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Healthcare systems in developed countries are facing the challenge of dealing with changing social structures as a result of rapidly aging populations. This study examines the relationship among the geographical distribution of healthcare resources, healthcare service provision, and...
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interventions such as transition care management have been practiced in recent years, the effectiveness and sustainability depends …
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore if actions used at a hospital to manage a variable acute patient flow can be categorised using the concepts of lean, agile and leagile. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical evidence from a university hospital was gathered by interviews, internal...
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Purpose This study aims to explore the involvement of middle management in forming strategies to manage variable acute patient flows at a hospital. Design/methodology/approach Empirical evidence from a university hospital was gathered via interviews, internal documents, observation and...
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, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run pathways. This approach cannot accurately … identify indirect pathways from contingent to permanent employment, and nor can it identify 'trap' pathways involving short … Australian, evidence for the co-existence of pathways that correspond to 'bridge' and 'trap' characterisations of contingent …
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired …-informed choices, and the impacts of choices on outcomes. We find that several characteristics of chosen pathways, such as field of … study and desired credential as well as early "momentum," affect outcomes. Student choices of pathways are not always driven …
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Humankind has entered a new "urban era", where the majority of the population lives in urban areas. It is, therefore, not surprising that sustainable urban development has become an integral pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the adoption of a specific goal...
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produceimporters and examine the extent to which they provideinvasion pathways. The hypothesis that increasedimportation of fresh … that will more closely targetinspection efforts on the higher risk trade pathways. …
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Rules of customary law figure prominently in today’s law and policy. Across policy fields, courts and policy-makers are called to interpret and apply customary law. However, it is still a bit of a mystery how rules of customary law emerge and how they can be identified in the first place. In...
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