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Barriers and delays in access to cleft surgery among children with cleft deformities in Rwanda: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives Although timely surgery is essential for improving general health and psychosocial outcomes, delays in cleft surgery remain common in low- and middle-income countries, including Rwanda, where little is known about the underlying causes.
Robert Riviello   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effectiveness of a sustained nurse home visiting intervention for Aboriginal infants compared with non-Aboriginal infants and with Aboriginal infants receiving usual child health care: a quasi-experimental trial - the Bulundidi Gudaga study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background In Australia there is commitment to developing interventions that will ‘Close the Gap’ between the health and welfare of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and recognition that early childhood interventions offer the greatest potential ...
Lynn Kemp   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine the pervasive view that “equity is expensive,” which leads to claims that high capital requirements are costly and would affect credit markets adversely.
Anat R. Admati   +3 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Practice Patterns for Sexual History-taking among Florida Nurses

open access: yesFlorida Public Health Review, 2016
Florida has some of the highest reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates in the country. STDs are a particular problem for minorities, women, and adolescents.
Salimah El-Amin   +3 more
doaj  

Equity retention and social network theory in equity crowdfunding

open access: yesSmall Business Economics, 2015
After comparing the regulation and development of equity crowdfunding around the world, this paper investigates the signaling role played toward crowdfunders by equity retention and social capital. Using a sample of 271 projects listed on the UK platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs in the period 2011-2014, we find that campaigns launched by entrepreneurs who
openaire   +2 more sources

Applying the Innov8 approach for reviewing national health programmes to leave no one behind: lessons learnt from Indonesia

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2018
The World Health Organization’s Innov8 Approach for Reviewing National Health Programmes to Leave No One Behind is an eight-step process that supports the operationalization of the Sustainable Development Goals’ commitment to ‘leave no one behind’.
Theadora Swift Koller   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Egalitarian-Equivalence and the Pareto Principle for Social Preferences [PDF]

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When we construct social preferences, the Pareto principle is often in conflict with the equity criteria: there exist two allocations x and y such that x Pareto dominates y, but y is an equitable allocation whereas x is not.
Tadenuma, Koichi
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