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Information Discrimination and Its Implications on Distributing Healthcare Costs Fairly

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When healthcare resources are scarce, they ought to be distributed fairly across society. For some theories of distribution, an assessment of individual health risk is required for a fair distribution of both healthcare resources and burdens. Despite this requirement, prevailing theories underappreciate the cost of information on health risk ...
Harisan U. Nasir
wiley   +1 more source

Licence Loss: Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well‐being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out‐of ...
David Pålsson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Welfare Workers Located in the Urban Periphery: on the Geography of Discretion in Street‐Level Bureaucracies

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The location of public services impacts children's living and service‐reception conditions, as well as the work of child welfare service providers. Against the background of growing inequality and segregation in Sweden, this article explores the work of child welfare services when located in the urban periphery.
Tobias Jansson, Kajsa Nolbeck
wiley   +1 more source

The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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