Q&A. What Is Customer Value and How Do You Deliver It?

Visceral leishmaniasis treatment: What do we have, what do we need and how to deliver it?

Leishmaniasis is one of the most neglected tropical disease in terms of drug discovery and development. Most antileishmanial drugs are highly toxic, present resistance issues or require hospitalization, being therefore not adequate to the field. Recently improvements have been achieved by combination therapy, reducing the time and cost of treatment. Nonetheless, new drugs are still urgently nee...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

Implementation research: what it is and how to do it

1Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; 2Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; 3University of Ghana School of Public Health/Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana; 4Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Implementation Res...

Evolvability: What Is It and How Do We Get It?

Programmed Instruction: What It Is and How to Do It

Five behaviorological features of programmed instruction are outlined: behavioral objectives, reinforcement, activity rate: high and relevant, successive approximation, and mastery progression. Each of these topics is explained, and examples are given to illustrate the differences between programmed instruction and the more common 'transmission' model of teaching. A final section provides sugge...