risk, disease outbreak, and disaster preparedness by analyzing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's zombie apocalypse…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Imagination, Information Dissemination, Risk
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Aimiuwu, Ehi E. – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
As of April 18, 2021, the coronavirus or COVID-19 virus has affected 219 countries and territories, killed over 3 million people, and infected over 141 million people globally (Pattersson et al., 2021). The purpose of this literature review is to explore how augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) can help to stop the spread of a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Prevention, Computer Simulation
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Gavin Robert Walker – Research in Drama Education, 2024
Despite the often-crucial roles played by music within theatre-based public health promotion strategies, theoretical explorations regarding music within applied theatre literatures remain largely underdeveloped. This article highlights musicking -- a reconceptualization of music from an object to a participatory act that can profoundly influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Theater Arts, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Spieker, Susanne – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
This study offers a microhistory by exploring the impact regular smallpox outbreaks had on the lives of gentry families in seventeenth-century England. It particularly focuses on the question as in what way smallpox influenced upbringing and educational decisions and draws on a collection of personal letters of the Clarke family (1667-1710),…
Descriptors: Educational History, Decision Making, Letters (Correspondence), Family Relationship
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Fiorito, Theresa M.; Bornschein, Suzanne; Mihalakos, Alysia; Kelleher, Catherine M.; Alexander-Scott, Nicole; Kanadanian, Koren V.; Raymond, Patricia; Sicard, Kenneth; Dennehy, Penelope H. – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: To outline the reasoning behind use of bivalent rLP2086 in a Rhode Island college meningococcal B disease outbreak, highlighting the timeline from outbreak declaration to vaccination clinic, emphasizing that these two time points are <3 days apart. Participants: Staff, faculty, and students at College X eligible for vaccination.…
Descriptors: Diseases, Disease Control, Immunization Programs, College Students
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Roth, Wolff-Michael – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
During the COVID-19 crisis, we have been able to witness, in many countries, a substantive resistance to the science-based arguments of politicians and to the calls from the medical field to implement safety measures (masks, distancing) and to get vaccinated. In this text, some reflections are provided on what this resistance might tell the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Science Education, Persuasive Discourse
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Zhu, Zhong-kun; Leng, Chen-xin; Chen, Shu-long; Zheng, Yu-xuan; Chen, Dan-qing – Health Education Research, 2022
This study investigates the effect of public health education (PHE) on migrant workers' health status in China, using the data collected from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey project. The analysis employs a probit model, whose results suggest that, in general, PHE has a statistically significant and positive impact on migrant workers' self-rated…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers
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Stolow, Jeni A.; Moses, Lina M.; Lederer, Alyssa M.; Carter, Rebecca – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
As health professionals develop health communication for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we implore that these communication approaches do not include fear appeals. Fear appeals, also known as scare tactics, have been widely used to promote recommended preventive behaviors. We contend that unintended negative outcomes can result from fear…
Descriptors: Fear, Disease Control, Epidemiology, Public Health
Gross, Karen – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The spread of COVID-19, which happens easily in a campus setting, raises critical questions about what educational institutions can and should do. The raised issues are remarkably varied and call for all those involved in running institutions to approach these concerns thoughtfully and quickly, given the speed with which the virus is spreading,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disease Control, Epidemiology, Public Health
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