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Trends in adult cardiovascular disease risk factors and their socio-economic patterning in the Scottish population 1995–2008: cross-sectional surveys

Simon Capewell, Alastair H Leyland, Linsay Gray, Carolyn Davies et al. • BMJ Open (2011)

Objectives To examine secular and socio-economic changes in cardiovascular disease risk factor prevalences in the Scottish population. This could contribute to a better understanding of why the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000176

Evaluating the effect of comprehensive land consolidation on spatial reconstruction of rural production, living, and ecological spaces

Pengfei Gao, Chaoxian Yang, Yong Liu, Guixin Xin et al. • Ecological Indicators (2024)

China’s long-standing dual-track institutions, which differentiate between urban and rural areas, have prioritized urban development, exacerbating the urban–rural divide and contributing to the ongoing decline of rural regions. In response,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112785

A Web-Based Honeypot in IPv6 to Enhance Security

Keyong Wang, Mengyao Tong, Dequan Yang, Yuhang Liu • Information (2020)

IPv6 is a next-generation IP protocol that replaces IPv4. It not only expands the number of network address resources but also solves the problem of multiple access devices connected to the Internet. While IPv6 has brought excellent conveni...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/info11090440

Toward optimal implementation of cancer prevention and control programs in public health: a study protocol on mis-implementation

Margaret Padek, Peg Allen, Paul C. Erwin, Melissa Franco et al. • Implementation Science (2018)

Abstract Background Much of the cancer burden in the USA is preventable, through application of existing knowledge. State-level funders and public health practitioners are in ideal positions to affect programs and policies related to cancer...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13012-018-0742-9

Determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditures: A Study in Hamedan, Iran

Maryam Fakhrzad, Ali Akbar Fazaeli, Yadollah Hamidi • Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System (2023)

Background: Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) has been explained as a growth in spending for health care services that exceeds 40% of total household income. Therefore, devoting a large portion of household resources to health care serv...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30476/jhsss.2021.93369.1444

Feasibility and priority strategies for diabetes prevention and control in Chinese demonstration areas

Jing Li, Jing Yang, Jiayu Feng, Xiaohui Xu et al. • Global Health Action (2025)

Background Diabetes is a leading global public health challenge with 537 million cases worldwide in 2021 and significant economic and societal burdens. Despite global initiatives, feasibility constraints limit widespread implementation of d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2025.2543605

Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy

Julian Le Grand (2003)

Abstract Can we rely on the public service ethos to deliver high quality public services? Are professionals such as doctors and teachers really public‐spirited altruists—knights—or self‐interested egoists—knaves? And how should the recipien...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199266999.001.0001

Scenarios in Public Policy

Gill Ringland (2002)

About the Author Acknowledgements Abbreviation Introduction Part I: Scenarios in Public Policy Summary Four Scenarios for Public Education in Seattle Rotterdam and Arnhem Mission and Consequences in Bueren Scottish Enterprisea s use of Scen...

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Economic Geography and Public Policy

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Frédéric Robert‐Nicoud, Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid et al. • Princeton University Press eBooks (2011)

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North Ameri...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841233

Ethics and Public Policy

Jonathan Wolff • Routledge eBooks (2019)

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduce...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351128667

Public Policy and Behavior Change

Lars G. Tummers • Public Administration Review (2019)

Abstract Changing behavior is often necessary to tackle societal problems, such as obesity, alcohol abuse, and debt problems. This article has two goals. First, it aims to highlight how governments can try to change the behavior of citizens...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13109

Values and Public Policy

Steven Pressman, Henry J. Aaron, Thomas E. Mann, Timothy Taylor • Southern Economic Journal (1995)

This work presents six essays that seek answers to some particular questions. What role can, or should, a democratic government play in shaping values? And, how do values shape the effects of public policy? The contributors identify trends ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1060773

The pathology of public policy

Brian W. Hogwood, B. Guy Peters (1985)

Governments, like people, suffer in various ways when their internal functions go awry. But, unlike medical pathology, there is no recognized system of classification for the malfunctioning of policymaking. Building on the analogy between t...

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A Web-Based Tool for Quantification of Potential Gains in Life Expectancy by Preventing Cause-Specific Mortality

Aruna Chandran, Churong Xu, Jonathan Gross, Kathryn M. Leifheit et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2021)

Introduction: Local health departments are currently limited in their ability to use life expectancy (LE) as a benchmark for improving community health. In collaboration with the Baltimore City Health Department, our aim was to develop a we...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.663825

Global disparities in access to hepatitis C medicines before and during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ARIMA-based interrupted time series analysis

Nick Bansback, Mina Tadrous, Marie Paul Nisingizwe, Michael R Law et al. • BMJ Public Health (2025)

Background The introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has allowed countries to reduce the health and economic burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, access to DAAs remains expensive and limited in many countries globally due t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001340

Analysis of factors affecting energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand's road passenger transport

Piti Pita, Pornphimol Winyuchakrit, Bundit Limmeechokchai • Heliyon (2020)

The transport sector is one of the important contributors of increasing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand. Due to rapid development of transport infrastructure and technologies, patterns of energy consumption in this sector, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05112