Publications by authors named "Jonathan Michael Spector"

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  • - Novartis and the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana have collaborated since 2019 to improve care for people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in Africa through a public-private partnership involving various stakeholders.
  • - The program focused on increasing access to hydroxyurea (HU), the only approved treatment for SCD, and successfully led to its inclusion in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in 2022.
  • - The initiative's successes in Ghana are being shared and adapted for implementation in other African countries, drawing on the experiences and lessons learned throughout the program's development.
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Student satisfaction is of great significance in online learning, but few studies have explored its determinants in emerging countries. This study investigated the determinants of university students' satisfaction with online learning platforms in China through applying the Technology Satisfaction Model during the COVID-19 pandemic, when an unprecedented amount of learning began to take place online due to the closure of educational institutions. A total of 928 students from five universities in four Chinese provinces or municipalities were surveyed through a purposive sampling technique and analyzed through structural equation modeling and the Rasch model.

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