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Are health workers motivated by income? Job motivation of Cambodian primary health workers implementing performance-based financing [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2016
Background: Financial incentives are widely used in performance-based financing (PBF) schemes, but their contribution to health workers’ incomes and job motivation is poorly understood.
Keovathanak Khim
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Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
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Care coordination and health sector reform [PDF]

Australian Health Review, 2004
THE PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION (Productivity Commission 2004) has nominated nationally coordinated health sector reform as one of two top priorities (along with natural resource management) for extending the industry reform agenda under the aegis of National Competition Policy.
Judith Dwyer, Sandra G Leggat
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Degradation Pathways of Silicon‐Based Anodes in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Silicon‐based anodes undergo degradation through five primary pathways: (1) mechanical and structural deterioration of the active material, (2) loss of electrode integrity and electrical contact, (3) mechanical instability of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), characterized by repetitive fracture and deformation, (4) chemical instability of the ...
Yoon Jeong Choi, Ji‐Youn Bae, Ga‐On Park, Seung‐Ho Yu   +3 more
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2023–2027 CAP First Pillar Reform and Livestock Sector: Production and Economic Impacts on Italian Specialized Dairy Cattle Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
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Human resource for health reform in peri-urban areas: a cross-sectional study of the impact of policy interventions on healthcare workers in Epworth, Zimbabwe

Human Resources for Health, 2017
Background The need to understand how healthcare worker reform policy interventions impact health personnel in peri-urban areas is important as it also contributes towards setting of priorities in pursuing the universal health coverage goal of health ...
Bernard Hope Taderera, Stephen James Heinrich Hendricks, Yogan Pillay   +2 more
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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy, Marco Costanigro, Joshua Berning, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the Iranian Health Sector Evolution Plan on Rehospitalization: An Analysis of 158000 Hospitalizations

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: In May 2014, Iran launched the most far-reaching reform for the health sector, so-called Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP), since introduction of the primary health care network, with a systematic plan to bring about Universal Health ...
Ali JANATI, Reza EBRAHIMOGHLI, Homayoun SADEGHI-BAZARGANI, Masoumeh GHOLIZADEH, Firooz TOOFAN, Hojatolah GHARAEE   +5 more
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On the Path to UHC – Global Evidence Must Go Local to Be Useful; Comment on “Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Is Published: A Theory of Change Is Needed for Translating Evidence to Health Policy” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019
The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) publications have pioneered new ways of thinking about investing in health. We agree with Norheim, that a useful first step to advance efforts to translate DCP’s global evidence into local health priorities, is to ...
Austen Davis, Damian G. Walker
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source