Principles for Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Plans:

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

Incorporating tutoring principles into interactive knowledge acquisition

This paper argues that interactive knowledge acquisition tools would bene t from a tighter and more thorough incorporation of tutoring and learning principles. Current systems learn from users in a very passive and disengaged manner, and could be designed to incorporate the proactive capabilities that one expects of a good student. This paper describes our analysis of the literature on tutorial...

Revisiting public health preparedness: Incorporating social justice principles into pandemic preparedness planning for influenza.

Public health professionals are responsible for ensuring the health of the nation, which requires that planners for public health emergencies recognize that not including protection for underserved or marginalized communities poses a risk to the entire population. To assure the protection of these populations in the event of a pandemic outbreak, preparedness planning will benefit from the appli...

Incorporating evolutionary principles into environmental management and policy

As policymakers and managers work to mitigate the effects of rapid anthropogenic environmental changes, they need to consider organisms' responses. In light of recent evidence that evolution can be quite rapid, this now includes evolutionary responses. Evolutionary principles have a long history in conservation biology, and the necessary next step for the field is to consider ways in which cons...

Learning from the grandmothers: incorporating indigenous principles into qualitative research.

In this article, the author describes the process she undertook to incorporate Indigenous principles into her doctoral research about the midlife health experiences of elder Aboriginal women in Nova Scotia, Canada. By employing qualitative methods within the context of an Indigenous worldview, she gained knowledge of and developed competence in Aboriginal health research. The emergent partnersh...