Manufacturers’ views on outcome-based agreements by Sahar Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn-Khosrovani, Lonneke Timmers, Anke Pisters-van Roy, Joël Gijzen, Nicole M.A. Blijlevens, Haiko Bloemendal

“…Introduction: utcome-based agreements (OBAs) are occasionally deployed to relieve the burden of high drug prices on healthcare budgets. However, it is not clear when manufacturers are willing to collaborate in establishing such agreements. …”
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Medical Imaging: The Missing Element of National Health Plans by Devanshi R. Shah, Leslie Abimbola, Kristen Destigter, Eline van de Broek-Altenburg, Susan Horton, Bernice Dahn

“…Information on key performance indicators and budgeting relating to imaging and laboratory were included in 12% and 21% of NHSSPs respectively. …”
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Bridging the gaps in the Health Management Information System in the context of a changing health sector by Nyamtema Angelo S

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Of all respondents, 81% had never been trained on HMIS, 65% did not properly define this system, 54% didn't know who is supposed to use the information collected and 42% did not use the collected data for planning, budgeting and evaluation of services provision. Although the attitude towards the system was positive among 91%, the reviewed HMIS booklets were never completed in 25% - 55% of the facilities. …”
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Peculiarities of construction of local self-government models in the modern slavic states by A. Djordjević, A. Seregin, M. Cherkasova, I. Milkina

“…It has been determined, that the list of issues of local importance mainly affects the areas of urban planning, municipal activities, culture, sports, social protection of the population and children, preschool education, healthcare, approval of municipal programs of economic development, local budgets, taxes and fees, the appointment of local referendums, etc. …”
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Are Ocean Reanalyses Useful for Earth Rotation Research? by L. Börger, M. Schindelegger, H. Dobslaw, D. Salstein

“…We find mixed performance of the reanalyses in seasonal excitation budgets, with some questionable mean ocean mass changes affecting the annual cycle in ΔΛ. …”
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Sigma and beta convergence in regional mortality: A case study of the Netherlands by Fanny Janssen, Anthe van den Hende, Joop de Beer, Leo van Wissen

“…<b>Background</b>: For allocation of health budgets it is important to know whether regional mortality differences tend to decline or to increase. …”
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Creating ‘wellbeing societies’: moving from rhetoric to action by Faten Ben Abdelaziz, Carmel Williams, Yasmine J Anwar, Vivian Lin, Ruediger Krech

“…They are beginning to take action by introducing wellbeing indexes; wellbeing budgets; joined-up ‘triple bottom line’ approaches to policy making, and the inclusion of civil society in the decision-making processes. …”
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Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim by Aline Suter, Lars Kaiser, Martin Dušek, Florin Hasler, Simone Tappert

“…Swiss city administrations have adapted the Decidim platform for participatory budgeting processes and city-wide participation platforms since 2019. …”
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Optimal solution in the model of control over an economic system in the condition of a mass disease by Lutoshkin, Igor Viktorovich, Rybina, Maria Sergeevna

“…It is shown that: the optimal solution for social and economic criteria when changing budgets is stable; most of the parameters of the optimal solution are weakly elastic relative to the values of variables considered; the parameters of the optimal solution when using the economic criterion are more susceptible to change than when using the social criterion; the nature of the change in the parameters of the optimal solution for the Ulyanovsk region and for the Russian Federation is similar. …”
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Risks for the Development of a Circular Model of the Economy in Conditions of Instability of the World Market by Nesterova Kateryna S., Shcherbata Maryna Yu., Hryshova Rymma V.

“…It is determined that the current instability of the energy market has necessitated an increase in ESG investments, the aggravation of the confrontation between key actors in international relations leads to an increase in military spending in the budgets of countries. This situation increases the urgency of improving the mechanism of the State regulation of the economy, balancing instruments in order to reduce the growing number of global challenges. …”
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Mapping the spatial distribution and canopy cover of Lantana camara in the Zaka district of Zimbabwe by Allan Tarugara, Bruce W. Clegg, Rachel Matuvhunye

“…Mapping the occurrence of L. camara provides useful information for planning clearing efforts, modelling the invasion patterns and budgeting costs. We report the results of a study conducted in February 2015 where a combination of remote sensing and ground-based data collection was used to record lantana presence. …”
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Integrating mental health services: the Finnish experience by Ville Lehtinen, Vappu Taipale

“…The same time Finland underwent the deepest economic recession in Western Europe, which resulted in cut-offs especially in the mental health budgets.<br> Conducting extensive national research and development programmes in the field of mental health has been one typically Finnish way of supporting the mental health service development. …”
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Examining the characteristics of social and behavior change communication intervention costs in low- and middle-income countries: A hedonic method approach. by Lori A Bollinger, Nicole Bellows, Rachael Linder

“…Understanding the costs of health interventions is critical for generating budgets, planning and managing programs, and conducting economic evaluations to use when allocating scarce resources. …”
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Geomechanical brittleness index prediction for the Marcellus shale exploiting well-log attributes by David A. Wood

“…In shale exploitation budgets are not available to provide those measurements in many wells and it is desirable to estimate a geomechanical brittleness index (BIg) from a basic, often limited, suite of available well logs. …”
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Pronounced differences in heart rate and metabolism distinguish daily torpor and short-term hibernation in two bat species by Shannon E. Currie, Gerhard Körtner, Fritz Geiser

“…The data show that the degree of heterothermy defined using Tb is not necessarily a precise proxy for physiological capacity during torpor in these bats and is unlikely to reveal accurate energy budgets. Our study provides evidence supporting a distinction between daily torpor in a daily heterotherm and short term torpor in a hibernator, at least within the Chiroptera with regard to these physiological variables. …”
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The Relevance of Gender Mainstreaming in Indonesia to Women's Rights in Islamic Law by Rossa Ilma Silfiah, Humiati Humiati

“…Through gender mainstreaming, development is to achieve gender equality and justice (KKG) through integrating the experiences, needs, aspirations of women and men into various policies and programs starting from the planning, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring stages.…”
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Multidimensional profiles of health status: an application of the grade of membership model to the world health survey. by Alessandra Andreotti, Nadia Minicuci, Paul Kowal, Somnath Chatterji

“…As populations' age, and with limited budgets for additional costs for health care and social services, applying the GoM methods may assist with identifying higher risk profiles for decision-making and resource allocations.…”
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The Challenge of Defining Medicare Coverage in Canada by J.C. Herbert Emery, Ronald D. Kneebone

“…The line drawn between “necessary” and “unnecessary” medical treatments has been determined by the financial self-interest of medical stakeholders, by hospitals rationing global budgets, and by financially-constrained provincial governments. …”
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Calculations of Arctic Ice‐Ocean Interface Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Transmittance Values by B. H. Redmond Roche, M. D. King

“…Coupled with year‐round near‐real‐time sea ice and snow thickness remote sensing data, this technique may improve understanding of primary production and carbon budgets in the changing Arctic Ocean.…”
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The Impact of Fiscal Balance Funds Toward Human Development in Riau Province by Samuel Fery Purba, Citra Permatasari, Indra Mudrawan, Bonataon Maruli Timothy Vincent Simandjorang

“…Fiscal planning and budgeting by local governments in Riau with targeted support are needed to further human development. …”
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