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Theresa Burgess; Stuart Rennie; Keymanthri Moodley – Research Ethics, 2024
South African research ethics committees (RECs) faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research ethics committees needed to find a balance between careful consideration of scientific validity and ethical merit of protocols, and review with the urgency normally associated with public health emergency research. We aimed to…
Descriptors: Research Committees, Ethics, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders – Teachers College Press, 2024
Given the present-day threats to American democracy, Teachers College Press is publishing this federal report with new introductions by U.S. Senator Cory Booker and American historian Elizabeth Hinton. This complete edition of the Kerner report includes the full text, as well as important graphs, statistics, and supporting materials. The subject…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Change, Social Problems
Emilia A. Glodici; Monica G. Brînzac; Andreea Rusu; Razvan M. Chereches; Marius I. Ungureanu; Madalina A. Coman – SAGE Open, 2024
In addition to the infectious disease, the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an infodemic that worsened the outbreak. Increased digital health literacy (DHL) skills and information-seeking behaviors are crucial for accessing, understanding, and evaluating online health information, especially during a pandemic, where misinformation imposes…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Digital Literacy, Predictor Variables, COVID-19
Alan Curtis, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
American democracy is at an inflection point. Will we stride toward the 22nd century with evidence and will? Or will we lurch fearfully backwards, reinscribing the white supremist domination of the 19th century? After hundreds of urban protests in the 1960s, the presidential Kerner Commission, composed mainly of privileged white men, concluded,…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Change, Social Problems
Li, Yachao; Guan, Mengfei; Hammond, Paige; Berrey, Lane E. – Health Education Research, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Media, Information Dissemination
Pence, Harry E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This paper describes the course outline for a three credit hour nonlaboratory course in Environmental Health Chemistry which was taught from 1981 until 2008 at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. The purpose of this paper is to share the lecture outline in the hopes that it might be useful to others who are preparing to teach…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Environment, Public Health
Norton, Theresa C.; Rodriguez, Daniela C.; Howell, Catherine; Reynolds, Charlene; Willems, Sara – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Little is known about how knowledge brokers (KBs) operate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to translate evidence for health policy and practice. These intermediaries facilitate relationships between evidence producers and users to address public health issues. Aims and objectives: To increase understanding, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Research Utilization, Public Health
Davis, Diane; Maughan, Erin D.; White, Krista A.; Slota, Margaret – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
A gap analysis was used to examine the scope of school nursing practice in the United States. An investigator-developed 39-item self-assessment survey of scope of school nursing practice was modified from an existing validated tool, organized around the five principles of the National Association of School Nurses' Framework: Standards of Practice,…
Descriptors: School Nurses, School Health Services, Improvement, Public Health
Lamia, Tamara L.; Lowry, Garry F.; McLees, Anita W.; Frazier, Cassandra M.; Young, Andrea C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
The flexibility federal block grants provide recipients poses challenges for evaluation. These challenges include aggregating data on wide-ranging activities grant recipients implement and the outcomes they achieve. In 2014, we began designing an evaluation to address the challenges of assessing outcomes and to improve outcome accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Grants, Program Evaluation, Health Services
Maia, Poliana; Justi, Rosária; Santos, Monique – Science & Education, 2021
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and given the huge volume of information available for the general population (being part of them fake news), there is a clear need to foster people's understanding of the meaning of science, of how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and used. As one of the main aims of science education is the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Scientific Research, Communication Strategies
Kowalski, Monica J.; Ponisciak, Stephen M. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2021
As schools across the country made decisions about how to safely reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Fall of 2020, Catholic schools reopened for in-person instruction more than surrounding public schools. This study analyzes published reopening plans from 136 Catholic schools in 18 different states to explore how schools reopened and how…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ziam, Saliha; Gignac, Pierre; Courant, Élodie; Mc Sween-Cadieux, Esther – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Decisions related to the development and implementation of public health programmes or policies can benefit from more effective use of the best available knowledge. However, decision makers do not always feel sufficiently equipped or may lack the capacity to use evidence. This can lead them to overlook or set aside research results…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Programs, Research Utilization, Evidence
Inna Feldman; Mihretab Gebreslassie; Filipa Sampaio; Camilla Nystrand; Richard Ssegonja – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
To review the literature on economic evaluations of public health interventions targeting prevention of mental health problems and suicide, to support evidence based societal resource allocation. A systematic review of economic evaluations within mental health and suicide prevention was conducted including studies published between January 2000…
Descriptors: Schools, Employment, Nursing Homes, Foreign Countries
Giménez-Beut, Juan Antonio; Novella-García, Carlos; Aguilar-Moya, Remedios; Cloquell-Lozano, Alexis – Ethics and Education, 2022
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a series of consequences all over the world, especially in young people. On the other hand, this sector of the population has shown an evident and baffling increased failure to comply with public health measures put in place, which has had a knock-on effect on the number of infections detected.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Values Education, Civics
Urizar, Guido G., Jr.; Miller, Karissa – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2022
The number of health psychology courses offered in higher education institutions has dramatically increased over the past 30 years. Health psychology courses provide students a unique opportunity to learn about important public health issues and health disparities affecting our society from a biopsychosocial perspective. Prior research indicates…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Health Education, Active Learning