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Importance of Cleanliness in Community Living
Everyone loves a clean and neat environment that is pollution free. However, few people take the necessary initiative to ensure cleanliness. Although there are government agencies and NGOs tasked with maintaining a clean environment, it is crucial
Stimulating nursing students’ interest in community care through curriculum-redesign
Despite increased healthcare extramuralisation, related to increased elderly patients living at home, most nursing students still see the hospital as career favourite. This is problematic, because of the widespread labour-market shortages in community care in many Western
Preparedness rising from the ashes of disaster: The phoenix of transformative learning
Worldwide, societies and their citizens face ever-increasing risk from natural disasters. Pivotal to managing this risk is preparedness. However, consistently low levels of preparedness prompted the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) to call for
Measuring walking in daily life: the impact of commercial wearables
Wearables or body worn monitors (BWM) provide continuous and objective measures of community-based walking and can be useful in clinical or population-based studies to monitor adherence to a rehabilitation strategy or generic public health guidelines, e.g. walk
