The research, practice and policy communities in Aotearoa New Zealand know a lot about literacy; the what how of development, works for whom, under conditions. But two issues stand way better meeting national excellence equity goals. One is solving system challenges variability, scalability, sustainability capability. Solving this requires taking life course approach to evidence, including opti...

Rapid increases in natural resources globally during the 1970s have had far-reaching environmental consequences. The rising exploitation of assets has progressively detrimental societal effects. Therefore, current study aims to identify nexus between and governance conflicts while assessing role resource management. results three significant categories challenges (associated with capacity, conn...

Scientists face increasing pressure to demonstrate how their work contributes to societal objectives. Likewise, policy makers proposing environmental policies are often asked to provide the scientific basis on which their proposals are based. These twin pressures are forcing a closer connection between science and policy. In our view, policy-for-science-for-policy is a recursive process of defi...

BACKGROUND Present models and definitions of patient-centeredness revealed a lack of conceptual clarity. Based on a prior systematic literature review, we developed an integrative model with 15 dimensions of patient-centeredness. The aims of this study were to 1) validate, and 2) prioritize these dimensions. METHOD A two-round web-based Delphi study was conducted. 297 international experts we...

L ast year, the American Cancer Society predicted 11,150 cases of invasive cervical cancer would be diagnosed and 3,670 women in the United States would die from the disease (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2006b). While the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States has decreased significantly in the last 50 years, primarily due to effective screening programs, many women still suffer an...

Unlike the experience in the broader quality management (QM) area, for ISO 9000, the relationships between management practices associated with the standard and performance is relatively under-researched. This has contributed to a general lack of clarity on how the standard works and how effective it is in generating the espoused benefits. In this paper, an attempt is made to fill this gap. Thr...

We review existing research and policy evidence about income as an essential component to meeting children's basic needs-that is, income represented as the purest monetary transfer for increasing the purchasing power of low income families. Social scientists have made great methodological strides in establishing whether income has independent effects on the cognitive development of low-income c...

the field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. a recent editorial in this jou...