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Planning ahead with dementia: what role can advance care planning play? A review of opportunities and challenges

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018
Advance directives emerged in the 1960s with the goal of empowering people to exert control over their future medical decisions. However, it has become apparent, over recent years, that advance directives do not sufficiently capture the temporal and ...
Francesca Bosisio, Ralf J Jox, Laura Jones, Eve Rubli Truchard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cotonou Agreement: Will it Successfully Improve the Small Island Economies of the Caribbean? [PDF]

, 2004
On June 23, 2000, after eighteen months of negotiations, the European Union (EU) and its Member States signed a new partnership agreement with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states in Cotonou, Benin, called the Cotonou Agreement.
Gerrick, Regina
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A Care Pathway for the Treatment of IBD Reduces Healthcare Costs and Is Cost‐Effective: Results of the Multicentre IBD Value Study

Alimentary Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
This study provides real‐world evidence that implementing an advanced therapy care pathway for patients with IBD leads to significant healthcare cost savings without compromising quality of life. These findings support broader implementation of care pathways in the management of patients with chronic conditions to optimise care delivery and resource ...
Elyke H. Visser, Martijn. A. Oude Voshaar, Reinier C. A. van Linschoten, Alexander G. L. Bodelier, Claire Fitzpatrick, Vincent de Jonge, Hestia Vermeulen, K. Evelyne Verweij, Sanne van der Wiel, Daniëlle van der Horst, C. Janneke van der Woude, R. L. West, D. van Noord   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional integration and development in small states [PDF]

The author examines the impact of various trade policies for small developing states in the face of changing international trends - including globalization, the proliferation of regional integration agreements, the changing relationship between African ...
Schiff, Maurice
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Family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa : South-South cooperation in the Primafamed project as strategy for development [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND. Health-care systems based on primary health care (PHC) are more equitable and cost effective. Family medicine trains medical doctors in comprehensive PHC with knowledge and skills that are needed to increase quality of care.
Ayankogbe, Olayinka, Chege, Patrick, De Maeseneer, Jan, Essuman, Akye, Flinkenflögel, Maaike   +4 more
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With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EC internal market, Lomé IV and the ACP countries [PDF]

Intereconomics, 1990
The implications that the internal market could hold for the EC's foreign trade relations are a cause of considerable worry to countries in the Third World. Particularly the ACP countries, for many of whom the EC is their foremost product and import market, fear the possible strengthening of protectionist barriers and a Europe increasingly preoccupied ...
openaire   +2 more sources

A Systematic Review Evaluating Methods for Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Dental Erosions

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the quality of evidence for methods used to diagnose, restore and prevent dental erosions, by evaluating and summarising clinical controlled studies and in situ studies covering this field.
Maria Skalsky Jarkander, Helena Domeij, Irene Edebert, Alfheidur Astvaldsdottir, Margaret Grindefjord, Annsofi Johannsen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development Aid for the Agricultural Sector of African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries—Determinants and Allocation

Agriculture
We propose a method for allocating Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the agricultural sector of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries based on objectively measured indicators of the development of the economies determined for the period of
Kinga Smolińska-Bryza, Ewa Kiryluk-Dryjska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries Imports and Welfare [PDF]

This paper estimates the impact on a sample of 34 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries of eliminating tariffs on imports from the EU under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), considering trade, welfare and revenue effects.
Morrissey, Oliver, Zgovu, Evious
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