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Healthcare as a commodity â a financing mechanism to control costs and ensure access

Liberman, Aaron; Rotarius, Timothy - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2006) 4, pp. 407-420

The US healthcare system is experiencing a funding shortfall that constrains efforts to provide healthcare to our citizens. Patients are no longer sure they will receive adequate healthcare during their senior years. One solution is to create an annuity at birth for each individual. This annuity...

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Applied health informatics: a multi-year international effort to implement and maintain evidence-based practice for chronic-wound treatment

McNees, Patrick - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2006) 4, pp. 389-398

This paper describes a multi-year attempt to develop, implement and maintain an evidence-based international clinical decision support system for preventing and treating chronic wounds. Incidental to implementation efforts, over 37,000 wound assessments, risk assessments and treatment events...

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Evaluating public sector intramural research programmes: the case of the US Advanced Technology Program's Intramural Research Initiative

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John T. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 6, pp. 516-532

Within a public environment in which accountability is at the forefront, an important evaluation question is how to document the economic value of innovation-related outputs and outcomes from intramural research relative to the cost of funding an intramural research programme. In this paper, we...

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Innovative governance and strengthening national competitiveness in Finland

Park, Sang-Chul - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 6, pp. 495-515

A new economic order based on globalisation and localisation processes has changed the fundamental economic systems. This resulted in a severe recession in the mid 1990s in Finland. In order to overcome the economic recession, the government and industry began to emphasise technology and...

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'Involuntary self-employment' in Finland: a bleak future?

Kautonen, Teemu; Palmroos, Jenni; Vainio, Pekka - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 6, pp. 533-548

'Involuntary self-employment' has recently received considerable political and media attention in Finland. The notion of involuntary self-employment has been used to refer to situations where an employer seeks increased flexibility and cost efficiency by 'pushing' former employees into new forms...

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Review of development effectiveness in Uganda

Bategeka, Lawrence; Ddumba-Ssentamu, John; Rubbelke, … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 6, pp. 459-478

The 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) analyses and evaluates the World Bank's development assistance activities. It concludes that the Bank has paid insufficient attention to issues of growth. Furthermore, it argues that without growth no sustainable poverty reduction is...

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Divergences and convergences in public affairs education and research

Adams, Kenneth - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2006) 4, pp. 355-366

Public affairs and administration is a young discipline that has experienced considerable growth in a short time. Once viewed as a sub-field of political science, the discipline now embraces most of the social sciences and has established a distinct identity in academia. In this paper, the...

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Emissions trading as an instrument of EU climate policy: a critical analysis of control processes in sociological perspective

Göke, Juliane; Forder, Bradley - In: International Journal of Public Policy 11 (2015) 1/2/3, pp. 17-32

The study deals with the control procedures in the policy field of the EU climate policy. Initially established hypothesis regarding the efficiency of the EU's climate strategy (H1) and the democratic legitimacy of the policy (H2) were developed on the basis of various theoretical concepts of...

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Curbing marital violence through social policies: perspectives from the Bangladesh demographic and health survey

Chaudhuri, Sanjukta; Abdullah, Shahnaz - In: International Journal of Public Policy 10 (2014) 1/2/3, pp. 135-160

women's empowerment - education, paid work, and non-governmental organisation (NGO) membership with marital violence. We …

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Explaining the interrelations between health, education and standards of living in Portugal. A simultaneous equation approach

Poças, Ana; Soukiazis, Elias - In: International Journal of Public Policy 9 (2013) 3, pp. 167-187

The aim of this paper is to analyse the links between health status, education and economic growth in Portugal. Focus … system (mainly in the education system) that have contributed significantly to an improvement of the living conditions. So … cumulative causation effects between health, education and per capita income growth. Having this in mind, in this paper we use a …

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