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Countries' experiences scaling up national breastfeeding, protection, promotion and support programmes: Comparative case studies analysis

Sonia Hernández‐Cordero, Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla, Paul Zambrano, Isabelle Michaud‐Létourneau, more

Maternal & Child Nutrition > 18 > S3 > n/a - n/a

Scaling up effective interventions, policies and programmes can improve breastfeeding (BF) outcomes. Furthermore, considerable interest exists in learning from relatively recent successful efforts that can inform further scaling up, with appropriate adaptations, across countries. The purpose of this four‐country case studies analysis was to examine why and how improvements in BF practices occurred...

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Cocreating evidence‐informed health equity policy with community

Sarah Cusworth Walker, Johnna White, Victor Rodriguez, Emily Turk, more

Health Services Research > 57 > S1 > 137 - 148

Objective To explore the feasibility of a rapid, community‐engaged strategy to prioritize health equity policy options as informed by research evidence, community‐voiced needs, and public health priorities. Data Sources Data came from residents in a midsized, demographically, and geographically diverse county over a period of 8 months in 2020 and an evidence review of the health equity policy literature...

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Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development

Jon Norberg, Thorsten Blenckner, Sarah E. Cornell, Owen L. Petchey, more

Ecology Letters > 25 > 5 > 1075 - 1093

While environmental science, and ecology in particular, is working to provide better understanding to base sustainable decisions on, the way scientific understanding is developed can at times be detrimental to this cause. Locked‐in debates are often unnecessarily polarised and can compromise any common goals of the opposing camps. The present paper is inspired by a resolved debate from an unrelated...

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Citizenship as a Form of Anticipatory Obedience? Implications of Preventive Health Policy in Germany

Benjamin Ewert

Politics & Policy > 49 > 4 > 891 - 912

This article scrutinizes citizenship implications in the field of preventive health policy in Germany. While at first glance prevention policies seem fairly uncontroversial, they have intricate links concerning the impact on preventive policies to social citizenship and to the notion of the “good” citizen. I argue that prevention is a future‐oriented permanent task that requires constant alertness...

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Impact of COVID‐19 on the provision of paediatric dental care: Analysis of the Australian Child Dental Benefits Schedule

Matthew Hopcraft, Glenda Farmer

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology > 49 > 4 > 369 - 376

Objectives Oral health is essential to maintaining good overall health, and access to dental care is necessary for the early detection, prevention and control of oral diseases. The COVID‐19 pandemic has seen a significant disruption in the provision of dental services globally. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of COVID‐19 on dental services provided in Australia through the Child...

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Nursing strategies for COVID‐19 prevention and control in a selected dental clinic

Jiali Zheng, Xiaojun Ni, Weijun Yuan, Lili Hou

International Nursing Review > 68 > 2 > 189 - 195

Aim To comprehensively introduce the prevention and control measures that we can take in dental clinics during the pandemic period of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and provide some practical experience for the development of nursing and health policies applicable to COVID‐19. Background The outbreak of COVID‐19 has placed the global health system under threat, which seriously influences the...

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A framework for cancer health economics research

Michael T. Halpern, Ya‐Chen Tina Shih, K. Robin Yabroff, Donatus U. Ekwueme, more

Cancer > 127 > 7 > 994 - 996

Lay Summary Cancer has substantial economic impacts for patients, their families and/or caregivers, employers, and the health care system. However, there is only limited understanding of how economic issues can affect access to cancer care services and the receipt of high‐quality cancer care. Health economics research in cancer is particularly timely due to the large and increasing number of...

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Antimicrobial resistance clusters in commensal Escherichia coli from livestock

Ayla Hesp, Cajo Braak, Jeanet Goot, Kees Veldman, more

Zoonoses and Public Health > 68 > 3 > 194 - 202

To combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), policymakers need an overview of evolution and trends of AMR in relevant animal reservoirs, and livestock is monitored by susceptibility testing of sentinel organisms such as commensal E. coli. Such monitoring data are often vast and complex and generates a need for outcome indicators that summarize AMR for multiple antimicrobial classes. Model‐based clustering...

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Piketty comes to South Africa

Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón, Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, Michael Savage

The British Journal of Sociology > 72 > 1 > 106 - 124

One of the most valuable features of Capital and Ideology is its concern to take history seriously and consider how the emergence of different political and economic regimes relate to discourses about fairness and justice across time. This paper pushes this agenda further by acknowledging that the experience of a few developed nations should not be taken as the template for the generalized study of...

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Social policy and embedded evaluation: Assessing the impact of a food insecurity project in the United Kingdom

Kingsley Purdam, Daniel Silver

Social Policy & Administration > 54 > 7 > 999 - 1015

Social policy making needs to involve robust evaluation to assess its impact. In this article, a social policy intervention focused on tackling food insecurity amongst vulnerable people is examined and the benefits and challenges of using an embedded approach to evaluation are considered. Food insecurity is defined as not always having the economic, social, and physical resources to ensure a sufficient...

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Introducing Change in Public Service Organizations under Austerity: The Complex Case of the Governance of the Defence in the United Kingdom

Carlos Solar

Politics & Policy > 48 > 4 > 700 - 726

Introducing, managing, and sustaining change in public service organizations is challenging for policy makers to implement and for scholars to theorize. In 2010, the U.K. Government introduced policy changes to help bring down the national deficit. The executive's planned reforms aimed to deliver a so‐called battle‐winning military force, a smaller and more professional Ministry of Defence, and an...

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The Impact of Veto Players on Incremental and Drastic Policy Making: Australia's Carbon Tax Policy and Its Repeal

Vivian Ike

Politics & Policy > 48 > 2 > 232 - 264

Does the number, ideological congruence, and/or individual cohesion of veto actors influence policy making to be incremental or drastic? Rather than compare veto actors across different states as is already extensively addressed, this article compares the different veto actors involved in Australia's 2011 Carbon Tax Policy and its 2014 “Carbon Tax Repeal” policy. It uses quantitative data to measure...

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Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making

Tiziana Susca, Francesco Pomponi

Journal of Industrial Ecology > 24 > 2 > 410 - 423

Urbanization often entails a surge in urban temperature compared to the rural surroundings: the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Such a temperature increase triggers the formation of pollutants worsening the urban air quality. Jointly, bad air quality and UHI affect ecosystems and human health. To alleviate the impacts on the population and the environment, it is crucial to design effective UHI‐mitigation...

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Combined protocol for severe and moderate acute malnutrition in emergencies: Stakeholder perspectives in four countries

Sarah L. Dalglish, Mamoudou Seni Badou, Amin Sirat, Omar Abdullahi, more

Maternal & Child Nutrition > 16 > 2 > n/a - n/a

Each year, acute malnutrition affects an estimated 52 million children under 5 years of age. Current global treatment protocols divide treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) despite malnutrition being a spectrum disease. A proposed Combined Protocol provides for (a) treatment of MAM and SAM at the same location; (b) diagnosis using middle‐upper‐arm circumference...

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Shared ways of thinking in Brazil about the science–practice interface in ecology and conservation

Diana Bertuol‐Garcia, Carla Morsello, Charbel N. El‐Hani, Renata Pardini

Conservation Biology > 34 > 2 > 449 - 461

The debate in the literature on the science–practice interface suggests a diversity of opinions on how to link science and practice to improve conservation. Understanding this diversity is key to addressing unequal power relations, avoiding the consideration of only dominant views, and identifying strategies to link science and practice. In turn, linking science and practice should promote conservation...

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Sustainable Evolution of Business during Covid-19 Pandemic - Innovation a New Normal

Mark Cherukuri, Praneet Amul Akash Cherukuri

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems > 2020 > Vol. 24 > 49--52

The timing of COVID 19 and the effects due to the pandemic were never expected by any economic researchers nor were any organization ready to face such a depressing situation. Nevertheless, during these adverse effects, many businesses were able to manage their organizations, keep up with their products, and still make profits. Also, the pandemic became a platform for many long-existing technologies...

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Multi-host disease management: the why and the how to include wildlife

Julien Portier, Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis, Mike R. Hutchings, Elodie Monchâtre-Leroy, more

BMC Veterinary Research > 2019 > 15 > 1 > 1-11

In recent years, outbreaks caused by multi-host pathogens (MHP) have posed a serious challenge to public and animal health authorities. The frequent implication of wildlife in such disease systems and a lack of guidelines for mitigating these diseases within wild animal populations partially explain why the outbreaks are particularly challenging. To face these challenges, the French Ministry of Agriculture...

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Management of the end-of-life of light and heavy vehicles in the U.S.: comparison with the European union in a circular economy perspective

Michael Saidani, Alissa Kendall, Bernard Yannou, Yann Leroy, more

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management > 2019 > 21 > 6 > 1449-1461

In a context of transition towards a more circular economy (CE), this study undertakes an analysis of the appropriate transfers and applications of best managerial practices, regulations, and know-how from the automotive sector to the heavy vehicle one, as well as from the European Union (EU) to the United States of America (U.S.), and vice versa. While the EU appears to be a few steps ahead of policy...

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Regulating Autonomy: An Assessment of Policy Language for Highly Automated Vehicles

Beth‐Anne Schuelke‐Leech, Sara R. Jordan, Betsy Barry

Review of Policy Research > 36 > 4 > 547 - 579

Self‐driving cars (also known as driverless cars, autonomous vehicles, and highly automated vehicles [HAVs]) will change the regulatory, political, and ethical frameworks surrounding motor vehicles. At the highest levels of automation, HAVs are operated by independent machine agents, making decisions without the direct intervention of humans. The current transportation system assumes human intervention...

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Policies that limit youth access and exposure to tobacco: a scientific neglect of the first stages of the policy process

Thomas G. Kuijpers, Anton E. Kunst, Marc C. Willemsen

BMC Public Health > 2019 > 19 > 1 > 1-8

Background Policymakers can adopt and implement various supply-side policies to limit youth access and exposure to tobacco, such as increasing the minimum age of sale, limiting the number or type of tobacco outlets, or banning the display of tobacco products. Many studies have assessed the impact of these policies, while less is known about the preceding policy process. The aim of our review was to...

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Countries' experiences scaling up national breastfeeding, protection, promotion and support programmes: Comparative case studies analysis

Cocreating evidence‐informed health equity policy with community

Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development

Citizenship as a Form of Anticipatory Obedience? Implications of Preventive Health Policy in Germany

Impact of COVID‐19 on the provision of paediatric dental care: Analysis of the Australian Child Dental Benefits Schedule

Nursing strategies for COVID‐19 prevention and control in a selected dental clinic

A framework for cancer health economics research

Antimicrobial resistance clusters in commensal Escherichia coli from livestock

Piketty comes to South Africa

Social policy and embedded evaluation: Assessing the impact of a food insecurity project in the United Kingdom

Introducing Change in Public Service Organizations under Austerity: The Complex Case of the Governance of the Defence in the United Kingdom

The Impact of Veto Players on Incremental and Drastic Policy Making: Australia's Carbon Tax Policy and Its Repeal

Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making

Combined protocol for severe and moderate acute malnutrition in emergencies: Stakeholder perspectives in four countries

Shared ways of thinking in Brazil about the science–practice interface in ecology and conservation

Sustainable Evolution of Business during Covid-19 Pandemic - Innovation a New Normal

Multi-host disease management: the why and the how to include wildlife

Management of the end-of-life of light and heavy vehicles in the U.S.: comparison with the European union in a circular economy perspective

Regulating Autonomy: An Assessment of Policy Language for Highly Automated Vehicles

Policies that limit youth access and exposure to tobacco: a scientific neglect of the first stages of the policy process

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