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Appendix D: Poster Session Abstracts
Appendix D: Poster Session Abstracts
Pages 77-90
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doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-1128. Purpose: With support from the Health Care Promotion Fund, Food and Health Bureau of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the project aimed to help overweight and obese primary school children to develop healthy lifestyles with the goal of weight control via home-school joint venture approach under the support of health care professionals.
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. Implication of Research: The findings of the project affirmed that the Health Promoting Schools model is an effective way to integrate a broad range of strategies to foster a supportive environment to prevent and alleviate childhood obesity.
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English uses an alphabetic script that differs considerably from the alphasyllabic or semisyllabic scripts used in most Indian languages. These linguistic differences, as well as differences in cultural and instructional contexts, make it questionable to generalize understandings generated in the West to Indian settings.
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In this part of our presentation, we will present the over all growth patterns observed across the year and demonstrate variability in this growth. This might eventually enable us to answer questions such as the following: Do the disadvantages in literacy acquisition set in early and remain firm?
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By eliminating point-of-care user fees, Muso ensures that even the poorest can benefit from life-saving comprehensive and universal care, whether at home, in community health centers, or in referral hospitals. The third step consists of creating rapid referral networks by training communities in identifying health risks, prioritizing rapid treatment, and navigating the health system.
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The Muso team recently received two global awards. The 2013 GSK Global Healthcare Innovation Award recognized Muso as one of five effective new models for better chances of child survival.
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We are already working successfully and extensively in a public–private partnership with the National Rural Health Mission at Gubbara; our assessment and diagnostics center located at the government Doon Hospital; and Chhota Gubbara, our follow-up program for high-risk newborns, located in the Doon Women's Hospital. Assessment and diagnosis is only the first step in a very long process, and parents need much more input to truly make a difference in their children's lives.
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By training grassroots and professional personnel and mentoring hundreds of children with special needs, we are bringing the disability perspective to mainstream health and education, thereby raising standards for everyone. Our focus now lies on training and capacity building as the best ways to scale up and demonstrate our belief that when we plan for the most vulnerable, the world works better for everyone.
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to send their children to private ECE centers as they believe this will help them get into good private schools. However, most ECE being provided to low-income children today is of a low quality due to teachers employing rote learning methods in teaching English/math as well as teaching writing at an early age when motor skills are not yet sufficiently refined.
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MIM aims to impact 18 lakh children annually by 2025.
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Ummeed designed and piloted a prototype intervention in collaboration with Forbes Marshall (FM) for their projects with CHWs in urban slums in Pune.
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Communities included ECD as part of the agenda for community meetings and events and proactively sought CHWs for advice and support related to children. The CHWs have become strong advocates for ECD and for children with disabilities.
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Rigorous measures were employed to create/adapt contextually appropriate tools (enter c observations, child assessments, child height and weight, social skills, facilitator/AWW [Anganwadi worker] interview, parent interviews, family demographic survey, and focus group discussions)
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Mixed ANOVAs [Analyses of Variance] conducted on the older age group showed PREM children performed better in the overall total child assessment score, school readiness items, and language items.
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