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Health psychology in a global perspective
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ISBN: 0761909419 Year: 1998 Publisher: Thousand Oaks Sage

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Health psychology in global perspective
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What do we know about health in other countries? How can we use explanations from health psychology to understand health issues around the world? This volume uses health psychology to compare health issues faced by people in developing and developed countries. Taking a broad social science perspective, Frances E Aboud brings mainstream health psychology concepts to bear on the problems of international health. She also: integrates findings from psychology with literature from other disciplines such as epidemiology, education, anthropology and nursing; and brings cross-cultural iss


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Self-concept and social comparaison in preschool children : projet de recherche rs-1011 : rapports, publications et communications
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Year: 1988 Publisher: Québec : Gouvernement du Québec. Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale,


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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study was to test several variants of a potentially scalable, cost-effective intervention to increase cognitive stimulation by parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program that used culturally and linguistically appropriate books adapted for a low-literacy population. The study used a cluster randomized controlled trial with four intervention arms and one control arm in a sample of caregivers (n

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