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there is an emerging consensus that caring and compassion are under threat in the frenetic environment of modern healthcare. enabling and sustaining compassionate care requires not only a focus on the needs of the patient, but also on those of the care giver. as such, threats and exhortations to health professionals are likely to have limited and perverse effects and it is to the organisational...

Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study attempts to assess the effect that the quality of schooling has on the subsequent labour market outcome...

The first step to chart hazards in the working environment in Estonia (labour force: 0.65 million) was taken by the National Board of Health Protection in the beginning of 1996. The existing chemical, physical, and biological agents in the working environment were investigated with the help of local health inspectors in all counties. An identification of hazards and workers at risk was carried ...

The Brazilian Ministry of Labour has been attempting to modify the norms used to analyse industrial accidents in the country. For this purpose, in 1994 it tried to make compulsory use of the causal tree approach to accident analysis, an approach developed in France during the 1970s, without having previously determined whether it is suitable for use under the industrial safety conditions that p...

We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference-in-differences framework exploiting variation in exposure to the reform across years of schooling and years of birth. We find positive wage returns to bilingua...

In recent decades, Mexico and other developing countries have enacted labor, education, and child welfare policies to shift working children out of the labor force and into the school system. Such policies take three principle forms: prohibiting certain work by children; increasing the minimum working age; and, extending compulsory schooling. Yet, child labor persists in many countries despite ...

(2000) Measuring efficiency in local governments' planning and function Public Productivity and Management Review 23(4):pp. 468-485. Public sector reform has now become an established dimension of policymaking in many developed countries, including Australia. Although the ongoing program of public sector reform is Australia has focused mainly on the Commonwealth government and some state govern...

Title: Voluntary vs. Compulsory Student Evaluation of Clerkships: Effect on Validity and Potential Bias Authors: Sola Aoun Bahous ([email protected]) Pascale Salameh ([email protected]) Angelique Salloum ([email protected]) Wael Salameh ([email protected]) Yoon Soo Park ([email protected]) Ara Tekian ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 30 Nov 2017 Author’s response to...

This revision is a marked improvement on the previous versions. However, one outstanding issue needs to be resolved. MAJOR COMPULSORY REVISIONS 1. The IGF-I receptor antibody is not identified. The source company, Abcam, list 19 antibodies raised in 4 different species. The rabbit IgG used as a control is only appropriate if the IGF-I receptor antibody is a rabbit polyclonal antiserum. MINOR CO...