"Community-derived and context-specific approaches that address the complex interaction between socio-behavioral and other contextual factors need to be tested and applied to improve the timely uptake of childhood vaccinations among marginalized populations."
Using Intervention Mapping to Develop an Implementation Strategy to Improve Timely Uptake of Streamlined Birth-dose Vaccines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Purpose: Medical educators are central in ensuring future doctors have sufficient public health skills. Attitudes, norms, and perceived control about the significance of teaching a subject determines whether or not it is taught and how well. This qualitative study aims to explore medical educators’ perceptions about what factors influence their intention to teach public health in Indonesian undergraduate medical schools. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eighteen medical educators from different Indonesian medical schools. Interviews were analyzed thematically using the Theory of Planned Behavior domains: attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. Results: Five subthemes emerged under these domains: attitudes (defining public health); subjective norms (room in the medical curricula; teaching and assessment); and perceived behaviour control (medical educator confidence; institutional support). Most participants had a limited understanding abou
What We Gain from More Behavioral Science in the Global South comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Torpid summer publication
It s rare these days that a New Research edition sports fewer than 100 new publications, but as with every late summer it seems a lot of folks are on holiday just now. Our listing is driven by journal article publication notices feeding our queries to the academic digital object identifier system (DOI), employing several academic article database API products for compilation. This week s edition is typical of this time of year; not only are there apparently sliightly fewer fresh publications coming through the editorial mill but also articles are not appearing in the DOI system as expeditiously as usual. Or so we hypothesize from empirical evidence, here finding 41 articles not yet recorded as DOI thus exaggerating the effect of a slightly scantier than usual raw feed. Presumably there ll be a bulge coming along; we queue articles for re-query when they fail to appear as DOI.