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Markets at War: the Procurement of Ukrainian Drones

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1990s and early 2000s saw a set of public service reforms in the UK and elsewhere under the label of ‘the new public management’. A key element of this was the introduction of so‐called quasi‐markets into social services such as education and health care, where users were given the power to use government funds to purchase the service ...
Arsen Zhumadilov, Julian Le Grand
wiley   +1 more source

Telemedicine in Afghanistan: Implementation, Outcomes, and Future Directions in a Resource-Constrained Setting. [PDF]

Cureus
Ali S, Sultani MY, Shahid M, Sadat Sultany H, Omerzad MZ, Faizi HU, Sultani MI, Hamidi N, Akhtiyari S, Lalzai R.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Despite what we know, physical activity continues to decline: can integrating physical activity and education be a way forward? [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Sandbakk Ø, Grasaas E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Costs and Benefits of the Digital OurRelationship Program for Distressed Couples. [PDF]

Fam Process
Doss BD, Guttman S, Metser-Waldman M, Ajmera N, Dopp A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

A dynamic microsimulation method for estimating dementia costs in the United States. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Tysinger B, Heun-Johnson H, Leaf D, Thunell J, Goldman D, Zissimopoulos J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Conventional versus enhanced recovery laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Rwanda: A comparative analysis of costs and clinical outcomes. [PDF]

Surg Open Sci
Kayondo K, Nyundo M, Gasakure M, Byiringiro F, Mukwesi C, Hitimana R, Gashegu J, Robert A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source