General Prevention Revisited: Research and Policy Implications

Research and Policy Implications

This article focuses on intractable conflicts and how they are transformed. Specific attention is given to the kinds of questions raised by research on such conflicts as well as the policy implications of selected research efforts. Although we believe that in most cases reducing the intractability of conflicts is desirable, we also recognize that often one (or more) adversary believes that any ...

Policy implications of outcomes research.

This article was acceptedfOr publication September 3, 1996 W e all hear about the need for information on what kind of care is worth providing in terms of both costs and final results for the patient. Outcomes research is receiving much attention now because it is expected to fill this information gap. Occupational therapists, like other health care professionals, are in the midst of either con...

A Review on the International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Resiliency Research: Implications for Schools and Policy

John and Paul were friends who grew up in the same run-down housing project in a large in dustrial city. Their neighborhood was plagued by drugs and violence. By the time the boys were 10 years old and each had experienced several years of family conflict, their respective parents divorced. Each was subsequently raised, along with an older sibling and two younger siblings, by a single mother. T...

Lymphotoxin α revisited: general features and implications in rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting synovial joints. Therapies blocking tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) are now routinely used in the management of RA. However, a significant number of patients with RA do not respond or develop resistance to anti-TNF therapies, and the participation of other cytokines in RA pathogenesis has been reported as well. Lymphotoxin...