Greatly expanding its commitment to cancer research and treatment, the government of Puerto Rico recently earmarked $40 million over the next 5 years for its cancer research infrastructure and another $75 million to build a new cancer research hospital. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is in the process of approving the funding for what will be the Caribbean’s first comprehensive cancer center, ...

Most evaluation processes in e-government projects are neglected, inefficient or ineffective and tend to focus on narrow aspect of project design and implementation. E-government evaluation should support organizational learning in order to ensure that errors or mistakes on previous project are not repeated. This paper presents issues of evaluation in one of e-government project; e-procurement....

Global cooperation is essential for coordinated planning and response to public health emergencies, as well as for building sufficient capacity around the world to detect, assess and respond to health events. The United States is committed to, and actively engaged in, supporting disease surveillance capacity building around the world. We recognize that there are many agencies involved in this e...

E-government requires more attention from researchers to investigate the factors that predict the success of such initiative. This study used secondary data from international reports to investigate the relationship between transparency and e-government development. Two measures used for transparency: the corruption perception index (CPI) and the open budget index (OBI) and were regressed to se...

With emphasizing the process of innovation, this paper classifies government intervention focused on innovation adoption into three dimensionalities: information support, financial support and personnel support. It also refines technological cognition into two aspects: perceived benefits including functional benefits and social benefits, and perceived costs including financial cost and risk. Th...

after the war with iraq which ended in 1988, iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on five-year national development plans. the main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. this paper investigates the extent to which iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has the potential to change processes of HIV stigmatisation. In this article, changing processes of stigmatisation among a group of people living with HIV (PLWH) on ART in Wakiso District, Uganda, are analysed using qualitative data from a study of PLWH's self-management of HIV on ART. There were 38 respondents (20 women, 18 men) who had been taking ART for at least...

INTRODUCTION Preemption is a legislative or judicial arrangement in which a higher level of government precludes lower levels of government from exercising authority over a topic. In the area of smoke-free policy, preemption typically takes the form of a state law that prevents communities from adopting local smoking restrictions. BACKGROUND A broad consensus exists among tobacco control prac...