Education campaigns

Educational campaign. The training and promotion of PTPM philosophy is a must. This is useful to reduce the resistance to change. The education should cover how PTPM will be beneficial to both the corporation and the individuals. 

By 1978/1979, indicators of PCP abuse leveled off and started to decline. This trend is thought to be related to a variety of activities initiated by health and law enforcement officials, including a nationwide education campaign in which 18,000 letters... 

Running targeted public education campaigns, which take into account cultural beliefs and the influence of social factors. Education about the use of medicines may be introduced into the health education component of school curricula or into adult education programmes, such as literacy courses. 

To truly restrict GHB use, experts emphasize that public education is needed to supplement legal actions. In an effort to teach people the dangers of GHB and other club drugs, the NIDA has launched a national educational campaign with partner organizations Join Together, National Families in Action, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. 

Plan and implement educational campaigns in order to raise social awareness. 

The strategy works. A few more children contract the measles, but no more die. The epidemic is contained, and city officials move on to the educational campaign. 

Knowledge testing questions Here we are looking to determine how well informed the subject is. We might target either the public (is an educational campaign needed ) or health professionals (in what areas are further training needed ). For example,... 

Design an educational campaign for people who live in a place that is at high risk for a disaster to occur that will inform them of how to prepare food and water supplies. 

Explain the meteorological relationship between thunderstorms and tornadoes. Design a public health education campaign to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. 

Community education programs should be developed to inform residents about superwarfarin rodenticides and other household commercial chemicals with the potential to be used as chemical warfare or terror agents. Fact sheets may be one method of informing the pubhc. Identifying those at risk and when they should be informed may be a useful part of this education campaign - this may also improve security in industrial plants, and limit any access from outsiders in all industrial and storage facilities where flammable or highly toxic chemicals are stored, particularly livestock facilities. 

This was typical of the bureau s "educational campaign describing the drag, its identification, and its evil effects."... 

To promote rational drug use through training programs and public education campaigns. 

Prevention of food-borne gastroenteritis due to consumption of molluscan shellfish relies on consumer education and thorough cooking of shellfish (Fayer et al., 1998, 1999 Freire-Santos et al., 2001 Rippey, 1994 Wallace et al., 1999). Education should be particularly focused on populations that are predisposed to serious illness after consumption of contaminated shellfish (e.g., people with suppressed immune systems) (Fayer et al., 1999 Rippey, 1994 Wallace et al., 1999). Several factors may impede consumer education campaigns about the risk of raw shellfish consumption (Altekruse et al., 1999). 

Risk behaviours that may transmit infection are of concern. High-risk groups include young injectors not exposed to earlier education campaigns women, who tend to share injecting equipment more than men heroin injectors who also use cocaine and imprisoned drug users. 

Develop a hydrogen education campaign as recommended in the President s National Energy Policy. 

In the more affluent countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, we need a public education campaign to inform the public of the need to use iodized salt and lobby governments for the implementation of mandatory salt iodization. In the meantime, all pregnant and breast-feeding women in this country should be made to take daily iodine supplements to ensure optimal iodine nutrition for the developing fetus. 

In 1999, the concern focused on PVC bags for intravenous fluids, which also use phthalate plasticizers. The Health Care Without Harm Coalition launched a consumer education campaign claiming that the IV bags have similar problems to the... 

There is some evidence that education campaigns and information programmes do not necessarily lead to targeted changes in perception and behaviour. See Adler and Prittle (1984) Green (1995). There is also evidence that when information is available there is patchy understanding of it. See Renn (1992). 

Adler, R., and Prittle, D. (1984) Cajolery or Command Are Education Campaigns an Adequate Substitute for Regulation Yale Journal of Regulation 1/2. 

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