Means Of Outreach Research Articles

Analysis of School Community Sentiment towards Personal Data Protection Law Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Method

This research aims to analyze the awareness status of the school community regarding the right to personal data protection, test and analyze the sentiments of the school community towards the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Law and as a means of outreach regarding personal data protection laws in the world of education, especially school community besides that to find out whether the Support Vector Machine method can be used as a method in conducting Sentiment Analysis research. The results of this study can be concluded that only 38% of the school community knows about this regulation while the other 62% still don't know much about this rule. Then for the use of the Support Vector Machine method which has been carried out five (5) trials using different variations of training data and test data produces an average accuracy rate of 85.97% with the highest results on training data and test data 50% - 50% that is equal to 88.00% and the lowest result is in the experiment of training data and test data of 90% - 10% which is equal to 84.44%. For the school community's sentiment towards the Personal Data Protection Act, it was 56% or as many as 496 of 887 words. which shows a neutral response and 8% or as many as 72 out of 887 sentiment words show a negative response.

Nutrition Services and Resources for Families in the First 1000 Days: A Needs Assessment in the State of California

ObjectivesTo identify the current status of and gaps within nutrition services and resources provided to California families during the first 1000 days of life (from conception to age 2 years). MethodsA semi-structured online survey was developed by a task-force group at the University of California, Irvine, and Dairy Council of California. The survey addressed five pillars of nutrition service provision in the first 1000 days: accessibility of services, delivery of nutrition education, content of nutrition messages, breastfeeding support, and professional development on nutrition. The survey was disseminated across California to health professionals and providers from agencies that provide services to pregnant women and families with infants and young children up to 2 years of age. Results148 survey responses were obtained with representation across the state and organization types (37% healthcare, 23% childcare/preschools, 20% Government agencies, and 20% community organizations). Almost 60% of respondents estimated that at least 75% of the clients they serve are Medi-Cal eligible. Although most organizations provide referrals to the Women Infants and Children program, only 46% of clinical and 69% of community-based respondents reported referring clients to the CalFresh benefits program. Several needs were identified to better support optimal health, growth and development including improved access to nutritious food and educational resources for low-income families, improved cultural appropriateness in the delivery and content of nutrition education, messaging around key micronutrients for fetal and early child development, enhanced social support and guidance regarding breastfeeding, and further professional development opportunities on early life nutrition. Notably, technology as a means of outreach and communicating nutritional messages to families during the first 1000 days was reportedly underutilized. ConclusionsThe accessibility, content, and delivery of nutritious food, nutrition-related resources, and breastfeeding support for families in the first 1000 days can be improved. A comprehensive and coordinated approach to improve social support, nutrition security and education is needed to support health outcomes during the first 1000 days of life. Funding SourcesNIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

On-Farm Safety Program

ABSTRACT Rates of fatal occupational injuries in New York agriculture far outstrip the average for all American workers. Among its various approaches to this problem, the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH) sponsored an On-Farm Safety Program that sought to reduce farm worksite hazards and to enhance understanding of safe farm practices through a two-step process. First, an on-farm hazard survey identified hazards that may lead to farm injury and suggested improvements to correct those hazards. Second, on-farm safety training sessions were offered to increase safety knowledge and influence adoption of safe work practices. Over a 2-year period, 124 farms were surveyed and 187 safety training sessions were conducted on a total of 271 New York farms. Follow-up phone surveys were conducted with 97 (78%) of the on-farm survey sites at roughly 6 months. Of the 97 survey farms that completed the telephone survey, 77 (79%) reported having made safety improvements. Hazards resolved tended to be less labor intensive and expensive than some of the other hazards observed. Ninety-six (99%) of the farms that completed the telephone follow-up survey found the on-farm visits useful and said that NYCAMH should continue to offer the On-Farm Safety Program. No data were collected to assess the impact of these efforts upon occupational injury and illness. This appears to be an effective means of outreach to heighten safety awareness of the farm population and to address some of the observed worksite hazards. It is unclear whether this approach substantially impacts the elevated risk of injury in agriculture.

“We are the Web”: Letter Writing and the 1980s Women's Peace Movement

This essay considers the unsung role of letter-writing in the construction of feminist communities formed in protest. Using the example of the Greenham and Seneca womens peace protests of the early 1980s, I show that the vibrant sense of community symbolised by the womens web was partly constructed through personal letters and epistolary publicity sent to and from peace camps. Like the web, letter-writing was symbolic as well as practical, the virtual extension of a profound identification across an international network of women. However, as a means of outreach and negotiation, letters also show conflicts with locals and within the movement itself to reveal the adversarial and unconscious dimensions of community-making as well as the more manipulative aspects of letters. In either case, letter-writing functions simultaneously as a basic technology of campaigning and a form of creative life-writing, testifying to the interdependence of writing and political direct action.

Psychiatric services for rural Wales

A study was made of Maes Derw Day Centre at Llandudno Junction in the Aberconwy district of Gwynedd in Wales. This Health Authority Centre opened in October 1977 in an attempt to meet the needs of community care on the one hand and a devolution of psychiatric care into Gwynedd from neighbouring Clwyd. There was, pre-1977, no psychiatric provision in Gwynedd with the exception of four out-patient clinics. Using Ynys Mon, another district in Gwynedd as a control, certain criteria such as admission and re-admission rates, length of stay, number of section 29s, age, sex, case mix and percentage of elderly were studied for Aberconwy patients in the in-patient wards at the nearest psychiatric hospital at Dinbych, Clwyd. This was done for periods pre- and post-opening of the day-centre. No significant differences were found in any of the criteria studied, i.e. the influence of the benefits of the centre were not to be found in hard data. There was however very strong subjective support for the centre from patients, relatives and staff alike attending Maes Derw. Two-thirds of the relatives questioned felt that the centre was of great help to their family. Over half the patients attending lived within 5 miles of Maes Derw. It was felt that unmet need in the community must be surveyed and if disproportionately high in the rural areas, a travelling day hospital might be considered as a means of outreach to these areas. The aims of Maes Derw need to be more clearly defined, with explicit objectives and achievements measured. To this end, a psychiatric case register for Gwynedd should be established. Other psychiatric developments already planned for Gwynedd can then similarly be measured as to their effectiveness.