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Are public–private partnerships a healthy option? A systematic literature review
Roehrich, Jens K.; Lewis, Michael A.; George, Gerard - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 110-119
Governments around the world, but especially in Europe, have increasingly used private sector involvement in developing, financing and providing public health infrastructure and service delivery through public–private partnerships (PPPs). Reasons for this uptake are manifold ranging from...
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Rewarding altruism: Addressing the issue of payments for volunteers in public health initiatives
South, Jane; Purcell, Martin E.; Branney, Peter; Gamsu, Mark - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 80-87
Lay involvement in public health programmes occurs through formalised lay health worker (LHW) and other volunteer roles. Whether such participation should be supported, or indeed rewarded, by payment is a critical question. With reference to policy in England, UK, this paper argues how framing...
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“Pay them if it works”: Discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour
Promberger, Marianne; Dolan, Paul; Marteau, Theresa M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2509-2514
The use of financial incentives to change health-related behaviour is often opposed by members of the public. We investigated whether the acceptability of incentives is influenced by their effectiveness, the form the incentive takes, and the particular behaviour targeted. We conducted discrete...
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Monetizing illness: The influence of disability assistance priming on how we evaluate the health symptoms of others
O'Brien, Rourke L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 128 (2015) C, pp. 31-35
For low-income families in the United States disability assistance has emerged as a critical income support program in the post-welfare reform era. This article explores how this monetization of illness—tying receipt of government assistance to a physical or mental condition—influences how...
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Hendra in the news: Public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty
Degeling, Chris; Kerridge, Ian - In: Social Science & Medicine 82 (2013) C, pp. 156-163
Public discourses have influence on policymaking for emerging health issues. Media representations of unfolding events, scientific uncertainty, and real and perceived risks shape public acceptance of health policy and therefore policy outcomes. To characterize and track views in popular...
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The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory
Harris, Patrick; Sainsbury, Peter; Kemp, Lynn - In: Social Science & Medicine 108 (2014) C, pp. 46-53
The last decade has seen increased use of health impact assessment (HIA) to influence public policies developed outside the Health sector. HIA has developed as a structured, linear and technical process to incorporate health, broadly defined, into policy. This is potentially incongruent with...
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International Handbook on the Economics of Education
Johnes, Geraint (contributor); Johnes, Jill (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This major Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in …
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Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
Sofer, Catherine (contributor) - Edward Elgar
areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most … important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand the link between education and training on the one hand and economic … and social inequality on the other. The authors focus the analysis on three main aspects of the links between education …
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Teaching in the Global Business Classroom
Dalglish, Carol; Evans, Peter - Edward Elgar
Teaching in the Global Business Classroom presents an educational framework for effective teaching and learning in the global classroom. It provides practical tools for teachers through suggestions for innovative curriculum design, lecture techniques, group work and participation activities, as...
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The Globalization of Higher Education
King, Roger (contributor); Marginson, Simon (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and … be of relevance to academics, researchers and students undertaking higher education research, as well as to the wider …
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