Modernizing Disease Management: A Question of Priorities

The Future of Disease Control Priorities; Comment on “Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Is Published: A Theory of Change Is Needed for Translating Evidence to Health Policy”

The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) project has substantially influenced national and global health priorities since 1993. DCP’s basic framework involves identification of disease burdens based on premature deaths and disability and application of the most cost-effective interventions to the largest burdens, taking into account local feasibility. The future impact of DCP will need to take into...

A Question of Priorities: Athletic Budgets and Academic Performance

Objective. Many organization theories suggest that divergent goals can hamper an organization’s pursuit of its primary mission. This study analyzes the effect of the pursuit of divergent goals on American public schools. Methods. Using an educational production function, this paper assesses the relationships between athletic budgets and various aggregate measures of academic performance. Result...

Decentralisation; The Question of Management Capacity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A Conversation Analytic Study on the Teachers’ Management of Understanding-Check Question Sequences in EFL Classrooms

Teacher questions are claimed to be constitutive of classroom interaction because of their crucial role both in the construction of knowledge and the organization of classroom proceedings (Dalton Puffer, 2007). Most of previous research on teachers’ questions mainly focused on identifying and discovering different question types believed to be helpful in creating the opportunities for learners’...

Dutch Elm Disease : A Matter of Priorities

A Matter of Priorities Dr. Richard J. Campana, left foreground, participates in tree planting ceremony at 1967 International Shade Tree Conference at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Dr. Campana, chairman of the department of botany and plant pathology at the University of Maine and one of the foremost researchers actively searching for new methods of control for Dutch elm disease, is the immediat...