The current anti-urbanization mindset and practices in some developing countries need to be reversed to achieve a win-win rather than a loss-loss outcome in terms of both efficiency and equity. Taking African countries with the fastest rates of urbanization as an example, the decentralization of ...
The goals of the Healthy People 2020 initiative is to "achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. true Populations not covered in healthcare reform include: a. immigrants who are not documentedb. individuals who are eligible for Medicaid but who may not...
improv ing overall quality of health care, improving population health, and measuring progress toward health equity.3 Accurately recording de mographic data enables health care providers to identify risk and pro tective factors for a large num ber of diseases and conditions and to improve...
fertility control unrelated to parity, such as the practice of terminal abstinence based on the age or marital status of the oldest child, or the use of contracep- tion to lengthen the spacing between births, meet neither the definition of natural fertility nor the definition of controlled ...
and the extent to which retirement accounts are exposed to equity market risk. The first section looks at overall trends in the stock market and household exposure. The second section breaks down the decline in equity values by source. And the third section focuses specifically on retirement ...
“I think we all see the value we can get from a connected digital health ecosystem in the healthcare space,” says Robinet. “But we need an integrated system, and we also need things that are motivating and rewarding people for taking control of their own health data.” He cites the ...
prior to Merton and Franco Modigliani’s work, that how you finance your activity was determinant what the cost of capital was on investment. So if you use more debt, it was cheaper than equity, and therefore there would be a level of debt you would use that would reduce your overall co...
Helping organizations to create new knowledge faster (i.e., to accelerate their rate of innovation) is seen by demand-side thinkers as a powerful new way of increasing a firm’s competitive stance in the marketplace. This message has not been lost on practitioners of second-generation KM. In...
But his own research later showed that the employ- ees merely considered their raises to be in keeping with their equity in the labor market. Internal com- mitment had not increased. Employees continued to do only what was asked of them as long as the rewards were increased. They followe...
For instance, when PwC announced that spread- sheets needed to be password-protected in order to pass a SOX audit, there was much consternation at Trinity until E&Y took a clear stance on what they would deem an effective spreadsheet control. The results of E&Y’s external audit testing ...