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Policy lessons from health taxes: a systematic review of empirical studies

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Taxes on alcohol and tobacco have long been an important means of raising revenues for public spending in many countries but there is increasing interest in using taxes on these, and other unhealthy products, to achieve public health goals. We
Alexandra Wright, Katherine E. Smith, Mark Hellowell   +2 more
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Residential and support services for older people in the Waikato, 1992-1997: Privatisation and emerging resistance [PDF]

, 1999
As disproportionate users of services, older people are more vulnerable to shifts in policy in health care and social support. This paper focuses on older people as a group affected by economic and social restructuring.
Chalmers, Lex, Joseph, Alun E.
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To what extent can headteachers be held to account in the practice of social justice leadership? [PDF]

, 2015
Internationally, leadership for social justice is gaining prominence as a global travelling theme. This article draws from the Scottish contribution to the International School Leadership Development Network (ISLDN) social justice strand and presents a ...
Barrett, Paula Q, Bielinski, Suzette J, Bien, Stephanie, Bottinger, Erwin P, Buyske, Steven, Carlson, Christopher S, Carty, Cara L, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Ehret, Georg Benedikt, Fornage, Myriam, Franceschini, Nora, Guo, Xiuqing, Haessler, Jeff, Hindorff, Lucia A, Kaufman, Joel D, Kooperberg, Charles, Loos, Ruth J F, Lu, Yingchang, Manichaikul, Ani, North, Kari E, Rao, D C, Rich, Stephen S, Schwander, Karen, Sung, Yun Ju, Tao, Ran, Zubair, Niha   +25 more
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Real time, on-site drug checking in low-threshold housing communities

Harm Reduction Journal
Background In recent years, Boston has attempted to increase housing options and reduce overdose risk through the implementation of harm reduction housing (HRH) sites.
Charlie Summers, Joseph Silcox, Sofia Zaragoza, Sabrina Rapisarda, Abigail Edelmann, Avik Chatterjee, Traci C. Green   +6 more
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The impact of cyber-crime and violent extremism on socio-economic development in Nigeria

Discover Global Society
Cybercrime and violent extremism have not only become mutually reinforcing, in recent times, but also fast growing, multidimensional and easily joined by the youth for lack of socio-economic opportunities to break out of poverty and overcome family and ...
Chukwudi Kingsley Onyeachu, Ikechukwu Clement Okoro, Martina Mgbosolu Ugwuoke   +2 more
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Social Policy

, 2014
Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion of theory to the understanding of social policy ...
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Social capital theory: a cross-cutting analytic for teacher/therapist work in integrating children's services? [PDF]

, 2010
Reviewing relevant policy, this article argues that the current 'integration interlude' is concerned with reformation of work relations to create new forms of 'social capital'. The conceptual framework of social capital has been used by government policy-
Allan J., Arshad R., Bonilla-Silva E., Bonilla-Silva E., Bourdieu P., Bourdieu P., Brown K., Department for Education and Skills (DfES), Department for Education and Skills (DfES), Department of Education (DE) (Northern Ireland), Department of Education and Science (IE) Social Inclusion Unit, Elspeth McCartney, Field J., Forbes J, Forbes J, Forbes J, Forbes J, Gibbons M., Halpern D., HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIe), HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIe), Howard A., Joan Forbes, Kennedy A., Lindblad S., McCartney E, Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), Ozga J., Putnam RD, Sachs J., Scottish Executive, Scottish Executive, Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED), Scottish Office, Scottish Office Education Department (SOEID), Smith M., Swartz D., United States 107th Congress, Welsh Assembly Government, World Bank   +39 more
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The impact of contract service policy and doctor communication skills on rural patient-doctor trust relationship in the village clinics of three counties

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Trust is regarded as the cornerstone of the doctor-patient relationship in the world of medicine; it determines the decisions patients make when choosing doctors and influences patients’ compliance with recommended treatments.
Linni Gu, Jianjun Deng, Huiwen Xu, Shengfa Zhang, Min Gao, Zhiyong Qu, Weijun Zhang, Donghua Tian   +7 more
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Harmonized prevalence estimates of dementia in Europe vary strongly with childhood education

Scientific Reports
Up-to-date, strictly cross-nationally comparable and nationally representative data on cognitive health are essential for our understanding of the dementia-related challenges in healthcare, to detect shortcomings in healthcare systems and to design ...
Axel Börsch-Supan, Salima Douhou, Marcela C. Otero, Beatrice Baaba Tawiah   +3 more
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based interventions among third sector organisations: a systematic review

Implementation Science, 2018
Background The third sector is becoming a growing provider of public, social, and health services. However, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of third sector organisations (TSOs), and their capacity to implement evidence-based interventions ...
Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen, Brittany C. L. Lange, Paul Montgomery   +2 more
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