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Out-of-pocket payment for health services: constraints and implications for government employees in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, South east Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Each year, 100 million people are impoverished globally as a result of expenditure on health. Objective: To assess the constraints and implications of out-of-pocket payment for health services among government employees in Abakaliki, Ebonyi ...
Oyibo, PG
core   +1 more source

‘Too Close to Eat?’ Exploring Consumer Responses to Edible Packaging Through the Lens of Food Neophobia and Construal Level Theory

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid growth of packaging waste has recently intensified the search for sustainable alternatives. Edible packaging, developed from biodegradable materials safe for consumption, represents a promising innovation that combines environmental responsibility with food preservation.
Donata Tania Vergura   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Recycling and Emission Reduction: A Business Strategy Analysis With Multi‐Objective Mixed‐Integer Linear Programming Framework for Optimising Sustainable Closed‐Loop Supply Chain Network Design

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research develops an integrated mixed‐integer linear programming (MILP) model for closed‐loop supply chain network design that optimises competing economic and environmental objectives including profit maximisation, supplier quality improvement and CO2 emission reduction.
Reza Eslamipoor
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholders’ views on the strengths and weaknesses of maternal care financing and its reform in Georgia

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The improvement of maternal health has been one of the aims of the health financing reforms in Georgia. Public-private relationships are the most notable part of the reform. This study aimed to assess the strengths and weakness of the maternal
Lela Shengelia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Orchestration Up Close: Sustainable Business Model Innovation Through the Experiences and Activity Patterns of Secondary Stakeholders

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
wiley   +1 more source

Prescription drug demand for psychotropics: The impact of out-of-pocket payment

open access: yes, 2004
This thesis examines the effect of out-of-pocket payment on the purchase of psychotropic drugs for treating depressive disorders. Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data from 1996 to 2000, the numbers of psychotropic purchases among ...
Chen, Jieling
core   +1 more source

Guided Toward Equity: Communities of Practice and Organizational Change in Community Colleges

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although community colleges advance equity by providing opportunities for marginalized students to pursue higher education, barriers to earning credentials remain, particularly for students of color. Higher education stakeholders are investing in “equity work” as organizations take responsibility for ensuring equitable outcomes.
Karin Yndestad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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