Johannes Bellmann / Thomas Müller (Hrsg.): Wissen, was wirkt, Kritik evidenzbasierter Pädagogik. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2011 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Johannes Bellmann / Thomas Müller (Hrsg.): Wissen, was wirkt, Kritik evidenzbasierter Pädagogik Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2011 (280 S.; ISBN 978-3-531-17688; 26,99 EUR)

Klaus-Peter Horn / Heidemarie Kemnitz / Winfried Marotzki / Uwe Sandfuchs (Hrsg.): Klinkhardt Lexikon Erziehungswissenschaft, 3 Bände im Schuber, Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2011 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Klaus-Peter Horn / Heidemarie Kemnitz / Winfried Marotzki / Uwe Sandfuchs (Hrsg.): Klinkhardt Lexikon Erziehungswissenschaft, 3 Bände im Schuber, Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2011 (1.509 S.; ISBN 978-3-8252-8468-8; 99,00 EUR)

Development of Medical Devices

The medical devices sector helps save lives by providing innovative health care solutions regarding diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, and alleviation. Medical devices are classified into 1 of 3 categories in the order of increasing risk: Class I, Class II, and Class III.1 Medical devices are distinguished from drugs for regulatory purposes based on mechanism of action. Unlike drugs, medical devices operate via physical or mechanical means and are not dependent on metabolism to accomplish their primary intended effect.

Clinical Research and Standard of Care — An Unresolved Question?

Ever since the 1996 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, the World Medical Association has attempted to address ethical and scientific concerns of its diverse stakeholders for Articles 33 (use of placebo) and 34 (posttrial provisions), most recently in 2013. Both are inextricably linked to standard of care, an essential element of any comparative, interventional clinical trial. But has this now 20-year-long ethical debate truly been put to rest? The choice of standard of care in clinical trials remains a complex issue, particularly for comparative trials conducted in emerging countries.

Anne Christine Nagel: Hitlers Bildungsreformer, Das Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung 1934-1945, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 2012 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Anne Christine Nagel: Hitlers Bildungsreformer, Das Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung 1934-1945, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 2012 (448 S.; ISBN 978-3-596-19425-4; 12,99 EUR)

A Study to Assess the Vaccination Coverage of University Students in Mumbai, India

Immunization is the most cost-effective intervention for infectious diseases, which are the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Vaccines not only protect the individual who is vaccinated but also reduce the burden of infectious vaccine-preventable diseases for the entire community.1 Adult vaccination is very important given that >25% of mortality is due to infectious diseases.2 There is a scarcity of information on the vaccination status of young adults and the role of socioeconomic conditions in India.

Jakob Benecke (Hrsg.): Die Hitler-Jugend 1933 bis 1945, Programmatik, Alltag, Erinnerungen. Eine Dokumentation, Weinheim / Basel: Beltz Juventa 2013 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Jakob Benecke (Hrsg.): Die Hitler-Jugend 1933 bis 1945, Programmatik, Alltag, Erinnerungen. Eine Dokumentation, Weinheim / Basel: Beltz Juventa 2013 (418 S.; ISBN 978-3-7799-2651-1; 39,95 EUR)

Roads to Health in Nigeria – Understanding the Intersection of Culture and Healing

The most important attribute for which we all aspire as human beings is good health because it enables us to undertake different forms of activities of daily living. The emergence of scientific knowledge in Western societies has enabled us to explore and define several parameters of “health” by drawing boundaries around factors that are known to impact the achievement of good health. For example, the World Health Organization defined health by taking physical and psychological factors into consideration.

Holger Impekoven: Die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und das Ausländerstudium in Deutschland 1925-1945, Von der „geräuschlosen Propaganda“ zur Ausbildung der „geistigen Wehr“ des „Neuen Europa“, Göttingen: Bonn University Press bei V&R unipress 2013 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Holger Impekoven: Die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und das Ausländerstudium in Deutschland 1925-1945, Von der „geräuschlosen Propaganda“ zur Ausbildung der „geistigen Wehr“ des „Neuen Europa“, Göttingen: Bonn University Press bei V&R unipress 2013 (522 S.; ISBN 978-3-89971-869-0; 64,90 EUR)

Cost-effectiveness Study of Antidiabetic Drugs in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients From Mumbai, India

Diabetes is fast gaining the status of a potential epidemic in India, with >62 million individuals currently diagnosed with the disease.1 India currently faces an uncertain future in relation to the potential burden that diabetes may impose on the country. An estimated US$ 2.2 billion would be needed to sufficiently treat all cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in India.2 Many interventions can reduce the burden of this disease. However, health care resources are limited; thus, interventions for diabetes treatment should be prioritized.

Klaus Prange: Erziehung als Handwerk, Studien zur Zeigestruktur der Erziehung, Paderborn / München / Wien / Zürich: Schöningh 2012 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Klaus Prange: Erziehung als Handwerk, Studien zur Zeigestruktur der Erziehung, Paderborn / München / Wien / Zürich: Schöningh 2012 (192 S.; ISBN 978-3-506-77547-4; 24,90 EUR)

Cost-effectiveness Study of Antihypertensive Drugs in Mumbai, India

Hypertension is a serious global public health problem. It accounts for 10% of all deaths in India and is the leading noncommunicable disease.1 Recent studies have shown that the prevalence of hypertension is 25% in urban and 10% in rural people in India.2 It exerts a substantial public health burden on cardiovascular health status and health care systems in India.3 Antihypertensive treatment effectively reduces hypertension-related morbidity and mortality.1 The cost of medications has always been a barrier to effective treatment.

Ensuring Mobile Device Security and Compliance at the Workplace

End users urgently request using mobile devices at their workplace. They know these devices from their private life and appreciate functionality and usability, and want to benefit from these advantages at work as well. Limitations and restrictions would not be accepted by them. On the contrary, companies are obliged to employ substantial organizational and technical measures to ensure data security and compliance when allowing to use mobile devices at the workplace. So far, only individual arrangements have been presented addressing single issues in ensuring data security and compliance. However, companies need to follow a comprehensive set of measures addressing all relevant aspects of data security and compliance in order to play it safe. Thus, in this paper at first technical architectures for using mobile devices in enterprise IT are reviewed. Thereafter a set of compliance rules is presented and, as major contribution, technical measures are explained that enable a company to integrate mobile devices into enterprise IT while still complying with these rules comprehensively. Depending on the company context, one or more of the technical architectures have to be chosen impacting the specific technical measures for compliance as elaborated in this paper. Altogether this paper, for the first time, correlates technical architectures for using mobile devices at the workplace with technical measures to assure data security and compliance according to a comprehensive set of rules.

BYOD Bring Your Own Device

Using modern devices like smartphones and tablets offers a wide variety of advantages; this has made them very popular as consumer devices in private life. Using them in the workplace is also popular. However, who wants to carry around and handle two devices; one for personal use, and one for work-related tasks? That is why “dual use”, using one single device for private and business applications, may represent a proper solution. The result is “Bring Your Own Device,” or BYOD, which describes the circumstance in which users make their own personal devices available for company use. For companies, this brings some opportunities and risks. We describe and discuss organizational issues, technical approaches, and solutions.

Friederike Heinzel: Methoden der Kindheitsforschung, Ein Überblick über Forschungszugänge zur kindlichen Perspektive. Weinheim / Basel: Beltz Juventa 2012 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Friederike Heinzel: Methoden der Kindheitsforschung, Ein Überblick über Forschungszugänge zur kindlichen Perspektive, Weinheim / Basel: Beltz Juventa 2012 (388 S.; ISBN 978-3-7799-1553-9; 34,95 EUR)