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Accountability for social impact: A bricolage perspective on impact measurement in social enterprises [PDF]

Journal of Business Venturing, 2017
To fulfill external accountability expectations social impact measurement has become an important practice for social enterprises. Yet, the ambiguity around social impact and its measurement leads to a friction amongst stakeholders involved in a social enterprise.
Greg Molecke, Jonatan Pinkse
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Perceived risk and protective behaviors related to COVID-19 among the Nigerian general population: An application of the extended parallel process model

Scientific African, 2022
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been heightened levels of fear worldwide. The steadily increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria as reported by the Nigerian center for Disease Control has led to different ...
Fagbemi Babafunke, Olarewaju Olajumoke, Laleye Oluwatofunmi, Abodunrin Oluyemi, Akintola Oluseyi, Fagbemi Oluwagbemisola, Oki Stephanie, Yahaya Disu, Anueyiagu Chimezie, Aisiri Adolor   +9 more
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Organisational structures and processes for health and well-being: insights from work integration social enterprise

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Previous research on employee well-being for those who have experienced social and economic disadvantage and those with previous or existing mental health conditions has focused mainly on programmatic interventions.
Andrew Joyce, Batool Moussa, Aurora Elmes, Perri Campbell, Roksolana Suchowerska, Fiona Buick, Jo Barraket, Gemma Carey   +7 more
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Use of the most significant change technique to evaluate intervention in promoting childbirth spacing in Nigeria

African Evaluation Journal, 2020
Background: Childbirth spacing (CBS) or Family Planning (FP) methods are considered an essential component of sexual and reproductive health. It refers to the resting period between pregnancies that provides the mother with time to recuperate from ...
Adolor Aisiri, Babafunke Fagbemi, Oluseyi A. Akintola, Oluyemi S. Abodunrin, Olajumoke Olarewaju, Oluwatofunmi Laleye, Anthony Edozieuno   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staying safe while staying together: the COVID‐19 paradox for participants returning to community‐based sport in Victoria, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: To identify the challenges adult community sport participants anticipate when returning to sport in Victoria, Australia, post a COVID‐19 shutdown.
Kiera Staley, Emma Seal, Alex Donaldson, Erica Randle, Kirsty Forsdike, Donna Burnett, Lauren Thorn, Matthew Nicholson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How personalisation programs can exacerbate socio-economic inequities: findings from budget utilisation in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Researchers and policymakers are increasingly concerned that personalisation schemes in social and health care might be worsening social and health inequities.
Eleanor Malbon, Megan Weier, Gemma Carey, Thomas Writer   +3 more
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Application of theories of the policy process in research on consumption of sustainable diets: a systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background There is a significant global lack of policy action on consumption of sustainable diets. Application of political science theories such as theories of the policy process can help in understanding policy inaction.
Celia Green, Gemma Carey, Andrew Joyce
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Impact of the first year of the “This Girl Can” physical activity and sport mass media campaign in Australia

BMC Public Health, 2023
Introduction Addressing gender inequalities in physical activity is an important public health goal. A major campaign, ‘This Girl Can’ (TGC) was conducted by Sport England from 2015, and TGC was licenced in 2018 by VicHealth in Australia for development ...
Adrian Bauman, Nicola McNeil, Matthew Nicholson, Paul O’Halloran, Emma Seal, Erica Randle, Arthur Stukas   +6 more
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The impact of social impact bond financing

Public Administration Review, 2023
AbstractSocial impact bonds (SIBs), also known as Pay for Success, are an innovation in Payment by Results contracting. Investors finance programs and are repaid based on the “SIB effect,” which includes changes in outcomes attributable to financing. We generate a quantitative estimate of this part of the SIB effect for two active labor market programs
Hevenstone, Debra, Fraser, Alec, Hobi, Lukas, Przepiorka, Wojtek, Geuke, Gemma   +4 more
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COVID-19 Staff Wellbeing Survey: longitudinal survey of psychological well-being among health and social care staff in Northern Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

BJPsych Open, 2021
Background Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health and social care workers have faced unprecedented professional demands, all of which are likely to have placed considerable strain on their psychological well-being.
Julie-Ann Jordan, Ciaran Shannon, Dympna Browne, Emma Carroll, Jennifer Maguire, Keith Kerrigan, Sinead Hannan, Thomas McCarthy, Mark A. Tully, Ciaran Mulholland, Kevin F. W. Dyer   +10 more
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