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Quit4U: The Effectiveness of Combining Behavioural Support, Pharmacotherapy and Financial Incentives to Support Smoking Cessation
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Ormston, R.; van der Pol, M.; Ludbrook, A.; McConville, S.; Amos, A. – Health Education Research, 2015
The "quit4u" stop smoking service (SSS) was developed by National Health Service (NHS) Tayside for smokers in deprived areas of Dundee (UK). quit4u combined behavioural support and pharmacotherapy with financial incentives for each week that participants remained quit. A quasi-experimental study was undertaken with smokers using quit4u…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Health Promotion, Smoking, Foreign Countries
Evaluation of Rural Health Care Programs Employing Unobserved Variable Models: Impact on Infant Mortality.
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Farmer, Frank L.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1984
Evaluation of 145 rural health care programs shows programs did not increase availability of physicians in targeted areas. The study employed multiple-indicator unobserved variable models to disaggregate effects of education, income, racial composition, poverty, housing conditions, crowding, occupation structure, and rural health care programs on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Environment, Health Facilities
Putting Bread on the Table: Literacy and Livelihood in Kenya. Knowledge and Information Management.
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Thompson, Ekundayo J. D. – 2002
The effects of literacy and livelihood programs on female learners' participation in literacy were examined through case studies of groups of women who participated in four literacy and income-earning projects in Kenya. Data were collected through focus group discussions and a questionnaire. The four programs were started between 1968 and 1999 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Development