Published in Journal of homosexuality
This article aims to apply the social construction of target populations to policy regarding transgender individuals in the U.S. military. After presenting an overview on diversity in the military, parallels were drawn between policy changes regarding the inclusion of openly transgender individuals in the military to those leading up to the inclusi...
Published in Health economics, policy, and law
Currently, reimbursement decisions based on health technology assessments (HTA) in the Netherlands mostly concern outpatient pharmaceuticals. The Dutch government aspires to broaden the systematic application of full HTA towards other types of health care in order to optimise the content of the basic benefit package. This paper identifies important...
Published in International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation
Sweden has since the start of the pandemic a COVID-19 mortality rate that is 4 to 10 times higher than in the other Nordic countries. Also, measured as age-standardized all-cause excess mortality in the first half of 2020 compared to previous years Sweden failed in comparison with the other Nordic countries, but only among the elderly. Sweden has l...
Published in Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Providers must be knowledgeable on policy, systems and products to provide a person centred service and prescribe the most appropriate assistive product for each user. This study aimed to determine to what extent teaching and learning on assistive products are included in undergraduate curricula of the Health science faculties at three universities...
Published in Disability and rehabilitation
This two-year (2016-2018) study aimed to identify what a good life is for Aboriginal people with disability in remote Central Australia and how service providers can support them to achieve a good life. This paper presents the findings that relate to barriers to delivering services for Aboriginal people with disability. In-depth interviews and focu...
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Amenazas de la Pesca Ilegal, No Regulada y No Reportada para la Biodiversidad y la Seguridad Alimentaria en la República del Congo Resumen La pesca ilegal, no regulada y no reportada (INN) representa una amenaza importante para el manejo efectivo de los recursos marinos, lo que afecta a la biodiversidad y a las comunidades que dependen de estos rec...
In this thesis, the optimization of inventory management within RTI pooler networks is considered. The inventory management by RTI poolers consists of the network configurations on which the network relies, as well as the relocation schedule of RTI poolers that determines the functionality of the system. / Engineering and Policy Analysis
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Preschool to primary school transitions can be a time of anxiety for pupils, parents, and practitioners. The purpose of this study was to investigate what should be in place to support transitions and develop a shared understanding of what constitutes a nurturing transition for children. It is hoped that sharing this across service providers will i...
To address existing gaps in public health practice, we used data from a 2014 internet panel survey of 954 Los Angeles County adults to investigate the relationships between psychosocial community characteristics (PCCs) and two key chronic disease-related dietary behaviors: fruit and vegetable (F+V) and soda consumption. Negative binomial regression...
