BACKGROUND Neighborhood characteristics such as poverty and racial composition are associated with inequalities in access to food stores and in the risk of obesity, but the pathways between food environments and health are not well understood. This article extends research on consumer food environments by examining the perspectives of food-store owners and managers. METHODS We conducted semis...

The number of dementia patients is growing, and they require a variety of services, making integrated care essential for the ability to continue living in the community. Many healthcare systems in developed countries are exploring new approaches for delivering health and social care. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse a new approach in extensive case management programmes con...

So-called ‘slow’ adaptation to technological change is actually a characteristic of major innovations, particularly those requiring significant organisational change. The implementation of ICT to support government sector working is no exception: it is a complex socio-technical practice comprised of interrelated technical, cultural and organisational issues. As part of the “Framework for Multi-...

In e-government initiatives, the sharing of information is crucial for empowering citizens and boosting joined-up services. The lack of clear guidance on how to share government data can potentially harm Freedom of Information and or Data Protection rights. This article addresses this issue by drawing from the main concerns governments have when dealing with Freedom of Information and Data Prot...

This paper studies how mayors engage with citizens, public managers and politicians across the policy cycle specifically in four local governance processes: agenda setting, decision-making, services design delivery. Drawing from a survey of 1,067 Italian mayors, we identify clusters engagement: Centralized Leadership, Semi-Inclusive Conventional Leadership Multi-Actor Leadership. We find that s...

BACKGROUND In light of an increasing global focus on health system strengthening and integration of vertical programmes within health systems, methods and tools are required to examine whether general health service managers exercise administrative authority over vertical programmes. OBJECTIVE To measure the extent to which general health service (horizontal) managers, exercise authority over...

Consistent with Protestants (Catholics) being more (less) risk-averse than the general population, we find that mutual funds located in regions with low Protestant (or high Catholic) population have higher total and idiosyncratic return volatilities. These higher volatilities are driven by portfolio under-diversification and aggressive interim trading, rather than overweighting risky (local) st...