Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives: A Promising Approach to Addressing America's Biggest Challenges

Communities face powerful challenges -- a high-school dropout epidemic, youth unemployment, teen pregnancy -- that require powerful solutions. In a climate of increasingly constrained resources, those solutions must help communities to achieve more with less. A new kind of community collaborative -- an approach that aspires to significant community-wide progress by enlisting all sectors to work together toward a common goal -- offers enormous promise to bring about broader, more lasting change across the nation

Introduction du réseau de concepts comme stratégie d'apprentissage en soins infirmiers première session

Essai présenté à la Faculté d'éducation en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître en enseignement (M. Éd.) Maîtrise en enseignement au collégialM. Éd. Université de Sherbrooke 2014Bibliographie : pages 96-99

Understanding Factors Contributing to Suboptimal Rates of Childhood Vaccinations in Vermont

Introduction: Nationally, childhood immunizations have proven themselves invaluable in preventing contagious diseases and their associated morbidity and mortality. Nonetheless, vaccines have become increasingly controversial, with a growing number of parents refusing to vaccinate their children. Primary reasons given for vaccination refusal include fears of side effects and the belief that the target diseases are not harmful. Those parents who refuse to vaccinate their children generally have higher levels of education and income. An additional population of under-vaccinated children who have received limited recommended vaccinations has been identified and often comes from a lower socioeconomic level. Unimmunized children have been associated with recent disease outbreaks, placing other individuals at risk and increasing the controversy about childhood vaccinations. Nationally, Vermont has one of the highest rates of unvaccinated children with recent data showing these rates are continuing to increase.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/comphp_gallery/1057/thumbnail.jp

Increasing Exercise for patients with Diabetes using a mobile app – A Quality Improvement Project

Background: A literature review on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) indicates that a combination of aerobic and resistance exercise leads to overall beneficial physical and psychological health benefits for people that have a diagnosis of Diabetes. Behavior change and social support are identified as essential factors that facilitate and help maintain a productive and committed exercise program for people with Diabetes. Patient self-management is an important indicator in maintaining good control of diabetes, and mobile phone interventions have been shown to improve such self-management. Exercise is an important component of treatment, and prevention of T2DM although people struggle with incorporating exercise into their daily lives and they have difficulty maintaining exercise once they initiate an exercise goal. Method: This quality improvement project provides an educational tool for diabetes educators on benefits of the MyFitnessPal app for people that have diabetes. Additionally, it teaches educators how to download and utilize the app so they can therefore teach their patients how to track and log food and improve patient self-management. Patient weight, glycohemoglobin, (A1c) and self-rated activity levels were also analyzed at the initial visit and at one to three month follow-up appointments. Conclusion: Educators were more comfortable using MyFitnessPal app after initial education, but did not find it useful for diabetes education. It was found that exercise is an important tool for patients with diabetes to lower A1C level and weight, and the MyFitnessPal app was shown to be useful tool for patients to utilize and to meet these goals

Alien Registration- Jolin, Alma (Sanford, York County)

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Pumping shotcrete: past knowledge applied for modern shotcrete mix design

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Alien Registration- Jolin, Donat (Sanford, York County)

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Evaluating the cracking potential of shotcrete

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