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Public policy and program evaluation

• Choice Reviews Online (1998)

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2785

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases (2018)

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466

Investigating the factors affecting the disclosure of intellectual capital in companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange

A. Gilani, M. Geraily Safari • Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij (2017)

The aim of the article. This research studies the effective factor of disclosing intellectual capital of firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of the analysis. Intellectual capital is one of the most valuable assets of the or...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21272/mmi.2017.1-25

Barriers to tuberculosis case finding in primary and secondary health facilities in Ghana: perceptions, experiences and practices of healthcare workers

Joyce B. Der, Alison D. Grant, Daniel Grint, Clement T. Narh et al. • BMC Health Services Research (2022)

Abstract Background Ghana’s national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey conducted in 2013 showed higher than expected TB prevalence indicating that many people with TB were not being identified and treated. Responding to this, we assessed ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-07711-1

Lessons Learned from Developing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to Support Citizen Scientists in Africa

Fiona Preston-Whyte, Toshka Barnardo, Danica Marlin, Tanna Hewett et al. • Southern African Journal of Environmental Education (2025)

Data gaps limit solutions and policy development for environmental issues. Citizen science offers a possible solution to reduce data gaps at a limited cost while enhancing environmental education (EE). While highly effective in the latter, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v41SI1.04

Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Evert Vedung • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315127767

Effect of electronic health records on doctor-patient relationship in Arabian gulf countries: a systematic review

Celine Tabche, Mays Raheem, Arwa Alolaqi, Salman Rawaf • Frontiers in Digital Health (2023)

BackgroundThe electronic health record (EHR) has been widely implemented internationally as a tool to improve health and healthcare delivery. However, EHR implementation has been comparatively slow amongst hospitals in the Arabian Gulf coun...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1252227

Hypothesis-driven methods to augment human cognition by optimizing cortical oscillations

Jörn M. Horschig, Johanna M. Zumer, Johanna M. Zumer, Ali eBahramisharif • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2014)

Cortical oscillations have been shown to represent fundamental functions of a working brain, e.g. communication, stimulus binding, error monitoring, and inhibition, and are directly linked to behavior. Recent studies intervening with these ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00119

Evaluation of students' mental and social health promotion educational programs: A systematic review

Najmeh Baghian, Ali Akbari Sari, Mohsen Shati, Hossein Fallahzadeh et al. • Journal of Education and Health Promotion (2019)

INTRODUCTION: Various programs are implemented internationally to promote the mental and social health of the students in schools. This study systematically reviewed and categorized all resources, indicators, and criteria for evaluating men...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_416_19

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Darya Hirsch, Geraldine Abrami, Raffaele Giordano, Stefan Liersch et al. • Ecology and Society (2010)

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5751/ES-03549-150323

Prevention of Morbidity in Sickle Cell Disease (POMS2a)—overnight auto-adjusting continuous positive airway pressure compared with nocturnal oxygen therapy: a randomised crossover pilot study examining patient preference and safety in adults and children

Jo Howard, Sophie A. Lee, Baba Inusa, Man Ying Edith Cheng et al. • Trials (2019)

Abstract Design This randomised crossover trial compared nocturnal auto-adjusting continuous positive airway pressure (APAP) and nocturnal oxygen therapy (NOT) in adults and children with sickle cell anaemia, with patient acceptability as t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13063-019-3461-x

A Mark-Release-Recapture Study to Estimate Field Performance of Imported Radio-Sterilized Male Aedes albopictus in Albania

Enkelejda Velo, Fabrizio Balestrino, Fabrizio Balestrino, Përparim Kadriaj et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2022)

The pathogen transmitting Aedes albopictus mosquito is spreading rapidly in Europe, putting millions of humans and animals at risk. This species is well-established in Albania since its first detection in 1979. The sterile insect technique ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.833698

Analysis of groundwater and surface water quality using modelled water index and multivariate statistics in Kampala and Mbarara Districts, Uganda

Idris O. Sanusi, Godwin O. Olutona, Ibrahim G. Wawata, Hope Onohuean • Discover Environment (2024)

Abstract The demand for domestic, public and industrial use of water increases with population growth. However, activities from humans and natural environment have resulted into decline in water quality. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44274-024-00157-8

Bridging Indigenous and science-based knowledge in coastal-marine research, monitoring, and management in Canada: a systematic map protocol

Steven M. Alexander, Jennifer F. Provencher, Dominique A. Henri, Jessica J. Taylor et al. • Environmental Evidence (2019)

Abstract Background The incorporation of multiple types of knowledge (e.g., science, Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge) is an important undertaking, which can strengthen the evidence-base for policy advice, decision mak...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13750-019-0159-1

An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

The Geography of Crowdfunding

Ajay K. Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb B • National Bureau of Economic Research (2011)

Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding'' is the broad geographic dispersion of investors. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We exam...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.3386/w16820