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The answer to the question of how to deal with the widening gap between the growing costs of health (care) and necessarily limited health (care) resources in a just fashion, heavily depends on what we take the term ‘just’, to signify. This article is meant to offer a perspective on the topic...
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The amount of vaccine R&D performed, especially geared towards health issues affecting the developing world, is exceptionally undersized. Despite immunisation representing the most effective tool for achieving disease eradication, and the general consensus being optimistic about the development...
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This Paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is not explained by lower medical need. The...
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Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...
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function of the faculty member's research, teaching, and service contributions, and precise expectations are rarely fully …This paper considers issues pertaining to accounting faculty performance evaluation as it is generally applied in the … performance evaluation are institutionspecific. For example, the number of years of service required before a tenure decision can …
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This paper explores the relationship between various science teaching strategies and students’ science-related outcomes …. The focus is on enquiry-based science teaching, teacher-directed instruction, adaptive teaching and teacher feedback. The … findings show that the negative association between enquiry-based science teaching and science performance is greatly …
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