Academic Articles & Research Papers

How ESG Signals Shape Tourists’ Premium-Paying Behavior in Community-Based Homestays

This study examines how international tourists’ perceptions of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices influence their willingness to pay a premium for community-based homestays. Grounded in signaling theory, ESG perception is...

Regional ethnic autonomy: thinking and actions on the reconstruction of a unified multi-ethnic country by the CPC

Abstract The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established and consolidated a new type of socialist ethnic relations, and the people of all ethnic groups in China have embarked on a socialist road since then. This “had never ...

Managing Eruptions, Reproducing Precarity: The Politics of Preparedness in Merapi Disaster Governance

Mount Merapi is often framed in disaster policy as a natural threat that requires an operational and coordinated response. This framing positions eruptions as extraordinary events (large-scale hazards), while the socio-economic vulnerabilit...

Heat Stress in the World of Work: Canadian Collective Bargaining and Environmental Governance

As climate change accelerates, extreme heat is becoming a critical occupational hazard across Canada. Yet worker protections remain fragmented, reactive, and highly uneven across sectors and provinces. This article offers a socio-legal anal...

Better Outcomes through Learning, Data, Engagement, and Research (BOLDER) – a system for improving evidence and clinical practice in low and middle income countries [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Despite the many thousands of research studies published every year, evidence for making clinical decisions is often lacking. The main problem is that the evidence available is generated in conditions very different from those that prevail ...

Historical Evolution in STI Policy-making in Iran: a Network Governance Approach

The governance of the STI policy covers a wide range of practices and activities related to complex interactions among different actors in order to converge the conflicting interests in the policy process. Since the concept of innovation is...

Health technology assessment

Health technology assessment (HTA) provides information about the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health technologies to those who plan, administer or receive care in the national health system. ''Technology'' includes all interv...

Health technology assessment

Abstract The aim of this chapter is to help the public health practitioner to: learn what health technology assessment (HTA) is in healthcare and in public health domains; understand that HTA is a powerful tool for the governance of the hea...

An Interrogation into the Effects of International Parenting on the Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents in Three Rural Districts of Zimbabwe

The changing geopolitical environment, economic transformations and technological advancements have prompted the intensified movement of people in a great diversity of forms. Transnational parenting has emerged as a significant and intricat...

European network for Health Technology Assessment, EUnetHTA: Planning, development, and implementation of a sustainable European network for Health Technology Assessment

OBJECTIVES: The European network on Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) aimed to produce tangible and practical results to be used in the various phases of health technology assessment and to establish a framework and processes to suppo...

Health technology assessment

The aim of this paper was to describe exhaustively, but concisely, the matter of the health technology assessment. It is a method of evaluating health technologies based on principles and tools of Evidence Based Medicine. We started from et...

Health technology assessment

Introduction to Health Technology Assessment

Abstract The objective of this review is to introduce the readers of this journal to the knowledge of some basic aspects of Health Technology Assessment (HTA). HTA starts from the need of the “political governance” to provide adequate healt...

Health technology assessment

Reports are published in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) if (1) they have resulted from work for the HTA programme, and (2) they are of a sufficiently high scientific quality as assessed by the reviewers and editors.Reviews in Health Tec...

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

The use of health technologies provides better health management, anchored in equity, communication and governance in health. Technologies are conceptualized as a tool, which helps from planning to the execution of activities, and can be ap...

Exploring barriers and enablers to implementing a digital mental health crisis risk mitigation pathway in acute paediatric care: A multi-site, exploratory mixed-methods study

Objective Children and young people (CYP) presenting in mental health crisis to acute paediatric settings represent a growing clinical and system-level challenge. These environments, primarily designed for physical healthcare, frequently la...

Reflections Towards the Future of Medical Informatics

OBJECTIVE: To provide guidance on the future development and role of medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics, in form of reflections. METHOD: To report on the author's previous activities as a medical informatician, which ...

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol

BackgroundEarly intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority yout...

The Study Of Influence Of Human Resource Management (HRM) On Implementation Of Clinical Governance In Tehran University Of Medical Sciences Hospitals

Background and Aim: Clinical governance is the application of mechanisms at the right time and place to do tasks for patients properly and obtain maximum clinical results. The implementation of clinical governance definitely requires the sk...

Why do healthcare professionals fail to escalate as per the early warning system (EWS) protocol? A qualitative evidence synthesis of the barriers and facilitators of escalation

Abstract Background Early warning systems (EWSs) are used to assist clinical judgment in the detection of acute deterioration to avoid or reduce adverse events including unanticipated cardiopulmonary arrest, admission to the intensive care ...