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Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the economy‐wide consequences of two independent global stress‐tests in livestock production. The first assesses the effects of phasing out antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), and the second evaluates the long‐term impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) progression.
Alejandro Acosta, Wondmagegn Tirkaso, Marco Artavia, Francesco Nicolli, Thomas Chatzopoulos, Sergio René Araujo‐Enciso, Martin Cicowiez, Shaikh Eskander, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Junxia Song   +9 more
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Nursing Home Implementation of Health Information Technology: Review of the Literature Finds Inadequate Investment in Preparation, Infrastructure, and Training. [PDF]

, 2018
Health information technology (HIT) is increasingly adopted by nursing homes to improve safety, quality of care, and staff productivity. We examined processes of HIT implementation in nursing homes, impact on the nursing home workforce, and related ...
Ko, Michelle, Spetz, Joanne, Wagner, Laura   +2 more
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Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality [PDF]

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and attempt to identify the mechanisms behind it.
Ann Huff Stevens, Douglas L. Miller, Marianne E. Page, Mateusz Filipski   +3 more
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Improving neonatal health in Nepal: Major challenges to achieving millennium development goal 4 [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Globally, more than 40% of all under-five child deaths occur during the neonatal period. Neonatal mortality in Nepal is 33 per 1,000 live births, eight times that of developed regions.
Joshi, R., Sharma, Sheetal, van Teijlingen, Edwin   +2 more
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Development, implementation, and evaluation of a state‐wide gastrostomy training program: A proposed education model

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim Patients receiving home enteral tube feeding have a high risk of complications and readmission to hospital. Enteral nutrition training for health professionals is essential but often not included in basic training curricula. This paper aims to (i) outline the development of a state‐wide gastrostomy training program and (ii) undertake a 7 ...
Sharon Carey, Kimberley Bostock, Shannon Matthews, Courtney Still, Rachel Hardy, Kai Cheng, Anastasia Volovets, David Storey   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘They Were Talking to Each Other but Not to Me’: Examining the Drivers of Patients' Poor Experiences During the Transition From the Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility

Health Expectations
Introduction Hospital‐to‐skilled nursing facility (SNF) transitions have been characterised as fragmented and having poor quality. The drivers, or the factors and actions, that directly lead to these poor experiences are not well described.
James D. Harrison, Margaret C. Fang, Rebecca L. Sudore, Andrew D. Auerbach, Tasce Bongiovanni, Audrey Lyndon   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson, Stephen Mustchin, Damian Grimshaw, Aristea Koukiadaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Accreditation as a Substitute for Direct Government Regulation in Public Health Insurance Programs: When Is It Appropriate? [PDF]

, 1994
The appropriateness of the use of private accreditation in regulating and defining the quality of health care providers under government health insurance programs is examined.
Kinney, Eleanor D.
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source