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How can healthcare professionals help patients to improve their health through medicines adherence?

This midwifery course covers the history of the profession and what it means to be a midwife today.

This course focuses on cost-effective health care solutions using ever-expanding mobile technologies. The addressed themes are: 1) Global Health Challenges. 2) Mobile Health Opportunities. 3) Entrepreneurship in Health Care.

This course focuses on cost-effective health care solutions using ever-expanding mobile technologies. The addressed themes are: 1) Global Health Challenges. 2) Mobile Health Opportunities. 3) Entrepreneurship in Health Care.

This is a 3-week instructor-led course that will include a review of ethical principles and a description of an ethical decision-making model for health care professionals. Case studies and discussion will be the primary teaching route. Certificate route includes two short quizzes and a final assignment. Over the course of their careers, health care professionals face a variety of difficult decisions. At times, choosing between two courses of action presents an ethical dilemma. The health care professional must consider the consequences of each course of action. Simply following one's "gut" feeling is inappropriate and unprofessional. The purpose of this course is to develop core principles in philosophy and ethics to help health care professionals think about and evaluate their role in society.

This course introduces the student to global health concepts and the network of organizations working to advance health care internationally. Emphasis for this course is on the global burden of disease and determinates of health. It will provide the student with a broad introduction to programs, systems and policies affecting global health. Students will explore facets of the global health care delivery system, health care economics and the political process and its impact on the health of individuals and populations. Course Level: Undergraduate This Work, N 420 - Perspectives in Global Health, by Jody Lori is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The primary goal of this course is to promote an evidence-based approach to advanced nursing practice. Evidenced-based research findings for nursing practice will be evaluated in terms of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic relevance. An understanding of the research process, applicable theories, organizational dynamics, and leadership functions are applied to design and process of implementing research in health care settings. This Work, N 536 - Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice, by Huey-Ming Tzeng, Sonia A. Duffy, Lisa Kane Low is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

This course will examine the ethical, legal and social issues raised by neuroscience. Topics will include the implications of new knowledge of the brain for our understanding of selfhood, for the meaning of privacy, for the distinction between therapy and enhancement, and for national security.

Billed as the "world's largest hospitality technology show," the annual HITEC conference offers networking, education, and information on the latest technology, including the evolution and management of new media. It’s a place where organizations build relationships with industry vendors. eCornell attended the 2013 conference and met with industry leaders to talk about changes in the hospitality marketplace with regard to new media and technology. Bill Carroll, senior lecturer at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, provides context for our guest experts and advice for your organization. Join him to learn about how your organization can meet the challenges of the rapidly evolving, technology-driven, world of hospitality media management.

By Karon Klipple, Cinnamon Hillyard and The Carnegie Post-Bacs

This course will provide a coherent, understandable look at the evidence on how nutrition and physical activity impact health through lower morbidity, longevity, and quality of life.

This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases.

Obesity is a global epidemic. As the world gets fatter, we begin to see its impact across many aspects of day-to-day life.

One Health, One Medicine: A Global Health Approach is a course for anyone interested in health, including: medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, life sciences, environmental health, health management and international health. The One Health One Medicine concept is changing the way we perceive and tackle the world’s health problems. This course is geared toward premedical and preveterinary medical students, as well as anyone interested in public health and MPH studies. This eight-week course is a must for anyone interested in the ways people, animals, and the environment interact with each other, affecting the health of each other. The course is divided into seven sections: History of Medicine Introduction to the One Health One Medicine Concept Emerging Infectious Diseases Zoonotic Diseases Food Safety Environmental Health International Health Time commitments: Students will be expected to complete the course within an eight week block of time. The course is comprised of seven sections which can be completed in weekly blocks requiring two hours of contact time per week. At the end of the seven modules, there are also discussions and case studies to prepare and submit which can be completed within the eight (final) week of the course. This cutting-edge course, taught by Dr Satesh Bidaisee, an associate professor from St. George's University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in Grenada, will identify all areas of global health issues that require human and veterinary applications for solutions. St. George's University with its Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Arts and Sciences, and Graduate Studies Programs focuses on the One Health One Medicine approach in meeting the global health needs.

The materials in this resource represent a curriculum for teaching effective patient communication to dentistry students. These techniques could be useful for other healthcare providers, as well: medical students, nursing students, public health providers, and in-practice health care providers. There are two main types of materials here: performance keys and videos. Performance Keys are text documents that articulate key patient interaction skills, and give examples of more and less effective techniques. The videos in this resource are staged interactions between a faculty member and a standardized patient. There are two versions of each interaction given - one that follows the performance keys, and one that does not. The differences in patient responsiveness, patient-provider rapport, and the resulting treatment plan are dramatic. This Work, Patient Communication Skills, by Marilyn Guenther, M.S. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Learn the essentials of U.S. health care policy from some of the nation's top experts.

PH278x explores global environmental changes, examining their causes as well as their health consequences, and engages students in thinking about their solutions.

This Physical Education (PE or Phys Ed) course offers a comprehensive introduction to the topic and investigates the basics: from muscle response to the physiology, biology, and the science of sports. It covers the scientific basis of fitness and concludes with training principals and methods. It is an ideal course for those studying for a qualification in health or fitness or for sports enthusiasts. It is also an excellent resource for trainers or managers in fitness, health or sports related activities. <br />

For all of the bodies attached to the many great minds that walk the Institute's halls, in the work that goes on at MIT the body is present as an object of study, but is all but unrecognized as an important dimension of our intelligence and experience. Yet the body is the basis of our experience in the world; it is the very foundation on which cognitive intelligence is built. Using the MIT gymnastics gym as our laboratory, the Physical Intelligence activity will take an innovative, hands-on approach to explore the kinesthetic intelligence of the body as applicable to a wide range of disciplines. Via exercises, activities, readings and discussions designed to excavate our physical experience, we will not only develop balance, agility, flexibility and strength, but a deep appreciation for the inherent unity of mind and body that suggests physical intelligence as a powerful complement to cognitive intelligence.

This is a survey course on the principles of Clinical Toxicology. The emphasis will be pre-hospital and emergency hospital management of poisonings with a case-oriented lecture format. The topics are prioritized by prevalence of human poisoning, natural and synthetic toxins, and target organ effects.