Involvement of Ministries of Health in Health Service Coverage Decisions: Is England an Aberrant Case?

This article examines the involvement of ministries of health in making health service coverage decisions in Denmark, England, France and Germany. The study aims to inform debate in England about the feasibility of reducing perceived ministerial and bureaucratic ‘interference’ in decisions affecting the National Health Service, based on interviews with senior government officials and other health system stakeholders. Ministries of health differ in their involvement in health system governance and coverage decisions (‘the benefits package’), reflecting differences in institutional arrangements. In all four countries, organizations at arm's length or independent from government are either involved in providing technical advice to the ministry of health or have been mandated to take these decisions themselves. However, ministries of health occasionally intervene in the decision‐making process or ignore the advice of these organizations. The Department of Health in England is not an aberrant case, at least in relation to coverage decisions. Indeed, ministries of health in Denmark and France play a larger role in making these decisions. Public pressure, often amplified by the media, is a shared reason for ministerial and ministry involvement in all four countries. This dynamic may thus limit the feasibility of attempts to further separate the NHS from both the Department of Health and wider political pressures.     

Interplay between Friends' Aggression and Friendship Quality in the Development of Child Aggression during the Early School Years

The aim of this study was to investigate the unique and combined role of friendship quality and friends' aggression in regard to the persistence of young children's physical aggression from kindergarten to grade 2. The sample included 1555 children (808 girls) assessed annually using teacher ratings. Two theoretical perspectives (i.e., the social learning and the social bonding perspectives) served as frameworks to guide the analyses and interpret the results. In line with the social learning perspective, friends' aggression was related to a significant increase in children's physical aggression. However, in line with the social bonding perspective, good friendship quality played both a compensatory and a protective role, by, respectively, reducing children's initial level of physical aggression and by mitigating, albeit marginally, the associations between friends' and children's physical aggression. These results suggest that fostering a positive relationship between friends in the early school years may decrease physical aggression even if the friends are aggressive.     

理工科大学素质教育中的中国民族音乐教育

艺术素质教育在古往今来的教育中都承担着重要的角色。中国民族音乐作为集艺术性与民族性为一体的音乐艺术形式,在世界音乐艺术领域占有重要的地位。通过不同的艺术教育途径,发扬和传承中国民族音乐,让更多的理工科大学生了解和热爱中国民族音乐,提高自身音乐修养,最终达到专业与艺术的完美融合。     

荷兰居民生活质量调查方法研究及对中国的启示

通过对荷兰居民生活质量调查方法的研究，旨在分析总结其值得借鉴之处，并在此基础上针对中国正在探索中的居民生活质量调查，提出构建中国居民生活质量调查体系应拓宽其调查信息来源、实现数据共享、积极提高回应率、培养高素质调查队伍以及定期发布调查报告。     

Identifying Dispersion Effects in Robust Design Experiments—Issues and Improvements

The two experimental methods most commonly used for reducing the effect of noise factors on a response of interest Y aim either to estimate a model of the variability (V(Y), or an associated function), that is transmitted by the noise factors, or to estimate a model of the ratio between the response (Y) and all the control and noise factors involved therein. Both methods aim to determine which control factor conditions minimise the noise factors' effect on the response of interest, and a series of analytical guidelines are established to reach this end. Product array designs allow robustness problems to be solved in both ways, but require a large number of experiments. Thus, practitioners tend to choose more economical designs that only allow them to model the surface response for Y. The general assumption is that both methods would lead to similar conclusions. In this article we present a case that utilises a design based on a product design and for which the conclusions yielded by the two analytical methods are quite different. This example casts doubt on the guidelines that experimental practice follows when using either of the two methods. Based on this example, we show the causes behind these discrepancies and we propose a number of guidelines to help researchers in the design and interpretation of robustness problems when using either of the two methods.     

服务台可修的多水平优先权排队(二)

文献[1]讨论了服务台可修的多水平优先权排队的排队指标。本文讨论该系统的可靠性指标。利用文献[3]中的随机序,获得了这些可靠性指标的界值。     

我国网络问卷调查发展现状与问题

随着信息传播技术的飞速发展,网络问卷调查业已成为相对主流的调查研究方法之一,被众多行业调研机构者和学术研究人员所采用。在简要介绍了网络问卷调查的发展历史及在我国的发展现状之后,通过参与式观察,我们剖析了国内网络问卷调查中存在的两大问题,即数据质量和个人信息安全,以期引起社会的关注和反思,针对这些问题,最后试图提出可行性解决方案,以期推动网络问卷调查行业的良性发展。     

试论普通话语音的韵味美

本文从音节、语调两方面品评探究普通话语音的韵味美,并揭示把握它的规律。     

教育本体论的嬗变与素质 教育本体论命题的创化

本文在教育本体论层面上考辩了教育思想史上关于教育起源的生命本能说、心理模仿说、劳动说、社会交往说等教育原生态的论争,论证了素质教育本体论关于“人体潜能素质的发现、破译和开发”命题假说革新现代教育理论的创化功能     

对跨世纪广州师范学院教师队伍建设的若干看法

本文论述跨世纪教师队伍建设的重大战略意义并针对广州师范学院的某些实际情况,提出抓好跨世纪教师队伍建设的若干对策。