How should a vocational education and training course be evaluated?

How should dysplastic human hips be evaluated?

Dysplasia of the human hip is characterised by insufficient anterolateral covering of femoral head by the acetabulum. In our study, we evaluated dysplastic human hip joints using biomechanical parameters (the peak contact stress in the weight-bearing area of the hip - pmax) and X-ray image parameters (the centre-edge angle - thetaCE, the transverse acetabular inclination angle - thetaUS, the ac...

Vocational education and training

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

How should alternative therapies be evaluated? An examination of fundamentals.

If there is any primary rule of science, it is . . . acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of re a l i ty, all that exists, e ve rything that is the case. . . . it must accept within its jurisdiction e ven that which it cannot understand or explain, that for which no theo ry exists, that which cannot be measured, predicted, controlled, or o rd e red. . . . It includes all...

How should interventions to reduce inequalities in health be evaluated?

OBJECTIVE The effectiveness of interventions which have been proposed or are currently in progress to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health is largely unknown. This paper aims to develop guidelines for evaluating these interventions. APPROACH Starting from a set of general guidelines which was recently proposed by a group of experts reporting to the national Programme Committee on Socio...