Specifically, I include indicators for Catholic religion, living with both biological parents, maternal and paternal years of education (entered separately and linearly), access to educational materials in the home (separate indicators for a library card, magazines, and newspapers), living in a rural area, and speaking a language other than English in the home in all regression models.
In conclusion, we demonstrate, for the first time, that a telemedicine intervention that includes regularly scheduled home televisits with a diabetes educator, review of glucose uploads, individualized goal-setting, web access to educational materials, and recommendations for changes in therapy to PCPs can reduce racial/ethnic disparities in glycemic control in older underserved adults.
In addition, clinicians reported access to educational materials for obese patients, ability to refer patients to an obesity educator, dietician, physical therapist, behavioral counselor, and group obesity appointments, and use of a readiness to change questionnaire about weight loss for obese patients as useful weight management services for the VA to implement.
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — This past year has been a time of signs and wonders for the open educational resources movement, which pushes for free public access to educational materials.
Students' from low-SES homes lacked basic access to educational materials (e.g. books).
Now the company has announced another investment, this time of up to $75 million, aimed at increasing digital access to educational materials throughout Africa.
For example, novice clinical researchers should have access to educational material that will provide them with at least a working knowledge of the main statistical concepts to be used in individual projects, while data analysts should have a working knowledge of the main clinical concepts along with their relationships for a given project.
A website developed to support the learning process allows those in the intervention arm interactive practice at carbohydrate counting and access to educational material and a message forum.
These midwives said they could offer more support to pregnant women if they had access to educational resources for themselves and written materials for pregnant women, greater involvement in antenatal and early pregnancy care which would allow earlier screening and intervention, more accessible specialist alcohol services and pathways for referring pregnant women.
Most importantly, Banzhaf "has not demonstrated that women would not have equivalent access to educational opportunities or be subject to any material harm," the order said.
