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Terpstra, Jennifer L.; Best, Allan; Saul, Jessie; Leischow, Scott J. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in North America and Quitlines are one of the primary cessation resources available to assist tobacco users with quitting. Implementation of best practices is important to the success of quitlines, but unfortunately, it is a complex and elusive process often…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Institutional Characteristics, Program Implementation, Smoking
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Lu, Suju – Convergence, 2009
This paper first reviews the development of community education in Shanghai, one of China's eastern coastal cities. Then the development of community education in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, especially its management system and operational mechanisms, school operating systems and networks, curriculum systems, and team building are presented.…
Descriptors: Community Education, Change Agents, Team Training, Foreign Countries
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Grignon, Michel – Economics of Education Review, 2008
I investigate the role of education on health, using country-level data and the production frontier framework suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess performances of health care systems. I find that the impact of human capital on health is much smaller than suggested by the WHO frontier model, and the relationship exhibits…
Descriptors: Health Services, Human Capital, Role of Education, Systems Analysis
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James, Chris; Colebourne, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
Recent policy developments are changing the work of local education authorities (LEAs) in Wales requiring them to play a broader role in the community and a significant role in raising educational achievement. LEAs are obligated to set out their improvement targets in institutional plans and are called to account by external inspection, which…
Descriptors: School Districts, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Operations Research