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Abriendo Oportunidades Strengthens Government Education Programming For Indigenous Adolescent Girls In Guatemala, Population Council Oct 2020

Abriendo Oportunidades Strengthens Government Education Programming For Indigenous Adolescent Girls In Guatemala, Population Council

Research Utilization and Impact Briefs

For over 15 years, Abriendo Oportunidades has partnered with national and local authorities to improve educational prospects for indigenous girls. In Guatemala, evidence and ongoing technical assistance have helped to strengthen and expand the Ministry of Education’s alternative education programs for adolescents, ensuring they are responsive to the needs of indigenous rural communities.


Alumni News | Alison Stine, ‘Changed Forever’ By Athens, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Oct 2020

Alumni News | Alison Stine, ‘Changed Forever’ By Athens, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Pharmaceutical Misconceptions And Rising Costs In The United States, Karlie Walter Oct 2020

Pharmaceutical Misconceptions And Rising Costs In The United States, Karlie Walter

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Misconceptions are common in the healthcare field and the presence of misconceptions about pharmaceutical costs are not lost among them. Pharmaceutical costs can range annually and often fluctuate for the average household. Cost of pharmaceuticals can depend on insurance, availability of the drug, supply and demand, the company that owns the drug along with many other factors. The research will focus on clearly defining the misperceptions about pharmaceutical prices and ways to eliminate massive upselling on drugs. The purpose is to determine ways to make drugs more affordable while ensuring access to everyone who needs them. The impact will most …


The Hardships Of Homelessness, Linsey Newcomb Oct 2020

The Hardships Of Homelessness, Linsey Newcomb

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The homeless face stigma every single day due to the obstacles that they are faced with. These misperceptions about homelessness will help the audience gain new perspectives on commonly known beliefs about the homeless.


How Is Cannabidiol (Cbd Oil) Effective In Treating Opioid Addiction?, Kalie Creasy Oct 2020

How Is Cannabidiol (Cbd Oil) Effective In Treating Opioid Addiction?, Kalie Creasy

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The overall purpose of this research presentation is to determine whether or not Cannabidiol (CBD oil) is a viable and efficient treatment for opioid addiction. This research focuses on the benefits that CBD provides to those who are suffering from opioid addiction, versus that of the current treatment, methadone. The information was collected from the Longwood Library Database.


Student-Athletes And The Battles Of Mental Health, Zara Tirrell Oct 2020

Student-Athletes And The Battles Of Mental Health, Zara Tirrell

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Mental health alongside depression, anxiety and eating disorders apparent in collegiate student athletes and the stigmatization that creates barriers created for underutilizing mental health resources.


First-Overall Pick: Hockey's Most Valuable Resource, Bridget Hafdelin Oct 2020

First-Overall Pick: Hockey's Most Valuable Resource, Bridget Hafdelin

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

This is a diagram showcasing various statistics available for first-overall picks in the National Hockey League, including Wins Above Replacement, Expected Wins Above Replacement, and drafting probability.


Food Deserts, Linden Kelly Oct 2020

Food Deserts, Linden Kelly

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Informing about what food deserts in America are and why they are important in hopes to get the word out about them and help solve this crisis.


Freshman Composition, Brenna E. Crowe Oct 2020

Freshman Composition, Brenna E. Crowe

Open Educational Resources

Please find an example of a syllabus for an online, English composition course.


Trends In Maternal Health Services In Bangladesh Before, During And After Covid-19 Lockdowns: Evidence From National Routine Service Data, Sigma Ainul, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Irfan Hossain, Md. Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, Ashish Bajracharya Oct 2020

Trends In Maternal Health Services In Bangladesh Before, During And After Covid-19 Lockdowns: Evidence From National Routine Service Data, Sigma Ainul, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Irfan Hossain, Md. Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, Ashish Bajracharya

Reproductive Health

Bangladesh instituted a national lockdown to contain community transmission of COVID-19, initially for ten days, from March 26 to April 4, 2020, then extended through May 30. During the lockdown, the pandemic and its mitigation measures’ impacts on social, economic, and financial aspects of life in Bangladesh were widely documented. Disruptions to the health system, particularly critical maternal health services, however, have received relatively less attention. This brief provides details on a study that analyzed potential impacts of COVID-19 and its related mitigation measures on maternal health services in Bangladesh, examining national and district trends in antenatal care (ANC), institutional …


The Coca-Cola Foundation's Funds, Katherine Frey Oct 2020

The Coca-Cola Foundation's Funds, Katherine Frey

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The Coca-Cola Company is widely known to spend billions of dollars on advertising. Many of these advertising campaigns center around the company's philanthropic efforts. In 2017, the Coca-Cola Foundation has helped to donate over $138 million to different organizations in order to give back to the community. I used data from this past completed year (2019) to see how much the Coca-Cola Foundation is contributing to specific causes. Using Coca Cola bottle caps, I will show the amount of money being donated to each area. Some of these areas include women's empowerment, the environment, and education, which are the main …


Comparative Analysis: Animal Research Versus Animal Testing, Hannah Vanhoose Oct 2020

Comparative Analysis: Animal Research Versus Animal Testing, Hannah Vanhoose

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Currently, there is a push to eliminate the use of animals in all experimental settings. Animal rights organizations like PETA and the Animal Welfare Institute consistently advocate for the well-being of animals in many aspects, including in the laboratory setting. While it is necessary to eradicate the maltreatment of animals found in unregulated testing centers, it is important to distinguish the differences between testing and research involving animals. The focus of this research is to demonstrate that while it is essential to cut down on harmful testing, the use of animals in medical research is crucial. 


Nurses As Innovators, Sydney Mitchell Oct 2020

Nurses As Innovators, Sydney Mitchell

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Often nurses are not represented in healthcare hackathons, instead the majority include physicians, therapist of different types, and administrative workers. I will be understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the healthcare hierarchy system and see how that relates to participants at hackathons. I will share with you why nurses should be considered as innovators and be able to participate at healthcare hackathons. 


Lgbtq+ Youth And Events That Alters Their Mental Health, Ayanna Seward Oct 2020

Lgbtq+ Youth And Events That Alters Their Mental Health, Ayanna Seward

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The following research was conducted in order to inform my audience of the common misperception within the LGBTQ community. My research is geared toward the LGBTQ youth community and how events such as discrimination, disclosing their sexual orientation, and being accepted or reject by others alters their mental health. As well as how students are not educated on this topic in the classroom setting.


Depression & Anxiety Representation On T.V. Shows And What Misperceptions They Create, Dylan Mckercher Oct 2020

Depression & Anxiety Representation On T.V. Shows And What Misperceptions They Create, Dylan Mckercher

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The goal of this study was to research what is a good depiction of depression and anxiety on T.V.shows, as well as the effects it has on people who consume the depictions. Another purpose was to conclude whether my initial thoughts of if people could decipher a realistic depiction or not was supported.   


Diversity In Adaptations For Young People: Dahl's The Witches, Elizabeth Garri Oct 2020

Diversity In Adaptations For Young People: Dahl's The Witches, Elizabeth Garri

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

This project considers the role adaptations play both as reflections of their hypotexts and as independent works. Here, I examine three adaptations of Roald Dahl's The Witches in the context of broader conversations about diversity in children's media. 


The Effect Mental Health Portrayals In Television Shows Have On Viewers, Cade Kinzel Oct 2020

The Effect Mental Health Portrayals In Television Shows Have On Viewers, Cade Kinzel

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The goal of this study was to research the connections between portrayals in television shows and real-life people with mental health conditions. In addition, another purpose was to conclude whether my initial thoughts, which include believing a minimal numbers of TV shows contain any positive effect on viewer mental health, were supported. Misperceptions about mental health, including a justified feeling to hide mental conditions, judge others for theirs, or use it as a way for humor, are often given in television shows when mental health is included in the story (Smith, et al. 2019). I created a blog that revolved …


An Examination Of Risk Factors Of Cancer, Nathaniel Teague Oct 2020

An Examination Of Risk Factors Of Cancer, Nathaniel Teague

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

My goal for this research project is to examine risk factors pertaining to the likelihood of developing cancer, to examine weather or not cancer is a largely genetic or lifestyle disease, and to come up a number of clearly defined recommendations and takeaway points that a general audience could apply.


Measurement Of Anticipated Stigma: A Barrier To Family Planning Use Among Married Youth, Evidence Project Oct 2020

Measurement Of Anticipated Stigma: A Barrier To Family Planning Use Among Married Youth, Evidence Project

Reproductive Health

The Evidence Project undertook a study to assess youth’s awareness and perceptions of available health services and their service utilization behaviors and preferences. This brief provides summarizes findings of an activity undertaken as a part of this study to validate an anticipated stigma index and explore its relationship with unmet need for family planning among married female youth in Ethiopia.


Assessing Community Capacity Strengthening To Sustain Integrated Social Behavior Change Programming In Northwestern Nigeria, Breakthrough Research Oct 2020

Assessing Community Capacity Strengthening To Sustain Integrated Social Behavior Change Programming In Northwestern Nigeria, Breakthrough Research

Reproductive Health

Qualitative research by Breakthrough RESEARCH is evaluating efforts to prepare communities, through a community capacity strengthening approach, to sustain community social and behavior change programming to promote healthy family behaviors in northwestern Nigeria. This community capacity strengthening approach, implemented by Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria, engages local leaders and community organizations—specifically Ward Development Committees (WDCs)—to increase community capacities to coordinate local health systems to strengthen services and promote positive social norms and individual behaviors for improved health outcomes.


Facing Covid-19: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, And Challenges Of Healthcare Providers, Population Council Oct 2020

Facing Covid-19: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, And Challenges Of Healthcare Providers, Population Council

Reproductive Health

This research brief describes findings from the Population Council study Reproductive Healthcare in the Time of COVID-19: Perspectives of Poor Women and Service Providers from Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). During this study, 60 health care providers that represented 60 unique health facilities in Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan district were interviewed by telephone, to evaluate how much they know about COVID-19 symptoms, prevention, and treatment, as well as their individual attitudes, practices, and challenges during the ongoing pandemic. To assess how the situation evolved during the critical first three months of …


Poor Women's Reproductive Health And Family Planning Challenges And Needs During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Population Council Oct 2020

Poor Women's Reproductive Health And Family Planning Challenges And Needs During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Population Council

Reproductive Health

This research brief describes findings from the Population Council study Reproductive Healthcare in the Time of COVID-19: Perspectives of Poor Women and Service Providers from Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The study conducted 164 interviews by telephone with beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, previously surveyed in 2019, to determine how much those most vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 know about the disease and its effects, in addition to understanding the pandemic’s effects on their lives, including their mental health and well-being as …


Trends In Family Planning Services In Bangladesh Before, During And After Covid-19 Lockdowns: Evidence From National Routine Service Data, Md. Irfan Hossain, Md. Saddam Hossain, Sigma Ainul, Md. Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, Ashish Bajracharya Oct 2020

Trends In Family Planning Services In Bangladesh Before, During And After Covid-19 Lockdowns: Evidence From National Routine Service Data, Md. Irfan Hossain, Md. Saddam Hossain, Sigma Ainul, Md. Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, Ashish Bajracharya

Reproductive Health

Bangladesh instituted a national lockdown to contain community transmission of COVID-19 initially for ten days, from March 26 to April 4, 2020, then extended through May 30. During the lockdown, the pandemic and its mitigation measures’ impacts on social, economic, and financial aspects of life in Bangladesh were widely documented. Disruptions to the health system, however, have received relatively less attention. This brief provides details on a study that analyzed the impacts of COVID-19 and its related mitigation measures on family planning (FP) services in Bangladesh, examining national and district trends for distribution and use of short-acting, long-acting and reversible, …


Midline Report: Accelerating Action To End Child Marriage In Bangladesh, Masuma Billah, Eashita Haque, Surojit Kundu, Md. Saddam Hossain, Momoe Makino, Sajeda Amin Sep 2020

Midline Report: Accelerating Action To End Child Marriage In Bangladesh, Masuma Billah, Eashita Haque, Surojit Kundu, Md. Saddam Hossain, Momoe Makino, Sajeda Amin

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This report describes results from the midline survey of Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage in Bangladesh. The objective of the program is to identify effective and scalable approaches to end child marriage by empowering girls and communities. To bring about social norms change, the program experiments with alternative means of community engagement that can be offered in conjunction with skills-development opportunities for adolescent girls. The program is being assessed in a multi-arm cluster randomized trial. This report explores the impact on the prevalence of child marriage in two districts of Bangladesh as well as on a range of other …


Psychosocial Influences On Modern Contraceptive Use In Sokoto, Kebbi And Zamfara States—Slide Deck, Breakthrough Research Sep 2020

Psychosocial Influences On Modern Contraceptive Use In Sokoto, Kebbi And Zamfara States—Slide Deck, Breakthrough Research

Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Choices

Slide deck for Breakthrough RESEARCH webinar held on 30 September 2020.


High Impact Practices—Detecting And Managing Hypertension In The Extended Postnatal Period: Preventing Postnatal Pre-Eclampsia And Eclampsia, Charlotte E. Warren Sep 2020

High Impact Practices—Detecting And Managing Hypertension In The Extended Postnatal Period: Preventing Postnatal Pre-Eclampsia And Eclampsia, Charlotte E. Warren

Reproductive Health

The Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). This brief focuses on one of those strategies: detecting and managing hypertension in the extended postnatal period. Key points presented are: the extended postnatal period provides an opportunity to monitor a woman’s blood pressure (BP) and check for persistent hypertension; if BP is measured routinely at any contact with the health system during the extended postnatal period, hypertension is more likely to be detected and managed appropriately; women with pre-eclampsia have a 3.7-fold …


Overview Of High Impact Practices For Improved Prevention, Detection, And Management Of Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy, Population Council Sep 2020

Overview Of High Impact Practices For Improved Prevention, Detection, And Management Of Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy, Population Council

Reproductive Health

As part of the Ending Eclampsia Project and supported by the Pre-eclampsia Technical Working Group, the Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving the prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). HDPs affect 10 percent of women globally and are major contributors to maternal and newborn mortality, morbidity, and disability. Providing essential services and health education for women at all levels of the health system is necessary to improve survival rates and quality of life for those who experience HDPs and their newborns. Inspired by Family Planning HIPs, …


High Impact Practices—Task Sharing For Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy: Improving Early Detection And Management Of Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy, Karen Kirk Sep 2020

High Impact Practices—Task Sharing For Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy: Improving Early Detection And Management Of Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy, Karen Kirk

Reproductive Health

The Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). This brief focuses on one of those strategies: task sharing, which is the expansion of the levels of health providers who can appropriately deliver health services. Key points presented in this brief are: optimizing available human resources through task sharing can be an effective strategy to increase access to health services; task sharing key services for the prevention, detection, and management of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy can help prevent maternal and newborn morbidity …


High Impact Practices—Encouraging Empowerment And Self-Care Through Participatory Women’S Groups And Group Antenatal Care: Supporting Women To Be At The Center Of Their Own Care As Active Participants, Tracy Mcclair Sep 2020

High Impact Practices—Encouraging Empowerment And Self-Care Through Participatory Women’S Groups And Group Antenatal Care: Supporting Women To Be At The Center Of Their Own Care As Active Participants, Tracy Mcclair

Reproductive Health

The Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). This brief focuses on one of those strategies: encouraging empowerment and self-care through participatory women’s groups and group antenatal care. Key points presented are: highly participatory, group-based interventions—such as community-based women’s groups and group antenatal and postnatal care (ANC/PNC)—provide opportunities for women to share their experiences and knowledge with others, discuss the local context for challenges and how to address them, and promote empowerment and agency; participation in these groups is associated with …


Population, Development, And Policy, John Bongaarts, Michele Gragnolati, S. Amer Ahmed, Jamaica Corker Sep 2020

Population, Development, And Policy, John Bongaarts, Michele Gragnolati, S. Amer Ahmed, Jamaica Corker

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The extensive literature on population and development yielded few policy-relevant results before the discovery of the demographic dividend. This dividend refers to a rise in per capita income that results from an increase in workers per capita as a population’s fertility declines. This paper describes the role of the demographic dividend in economic development in developing countries and summarizes policy options for strengthening the dividend. The first section reviews the demographic transition with an emphasis on its later phases when declining fertility and a changing population age structure produce the dividend. Next, the demographic drivers of the dividend and its …