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How can we measure the developmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children?

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives • Present a conceptual data model for understanding the impacts of COVID on children 0-5 • Outline administrative datasets with relevant indicators that are commonly collected, integrated at the individual level, and include relevant 2 ...
Amy Hawn Nelson, Emily Berkowitz
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Nonprofits and the Promotion of Civic Engagement: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the "Civic Footprint" of Nonprofits within Local Communities

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2014
The literature suggests that nonprofit organizations provide civic benefits by promoting engagement within local communities. However, there exists minimal empirical evidence describing the ways in which nonprofits actually undertake this role.
Micheal L. Shier, Lindsey McDougle, Femida Handy   +2 more
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Impact of multiple cardiovascular medications on mortality after an incidence of ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background To manage the risk factors and to improve clinical outcomes, patients with stroke commonly receive multiple cardiovascular medications. However, there is a lack of evidence on the optimum combination of medication therapy in the primary care ...
Tian-Tian Ma, Ian C. K. Wong, Cate Whittlesea, Kenneth K. C. Man, Wallis Lau, Zixuan Wang, Ruth Brauer, Thomas M. MacDonald, Isla S. Mackenzie, Li Wei   +9 more
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Determinants of accident and emergency attendances and emergency admissions in infants: birth cohort study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background There is limited understanding of the drivers of increasing infant accident and emergency (A&E) attendances and emergency hospital admissions across England.
Selina Nath, Ania Zylbersztejn, Russell M. Viner, Mario Cortina-Borja, Kate Marie Lewis, Linda P. M. M. Wijlaars, Pia Hardelid   +6 more
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Practical Policy

, 2015
Computer actionable policies are used to enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses. The benefits of using policies include minimization of the amount of labor needed to manage a collection, the ability to publish to the users the rules that are being used, and the ability to ...
Reagan Moore, Rainer Stotzka, Claudia Cacciari, Petr Benedikt   +3 more
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Evaluation of post-acute care and one-year outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries with hip fractures: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background Post-acute care (PAC) services after hospitalization for hip fracture are typically provided in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), or at home via home health care (HHC).
Melissa R. Riester, Francesca L. Beaudoin, Richa Joshi, Kaleen N. Hayes, Meghan A. Cupp, Sarah D. Berry, Andrew R. Zullo   +6 more
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Learning Through Play at School – A Framework for Policy and Practice

Frontiers in Education, 2022
Learning through play has emerged as an important strategy to promote student engagement, inclusion, and holistic skills development beyond the preschool years.
R. Parker, B. Thomsen, Amy Berry
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Qualitative study exploring the phenomenon of multiple electronic prescribing systems within single hospital organisations

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background A previous census of electronic prescribing (EP) systems in England showed that more than half of hospitals with EP reported more than one EP system within the same hospital. Our objectives were to describe the rationale for having multiple EP
Zamzam Ahmed, Yogini Jani, Bryony Dean Franklin   +2 more
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Documents, practices and policy

Evidence & Policy, 2011
What are the practices of policy making? In this paper, we seek to identify and understand them by attending to one of the principal artefacts – the document – through which they are organised. We review the different ways in which researchers have understood documents and their function in public policy, endorsing a focus on content but noting that ...
Freeman, Richard; id_orcid 0000-0001-5354-5838, Maybin, Jo   +1 more
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The Re-Awakening Role of Social Workers in Policy-Making Following a Global Pandemic: Lessons for Education and Practice

Revija za socijalna politika
Social workers have largely contributed to policy analysis and planning since the rise of the discipline’s professional identity. It is through lobbying, policy advocacy and macro-practice that responses about human rights and social justice are crafted
Panagiotis Pentaris
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