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A Monitoring And Evaluation Plan For The Core Competencies Of Skilled Birth Attendants In Nepal, Roberta Goldstein
A Monitoring And Evaluation Plan For The Core Competencies Of Skilled Birth Attendants In Nepal, Roberta Goldstein
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The purpose of this capstone is to present a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan of the core competencies, for Skilled Birth Attendants (SBA) of Nepal. The World Health Organization has laid out 10 specific skills that assess a SBAs competency. Nepal presently lacks any formal process for monitoring quality assurance of its SBAs and therefore has no measurement of their effectiveness. This Capstone proposes a simple M&E plan to begin the process of quality measurement, using a recent follow-up study done by the Nepali government, other articles and the experiences of the author. The tools included in this Capstone are …
Incentivized Hiv Testing--Is It Needed And Effective? Developing An Evaluation Tool, Dawn Spellman
Incentivized Hiv Testing--Is It Needed And Effective? Developing An Evaluation Tool, Dawn Spellman
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The following is a case study of agencies in Seattle, WA who provide HIV testing followed by an evaluation tool for the agencies to determine the role of incentivizing HIV testing. Some agencies I interviewed provide incentives for the testing and others do not.
This Capstone will focus on six agencies currently providing HIV testing and provides a tool for agencies to use to attempt to answer the following question: In the face of reduced funding for HIV prevention and a mandate to continue to push for increasingly getting more Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) tested for HIV, …
The Role Of Local Food In Increasing Access To Healthy Food In Indianapolis, Indiana, Anna Hostetter
The Role Of Local Food In Increasing Access To Healthy Food In Indianapolis, Indiana, Anna Hostetter
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In the United States today, incidents of obesity are on the rise, currently more than one-third, or 35.7% of U.S. adults are considered obese, up from 30.5% in 2000. These startling numbers are causing news institutions and politicians to refer to it as the “obesity epidemic”.
Obesity is linked to multiple health problems including Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and breast cancer (Aronne, L.J., 2002). There are numerous causes of obesity, including genetics, yet high rates of obesity have also been positively linked with a diet high in processed foods and low in fruits and vegetables (Drewnowski, A. …