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Comparing disparities in geographic proximity to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation before and after decentralisation of services: a repeated cross-sectional study using individual-level register data [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Despite well-known benefits, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs suffer from non-participation, and travel distance is repeatedly reported as a participation barrier. Based on individual-level data, the objective of this study was to evaluate
Kristine Bihrmann, Ann-Dorthe Zwisler, Hanne Søndergaard, Marie Louise Overgaard Svendsen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll   +4 more
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The effects of decentralisation on patient and service outcomes: a case of the 2018 decentralisation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Zambia [PDF]

Archives of Public Health
Introduction The Zambian government decentralised tuberculosis control programs by transferring responsibility for the care and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients from a two-national hospital model to provincial hospitals and
Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Malizgani Paul Chavula, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Adam Silumbwe, Patricia Maritim, Margarate N. Munakampe, Batuli Habib, Namakando Liusha, Jeremiah Banda, Ntazana N. Sinyangwe, Chris Mweemba, Angel Mubanga, Patrick Kaonga, Mwiche Musukuma, Henry Phiri, Hikabasa Halwiindi   +15 more
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Decentralisation: a multidisciplinary perspective

Internet Policy Review, 2021
Decentralisation as a concept is attracting a lot of interest, not least with the rise of decentralised and distributed techno-social systems like Bitcoin, and distributed ledgers more generally.
Balázs Bodó, Jaya Klara Brekke, Jaap-Henk Hoepman   +2 more
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Fiscal decentralisation and green total factor productivity in China: SBM-GML and IV model approaches

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
This paper uses the SBM-GML model to measure and evaluate green total factor productivity based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2012 to 2018. It examines the impact of different dimensions of financial decentralisation on green
Xuegang Zhan, Rita Yi Man Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Fan He, Meitao Wang, Yuan Qin, Jing Xia, Wangyunyan Liao   +7 more
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Better service delivery, more satisfied citizens? The mediating effects of local government management capacity in South Korea

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2021
Does decentralisation lead to higher citizens' satisfaction with the public services that local governments provide? Despite arguments that decentralisation improves public service delivery, studies have not successfully verified the effects of ...
Geiguen Shin, Byong‐Kuen Jhee
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Is a Decentralised Health Policy Associated With Better Self-rated Health and Health Services Evaluation? A Comparative Study of European Countries [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021
Background While decentralisation has come to be a major policy strategy in many healthcare systems, there is still insufficient evidence about its impact. Most studies have been of developing countries, and they have provided mixed results.
Pål E. Martinussen, Håvard T. Rydland
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Decentralised LTL Monitoring [PDF]

Formal Methods in System Design, 2012
Users wanting to monitor distributed or component-based systems often perceive them as monolithic systems which, seen from the outside, exhibit a uniform behaviour as opposed to many components displaying many local behaviours that together constitute the system's global behaviour.
Bauer, Andreas, Falcone, Yliès
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Inequality in Indonesia [PDF]

Экономика региона, 2020
The study examined the effect of fiscal decentralisation on both vertical and horizontal inequality in 32 provinces of Indonesia in the period from 2005 to 2014 using several fixed effects (FE) estimations. Moreover, we assessed the mediating role of
Kumba Digdowiseiso , Eko Sugiyanto, Heru Dian Setiawan   +2 more
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Distinctive transnational city-to-city partnerships, decentralization, and local governance of China as a Global East Country.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Against the background of globalisation and state rescaling, promoting decentralisation and enhancing local governance capacity have become prioritised objectives of transnational city-to-city partnerships mainly between developed and developing ...
Jili Xu, Huaikuan Liu, Gengzhi Huang
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Decentralised Functional Signatures [PDF]

Mobile Networks and Applications, 2018
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) a lot of critical information is shared however without having guarantees about the origin and integrity of the information. Digital signatures can provide important integrity guarantees to prevent illegal users from getting access to private and sensitive data in various IoT applications ...
Bei Liang, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa
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