1 Policy Research and Economics Office, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 3 Health Services & Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore, 4 Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore, 5 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National U...

The deep seabed mining regime is composed of international legislation and domestic counterparts. International emanates from the Seabed Authority (ISA) under mandate UNCLOS, which currently in accelerated process being drafted for exploitation activities to meet a deadline July 2023. In contrast, development law ISA Member States has been relatively slow, this risks failure fulfill their oblig...

The methodology for the scientific assessment of animal welfare has developed rapidly in recent years and has become a major scientific discipline. The concepts of welfare, need, stress, health, pain, emotion and feeling are now clarified. In teaching, legislation and practical work referring to animal welfare, a clear definition that can be related to other concepts is needed. The welfare of a...

Adapting to and complying with frequently changing legislation quickly against low costs requires organizations to adapt their business processes automatically. Semantic representation of legal knowledge is a prerequisite for the automatic creation of business processes. Business Rules (BR) can be used to capture legal knowledge and business processes can be created by selecting, composing and ...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of anti-smoking legislation in public places and public support for smoking ban. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in public places such as market, bus/railway station, workplaces and hospitals in Udaipur, India. Informed consent was obtained. The questionnaire comprised of details about their agreement with the current ...

BACKGROUND Legislation and regulation of pesticides used in public health are essential for reducing risks to human health and the environment. OBJECTIVE We assessed the global situation on legislation and regulatory control of public health pesticides. METHODS A peer-reviewed and field-tested questionnaire was distributed to 142 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO); 113 sta...

This paper considers the relationship between government growth and real GDP per capita by developing models of federal legislative output in Australia since 1901. Growth in legislation is found to be negatively related to growth in real income per capita in the short-run, implying that legislation responds to temporary economic shocks, but without a robust long-run relationship with the level ...

Legislation of ethical issues illustrates the uneasy mix of ethics and politics. Although the majority has the political right to express its moral views in the law, a number of important ethical values like autonomy, tolerance and respect for other people’s opinions urge the majority to take the minorities’ position into account. Ignoring pluralism in society will inevitably lead to reproducti...

A questionnaire on the status of animal welfare legislation and its implementation was distributed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to 172 Member Countries in 2008. Overall, 45% of questionnaires were returned. The response rate varied from 25% in Africa to 69% in Europe. Eighty-seven percent of respondent countries indicated that there was a competent national veterinary autho...