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Monitoring health inequity across Europe
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Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) are the leading causes of disability worldwide, resulting in significant healthcare and social support costs. One of the reasons for this increasing burden seems to be the variability in the number and nature of allocated resources across Europe, as well as organisational aspects of health systems that result in disparities and health inequities across countries.
PleaseApp, an app designed to assess and treat pragmatic and social communication skills in children aged 5 to 12, developed by researchers at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló (UJI) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), is now available in the Hogrefe TEA Ediciones catalogue.
Dialogic pedagogy has been highly valued and promoted in classrooms globally over the past few decades. However, there persists a stereotype that view Chinese classrooms as authoritative and full of rote learning. A new study has systematically reviewed several dialogue-based teaching interventions implemented in Chinese elementary and secondary schools. This review suggests that these interventions were mostly integrated with school subject fields and exert both cognitive and noncognitive effects on Chinese students