Unintended consequences of China’s coal capacity cut policy

Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy.

Submitted by dallison on Tue, 10/08/2013 9:34am Title Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2013 Authors Brown, AW, Allison, DB Journal Virtual Mentor Volume 15 Issue 4 Pagination 339-46 Date Published 2013 ISSN 1937-7010

China’s One-child Policy: Some Unintended Consequences

This paper gives a brief overview of China’s family planning policy which, although recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the ‘one-child policy’, it resulted from the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning the capability of the still largely closed and isolated Chinese economy to care for itself. We discuss the...

A Curse of Coal? Exploring Unintended Regional Consequences of Coal Energy in the Czech Republic

Focusing on coal energy from a geographical perspective, the unintended regional consequences of coal mining and combustion in the Czech Republic are discussed and analysed in terms of the environmental injustice and resource curse theories. The explorative case study attempts to identify significant associations between the spatially uneven distribution of coal power plants and the environment...

Unintended consequences of a Medicaid prescription copayment policy.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medication copayments can influence patient choices. We evaluated 2 copayment policies implemented by Massachusetts Medicaid incentivizing the use of selected generic medications. RESEARCH DESIGN AND MEASURES In 2009, Massachusetts Medicaid copayments were $1 for generics and $3 for brands. On February 1, 2009, copayments for generic antihypertensives, antihyperlipid...

Unintended Consequences.