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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

Mortality reduction benefits and intussusception risks of rotavirus vaccination in 135 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis of current and alternative schedules

Andrew Clark, PhD, Jacqueline Tate, PhD, Umesh Parashar, MD, Mark Jit, PhD et al. • The Lancet Global Health (2019)

Summary: Background: Infant rotavirus vaccines have led to substantial reductions in hospital admissions and deaths due to gastroenteritis, but some studies have reported an elevated risk of intussusception, a rare bowel disorder. This ana...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30412-7

Complexity and Public Policy

Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani • Routledge eBooks (2012)

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the internat...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203856925

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman • bepress Legal Repository (2005)

Our concern in this Essay is to explain the epistemic origins of political conflict. Citizens who agree that the proper object of law is to secure society's material well-being are still likely to disagree-intensely-about what policies will...

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American Public Policy: An Introduction

John E. Tropman, Clarke E. Cochran, Lawrence C. Mayer, T. R. Carr et al. • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1983)

1. Public Policy: An Introduction. 2. Contexts of Public Policy. 3. The Economy: Changing Government-Business Relationships. 4. Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting. 5. Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability. 6. C...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3324499

International Data Access Network (IDAN)

Roxane Silberman, Dana Mueller, Beate Lichtwardt • International Journal of Population Data Science (2018)

With legal frameworks changing, administrative data can increasingly be utilised both for official statistics and to facilitate new research, enabling the development of evidence-based policy for the public benefit. Secure access conditions...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v3i5.1068

Barriers to tuberculosis case finding in primary and secondary health facilities in Ghana: perceptions, experiences and practices of healthcare workers

Joyce B. Der, Alison D. Grant, Daniel Grint, Clement T. Narh et al. • BMC Health Services Research (2022)

Abstract Background Ghana’s national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey conducted in 2013 showed higher than expected TB prevalence indicating that many people with TB were not being identified and treated. Responding to this, we assessed ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-07711-1

Current status of Paragonimus and paragonimiasis in Ecuador

Manuel Calvopiña, Daniel Romero, Byron Castañeda, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi et al. • Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2014)

A review of national and international publications on paragonimiasis in Ecuador, epidemiological records from the Ministry of Public Health and unpublished research data was conducted to summarise the current status of the parasite/disease...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140042

Transportation Patterns of Adults With Travel-Limiting Disabilities in Rural and Urban America

Andrew Myers, Catherine Ipsen, Krys Standley • Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences (2022)

IntroductionLack of transportation is a significant barrier to community participation for many disabled adults. Living in a rural area introduces additional transportation barriers, such as having to travel long distances to access service...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2022.877555

CuddleCard: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of providing financial support to low-income mothers of preterm infants on parental caregiving in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

Margaret McConnell, Alya Alsager, Plyce Fuchu, Shrivaths Sriprasad et al. • BMC Pediatrics (2025)

Abstract Background Preterm birth is a leading cause of childhood mortality and developmental disabilities, with persistent socioeconomic disparities in incidence and outcomes. Maternal presence during prolonged neonatal intensive care unit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-05621-9

Minor mental disorders in Taiwanese healthcare workers and the associations with psychosocial work conditions

Wan-Ju Cheng, Yawen Cheng • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (2017)

Healthcare workers face multiple psychosocial work hazards intrinsic to their work, including heavy workloads and shift work. However, how contemporary adverse psychosocial work conditions, such as workplace justice and insecurity, may cont...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2016.05.004

Public Opinion and Public Policy, 1980-1993

Alan D. Monroe • Public Opinion Quarterly (1998)

Abstract To what extent have the policy decisions of the U.S. government been consistent with the preferences of the public? Us-ing results of national surveys, public opinion was compared with actual policy outcomes on over 500 issues from...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/297828

Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Evert Vedung • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315127767

The Europeanization of Public Policy

Claudio Maria Radaelli • Oxford University Press eBooks (2003)

Abstract This chapter deals with the Europeanization of public policy, with emphasis on the problems that researchers encounter when they try to get to grips with the concept of Europeanization, the issue of explanation, the measurement of ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199252092.003.0002

Crime and Public Policy

Michael Tonry • Oxford University Press eBooks (2012)

Abstract This introduction to the book starts by defining crime. It explains that cross-national agreement about what should and should not be considered as criminal is narrower than is sometimes recognized. Examples are given of various ac...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0001

The relationship between severity of hemorrhoid symptoms and quality of life in Postpartum Women with Grade I and II Internal Hemorrhoid

Jamileh Malekuti, Khadijeh Samadi, Mojgan Mirghafurvand, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh et al. • Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān (2019)

Introduction: The hemorrhoid is referred to dilated parts of the anal canal veins, which help to control fecal excretion and is one of the most common digestive diseases. Since postpartum problems such as hemorrhoid have significant effect ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22038/ijogi.2019.12851