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Assessing the Efficiency of Mass Transit Systems in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Frustrated with increased parking problems, unstable gasoline prices, and stifling traffic congestion, a growing number of metropolitan city dwellers consider utilizing the mass transit system.
Min, Hokey
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Presents results of a survey of healthcare experts on insurance, payment, and delivery system reforms, including a national insurance exchange with broad authority, a public plan option with a bundled payment system, and a standard benefits ...
Cathy Schoen   +3 more
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Planned changes to official statistics: early years registered providers inspection outcomes, and actions and recommendations issued at inspection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Since the start of the current inspection cycle in September 2008, Ofsted publishes quarterly statistics on the most recent inspection outcomes for all providers registered with Ofsted on the Early Years Register that are still active at the end of the ...

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Publics, politics and power: Remaking the public in public services

open access: yes, 2009
Challenges the notion that publicness and the public sphere is in decline, and analyses the emergence of new forms, sites and practices of publicness and the implications for public services.
Clarke, John, Newman, Janet
core   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan%u2019s fiscal policy and then to discuss the debt management policy using the theoretical models and numerical studies.
Kiyoshi Mitsui   +2 more
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Public authority liability and the cost of disasters [PDF]

open access: yesThe Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2019
We examine the influence of introducing public authority liability in the context of disasters. In an ideal setting a rule of comparative negligence would incentivise the government to take an optimal amount of care. The citizen, being the residual bearer of the loss, would consequently also take optimal care.
DE MOT, Jef, Faure, Michael G.
openaire   +3 more sources

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two-year retrospective review of costs associated with COVID-19 case management in Regina, Saskatchewan

open access: yesHealth Economics Review
Background The COVID-19 pandemic, declared in March 2020, caused significant morbidity and mortality globally. This study aims to estimate the costs associated with managing COVID-19 infected patients in Regina. Method The study focuses on the direct and
Olanrewaju Medu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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