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Syncretic Diabetes Management In Mexico: Towards Equitable Health Outcomes, Halley Egnew
Syncretic Diabetes Management In Mexico: Towards Equitable Health Outcomes, Halley Egnew
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Starting in 2000, Mexico’s healthcare system has undergone a huge redesign. This specifically increases access treatment for diabetes, which is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Mexico. Modernization of the health system has had unequal effects on diabetes treatment in the north versus the south of Mexico, as the more urbanized north has a larger access to treatment centers and hospitals. In the south, many patients don’t have access to biomedicine and rely on traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These traditional medicines do have efficacy in lowering blood glucose, along with addressing other symptoms of diabetes. Additionally, southern …
Flipping Student-Teacher Paradigms In Western’S Employee Language Program, María José Palacios Figueroa, Jacob Dodrill
Flipping Student-Teacher Paradigms In Western’S Employee Language Program, María José Palacios Figueroa, Jacob Dodrill
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Western’s Employee Language Program (ELP) offers free professional development language workshops on campus for university faculty and staff. This poster outlines the various ways that ELP workshops diverge from the traditional language classroom in order to prioritize confidence and accessibility for both program participants and classroom facilitators. Western’s ELP creates atypical classroom dynamics by placing student facilitators--undergraduate students with expertise in the target language, who are often younger and have less professional experience than participants--at the front of the classroom. This model inherently rejects associations of age and knowledge often found in academia. ELP facilitators create casual environments free of …