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This article views the bureaucratic form of organization as both an agent and an expression of key modern social innovations that are most clearly manifested in the non-inclusive terms by which individuals are involved in organizations. Modern human involvement in organizations epitomizes and...
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This review focuses on structured observational research, primarily in services for people with learning disabilities. Observational research is particularly useful where people using services are unable to answer interviews or questionnaires about their experiences, and where proxy respondents...
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-scale, nationally representative UK study. We track the behaviour problems from age 3 to 7 to examine the emergence of problems and … whether disabled girls’ and boys’ behaviour converges or diverges from non-disabled children over time. Childhood … parenting and the home environment moderate any associations between disability and behaviour. Estimating linear growth models …
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Opportunistic behaviour due to incomplete contract enforcement is a risk in many economic transactions such as forest …. Buyer liability for loss of a carbon sink is shown to yield an inefficiently low level of sequestration. Yet it remains … higher than the case where liability is neither allocated to the buyer nor the seller. Indexing contract prices to the seller …
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The civil liability regime for ship-source oil pollution stands at the forefront of rule development for transnational … for transboundary environmental harm. I examine the evolving – and contested – parameters of environmental liability set … by the international oil pollution liability conventions, focusing on the admissibility of reinstatement costs and the …
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Objective: To examine the costs and cost effectiveness of telehealth in addition to standard support and treatment, compared with standard support and treatment. Design: Economic evaluation nested in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting: Community based telehealth...
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Background:- Access to medicines is an important health policy issue. This paper considers demand structures in a selection of low-income countries from the perspective of public authorities as the evidence base is limited. Analysis of the demand for medicines in low-income countries is critical...
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Objective To identify and estimate the population costs and effects of a selected set of enforcement strategies for reducing the burden of road traffic injuries in developing countries. Design Cost effectiveness analysis based on an epidemiological model. Setting Two epidemiologically defined...
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Mental illness accounts for a massive share of the total burden of disease. Even when we include the burden of premature death mental illness accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. Yet, despite the existence of cost-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure....
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effect of health promoting interventions, e.g. the likelihood of long-term behaviour change. •Interventions targeted at …
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