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Policy Intervention

Mental Health Services Research, 2002
This paper addresses market failure due to externalities, as well as information asymmetries and public policy problems that need to be solved to ensure high quality care for affective disorders. We delineate the problems in parity legislation, managed care, as well as Medicare and Medicaid that need to be addressed to reduce the burden of illness ...
Richard, Scheffler   +3 more
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Human Trafficking: Policy Intervention

New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2017
In E. Lutz and R. Lotspich, sex markets and human trafficking: Cause–effect and policy interventions, The Protection Project Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society 2 (2009) 199–124, causal linkages between commercial sex and human trafficking were examined. A three-link chain of necessary conditions exists.
John N. Mordeson   +3 more
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Food Policy Interventions

2017
Obesity is mainly associated with unhealthy eating and low levels of physical activity but also, increasingly, with social and economic development and policies in the areas of agriculture, transportation, urban planning, the environment, food processing, distribution, marketing, and education.
Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, Rata Hojjat
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Empirical Analysis of Policy Interventions [PDF]

open access: possible, 2002
We construct linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy, using as an example an identified VAR model. Hypothetical policies are restricted to ones where both the policy intervention and its impacts are consistent with history -- otherwise the linear projections are likely to be unreliable.
Eric M. Leeper, Tao Zha
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Decision versus policy in crises intervention

American Journal of Community Psychology, 1979
The paper describes procedures for contrasting actions taken by crises intervention outreach workers and consumers with administrative policies. The data used to exemplify the procedures came from the outreach projects of six county MH/MR programs in Central Pennsylvania during the year following the flood caused by Hurricane Agnes, in 1972.
F L, Newman   +3 more
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Policy Interventions

2008
AbstractThis chapter considers legal and other policy approaches to limit youth exposure to harmful media content. A wide range of arguments against censorship of problematic content is reviewed. In particular, it is difficult to identify problematic content and to enforce its suppression. Suppression often gives rise to other more problematic content.
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