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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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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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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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“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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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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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 socioeconomic gradient in physical inactivity: Evidence from one million adults in England

Farrell, Lisa; Hollingsworth, Bruce; Propper, Carol; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 123 (2014) C, pp. 55-63

Survey (2004–11). We identify the separate associations between a variety of measures of physical inactivity with education … and household income. We find high levels of physical inactivity. Further, both education and household income are …

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The University and the Economy

Geuna, Aldo; Rossi, Federica - Edward Elgar

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcomes, and presents up-to-date quantitative and qualitative...

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Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations

Ishiyama, John (contributor); Miller, William J. (contributor) - Edward Elgar

With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. In an effort to help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert...

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New evidence of the effects of education on health in the US: Compulsory schooling laws revisited

Fletcher, Jason M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 101-107

Estimating the effects of education on health and mortality has been the subject of intense debate and competing … variables for completed education and US data to establish effects of education on mortality have been extended to several … hundred thousand respondents to present new evidence of the effects of education on a variety of health outcomes. Results …

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