strengthening the health workforce and universal health coverage (uhc) are among key targets in the heathrelated sustainable development goals (sdgs) to be committed by the united nations (un) member states in september 2015. the health workforce, the backbone of health systems, contributes to functioning delivery systems. equitable distribution of functioning services is indispensable to achie...

INTRODUCTION Schools are a key venue for childhood obesity prevention policies. The objective of this study was to examine factors associated with elementary school teacher awareness and implementation of their schools' food and physical activity policies.. METHODS We collected data through an online survey of teachers at Utah elementary schools with food and physical activity policies. We us...

Regulating health care is a pre-eminent policy challenge in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), particularly those with a strong private health sector. Yet, the regulatory approaches instituted in these countries have often been reported to be ineffective-India being exemplary. There is limited empirical research on the architecture and processes of health care regulation in LMIC that...

PURPOSE This article explores and applies theories for analyzing socio-political aspects of implementation of work disability prevention (WDP) strategies. METHOD For the analysis, theories from political science are explained and discussed in relation to case examples from three jurisdictions (Sweden, Brazil and Québec). RESULTS Implementation of WDP strategies may be studied through a conc...

The Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) is at the core of 2014–20 European Cohesion Policy, supporting regions to identify technologies and economic sectors that might comprise sustainable growth paths. This paper provides an early attempt assess empirically, for whole Union, whether choices made by in selecting S3 target are consistent with their current or potential specialization patterns. Re...