INTRODUCTION The Center for Community Health and Evaluation conducted a 3-year evaluation to assess results of health impact assessments (HIAs) in the United States and to identify elements critical for their success. METHODS The study used a retrospective, mixed-methods comparative case study design, including a literature review; site visits; interviews with investigators, stakeholders, and...

This paper presents some preliminary work which attempts to adapt, in the context of deontic reasoning, the CO logic deened by Boutilier for reasoning with conditional preferences. The rst motivation for this work is that deontic logic can be given a semantics in terms of ordered worlds as in CO logic: the preference relation among worlds aims at ordering worlds from the most ideal ones to the ...

The full impact of IT in health care has not been realized because of the failure to recognize that (1) the path from availability of applications to the anticipated benefits passes through a series of steps; and (2) progress can be stopped at any one of those steps. As a result, strategies for diffusion, adoption, and use have been incomplete and have produced disappointing results. In this pa...

Journal based metrics is known not to be ideal for the measurement of the quality of individual researcher's scientific output. In the current report 16 contributors from Hong Kong SAR, India, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Belgium, France, Italy, UK, The Netherlands, Malaysia, and USA are invited. The following six questions were asked: (I) is Web of Sciences journal impact fac...

Policies from non-health sectors have considerable impacts on the food environment and in turn on population nutrition. Health impact assessment (HIA) methods have been developed to identify the potential health effects of non-health policies; however, they are underused both within and outside the health sector. HIA and other assessment methods and tools can be used more extensively in health ...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) courses are teaching public health and urban planning students how to assess the likely health effects of proposed policies, plans, and projects. We suggest that public health and urban planning have complimentary frameworks for training practitioners to address the living conditions that affect health. Planning perspectives emphasize practical skills for impactin...

This study was undertaken to assess the socio-economic impact of producing export oriented agricultural crops on the livelihoods of the farmers, in eastern Ethiopia. A random sample of 305 farmers was studied. Comparisons were made between producers and non-producers using the Ztest and regression analysis. It was found that producers of export oriented crops are better off than the non-produce...

In this paper we theorize the impact of democratic states on state-oriented challengers. We argue that aspects of states influence the overall mobilization of state-oriented challengers and the forms of their mobilization and collective action. We develop I2 hypotheses about the impact of state political institutions, democratic processes, bureaucracies, and policies on mobilization and provide...

objectives: the aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of anger rumination and its relationship with coping strategies and assertiveness in students of mohaghegh ardebili university. methods: the present research was a descriptive correlational study. the study population consisted of all students enrolled in the academic year 1390-91 (n = 8344). in the first step, to determine the pre...

‎an  oriented perfect path double cover (oppdc) of a‎ ‎graph $g$ is a collection of directed paths in the symmetric‎ ‎orientation $g_s$ of‎ ‎$g$ such that‎ ‎each arc‎ ‎of $g_s$ lies in exactly one of the paths and each‎ ‎vertex of $g$ appears just once as a beginning and just once as an‎ ‎end of a path‎. ‎maxov{'a} and ne{v{s}}et{v{r}}il (discrete‎ ‎math‎. ‎276 (2004) 287-294) conjectured that ...