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Evaluating the feasibility and impact of case rate payment for recovery support navigator services: a mixed methods study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Acute 24-h detoxification services (detox) are necessary but insufficient for many individuals working towards long-term recovery from opiate, alcohol or other drug addiction.
Maria E. Torres, Mary Brolin, Lee Panas, Grant Ritter, Dominic Hodgkin, Margaret Lee, Elizabeth Merrick, Constance Horgan, Jonna C. Hopwood, Andrea Gewirtz, Natasha De Marco, Nancy Lane   +11 more
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International Policy Responses and Early Management of Threats Posed by the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic to Social Care

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2020
Context: People with prior health conditions are susceptible to severe and sometimes fatal outcomes of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, that causes the disease COVID-19.
Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Jill Manthorpe, Nicole Steils, Martin Stevens, Stephen Martineau, John Woolham, Katharine Orellana, Caroline Norrie, Amelia Ionescu, Esther Wiskerke, Kritika Samsi, Stephanie Bramley, Michelle Cornes, Anne Marie Rafferty, Ivanka Ezhova, Ann Leahy   +15 more
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Where Do We Go from Here? Enhancing Women’s Political Representation in the Local Councils of Albania [PDF]

Genero, 2023
Women’s representation in the local councils of Albania has increased almost fourfold in less than a decade. But – in the face of these numeric changes – there are growing concerns that numbers do not translate into political power and are used ...
Marsela Dauti, Geldona Metaj
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Decentring social policy? [PDF]

Journal of Social Policy, 2008
AbstractConstitutional change offers the opportunity for a major departure in the nature and direction of policy, practices and governance in social policy. This article explores some of the impacts devolution has for the discipline of social policy, suggesting that devolutionmattersfor social policy as a field of research and study, and for the ...
Williams, Charlotte, Mooney, Gerry
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Controlled Trial of a Short-term Intensive Parent Training Program within the Context of Routine Services for Autistic Children in China

Psychosocial Intervention, 2022
Recent systematic reviews found limited rigorous research conducted to date of the effectiveness of parent training programs in reducing behavioral problems for autistic children in low- and middle-income countries.
Zuyi Fang, Jamie M. Lachman, Dongping Qiao, Jane Barlow   +3 more
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Collecting survey data among the 50+ population during the COVID-19 outbreak: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Survey Research Methods, 2020
While the COVID-19 crisis resulted in a vast number of new research projects springing up like mushrooms everywhere, it had severe consequences for ongoing survey research and in particular for running data collections.
Annette Scherpenzeel, Kathrin Axt, Michael Bergmann, Salima Douhou, Andrea Oepen, Gregor Sand, Karin Schuller, Stephanie Stuck, Melanie Wagner, Axel Börsch-Supan   +9 more
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Social Policy

, 2022
It has been forty years since James Callaghan – the only person to hold all four of the great offices of state – resigned as Leader of the Opposition, bringing to an end over three decades of service on the front bench.\ud \ud Debate still rages over whether Callaghan was a successful Prime Minister.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors: exploring mediation pathways through material conditions and time orientation

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors have been attributed to both structural and individual factors, but untangling the complex, dynamic pathways through which these factors influence inequalities requires more empirical research ...
Andrea L. Mudd, Frank J. van Lenthe, Sanne E. Verra, Michèlle Bal, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis   +4 more
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Creating Overall Measurements of Unidimensional Constructs for Comparative Research: A Methodological Study

Ask, 2021
Standardization of measurement is a prerequisite for cross-national and/or overtime comparative analyses. However, there are instances in the literature where the validation of constructs resulted in producing scales or subscales defined differently from
Anastasia Charalampi, Eva Tsouparopoulou, Joanna Tsiganou, Catherine Michalopoulou   +3 more
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Cost and cost-effectiveness of a parenting programme to prevent violence against adolescents in South Africa

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction This paper presents the costs and cost-effectiveness of ‘Parenting for Lifelong Health: Sinovuyo Teen’, a non-commercialised parenting programme aimed at preventing violence against adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries ...
Alice Redfern, Lucie D Cluver, Marisa Casale, Janina I Steinert   +3 more
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