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New Approach to Policy Effectiveness for Covid-19 and Factors Influence Policy Effectiveness [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
This study compared the effectiveness of COVID-19 control policies, including wearing masks, and the vaccine rates through proportional infection rate in 28 states of the United States using the eSIR model. The effective rate of policies was measured by the difference between the predicted daily infection proportion rate using the data before the ...
arxiv  

Living Wage Laws: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
[Excerpt] Although most communities that have considered living wage proposals have adopted them, questions invariably arise about the desirability and effectiveness of these ordinances as public policy tools and the relation of such measures to local ...
AFL-CIO Department of Public Policy
core   +1 more source

Institute for Public Policy National Poll - January 2022 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The Sacred Heart University Institute for Public Policy leveraged a quantitative research approach to address the following areas of investigation: Thoughts and beliefs regarding the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot Sentiments surrounding the U.S. Supreme
Institute for Public Policy,
core   +1 more source

Gender differences in hospital admissions for major cardiovascular events and procedures in people with and without diabetes in England: a nationwide study 2004–2014

open access: yesCardiovascular Diabetology, 2017
Background Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has improved immensely during the past decade but controversies persist on cardiovascular benefits among women with diabetes.
Anthony A. Laverty   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engaging with stakeholders to inform the development of a decision-support tool for the NHS health check programme: qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The NHS Health Check Programme is a risk-reduction programme offered to all adults in England aged 40–74 years. Previous studies mainly focused on patient perspectives and programme delivery; however, delivery varies, and costs are substantial.
Lirije Hyseni   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental health impact of cuts to local government spending on cultural, environmental and planning services in England: a longitudinal ecological study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Over the past decade, there have been significant and unequal cuts to local authority (LA) budgets, across England. Cultural, environmental and planning (CEP) budgets have been cut by 17% between 2011 and 2019.
Katie Fahy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies to reduce the cancer burden and improve access to effective and affordable cancer interventions in Europe

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Comprehensive cancer centre (CCCs) and CCCs of Excellence (CCCoE) integration in healthcare. Through outreach to surrounding community hospitals, CCCs enable wider access to top‐clinical cancer treatments and care, thereby facilitating the swift enrolment of patients into data‐rich clinical trials (PI‐initiated trials testing new concepts, drug ...
Anton Berns   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should self-citations be included or excluded from measures of academic performance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There has been much discussion over how useful citation metrics, like Google Scholar’s H-index, really are and to what extent they can be gamed. Specifically there appears to be concern over the practice of self-citation as it varies widely between ...
Public Policy Group, LSE
core  

The Regional Distribution of Federal Fiscal Balances: Who Pays, Who Gets and Why It Matters

open access: yesThe School of Public Policy Publications, 2020
Any well-functioning federation is bound by shared values and by economic arrangements that ensure regions are better off inside the federation than outside it.
Robert Mansell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harmonized nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin from 1980 to 2018

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) Nitrogen Compound • phosphorus compound Technology Type(s) water monitors Sample Characteristic - Environment water body • watershed • amount of nitrogen atom in water • water pollution • pollution monitoring • amount of phosphorus in ...
Emma Krasovich   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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