Co-designing a theory-informed intervention to increase shared decision-making in maternity care
Background Shared decision-making (SDM) has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and is a recognized right of patients. Policy requires health services to implement SDM.
Alex Waddell+5 more
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Determining the Climate Risk in the City Using the Risk Matrix Method - Examples from Poland
The preparation of urban adaptation plans in Poland required application of tools, hitherto rarely used in geographical sciences. One of them is the risk matrix, the application of which originates from management science.
Wojciech Szymalski, Andrzej Kassenberg
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Landscape, environment and community impacts of nuclear power [PDF]
This paper is the third in a series of 8 that make up the evidence base for SDC report 'The role of nuclear power in a low carbon economy'.This document investigates the landscape impacts of all the processes involved in nuclear power from mining the ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Economic Growth And Sustainable Development: Sustainability or Sustainable Development?
Depuis les trois dernieres decades, le debat sur le developpement durable s'est caracterise par une etroite politique de developpement et de l'environnement laissant une large marge aux interpretations. Ces interpretations ne correspondent pas souvent a celles de ceux qui utilisent les forces du marche ainsi que les multinationales pour mieux ...
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If Development, Then Sustainability [PDF]
Abstract The aim of this study is to explore how the effects of components belonging to the concept of strategic management system influence outstanding achievement and success in the processing industry in Hungary as well as the sustainability success component within that.
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In vivo IL‐10 produced by tissue‐resident tolDC is involved in maintaining/inducing tolerance. Depending on the agent used for ex vivo tolDC generation, cells acquire common features but prime T cells towards anergy, FOXP3+ Tregs, or Tr1 cells according to the levels of IL‐10 produced. Ex vivo‐induced tolDC were administered to patients to re‐establish/
Konstantina Morali+3 more
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Securing good health for the whole population (Wanless Review) : submission from the SDC [PDF]
The Sustainable Development Commission fully supports the terms of reference contained in the document 'Securing good health for the whole population : final report'.
Sustainable Development Commission
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Managing a sustainable, low carbon supply chain in the English National Health Service: The views of senior managers. [PDF]
Objectives:In an effort to reduce costs and respond to climate change, health care providers (Trusts) in England have started to change how they purchase goods and services. Many factors, both internal and external, affect the supply chain.
National Health Service Sustainable Development Unit+3 more
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Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development [PDF]
Abating the threat climate change poses to the lives of future people clearly challenges our development models. The 2011 Human Development Report rightly focuses on the integral links between sustainability and equity. However, the human development and capabilities approach emphasizes the expansion of people's capabilities simpliciter, which is ...
Peeters, Wouter+2 more
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