This article describes the contributions of cognitive-scholastic advantage, family support behavior, and school quality and support as processes through which early childhood interventions promote well-being. Evidence in support of these processes is from longitudinal cohort studies of the Child-Parent Centers and other preventive interventions beginning by age 4. Relatively large effects of pa...

Purpose Section 121(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) mandates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to select remedies that " utilize permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies or resource recovery technologies to the maximum extent practical " and to prefer remedial actions in which treatment " permanently and si...

AIM Doctors must ensure they are fit to practise medicine. There is a relationship between unprofessional behaviour at medical school and in subsequent medical practice. This study describes one programme's Fitness to Practice (FtP) policy and outcomes since inception in 2005. METHOD FtP notifications were classified into: health or personal; professional attitudes, or external issues. Seriou...

Africa is in a deep and persistent malaise. It is by far the least developed continent economically, and the most conflict-prone politically. In policy-making circles and media characterisations, it is „the hopeless continent‟ (The Economist May 13-19, 2000). Such pessimism is driven in part by the failure to manage — much less resolve — the destructive consequences of multiple violent conflict...

In this issue of the Journal, Andrae et al. (1) present the first audit of a national screening program for cervical cancer, and they should be congratulated for their efforts. In the United Kingdom, such audits were proposed in 1986 (2) and pilot audits were first reported in 1996 (3), but audits have yet to be translated into a routine national activity. Screening is a large-scale, repetitive...