INTRODUCTION In Taiwan, severe enteroviral infections must be reported to the government within 24 hours to ensure that severe enterovirus 71 (EV71) infections can be detected early. The objective of this research was to ascertain whether over-reporting is a problem in mandatory disease-reporting systems. METHODOLOGY A multiyear cross-sectional study methodology was applied based on secondary...

In Sweden, mandatory reporting in social services is regulated by the Social Services Act to protect service users and improve services. The aim of this article describe reports staff compare types mistreatment, severity actions across three areas services: elderly care, disability services, individual family care. All written investigated a designated official over 1-year period (n = 1105) one...

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which found that arrests reduce...

Abstract This study analyzes the association between various sustainable corporate governance (SCG) mechanisms and mandatory sustainability reporting quality (MSRQ). To this end, we construct a novel MSRQ measure based on manually collected data from 220 German firms in their first year of according to European CSR Directive (2014/95/EU). Descriptive findings show heterogeneous for our sample. ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the temporal trends in the volume-outcome relationship in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in California from 1998 to 2004, and to assess the selection effects on this relationship by using data from periods of voluntary and mandatory hospital reporting. DATA SOURCES We used patient-level clinical data collected for the California CABG Mortality Reporting P...

A toll-free, nationwide phone alert system was established for rapid notification and response during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. The system remained in place after the end of the epidemic under a policy of mandatory reporting and Ebola testing for all deaths, and, from June 2016, testing only in case of suspected Ebola. We describe the design, implementation and changes in th...

Adam Graycar Director The prevention and control of violence is an important policy goal in Australia. Violence is an undesirable affront when seen as a solution to problems, but a particular affront when committed against vulnerable members of society such as elderly people. This paper reports research which estimates that about 4.6 per cent of older people are victims of physical, sexual or f...