Invited commentary: the art of making questionnaires better.

Invited Commentary Invited Commentary: Some Advantages of the Relative Excess Risk due to Interaction (RERI)—Towards Better Estimators of Additive Interaction

In the accompanying commentary, Rose and van der Laan (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(6):663–669) criticize the relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI) measure, the use of additive interaction, and the weighting approach we developed to assess RERI with case-control data. In this commentary, we note some of the advantages of using additive measures of interaction, such as RERI, in making decis...

of Quran” Appropriate to the Students of Art Majors

“Thematic commentary of Quran” is one of the Islamic M’arif lessons that are studied by BA students of all majors. Designing a proper syllabus for this lesson plays a pivotal role in realization of its purposes; therefore, it should be appropriate to the students’ needs and characteristics. This study attempts to propose a syllabus for the lesson thematic commentary of Quran appropriate to the ...

Personalisation - An Emergent Institutional Logic in Healthcare?; Comment on “(Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare”

This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The comm...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Making Research Matter; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...