ever-increasing advances in the field of bioethics have been encouraged by recent developments of biomedical technolo-gies. stem cell research and therapy are among the most promising approaches in medicine of which are raised some ethical chal¬lenges. likewise, the therapeutic potential of stem cell-based therapies created new policy concerns for health care sys¬tems, particularly the issue of...

background government policy measures have a key role to play in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (ncds). the caribbean, a middle-income region, has the highest per capita burden of ncds in the americas. our aim was to examine policy development and implementation between the years 2000 and 2013 on ncd prevention and control in barbados, and to investigate factors promotin...

the field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. a recent editorial in this jou...

background global health policy is created largely through a collaborative process between development agencies and aid-recipient governments, yet it remains unclear whether governments retain ownership over the creation of policy in their own countries. an assessment of the power structure in this relationship and its influence over agenda-setting is thus the first step towards understanding ...

In this paper technology policy of India which has evolved over the years have been introduced as following: Firstly, it is selective and seeks to protect local technology. Secondly, it seeks to reduce to direct costs and individual costs of technology imports by regulating the royalty rates, other payments, the duration and restrictive clauses. Thirdly, it discourages technology imports throug...

Working from a description of what policy analysis entails, we review the emergence of the recent field of analytics and how it may impact public policy making. In particular, we seek to expose current applications of, and future possibilities for, new analytic methods that can be used to support public policy problem-solving and decision processes, which we term policy analytics. We then revie...

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...

Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder consistent adoption of public health policies by nation-states, and encumber disinvestment from ineff...

Contraband tobacco has been and continues to be a global public health policy concern, with special manifestations in Canada. Over the past 20 years, in two noteworthy instances the Canadian government has battled contraband - in the early 1990s, and for much of the past decade. In the 1990s, when contraband cigarettes flooded the Canadian market, the government rapidly responded, using policy ...