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Reforming the NHS reforms [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1994
Rather than improving efficiency, the reforms imposed on the NHS have increased bureaucracy, reduced patient choice, limited the range of core services, and led to inequity of treatment. In this paper I examine how the medical profession might help to solve these problems.
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THE ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF FOOD SECURITY MECHANISM

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2017
In the article we analyzed the essence and main components of a complex food security mechanism. We presented instruments of food security mechanism and indicators for assessing the efficiency of food security mechanism. We developed the structure of the
G. Pruntseva
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Squats in Surveys: Investigating the Feasibility of, Compliance With, and Respondents' Performance on Fitness Tasks in Self-Administered Smartphone Surveys Using Acceleration Data

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Digital health data that accompany data from traditional surveys are becoming increasingly important in health-related research. For instance, smartphones have many built-in sensors, such as accelerometers that measure acceleration so that they offer ...
Anne Elevelt   +5 more
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Policy recommendations on tacing and reducing program mismatch and perverse incentives present in earmarking sin tax to tobacco growing areas

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Recognizing that the Philippine 1991 tobacco tax sharing law favoured the development of tobacco, the Sin Tax Law, a separate law on restructuring cigarette tax, expanded the use of such to also cover shifting farmers to viable alternative ...
Madeiline Joy Aloria   +2 more
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Japanese Model of Supplier Development

open access: yesSEISENSE Journal of Management, 2018
The supplier development was one important puzzle to be cracked for the quality revolution that was spearheaded by Japanese. But even more importantly, the bedrock of Japanese model of Supplier Development is Dr. Deming’s philosophy; the philosophy that
Moeen Abbas
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The Predictive Properties of Psychiatric Diagnoses, Dynamic Risk and Dynamic Risk Change Assessed by the VRS-SO in Forensically Admitted and Released Sexual Offenders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Psychiatric diagnoses, static risk factors, and criminogenic needs at time of admission and release were examined in a mentally ill sample of psychiatrically detained sexual offenders.
Reinhard Eher   +7 more
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Econometric assessment of the effect of Small and medium enterprises on economic development (The ase of Azerbaijan)

open access: yesInformaciâ i Innovacii, 2019
It is important to understand the effect of Small and medium enterprises (hereinaftercalled SME) on economic development and to find out whether International Organizations’ policy recommendations are “Kicking Away the Ladder” policies or not. Therefore,
S. Orujov, E. Alakbarov, J. Maharramov
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Mechanisms for Overcoming Economic Crises and Developing Innovations

open access: yesInformaciâ i Innovacii, 2018
Theaimofthepaperistoanalyzeinternational crises and mechanisms for their exit. Particular attention is paid to the availability of institutional, financial, organizational and social innovations in the process of overcoming the crisis.
Arzu Huseynova, Terane Salifova
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Determinants and impediments of whistle-blowing in local government councils: A case study of the South-East District Council, Botswana

open access: yesAfrica’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2017
This article investigates the perceptions of public service employees regarding the role of whistle-blowing in local government. Whistle-blowing has received increased attention and support as a means of detecting and correcting wrongdoing in ...
Abiodun M.T. Omotoye
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Tax Constraints, Social Policy Preferences, and Support for Redistribution

open access: yesSocieties, 2018
The aim of this paper is to explore whether support for the welfare state is lower if people are made aware of its costs. Using data from a series of survey experiments in the German Internet Panel, we analyse individual spending preferences for ...
Elias Naumann
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