Urban studies and planning

Introduction: According to the World Health Organisations, "The health professionals maintain health in humans through the application of evidence based medicine and caring. Health professionals study, diagnose, treat and prevent human illness, injuries and other physical and mental impairments in accordance with the needs of the population they serve. They advice on or apply preventive and curative measures, and promote health with the ultimate goal of meeting the health needs and the…

The frequency of abortions carried out in the recent past and currently has been rampant. Abortion is the removal of the foetus before it is viable. It is normally done before the end of the first trimester of the pregnancy. It is either spontaneous or induced where spontaneous is whereby the foetus comes out due to body disturbances and it is involuntary while induced is whereby the woman herself wants he foetus expelled from her womb. in this case we are referring to the induced type (Malcolm…

to move toward a year-round school calendar. With this system, schools continue to operate 180 days per year. However, these 180 days are extended over the entire year, with short breaks between each term. This type of schooling began evolving in urban areas in the 1900s, however, it has only recently become a debate in the United States within the last twenty-five years. There are several versions of year-round schooling. The most popular form is the 45-15 Plan, where students attend school for…

instruction is or is not. The study was guided by the belief that educators may not possess a clear understanding of what differentiation is, that the key components for implementing, as well as, the myths that surround the practice of differentiated instruction. Two questions emerged relating to differentiated instruction: will teachers agree on what is essential to differentiating instruction in the classroom and will teachers agree with the myths surrounding the practice? This study was…

An administrator who desires to implement a SWPBIS framework should understand the commitment involved. Dr. Marcia Rock explains in her “Big D” podcast that “at least 6-12 months of planning need to take place before launching a School-Wide PBS program. Schools who try to do it more quickly often fail because they haven’t devoted enough time to thinking through all aspects of the program.” Moreover, Dr. George Sugai in a video segment…

awareness in regards to nutrition and care when working long hours out on the fields in a language they will understand. Mobile health clinics have been in effect in other countries such as India and have reported success. “Mobile health clinics in urban areas play a vital role in providing health care services, particularly to the marginalized sections of society, for whom they are often the only source of health care” (Jamir, Nongkynrih, & Gupta, 2013, p. 133). If we provide this kind of…

interview Bransford is bringing past and present together and showing that the struggle is still the same. Along with the direct interviews, the author is mixing in fact statements to help attain his point. He used an associate professor in urban studies and planning department from Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Rahul Mehrotra. “It’s really a reflection of the government’s inability to provide housing affordably across society,” Mehrotra says. Informal urbanism also thrives…

Healthcare accessibility at “Bottom of the Pyramid”: A study of scope of eHealth in India Introduction According to World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Statistics 2013, India has a ratio of 6.5 doctors, 10 nurses and 9 beds per 10,000 people compared to the global average is of 13.9 doctors, 29 nurses and 30 beds. In order to meet the healthcare requirement of its population of 1.25 billion, India needs an additional 1.54 million doctors, 2.4 million nurses and 2.6 million beds. At the…

and they concern the preliminary planning of long-term studies. Delayed effects will, by their very nature, occur after a long time span, the available results do not provide either fully comprehensive documentation of the effects of the accident on the exposed population, or conclusive evidence on the effects of TCDD to humans. The reasons range from an immediate aftermath period that it is too brief for some of the possible effects to arise, to problems of study design and conduct in a…

Review of Jayati Ghosh’s book “Never Done and Poorly Paid” Divya Mehrotra MA Women’s Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences 28/03/2015 Inroduction: Issues of labour and employment have been core areas of concern for most economists around the world. The following paper consists of a review of the book titled Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India written by Jayati Ghosh which was published in 2009 by Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for women, New…