Page, Janie Yin, Rongxin Piette, Mary Brown, Richard
PG&E is interested in designing new incentive structures for standards based Automated Demand Response (ADR) equipment. Specifically: PG&E is interested in working with demand response (DR) vendors to explore different approaches to developing new channels through which third parties can provide DR equipment to mass market participants, thereby e...
Okyere, Eunice Ward, Paul Russell Marfoh, Kissinger Mwanri, Lillian
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Journal of health organization and management
This study seeks to explore health workers' perceptions and experiences on incentives for motivating and retaining them in primary health-care facilities in rural Ghana. Phenomenological research design was used to explore health workers' experiences and perceptions on their incentive packages. Sixty-eight in-depth interviews were conducted with he...
Lu, Bin Wang, Jie
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Waste recycling constitutes an important part of sustainable municipal eco-management, but the chronic and enduring problem in China is how to motivate residents to participate. Although previous research has found that persuasive incentives can exert a powerful influence on people's pro-environmental behavior, little work placed much emphasis on t...
Polonijo, Andrea N Dubé, Karine Galea, Jerome T Greene, Karah Yeona Taylor, Jeff Christensen, Christopher Brown, Brandon
Little is known about how payment affects individuals' decisions to participate in HIV research. Using data from a U.S. survey of people living with HIV (N = 292), we examined potential research participants' attitudes toward payment, perceived study risk based on payment amount, and preferred payment forms, and how these factors vary by sociodemog...
Svikis, Dace S Kelpin, Sydney S Keyser-Marcus, Lori Bishop, Diane L Parlier-Ahmad, Anna Beth Jones, Heather Villalobos, Gabriela Varner, Sara B Lanni, Susan M Karjane, Nicole W
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Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
In the USA, infant mortality remains a major public health concern, particularly for Black women and their infants who continue to experience disproportionately high mortality rates. Prenatal care is a key determinant of infant health, with inadequate prenatal care increasing risk for prematurity, stillbirth, neonatal loss, and infant death. The ai...
O'Shaughnessy, E
Hundreds of state and local policies support the deployment of residential-scale solar photovoltaic systems in the United States. Policy differences across jurisdictions may explain differences in local photovoltaic industries, such as the number of competing installers, the distribution of market shares among those installers, and the market share...
Encinosa, William Bernard, Didem Selden, Thomas M
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International journal of health economics and management
The U.S. has addressed the opioid crisis using a two-front approach: state regulations limiting opioid prescriptions for acute pain patients, and voluntary federal CDC guidelines on shifting chronic pain patients to lower opioid doses and non-opioids. No opioid policy research to date has accounted for this two-pronged approach in their research de...
Burstein, David S Liss, David T Linder, Jeffrey A
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Journal of general internal medicine
Physician compensation incentives may have positive or negative effects on clinical quality. To assess the association between various physician compensation incentives on technical indicators of primary care quality. Cross-sectional, nationally representative retrospective analysis. Visits by adults to primary care physicians in the National Ambul...
de Walque, Damien Chukwuma, Adanna Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono Koshkakaryan, Marianna
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Social science & medicine (1982)
This randomized controlled trial investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health screening for diabetes and hypertension among Armenian adults. The interventions are 1) personalized invitations from a physician, 2) personalized invitations with information about peer screening behavior, 3) personalized invitations with a labeled...
Muluya, Kharim Mwebaza Mugisha, John Francis Kithuka, Peter Kibaara, Kenneth Rucha Muwanguzi, David Gangu Ochieng, Otieno George Yitambe, Andre Wananda, Irene
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Reproductive Health
Plain English SummaryMaternal and child health has become a priority area of focus among health policy makers and planners. Several interventions are being tried in an effort to increase deliveries in health facilities in order to realise better health outcomes. This study focused on how incentives for mothers, health workers and boda–boda riders c...