This study addresses two questions: “What factors affect the adoption of research within educational policy making?” and “How might a better understanding of these factors improve research adoption and aid the development of policy?” In investigating the concept of research adoption, which I regard as vital to the successful creation of ‘evidence-informed’ policies/policy instruments, it is hop...

The team adopts the Advancing Research and Clinical Practice Through Close Collaboration model.This is the 12th and last article in a series from the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation's Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence...

A Farmer-type Keynesian model is constructed to explore and exposit Keynesian ideas. The modeling innovation is to integrate Farmer’s approach with monetary exchange and to derive optimal monetary and fiscal policies. Two approaches are taken to optimal policy an approach in the spirit of New Keynesian sticky-wage-and-price models, and an a "sophisticated policy" approach. Optimal policies typi...

OBJECTIVES This article analyzes the content and outcome of ongoing health reforms in Latin America: Universal Health Coverage with Health Insurance, and the Universal and Public Health Systems. It aims to compare and contrast the conceptual framework and practice of each and verify their concrete results regarding the guarantee of the right to health and access to required services. It identif...

This paper explores how bequests affect redistributive fiscal policies. The main premise underlying our approach is that bequests act as a signal of parental affection. It is shown that private transfers in the form of bequests may not offset public transfers to a significant extent, even though such private transfers are altruistically motivated and are strictly positive for all but a negligib...

Now images are one of the key enablers of user’s connectivity. With increasing volume of the images users share through social sites, maintaining privacy has become a major problem. In light of these incidents, the need of tools to help users control access to their shared content is apparent. An Adaptive Privacy Policy Prediction (A3P) system helps users to compose privacy settings for their i...

BACKGROUND The Canadian International Polar Year (IPY) program made it possible to undertake much needed health research in 3 jurisdictions within the Canadian Inuit Nunangat (homeland) over a 2-year period: Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), Nunavut Territory, and Nunatsiavut. DESIGN The Adult Inuit Health Survey (IHS) was a cross-sectional survey and provides baseline data upon which futur...

It is remarkable that only a few years ago, discussions about women's health research often had to be prefaced with the expanded vision of what that concept should actually be in totality as the traditional approach to the health of women had focused on the reproductive system or "bikini medicine," as Dr Marianne Legato, an internationally recognized specialist in women's health, and others hav...

INTRODUCTION Fifteen years into the twenty-first century, the challenges for public health may have changed but have not diminished. Complacency, systems inertia, and national selfinterest remain powerful barriers to global and universal health improvement. As joint chief editors for this new specialty journal, we lay out an ambitious mission: to work with the editorial board and colleagues wor...

We systematically evaluated smoking-related costs in multiunit housing. From 2008 to 2009, we surveyed California multiunit housing owners or managers on their past-year smoking-related costs and smoke-free policies. A total of 27.1% of respondents had incurred smoking-related costs (mean $4935), and 33.5% reported complete smoke-free policies, which lowered the likelihood of incurring smoking-...