Browsing by Subject "Public Policy"
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Analysis of educational materials and destruction/opt-out initiatives for storage and use of residual newborn screening samples.
(Genet Test Mol Biomarkers, 2010-10)In recent years, the storage and use of residual newborn screening (NBS) samples has gained attention. To inform ongoing policy discussions, this article provides an update of previous work on new policies, educational materials, ... -
Application description and policy model in collaborative environment for sharing of information on epidemiological and clinical research data sets.
(PLoS One, 2010-02-19)BACKGROUND: Sharing of epidemiological and clinical data sets among researchers is poor at best, in detriment of science and community at large. The purpose of this paper is therefore to (1) describe a novel Web application ... -
Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.
(J Med Ethics, 2013-12)Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the ... -
Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact.
(Conserv Biol, 2007-10)We evaluated the intention, implementation, and impact of Costa Rica's program of payments for environmental services (PSA), which was established in the late 1990s. Payments are given to private landowners who own land ... -
Essays on Firm Behavior
(2023)This dissertation studies three questions in which economic behavior at the firm level plays an important role. Chapter 2 studies how individual owner-managers shape firm conduct in the labor market. I use survey ... -
Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation.
(PLoS One, 2015)Quasi-experimental methods increasingly are used to evaluate the impacts of conservation interventions by generating credible estimates of counterfactual baselines. These methods generally require large samples for statistical ... -
Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development
(Science, 2007-05)In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global ... -
“Let the Sunshine In”: The Impact of Industry Payment Disclosure on Physician Prescription Behavior
(Marketing Science, 2020-01-01)U.S. pharmaceutical companies frequently pay doctors to promote their drugs. This has raised concerns about conflict of interest, which policy makers have attempted to address by introducing payment disclosure laws. However, ... -
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018.
(Nature human behaviour, 2021-08)Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)-giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life-is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are known ... -
Mifepristone (RU-486®) as a Schedule IV Controlled Drug-Implications for a Misleading Drug Policy on Women's Health Care.
(International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022-07)<h4>Background</h4>Mifepristone (RU-486) has been approved for abortion in Taiwan since 2000. Mifepristone was the first non-addictive medicine to be classified as a schedule IV controlled drug. As a case of the "misuse" ... -
North Carolina and Immigration Reform: Policy Options To Address Omnibus Immigration Legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly
(2012-04-10)Despite no significant movement toward comprehensive federal immigration reform since 2007, stakeholders from virtually all points on the political spectrum continue to call for an overhaul. In the meantime, states have ... -
Older Adults Post-Incarceration: Restructuring Long-term Services and Supports in the Time of COVID-19.
(Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2021-03)<h4>Objectives</h4>To describe long-term care services and supports (LTSS) in the United States, note their limitations in serving older adults post-incarceration, and offer potential solutions, with special consideration ... -
Partitioning the Projects: Racial Segregation and Public Housing in Durham, North Carolina
(2010)Racial residential segregation is an enduring feature of America's urban landscape. Patterns of residence have become so divided along racial lines, in fact, that many social scientists have described this phenomenon as ... -
Promoting Investments in Ecosystem Services: the Case of the Peruvian Amazon
(2010-04-23)Natural capital and the Ecosystem Services (ES) that flow from it are essential to civilization as they provide both the conditions and the processes that sustain human life. Peru possesses the third largest tropical forest ... -
Research Methodology to Public Policy: Designing an Analysis of Plastic Chemical Leaching in Water
(2023-04-28)Plastic pollution is a ubiquitous concern throughout the world’s oceans and presents a complexity of issues for environmental health on all scales. Most research and public policy in the United States regarding the subject ... -
Should the patent system for new medicines be abolished?
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State of Discipline: A Snapshot of Discipline Allocation in North Carolina Public Schools
(2018-01)This report provides a detailed picture of the state of discipline allocation in North Carolina public and, to an extent, charter schools up until the 2016-2017 school year. It specifically examines suspensions, expulsions, ... -
The social threats of COVID-19 for people with chronic pain.
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Three Essays on Domestic Violence Related Firearms Regulations in the United States
(2018)Firearms regulation rarely passes in the United States due to the strength of the gun rights lobby. However, in the past several years, policymakers in traditionally pro-gun states have passed laws that restrict domestic ...
