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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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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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“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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Are the educational differences in incidence of cardiovascular disease explained by underlying familial factors? A twin study

Madsen, Mia; Andersen, Per K.; Gerster, Mette; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 118 (2014) C, pp. 182-190

To isolate the effect of education from the influence of potential underlying factors, we investigated the association … of education with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) using twin data to adjust for …

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Effects of education on cognition at older ages: Evidence from China's Great Famine

Huang, Wei; Zhou, Yi - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 54-62

from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we examined the impact of education on cognitive … 1959–1961 as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of education on cognition. Two-stage least squares (2SLS …

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Educational inequalities in health in European welfare states: A social expenditure approach

Dahl, Espen; Wel, Kjetil A. van der - In: Social Science & Medicine 81 (2013) C, pp. 60-69

education group across varying levels of social spending. …

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Ripple effects of developmental disabilities and mental illness on nondisabled adult siblings

Wolfe, Barbara; Song, Jieun; Greenberg, Jan S.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 108 (2014) C, pp. 1-9

family as well. Little studied are their nondisabled siblings. Here we examine major life course outcomes (education … individuals with mental illness have less education and less employment than the unaffected comparison group, whereas those who … have a sibling with developmental disabilities had normative patterns of education and employment, but less marriage and …

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