Foresight Analysis at the Regional Level - A Participatory Methodological Framework

Estimating and validating disability-adjusted life years at the global level: a methodological framework for cancer

BACKGROUND Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) link data on disease occurrence to health outcomes, and they are a useful aid in establishing country-specific agendas regarding cancer control. The variables required to compute DALYs are however multiple and not readily available in many countries. We propose a methodology that derives global DALYs and validate variables and DALYs based on dat...

SERIE RESEARCH IHEmORBnDn MODELLING ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMIC PHENOMENA AT A REGIONAL LEVEL; METHODOLOGICAL PROGRESS

The availability and nature of information are important issues in modeling environmental-economic phenomena. This paper addresses three types of limitation that may characterize such issues, including (i) insufficiënt precision of information for drawing reliable quantitative conclusions regarding policy aspects, (ii) the wide variety of means of data gathering with their corresponding varying...

Participatory Hermeneutic Ethnography: A Methodological Framework for Health Ethics Research With Children.

When conducting ethics research with children in health care settings, studying children's experiences is essential, but so is the context in which these experiences happen and their meaning. Using Charles Taylor's hermeneutic philosophy, we developed a methodological framework for health ethics research with children that bridges key aspects of ethnography, participatory research, and hermeneu...

The Transition From Centralized to a Free Economy Within the Framework of Regional Cooperation

Factors Affecting Educational Reform at the Level of National and Regional Support for High School

Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying effective factors on educational reform at the level of national and regional supports for high school mathematics. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative, which was performed in two stages of synthesis research and content analysis. The research enviro...