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Process Evaluation Of An Innovative Sun Protection Intervention Targeting Adolescents, Sandra C. Jones, Keryn M. Johnson, Donald C. Iverson, Jeffrey Thom
Process Evaluation Of An Innovative Sun Protection Intervention Targeting Adolescents, Sandra C. Jones, Keryn M. Johnson, Donald C. Iverson, Jeffrey Thom
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The purpose of the current intervention was to target a defined segment of the adolescent population with a sun protection ‘offering’ that positioned sun protection as beneficial and addressed identified barriers (particularly inconvenience and image). A community intervention was conducted in one defined geographic region over the 2009/2010 Summer school holidays. Key elements of the intervention included the distribution of augmented products, promotional materials with a pre-tested impactful message, and partnerships with community and commercial organisations. The intervention was successful in creating interest and attention among adolescents. This paper reports on the process evaluations, focusing on barriers, facilitators and lessons …
Australian Mental Health Consumers' Contributions To The Evaluation And Improvement Of Recoveryoriented Service Provision, Sarah L. Marshall, Lindsay G. Oades, Trevor P. Crowe
Australian Mental Health Consumers' Contributions To The Evaluation And Improvement Of Recoveryoriented Service Provision, Sarah L. Marshall, Lindsay G. Oades, Trevor P. Crowe
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
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Munch And Move: Evaluation Of A Preschool Healthy Eating And Movement Skill Program, Louise L. Hardy, Bridget P. Kelly, Lesley King, Louise Farrell, Sarah Howlett
Munch And Move: Evaluation Of A Preschool Healthy Eating And Movement Skill Program, Louise L. Hardy, Bridget P. Kelly, Lesley King, Louise Farrell, Sarah Howlett
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Neoliberalism And The Biophysical Environment: A Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Research, Noel Castree
Neoliberalism And The Biophysical Environment: A Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Research, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article both synthesizes and critically evaluates a now large, multi-disciplinary body of published research that examines the neoliberalization of environmental regulation, management, and governance. Since the late 1970s, neoliberal ideas and ideals have gradually made their way into the domain of environmental policy as part of a wider change in the global political economy. While the volume of empirical research is now such that we can draw some conclusions about this policy shift, the fact that the research has evolved piecemeal across so many different disciplines has made identifying points of similarity and difference in the findings more difficult. …
Sure Start And Its Evaluation In England, Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes
Sure Start And Its Evaluation In England, Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In 1998 a U.K. government review concluded that disadvantage among young children was increasing and early intervention could alleviate poor outcomes. It recommended a change in service design and delivery, integrating across all relevant agencies, to be area-based, with all children under five and their families as clients. Among the aims were avoiding the stigmatization often associated with targeted programs while fostering child, family and community functioning. From 1999 the first Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) focused on the 20% most deprived areas, including about half of children living below the official poverty line. Sure Start has evolved over time …
Compressive Evaluation In Human Motion Tracking, Yifan Lu, Lei Wang, Richard Hartley, Hongdong Li, Dan Xu
Compressive Evaluation In Human Motion Tracking, Yifan Lu, Lei Wang, Richard Hartley, Hongdong Li, Dan Xu
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The powerful theory of compressive sensing enables an efficient way to recover sparse or compressible signals from non-adaptive, sub-Nyquist-rate linear measurements. In particular, it has been shown that random projections can well approximate an isometry, provided that the number of linear measurements is no less than twice of the sparsity level of the signal. Inspired by these, we propose a compressive anneal particle filter to exploit sparsity existing in image-based human motion tracking. Instead of performing full signal recovery, we evaluate the observation likelihood directly in the compressive domain of the observed images. Moreover, we introduce a progressive multilevel wavelet …
Le Programme Sure Start Et Son Evaluation En Angleterre, Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes
Le Programme Sure Start Et Son Evaluation En Angleterre, Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
A Subjective Evaluation Of Attitudes Towards E-Health, S. Banna, Helen Hasan, J. Meloche
A Subjective Evaluation Of Attitudes Towards E-Health, S. Banna, Helen Hasan, J. Meloche
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
E-health, the provision of healthcare services via the Internet, has the potential to address the limited capacity of the healthcare system and thereby improve health outcomes. While there is considerable development of e-health services in practice, research in this important area often lags practice and takes a restricted view of user needs. The study presented in this paper undertakes a holistic evaluation of perceptions of e-health services and tools by addressing the activities of diverse stakeholders from healthcare practitioners to the general public. The research uses Q-methodology to explore the opportunities, challenges, barriers, and potential benefits of e-health to guide …