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Global Sanitation Summit 2024
Data from the World Bank suggest that 3·5 billion people worldwide do not have access to safely managed sanitation services, and open defecation is observed in nearly 8% of people globally. According to the World Bank, inadequate sanitation also hinders financial growth. “To improve global sanitation, we must rethink our approach, integrating innovation, sustainability, and equity at every level”, said Surapaneni Krishna Mohan (Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai, India).
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Assessing the field of health policy and systems research using symposium abstract submissions and machine learning techniques
Abstract
The field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) has grown rapidly in the past decade. Examining recently aggregated data from the Global Symposia on Health Systems Research, a key global fora for HPSR convened by the largest international society—Health Systems Global (HSG)—provides opportunities to enhance existing research on HPSR capacity using novel analytical techniques. This addresses the demand not only to map the field but also to examine potential predictors of acceptance to, and participation at, these global conferences to inform future work and strategies in promoting HPSR. We examined data from the abstracts submitted for two Global Symposia on Health Systems Research in 2016 and 2018 by type of institution, countries, regional groupings and gender. After mapping hotspot areas for HPSR production, we then examined how the corresponding author’s characteristics were associated with being accepted to present at the Global Symposia. Our findings showed that submissions for the Global Symposia increased by 12% from 2016 to 2018. Submissions increased across all participant groups, in particular, the for-profit organizations and research/consultancy firms showing the highest increases, at 58% for both. We also found reduced submissions from high-income countries, whereas submissions from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, increased substantially revealing the inclusivity values of Symposium organizers. Submissions increased to a larger extent among women than men. Being a woman, coming from a high-income country and having multiple abstracts submitted were found to be significant predictors for an abstract to be accepted and presented in the Symposia. Findings provide critical baseline information on the extent of interest and engagement in a global forum of various institutions and researchers in HPSR that can be useful for setting future directions of HSG and other similar organizations to support the advancement of HPSR worldwide.
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The Effective Facilitator's Handbook
Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. \"The Effective Facilitator's Handbook\" is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about how to create a welcoming environment, set the right tone, understand the group's dynamics, improve communication, and more. This book walks you through the unique purposes, pitfalls, and needs of specific types of groups, whether it's a professional development workshop, a committee focused on one decision or problem, a team that regularly collaborates for student success, or a study group learning about a specific issue. But Toll also considers the bigger picture and connects the patterns behind different types of facilitation skills that will serve you in a variety of situations and settings. As an effective facilitator, you'll be able to increase the value of group time, foster engagement, and help teachers improve their practice so that they can bring their best to the classroom each day.
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Threshold quality parameters in hybrid higher education
Quality assurance conventions are being challenged by emerging business scenarios with alluring economies. This paper analyses shaping contexts, resulting hybridised forms of higher education, and consequences for quality assurance. It devotes sustained attention to unpacking what, as a result of contemporary reconfigurations, would appear to be pressing current change/differentiation frontiers—engineering an engaged learning experience, and authenticating learning outcomes. These parameters are analysed, with consideration of development options. The paper concludes by emphasising the consequent and urgent imperatives for workforce development.
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Upcoming disability summit must be a turning point
This week’s Global Disability Summit (GDS) must be a moment for inclusion, commitment, and action to ensure equitable access and services for persons with disabilities
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Hello healthcare: evaluating the impact of a healthcare conference for secondary school pupils
Background
There are over 350 careers within healthcare. However, in the United Kingdom, opportunities are limited for secondary school pupils to learn about a variety of healthcare careers. We aimed to address this by delivering an in-person regional conference on healthcare careers for Year 10 pupils from widening participation (WP) backgrounds. This “Hello Healthcare Conference” enabled pupils to gain insight into a range of careers within healthcare. We explored the impact of the conference on pupils’ self-reported knowledge, skills, and attitudes to healthcare careers.
Methods
We conducted a pre-test-post-test study of 44 pupils from WP backgrounds who attended Hello Healthcare to evaluate the effectiveness of the conference. A five-point Likert scale confidence questionnaire was used to evaluate the impact of Hello Healthcare on school pupils’ self-reported knowledge, skills, and attitude to healthcare careers. A Shapiro-Wilk test revealed a lack of normal distribution (
p
< 0.05); therefore, the pre-test-post-test results for each pupil were compared using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Results
44 Year 10 pupils from WP backgrounds across 4 schools were included in this study. Self-reported knowledge of most healthcare careers improved after the conference. Pupils’ perception of having the necessary skills for a healthcare career significantly increased, with Z = -5.78,
p
< 0.001, and large effect size (
r
= -0.87). Pupils’ perception that they could successfully apply for a healthcare course increased (Z = -5.52,
p
< 0.001,
r
=-0.83).
Conclusions
The Hello Healthcare conference was beneficial in improving pupils’ awareness and attitudes towards healthcare careers and demonstrated an effective method by which to address the limited perceived knowledge WP pupils may have. Government and universities need to support and invest in the Hello Healthcare conference concept to replicate the impact of the intervention in other regions of the UK.
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Fostering Local Health Department and Health System Collaboration Through Case Conferences for At-Risk and Vulnerable Populations
In case conferences, health care providers work together to identify and address patients’ complex social and medical needs. Public health nurses from the local health department joined case conference teams at federally qualified health center primary care sites to foster cross-sector collaboration, integration, and mutual learning. Public health nurse participation resulted in frequent referrals to local health department services, greater awareness of public health capabilities, and potential policy interventions to address social determinants of health.
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Good Parents or Good Workers?
Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates. Good Parents or Good Workers? is an important text on the impacts of welfare reform that will be essential reading in a variety of courses in education, sociology, and politics.
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The Inverted Classroom Model
Only two years after its first run, the Inverted Classroom Conference has become a familiar event at Marburg University. Most conference participants not only knew about this digital teaching and learning scenario but were experienced users and developers. While during its predecessors most participants wanted to familiarize themselves with the central components of the Inverted Classroom Model, the focus of the 3rd German Inverted Classroom Conference in 2014, to which this conference volume is dedicated, was not only a discussion of variants of the model but also, for the first time, the inclusion of long-term evaluations and aspects of student behavior.
This shift of emphasis is reflected in the contributions to this volume. Even though all central aspects of the ICM - content production and delivery, testing, and the in-class phase - are still addressed, we can now find recommendations concerning digital material acquisition, in-class tuition, the role of student tutors as well as first long-term studies about ICM effects.
In general then, the focus was much wider than that of the first two ICM-conferences: from a new and originally non-familiar teaching and learning scenario to more general aspects of digitization of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
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