Family Needs of Parents of Children and Youth with Cerebral Palsy

Determinants and Unique Profiles

by Nihad A. Almasri

It is important for professionals who provide medical, rehabilitation, educational, and community services for children and youth with cerebral palsy to provide a quality medical home, family-centered, and needs-based services to address their needs and improve child and family well-being. Knowledge regarding ...

Towards Healthier Ageing

The Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Proactive Health Promotion ...

by Jason Aaron Fox

Promoting healthier ageing amongst older adults has never been more important. Most conventional health promotion interventions for older adults take very reactive approaches, typically attempting to minimise specific age-related functional losses. This implies an underlining assumption that such age-related losses ...

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Case Management Activities for Diabetes

A Quasi-Experimental Study from One Medicare Advantage Plan's Perspective

by Felix J. Bradbury

The economic and human costs of diabetes in the U.S. population place an enormous burden on its healthcare system as well as on employers, diabetics, and their respective families. Many Medicare Advantage plans have responded to this burden by implementing diabetes case management programs (DCMPs) aimed at reducing ...

The Relationship between Perceived Wellness and Stages of Change for ...

by Imani C. Goodwin

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among women in the US, and African American women (AAW) have a disproportionately high rate of deaths from CVD. Physical inactivity plays a major role in CVD development. It has been reported that some rural women have low rates of physical activity; 39% of ...

Initiation and Control of Gait from First Principles

A Mathematically Animated Model of the Foot

by Craig Nevin

This thesis examines the anatomical locations of the dynamic pressures that create the first five footprints when a standing person starts to walk. It is hypothesized that the primary activity starts with the dorsiflexion or lifting of the great toe. Consequently, the metatarsophalangeal region of the forefoot was ...

Anterior Segmental Osteotomies for Management of Dento-osseous ...

by Balwant Rai

With the advent of a new millennium, there has been phenomenal progress in almost all aspects of life and there has been a continuous, unending endeavour to project oneself to the society and their kith and kins with impressive personality. This has further awakened the hidden desire to present oneself with harmonious ...

The Open Door

The Reentry Experiences of Eight Patients in an Acute Care Psychiatric Unit

by Annmarie McConnell

The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to document the experiences of persons diagnosed with major depression who were readmitted to an acute care voluntary psychiatric unit after having been previously discharged and who took part there in a therapeutic recreation program. The researcher conducted the ...

A Study of the Effects of Abortion in the United States

The Reasoning Behind Abortions and Improving Access to Care

by Rudolph Gurtovnik

This research study examines legal, political, and social factors influencing women's decisions to undergo or forego abortion. It also suggests ways to increase accessibility of abortion services. Due to time and budgetary constraints, the study was conducted by utilizing secondary data, such as academic studies, ...