Many analysts have complained about the severe disconnect between public health as it is taught in schools of public health and public health as it is practiced in health departments. At least in the United States, few faculty members teaching in schools of public health have ever worked in public health departments. By the same token, few of those working in public health departments have degr...

The treatment effects literature is about how some outcome of interest, such as earnings, is affected by some treatment, such as a job training program. Evidently such treatment effects must be related to structural models, where the outcome of interest is the left hand side variable and the treatment is a right-hand side variable. Indeed, as we will see, treatment effects can be thought of as ...

Research in the development of teacher cognition and teaching performance in K–12 classrooms has identified consistent challenges and patterns of behavior that are congruent with the predictions of dual-process models of cognition. However, cognitive models of information processing are not often used to synthesize these results. This article reviews findings from the research on teaching and t...

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This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from the IZA Evaluation dataset, which includes measures that control for education, demographic characteristics, labor market history, psychological factors ...

The Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution (OPTI) program was established by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) in 1995 as a support and accreditation structure for osteopathic graduate medical education. Since 1999, all AOA-approved postdoctoral training programs are required to take place in OPTIs. In a continuing effort to further define standards for quality and to promote pr...

The shaping of attitude and values, commitment and skills needed to preserve and protect the environment of individuals begins at an early age. Hence educators especially pre-school teachers play an influential role in developing new patterns of behaviors of the young to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. A study was conducted to assess the level of preparedness of the pre-school teachers in Malays...

The year 2000 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Research Service Award (NRSA) training programs and their implementation. Established by the National Research Service Award Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-348), these programs were conceived as setting a new direction in federally sponsored research training (National Institutes of Health Task Forces for the Review of NIH Biomedical Resea...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test a distance-learning programme to improve the quality and efficiency of family planning services in Guatemala. METHODS The setting was rural family planning services in Guatemala. The study design was quasi-experimental with one intervention and one control group and with pre- and post-intervention measures. Two staff members from each of 20 randomly selected heal...