socially promoted in the belief that retention may possibly do more harm then help. The question is which is more effective‚ grade retention or social promotion? There is information stating that neither is effective. The evidence against the two continues to mount as more states develop rigorous promotion and graduation standards. Social promotion is the practice of promoting students to the next grade level even though they have not acquired minimum competencies expected for that grade (Aldridge
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Assignment: Ethical considerations in respect of advertising‚ sales promotion‚ pricing‚ product packaging and obsolescence. 2011 Introduction Ethics is concerned with what is right and what is wrong. Ethics relate to moral evaluations of decisions and actions as right or wrong on the basis of commonly accepted principles of behaviour (Dibb et. al.‚ 1997)‚ in other words‚ ethics are the moral principles and values that govern the actions
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Grace Kirigo Ngure 1301700 08NUR13 Health promotion is the process which enables people to gain control over their health determinants in order to improve their health and thereby be able to live an active and productive life. The ultimate objective of health promotion activities is to create prerequisites for a good life which includes physical‚ mental‚ social and spiritual health and considers people in their social and cultural context taking into account the material and economical resources
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leaving the factory after their duty. Dr. Sahay‚ Chairman & Managing Director of Scooters India Ltd. Looked through the glass window of his corner room and was wondering if he could make the company profitable and secure their jobs through infusion of home grown incremental technology. Can this incremental technology sustain in the long run. He knew the only way Scooter India Ltd. (SIL) could survive was to take an aggressive position in the market through new products and technologies but where to get
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What is distinguishing factors between the the contemporary views of health promotion versus the historical view? How and why did these difference develop? Historical health promotion dealt with protecting the community from infectious diseases‚ providing safe water and reducing environmental threats which was normally done by the Government or organizations like World health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Emphasis were on mass vaccination against preventable
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Importance of Health Promotion Health of an individual can be defined as a state free of illness‚ having a healthy behavior and a good state of mind. Health care industry is now focused on preventing illness by promoting wellness enhancing strategies which nurses have an important role to play as care provider and educator. Levels of preventive care are primary prevention – health education‚ immunization and fitness activities‚ secondary prevention – diagnosis and prompt intervention and tertiary
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Health Promotion Obesity as a side effect in medication World Health Organisation (WHO 2012) states that health promotion is about empowering individuals to take control of their own health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. The author will be focusing on a lady with a long mental health problems and has recently had medication changed to Clozapine; as a result she has gradually gained a lot of weight. The patient
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At home but not at home Nicole Constable The main aim of the article is showing that in case of migrants (specifically Filipinas in Honk Kong) the concept of home is not as simple and unambiguous as it may seem. Constable presents different conceptualizations of the notions “space”‚ “place” and “home”. He follows the conception of Ackbar Abbas‚ who writes‚ "We think of a place in terms of definable physical characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast
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Health Promotion: Giving up Smoking in Pregnancy Introduction The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled ’Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking’ (NHS Health Scotland 2003). It will be referred to as the ’initiative’ or the ’leaflet’ throughout this assignment. The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified that
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Promotion Mix Developing Effective communication Identify the target audience Our main target audience are young adult age from 20-34 years old‚ they are either working or schooling. There are other groups which are not our main focus for example children. Children actually can influence their parents the cereals that they will want to have. We will still have to look into the population in a whole. Our main target audience are young adults aging from 18-36 years old‚ young families
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