Effective health policies and allocation of public health resources can substantially improve public health. An objective of public health practitioners and researchers is to identify key metrics that would help improve effective policies and terminate poor ones. We review articles published in 2008 surrounding measurement issues for public health policy and present a set of recommendations for...

In this paper we study growth and welfare effects of fiscal policy in an endogenous growth model with public capital and environmental pollution. As to pollution we assume that it is due to aggregate production. Pollution does not have direct effects as concerns production possibilities but it only reduces utility of the household. The paper then studies growth effects of fiscal policy for the ...

Consumer and public policy interests in local food systems have increased sharply in recent years. Utilizing a unique data set from a six-county region in Northern New York, an empirical model of vendor performance satisfaction is developed as a function of market, vendor, and customer characteristics. Higher levels of performance were associated with vendors selling in a limited number of larg...

Purpose of Review: The purpose this review is to revisit the embarkation Indian National Population Policy 2000, focused on its objectives, major structure, new features and strategies. Findings: second demographic strategy adopted by federal government known as (NPP), 2000. NPP asserts that immediate goal provide integrated service delivery for fundamental reproductive child healthcare while a...