How Fostering Parent/Teacher Communication Impacts Literacy Development In The Primary Grades

The research question addressed is, How can fostering parent/teacher communication impact literacy development in the primary grades? This capstone provides research proving the importance of communication between educators and families to increase literacy success for children. To answer the research question a resource toolbox was created and included in the Appendix as a practical tool for teachers and parents to utilize. The resource toolbox includes two categories of tools; communication tools, and literacy tools. The focus in regards to teachers, was tools to enhance efficient, and effective communication with parents. The focus in regards to parents, was to provide reading tools to assist with literacy at home. Chapter Four contains the rationale, explanation, and an example for each resource included in the Appendix

The Political Economy of the Hospital in History

The modern hospital is at once the site of healing, the locus of medical learning and a cornerstone of the welfare state. Its technological and infrastructural costs have transformed health services into one of today's fastest growing sectors, absorbing substantial proportions of national income in both developed and emerging economies. The aim of this book is to examine this growth in different countries, with a main focus on the twentieth century, and also with a backward glance to earlier shaping forces. It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and private forms of provision, and the political context in which health systems were constructed. The collection advances the historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the United States and China. Collectively, these comparative cases illuminate the complexities involved in each country and bring new historical evidence to current debates on health care organisation, financing and reform

The Political Economy of the Hospital in History

The modern hospital is at once the site of healing, the locus of medical learning and a cornerstone of the welfare state. Its technological and infrastructural costs have transformed health services into one of today's fastest growing sectors, absorbing substantial proportions of national income in both developed and emerging economies. The aim of this book is to examine this growth in different countries, with a main focus on the twentieth century, and also with a backward glance to earlier shaping forces. It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and private forms of provision, and the political context in which health systems were constructed. The collection advances the historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the United States and China. Collectively, these comparative cases illuminate the complexities involved in each country and bring new historical evidence to current debates on health care organisation, financing and reform

Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention (EMPOWER): a protocol for a program of research

Abstract Background The Enhancing Mental and Physical health of Women through Engagement and Retention or EMPOWER program represents a partnership with the US Department of Veterans Health Administration (VA) Health Service Research and Development investigators and the VA Office of Women’s Health, National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Program Office, Women’s Mental Health Services, and the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation. EMPOWER includes three projects designed to improve women Veterans’ engagement and retention in evidence-based care for high-priority health conditions, i.e., prediabetes, cardiovascular, and mental health. Methods/Design The three proposed projects will be conducted in VA primary care clinics that serve women Veterans including general primary care and women’s health clinics. The first project is a 1-year quality improvement project targeting diabetes prevention. Two multi-site research implementation studies will focus on cardiovascular risk prevention and collaborative care to address women Veterans’ mental health treatment needs respectively. All projects will use the evidence-based Replicating Effective Programs (REP) implementation strategy, enhanced with multi-stakeholder engagement and complexity theory. Mixed methods implementation evaluations will focus on investigating primary implementation outcomes of adoption, acceptability, feasibility, and reach. Program-wide organizational-, provider-, and patient-level measures and tools will be utilized to enhance synergy, productivity, and impact. Both implementation research studies will use a non-randomized stepped wedge design. Discussion EMPOWER represents a coherent program of women’s health implementation research and quality improvement that utilizes cross-project implementation strategies and evaluation methodology. The EMPOWER Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) will constitute a major milestone for realizing women Veterans’ engagement and empowerment in the VA system. EMPOWER QUERI will be conducted in close partnership with key VA operations partners, such as the VA Office of Women’s Health, to disseminate and spread the programs nationally. Trial registration The two implementation research studies described in this protocol have been registered as required: Facilitating Cardiovascular Risk Screening and Risk Reduction in Women Veterans: Trial registration NCT02991534 , registered 9 December 2016. Implementation of Tailored Collaborative Care for Women Veterans: Trial registration NCT02950961 , registered 21 October 2016

Building A Chol\u27s Nest: Zionist Politics, Palestinian Parachutists, And The Heroes Of A Nascent Nation

Between 1943-1945, thirty-two volunteer Jewish parachutists from Palestine took flight over Nazi-occupied territory in Europe. Initially planned in 1943, the parachutists\u27 mission represented the response by the Yishuv—the Jewish community in Palestine—to accounts of the Holocaust that reached Palestine a few months earlier. From the Yishuv\u27s perspective, the parachutists\u27 mission demonstrated its desperate attempt to help Jews still living in Europe— primarily those located in the Balkans region

Children of the Polish Republic: Child Health, Welfare, and the Shaping of Modern Poland, 1915-1939

“Children of the Polish Republic” looks at the intersection of children, social care, and state formation. Beginning in 1915 and ending in 1939, the project traces the increasing encroachment of medical, social care, and state authorities into children’s lives and families, the expansion of care beyond philanthropic and charitable realms, and the crafting of approaches and environments to counteract the harmful effects of the home and the street on Poland’s future citizens. It looks at policy as enacted on the ground and scientific, medical, and political discourses as translated, negotiated, and altered in real-life practice. This dissertation explores Poland’s evolving network of child care through examining how state and non-state actors shaped and disciplined society through child- and family-focused interventions; the evolution of the child as a conceptual category and a container for intense social anxieties; the formalization of the medical community’s knowledge and power in society; and the transition from philanthropy and charity to social medicine, social welfare, and social pedagogy amid persistent shortages in funding, resources, and personnel. It traces the transformation of child welfare from an entirely private, charity-driven system during the partitions to a mixed welfare economy characterized by a weak state and robust non-state providers. The project draws on archival and published source material related to wartime relief work, international humanitarian relief efforts, inspections of welfare institutions, institutional activities, and professional discussions about child well-being. By focusing on children as a tool of state building, children’s activists chose a particularly moral-social issue to an otherwise political-economic project. Interrogating the discourses and methods of childhood governance employed by the interwar Polish state and non-state providers reveals the kind of “model citizen” they were hoping to create

Synthesis of an enzyme-activated nitric oxide-releasing antibacterial prodrug

Includes bibliographical references.Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is spreading at an alarming rate, and without the development of new antibiotics, common infections will become deadly. The goal of this project is to synthesize an enzyme-activated antibiotic prodrug that detects and kills bacteria. The antibiotic will incorporate nitric oxide, a known antibacterial agent, and a fluorescent compound to visualize bacterial presence. A synthesis procedure was developed to synthesize a fluorescent compound attached to a small signaling compound. A nitric oxide donor will be added in the future. In the presence of bacteria, the antibiotic prodrug is designed to simultaneously fluoresce and release nitric oxide

Hospital provision in interwar Central Europe::A review of the field

This article provides a comparative assessment of the provision of hospital services in interwar Central Europe. It presents the findings of a project to review the primary and secondary sources available for the study of healthcare in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary 1918–38 and to provide initial conclusions about how these new states embarked on the task of constructing an institutional infrastructure. The historiographical and archival review demonstrates some of the problems inherent in comparative history, especially the diverse, and often patchy, range of sources available. Building on this it explores three themes: provision and growth of the hospitals of each nation; the impact of geography, especially urban and rural and western and eastern divides, on that infrastructure; and the modes and problems of funding institutional care. It considers the problems each nation faced in constructing a new national healthcare system out of two or even three existing modes of delivery and the barriers faced by largely rural nations when attempting to construct and fund a modern institutional infrastructure.</p