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A political economy analysis of strengthening health information system in Tanzania

to HMIS investment and strengthening. This was a qualitative research method incorporating data collection through document review and key informant interviews guided by political economy analytical ... guided by political economy analytical framework. A total of 17 key informant interviews were conducted between April and May 2022. A thematic content analysis was used during data analysis. Results Good

Corporate Governance Welfarism

proper boundary constraints. By looking to corporations to internalize externalities directly, welfarism thus offers an alternative way to deal with social problems that the political system has failed to ... prescriptions will have only a limited impact. Second, the very lack of consensus that impedes political solutions reemerges under and constrains welfarism by generating disagreements among shareholders

Confidence-based laboratory test reduction recommendation algorithm

information, we estimated prediction confidence to assess the reliability of predicted outcomes. We adopted a “select and predict” design philosophy to maximize prediction performance by selectively considering

How can social robot use cases in healthcare be pushed - with an interoperable programming interface

testing human-robot interaction. It can be used in a teaching setting, as well as be adapted to other robots using the same interface and philosophy regarding simple methods. ... (Table 1) was created to enable the use of the WebSocket interface from a Python program. The philosophy behind the interface was based on the book “A Philosophy of Software Design” [ 19 ]. The methods

Only the anxious ones? Identifying characteristics of symptom checker app users: a cross-sectional survey

University of Applied Sciences , Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Tiepolostraße 6, 97070 Würzburg , Germany 2 Institute for Philosophy, University of Bremen , Enrique-Schmidt-Str 7, 28359 Bremen , Germany 3 Institute ... . Political Anal . 2007 ; 15 ( 3 ): 199 - 236 . 31. VanderWeele TJ. Principles of confounder selection . Eur J Epidemiol . 2019 ; 34 : 211 - 9 . 32. Stekhoven DJ , Buhlmann P. MissForest-non-parametric missing

Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District

efforts to support a declining cluster emerge from the ability of affected firms to coalesce, exercise political influence, and exploit fragmented municipal decision making to preserve the status quo ... Article addresses is why cities act in that manner. While multiple explanations might exist,3 I focus on a political economy story in which entrenched interests exploit the legal and structural elements of

Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Integrating functional data analysis with case-based reasoning for hypertension prognosis and diagnosis based on real-world electronic health records

Hypertension is the fifth chronic disease causing death worldwide. The early prognosis and diagnosis are critical in the hypertension care process. Inspired by human philosophy, CBR is an empirical

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

mapping of lawyers' ideologies that has overcome these hurdles. We use a new dataset that links the largest database of political ideology with the largest database of lawyers' identities to complete the ... most extensive analysis of the political ideology of American lawyers ever conducted. - I N T R O D U C T I O N Presidents have been lawyers (Slater 2008) . Turning to state executive positions

A patient safety knowledge graph supporting vaccine product development

individual countries’ health authorities may restrict their requests just to cases within a geo-political boundary, the overall safety profile of the product was a very important question for safety teams ... accommodate data stratified on political boundaries within countries such as states and counties. Many data sources such as VAERS also provide unstructured free-text fields containing case-level information

The Political Economy of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: An Exploratory Analysis

governments has been minimal notwithstanding the OECD convention (Brewster 2014) . Collectively, these developments pose an intriguing political economy puzzle. The initial passage of the FCPA in the post ... secure more business opportunities as a result. A political equilibrium in Washington in which the economic interests of foreigners systematically win out over domestic interests seems mysterious. This

Antecedents predicting digital contact tracing acceptance: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Egoism . In J. Feinberg & R. Shafer‑Landau (Eds.), Reasons & Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (15th ed .,). Cengage Learning . 2013 ; 501 ‑ 513 . 110. White K , Habib R , Dahl ... factors for severe disease and death . BMJ . 2020 ; 368 : m1198 . 126. Tajfel H , Turner JC . The social identity theory of intergroup behavior . In: Political Psychology Edited by Jost JT , Sidanius J

A universal diagnosis syntax

domains of linguistics, logic, the philosophy of language and informatics ([ 1, 5 ] p, 32–3, 6, 7). An appropriate syntax for a formal language requires a vocabulary and a set of rules ([6] p.6–7 ... Philosophy), practical work (surgery, primary care, occupational medicine, pathology, oncology), awarded specialties (general internal medicine and hematology), research experience (experimental medicine (PhD

Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic

the imagination, in the same way that it is done in the MoL philosophy. The level of difficulty depends on the number of pairs to remember and it was applied progressively in 3 levels: 5, 7 and 9 pairs ... (Living room, dining room, kitchen and bed room). Coding was done using imagination based on the MoL philosophy. The level of difficulty depends on the number of elements in each place and is was applied

Systematic design of health monitoring systems centered on older adults and ADLs

healthcare system compared to traditional assessments. There is currently a focus in both political and research circles on improving the quality of life for elderly individuals. However, many previous

Telemedicine-assisted structured self-monitoring of blood glucose in management of T2DM results of a randomized clinical trial

the telemedicine-assisted SBMG is not only a good tool for glycemic control, but also reflects the patientcentered management philosophy of chronic diseases [ 28 ]. Telemedicine-assisted SBMG

Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance

likely to happen, and although our present practices are deeply flawed, we should put in place a political and bureaucratic order to safeguard against a potential upheaval, and in the meantime slow down ... in cases that do not involve life-life tradeoffs, but rather where the primary harms imagined by precautionites a degradation of some ethical or political ideals, primarily of data privacy. And, third