There is a growing awareness and interest in the development of culturally competent health knowledge. Drawing on experience using a qualitative approach to elicit information from Mandarinor Cantonese-speaking participants for a colorectal cancer prevention study, the authors describe lessons learned through the analysis process. These lessons include benefits and drawbacks of the use of coder...

In this introductory chapter, we describe the key lessons from an earlier HCI Educators’ conference, held in Limerick in 2006, the outcomes of which led to the theme of HCIEd 2007 – Creativity: Experiencing to Educate and Design. The paper discusses the lessons leant around four key questions: nature vs. nurture: can creative invention be taught; what tools and methods are there to help student...

On behalf of the GOVNET, two papers on the subject of addressing governance issues after conflict have been prepared for this meeting. The first paper (A)-Lessons on Approaches to Reconstructing Governance Systems from Other Complex Political Emergencies-illustrates the varying outcomes of donor approaches to the reconstruction of governance systems, in a broad sense, in post-conflict situation...

Understanding Development and Applying the Lessons 3 Learning lessons about development and development assistance 5 Goals and approaches to development: The evolution in thinking 7 A strategy for development: Building the investment climate and empowering people 8 How we have applied lessons on development effectiveness 10 Lesson 1: Allocating aid well 10 Lesson 2: Working to improve policies ...

Reverse engineering of data has been performed in one form or another for over twenty-five years. In this paper we describe the lessons learned in data reverse engineering (DRE) as contributed in a survey of data reverse engineers. Interesting is the fact that some of the lessons learned tell us how we are doing in the process of initial database design as well as how difficult the DRE process ...

We examined the relationship between health status and satisfaction with physical education (PE) lessons. The participants (N = 142, Mean = 19.14 yrs, SD = 0.92) were university students in China. The participants completed questionnaires at the beginning and end of the PE class term to indicate their health status. Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that the changes in health status ...

Policing, like all professions, learns from experience. It follows, then, that as modem police executives search for more effective strategies of policing, they will be guided by the lessons of police history. The difficulty is that police history is incoherent, its lessons hard to read. After all, that history was produced by thousands of local departments pursuing their own visions and respon...

This paper provides the definitive record of the UK Defence Medical Services (DMS) lessons from the organisation of medical services in support of Operation (Op) TELIC (Iraq) and Op HERRICK (Afghanistan). The analysis involved a detailed review of the published academic literature, internal post-operational tour reports and post-tour interviews. The list of lessons was reviewed through three Mi...

This article reports six overarching lessons learned from seven pioneering initiatives in the pay-for-quality (P4Q) movement. These lessons relate to the specific design and implementation challenges sponsors of P4Q programs can expect. The lessons are: (1) P4Q can prioritize providers' quality goals, (2) provider engagement is difficult, (3) P4Q escalates concerns for data accuracy and validit...