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Experiences of front-line health professionals in the delivery of telehealth: a qualitative study

MacNeill, Virginia; Sanders, Caroline; Fitzpatrick, Ray; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Background: Telehealth is an emerging field of clinical practice but current UK health policy has not taken account of the perceptions of frontline healthcare professionals expected to implement it. Aim: To investigate telehealth care for people with long-term conditions from the perspective of...

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Cost-effectiveness of a universal strategy of brief dietary intervention for primary prevention in primary care: population-based cohort study and Markov model

Gulliford, Martin C.; Bhattarai, Nawaraj; Charlton, Judith - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Background A healthy diet is associated with reduced risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The study aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a universal strategy to promote healthy diet through brief intervention in primary care. Methods The research was informed by a...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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Endogenous industry structure in vertical duopoly

Halonen, Maija - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994

This paper examines integration decisions of successive duopolists. It is shown that qualitatively the same pattern of … integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the … the fixed integration cost. There jis a tendency for partial integration when one upstream firm is relatively efficient …

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Agglomeration in a global economy: a survey

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high … trade costs, the need to supply markets locally encourages firms to spread across different regions. Integration weakens the …

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Preferential trading arrangements and industrial location

Puga, Diego; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper considers the location effects of geographically discriminatory trade policy. A preferential move towards a customs union pulls industry into the integrating countries. When internal barriers fall below some critical level, input-output links between imperfectly competitive firms lead...

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Currency unions in prospect and retrospect

Silva, J.M.C. Santos; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We critically review the recent literature on currency unions, and discuss the methodological challenges posed by the empirical assessment of their costs and benefits. In the process, we provide evidence on the economic effects of the euro. In particular, and in contrast with estimates of the...

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