The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness digital literacy indicators in improving students' reading interests. research method used is quantitative. samples were fifth-grade students at SDN Pajang IV, Tegalrejo, 1 Jajar, and Setono, totaling 86 respondents. data collection technique a questionnaire. analysis SEM (Structural Equation Model) with SmartPLS SPSS programs. This c...

The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey program that would collect health status indicators annually from large probability samples of Medicine beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use mail survey procedures with telephone follow-up of nonrespondents. Because of concerns about response rates and the validity and reliability of the data ...

Concerns about rising health care costs and the often incremental nature of improvements in health outcomes continue to fuel intense debates about 'progress' and 'value' in cancer research. In times of tightening fiscal constraints, it is increasingly important for patients and their representatives to define what constitutes 'value' to them. It is clear that diverse stakeholders have different...

PURPOSE To validate a survey research measure of subjective income, as measured by perceived income adequacy, in an international context. DESIGN AND METHODS The study population comprised persons aged 50 years and older in 12 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (n = 28,939). Perceived difficulty in making ends meet was regressed on sociodemographic variables,...

Levels and causes of mortality in mothers and babies are intrinsically linked, occurring at the same time and often to the same mother-baby dyad, although mortality rates are substantially higher in babies. Measuring levels, trends and causes of maternal, neonatal and foetal mortality are important for understanding priority areas for interventions and tracking the success of interventions at t...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No-take marine reserves are often implemented to recover overfished stocks. The extent to which these reserves have met their objectives is unclear. Current methods for reserve evaluation are not standardized and rely solely on biological data, excluding the socioeconomic and governance dimensions. Existing frameworks do not provide a tool to perform the analysis. Existing fram...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been responsible for managing the process of developing new clinical and health improvement indicators for the United Kingdom (UK) Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and reviewing the current QOF clinical indicator set since April 2009. This paper sets out in detail the NICE-led process for QOF indicator development and des...