Impact Of Public Education Research Articles

Public Education Interventions and Uptake of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Systematic Review.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake remains suboptimal in the United States. Public education is considered an important aspect of increasing vaccination rates. We systematically reviewed the literature on the impact of public education on HPV vaccine uptake. PubMed was searched to identify studies published between January 1, 2007, and April 30, 2018, meeting the following inclusion criteria: the study was conducted in the US, education was directed toward the public, and the research included HPV vaccine uptake and/or completion as outcomes. A total of 3764 studies were screened, and 30 published studies were included in the review. Among those, 13 focused on parent/guardian education, 8 on young adults, 6 on parent/daughter dyads, 1 focused only on adolescents, and 2 studies recruited a mixed-age population. Studies that included parents and young adults and were delivered by experts led to increased uptake of HPV vaccination (n = 14). A majority of the studies included female and Non-Hispanic White population (n = 20). Less than a third of studies included minority groups: Hispanic (n = 4), African American (n = 1), Cambodian American (n = 1), Indian American (n = 1), Korean American (n = 1), and combined Haitian and African American (n = 1) population. Minority group interventions that provided individually tailored messages, addressed misconceptions, removed barriers to vaccination, and engaged parents and community members improved HPV vaccine acceptance (n = 5). Interventions that delivered HPV-related education by authoritative sources and included parents improved HPV vaccination rates among adolescents and young adults. Community engagement played an important role in vaccine uptake among minority populations. Future studies should focus on male participants and minority populations to reduce disparities in HPV-related cancer incidence and HPV vaccine coverage.

Impact of Public Education and Awareness towards mentally ill and mental disorders in individuals from Rural and Urban Area of North Maharashtra Region

The study will be focused on Impact of Public Education and Awareness about mentally ill and mental disorders in changing attitude of public and lay persons. For the present study sample of 900 persons will be collected from rural and urban area of North Maharashtra region. Their attitude towards mental disorders and patients will be tested in pre and post manner, with the help of attitude towards mental illness scales. Between pre and post testing they were educated about the mental health and mental disorder using techniques like public awareness meetings, workshops and seminars. Anova and post hoc analysis planned to use as a statistical analysis.

Impact of Public Education and Regional Economic Growth in China: A Shadow-Price Perspective

Education development is a critical component for a modern economy as the illiteracy rate can hinder economic growth. The illiteracy rate in China has decreased rapidly since 1980s, but there still exists an imbalance in distribution of educational resources among different regions. In order to explore the impacts of education quality on regional economic growth, we employ a quadratic directional distance function to derive the shadow prices of illiteracy for 31 provinces in China. In this case, shadow price is interpreted as the opportunity cost of reducing the illiteracy rate. The results show that the highest shadow price of illiteracy is observed in the middle region. Looking at individual provinces, Zhejiang shows the lowest shadow price of illiteracy, whereas Shanxi features the highest one. The shadow price of illiteracy showed a downward trend in the eastern region, while increasing trends were observed for the middle and the western regions during 2005–2011. Moreover, the gap between the eastern region on the one side and the middle and the western regions on the other side has been increasing.

Impact of public education on rational use of medicines

Impact of public education on rational use of medicines

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News by Matthew Rubery (review)

Reviewed by: The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News by Matthew Rubery Jon Whitzman The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News by Matthew Rubery; pp. 253. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $66.00 cloth. Amid the wealth of anecdotal evidence that Matthew Rubery has collected in his fascinating book The Novelty of Newspapers, the most evocative impression of nineteenth-century attitudes toward the newspaper is delivered by Edward Linley Sambourne, in an 1880 Punch cartoon. Sambourne’s illustration— which accompanies Francis Burnand’s “The Beadle! Or, the Latest Chronicle of Small-Beerjester,” a parody of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser series—personifies the standard newspaper item known as the “leading article” as a devilish creature, complete with wings, fangs, a tail, and a grotesque skin of scales made [End Page 164] from printer’s letters. Both comical and unsettling, the illustration hints at the complex relationship between journalism and fiction in Victorian England, one that Rubery reconstructs in The Novelty of Newspapers. Arguing that “the shape taken by the Victorian novel must be understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news” (159), Rubery challenges the public perception of the novel as superior to journalism by tracing the stylistic as well as thematic influence of journalistic conventions on the period’s fiction. His meticulous research offers a convincing portrayal of the newspaper as a seminal cultural platform—contemporary, interactive, and versatile—that intrigued Victorian novelists as much as it earned their scorn. As such, his monograph fits into the scholarly tradition of exploring the “reciprocal relationship between the novel and the news” (17) during an era as easily characterized by the prominence of the former as by the explosive growth in the production of the latter. Rubery’s analysis begins at the time of the tax reforms early in the Victorian period and concludes at century’s end, when the most popular national newspapers in England had reached a circulation of at least one million readers. Though he acknowledges that factors such as advances in printing technology and the impact of public education on general literacy rates contributed to the rise of journalism’s importance to middle-class society, Rubery persuasively argues that it was tax reform, which allowed publishers to set significantly lower prices, that allowed newspapers to evolve from an upper-class luxury to a ubiquitous cultural product. This argument is critical to his claim that newspaper conventions influenced literary trends, with novelists now unable to ignore the mainstream popularity and social relevance of journalism. One of Rubery’s most insightful arguments is his proposition that newspapers were a medium not only of aesthetic innovation but also of sociological change. Women in particular, he proposes, used sections such as the “shipping intelligence” and “agony column” for social engagement. In chapter 1, he argues that novels such as Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) turned to newspapers’ depictions of shipwrecks to provide their female characters an opportunity to express publically feelings of love that were otherwise configured as private or even unacceptable. According to Rubery, readers transferred these positive fictional depictions of women’s mass-media demonstrations of emotion onto the nonfictional materials in actual newspapers, and this extension further functioned as a catalyst for the cultural affirmation of females’ public display of personal feelings. In chapter 2, Rubery extends his argument to the personal advertisements section of the newspaper. Linking these advertisements to the sensation novel, he proposes that reading communities formed around the expression of extreme emotion, which did not simply characterize the agony columns but made them wildly popular. Though curious readers were attracted to this raw emotional display, both the anonymity and unreliability of personal advertisements created a means by which women could potentially invent new identities [End Page 165] for themselves. Rubery cites Lady Audley as the pre-eminent example of this potential, but he does not turn as much attention to the agency that this same anonymity might have extended to men. However, he does demonstrate—noting, for example, Robert Audley’s sleuthing through the newspapers—the way in...

Who Benefits from Public Education in Greece? Evidence and Policy Implications

This paper examines the distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of the 1993/94 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public education is found to be progressive although the incidence varies according to the level of education under examination. In-kind transfers of education services in the fields of primary and secondary education lead to a considerable decline in inequality, whereas the distributional impact of tertiary education transfers is found to be regressive. The overall progressivity of public education transfers declined between 1988 and 1994, and almost the entire decline is driven by changes in the progressivity of tertiary education transfers. The main policy implications of the findings are outlined in the concluding section.

Public Education: the ultimatum for the profession

The impact of public education is without question in the ‘public good’ domain and hence there is really no need to justify the demand for it. However, some professionals and scientists remain unconvinced about the necessity for it. This paper will lay out the benefits it holds for the scientists, categorise the target groups and identify the methods of approach for each target group and finally outline some strategies that can be adopted to achieve the educational aims.

Impact of Public Education and Continuing Medical Education on Physician Attitudes and Behavior Concerning Cholesterol

Current physician attitudes and behavior concerning elevated blood cholesterol, recent changes, and reasons for change were measured in a survey of physicians in two cities. Those in a community with both continuing medical and public education programs reported changing their practice significantly over the past two years, more so than those in a comparison community. The physicians did not identify specific elements of a continuing medical education program as important in these differences. Physicians in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, identified requests from the public as important and statistically significant factors in their changed behavior, suggesting that the public education program has become an important influence on physician behavior.

A Text and a Reference

Let's take each of these points. The charge is made that Managing the Modern City is not theoretical, or at least that its contributions to any theory of urbanism is indeed small. This is a misreading of the purpose of the book. Managing the Modern City is intended to serve as a single point of reference for administrators of cities, counties, and other local governments who are concerned with all aspects of urbanism-structural, spatial, political, economic, physical, systematic, visual, and sociological. Urban administrators do not have the time to read more than a very small portion of the enormous published output on urbanism. Managing the Modern City is intended to help them by bringing together those portions of the output that are deemed especially significant for their operational responsibilities. The book is intended as a text and a reference, not as a work to postulate hypotheses and avenues for further research. Managing the Modern City has been written for readers who are not teachers and researchers. The book therefore has been written from front to back in as clear and straightforward a manner as possible. This is a clear-cut advantage in serving the needs of administrators and those who are studying to be administrators. The book also is criticized for failing to develop a spatial context. Again that misreads the purpose of the book which is intended to be general in coverage. I would argue that the spatial context is no more important than the cross currents of influence and opinion in molding public policy, the relationships of the city government with unorganized community groups and with formal associations, the electoral process and voting behavior, the impact of public education and cultural facilities, etc.

Impact of public education about cancer on detection and treatment of cancer of the breast by surgery.

Ten years of breast surgery in a community was analyzed to determine if changes have developed as a result of cancer education programs. Carcinoma was found in 26.8% of 2,677 breast biopsies and remained relatively unchanged yearly for 10 years. During this time radical mastectomies without axillary metastases remained constant at 50% each year. In the past 50 years negative axillae have increased from 36 to 50% in 21,864 cases from the literature. In the past 10 years there has been no change in the “earliness” that tumors of the breast are presenting themselves to the surgeon.