'Choosing Wisely': a growing international campaign.

Much attention has been paid to the inappropriate underuse of tests and treatments but until recently little attention has focused on the overuse that does not add value for patients and may even cause harm. Choosing Wisely is a campaign to engage physicians and patients in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures. The campaign began in the United States in 2012, in Canada in 2014 and now many countries around the world are adapting the campaign and implementing it. This article describes the present status of Choosing Wisely programs in 12 countries. It articulates key elements, a set of five principles, and describes the challenges countries face in the early phases of Choosing Wisely. These countries plan to continue collaboration including developing metrics to measure overuse.

Isak Noah Mannheimer [Illustration] : nach einem im Besitz der Familie Finkel-Singer (Wien) befindlichen Original (geb. 1793 - gest. 1865)

Scan von Monochrom-Mikroform

Modeling a health promotion campaign process

In this work we will present a model that describes how the number of healthy and unhealthy subjects that belong to a cohort, changes through time when there are occurrences of health promotion campaigns aiming to change the undesirable behavior. This model also includes immigration and emigration components for each group and a component taking into account when a subject that used to perform a healthy behavior changes to perform the unhealthy behavior. We will express the model in terms of a bivariate probability generating function and in addition we will simulate the model. ^ An illustrative example on how to apply the model to the promotion of condom use among adolescents will be created and we will use it to compare the results obtained from the simulations and the results obtained by the probability generating function. ^

The Treatment Action Campaign's First Decade: Success Achieved?

South Africa is known to have the largest HIV epidemic in the world with 5.7 million people currently living with HIV, according to UNAIDS. In light of the crisis, South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has led the social movement for increased treatment access for people living with HIV through lobbying the government, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and grassroots campaigning. Since it's founding a decade ago, TAC has been highly acclaimed both regionally and internationally for its success. In order to determine the success of this social movement organization, social movement theories, such as mobilization potential, external political opportunity structure, and framing of the social context of issues will be examined. The assessment of TAC's success will be made based on two outcomes: political outcome and social/cultural outcome. The assessment of TAC's success, using this framework has shown that TAC is a successful social movement organization overall.

Malaboch or notes from my diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, district Zoutpansberg which is app. a synopsis of the Johannesburg crisis of 1896

by Colin Rae

Peter Benoît, Brustbild, Profil, 1865

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F02988

Peter Benoît, Brustbild, Profil, 1865

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F02989

Erinnerung aus dem Leben König Ludwig II. von Bayern : Das Lohengrinfest auf dem Alpsee (24. Aug. 1865 Nachts.)

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F07042

Erinnerung aus dem Leben König Ludwig II. von Bayern : Das Lohengrinfest auf dem Alpsee (24. Aug. 1865 Nachts.)

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F07043

Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow, Leopold Damrosch, Mihály Mosonyi, Karl Gille {[u.a.], Gruppenbildnis, Bayreuth, 1865

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F12188

Rede bei der Gedächtnissfeier für den verewigten Prediger Herrn Isak Noa Mannheimer, am 26. März 1865 im Tempel in der Leopoldstadt

gehalten von Ad. Jellinek

Israel, der wandernde Prophet : Predigt gehalten am 4. und 18. November 1865

von H. Hochheimer

Josef, ein Spiegelbild des israelitischen Volkscharakters : Predigt am 9. Dezember 1865 Shabat Ṿa-yishev im Leopoldstädter Bethause der israelitischen Cultusgemeinde zu Wien gehalten

von H. S. Sonneschein

Get ur 60: A social marketing campaign to promote and facilitate physical activity among Central Texas middle school students

If allowed to continue unabated, the obesity epidemic may lead to the first decline in life expectancy in the developed world (Olshansky et al., 2005). Similar to the relationship between smoking habits in youth and adulthood, obesogenic dietary and physical activity habits in childhood may persist into adulthood (Kelder et al., 2002). Teaching children how to establish healthy eating habits and activity levels, as well as providing them the necessary resources to internalize and maintain these behaviors, may be the key to curbing this epidemic.^ A school-based obesity prevention approach is advantageous for many reasons including exposure to large captive audiences, reduced costs of sustainability and long-term maintenance, and generalizability of models and results across multiple populations. The effectiveness of school-based programs has been researched over the past 20 years, with promising results.^ Social marketing is a program-planning process that “facilitates the acceptance, rejection, modification, abandonment, or maintenance of particular behaviors” (Grier & Bryant, 2005). Social marketing has been shown to be effective in a variety of public health applications including improving diet, increasing physical activity, and preventing substance abuse. It is hypothesized that social marketing could further enhance the effectiveness of the Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) Central Texas Middle School Project, a school-based obesity prevention program.^ The development, implementation, and initial evaluation of the get ur 60 campaign, to promote the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended sixty minutes of daily activity, is described in this paper. Various components of the get ur 60 campaign were assessed to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign during the first semester of implementation. At the end of the spring semester focus groups were held to collect student reactions to the first semester of the get ur 60 campaign.^ The initial results from the first semester of get ur 60 have demonstrated that the campaign as designed was feasible to implement, accepted at all intervention schools, and resulted in a measure of success. ^