Critical considerations for the practical utility of health equity tools: a concept mapping study by Bernadette Pauly, Wanda Martin, Kathleen Perkin, Thea van Roode, Albert Kwan, Tobie Patterson, Samantha Tong, Cheryl Prescott, Bruce Wallace, Trevor Hancock, Marjorie MacDonald

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Past dynamics of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in Montréal, Canada: a mathematical modeling study by Rachael M. Milwid, Yiqing Xia, Carla M. Doyle, Joseph Cox, Gilles Lambert, Réjean Thomas, Sharmistha Mishra, Daniel Grace, Nathan J. Lachowsky, Trevor A. Hart, Marie-Claude Boily, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

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Methods to measure effects of social accountability interventions in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs: systematic review and critique by Cicely Marston, Catherine R. McGowan, Victoria Boydell, Petrus Steyn

“…Data sources Data were obtained from the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and Social Policy & Practice databases. Eligibility criteria We included papers published on or after 1 January 2009 that described an evaluation of the effects of a social accountability intervention on RMNCAH. …”
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Units for the protection of child victims and witnesses in the criminal proceedings: Domestic legislation and practice by Milosavljević-Đukić Ivana, Tankosić Bojana, Petković Jara, Marković Marija

“…The purpose of this paper is to present Units for the Protection of Child Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Proceedings that were developed within the IPA project “Improvement of Children's Right through the System of Justice and Social Protection in Serbia”, funded by the EU, and implemented by the UNCEF in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy of the Republic of Serbia. The project was implemented from August 2014 to March 2017. …”
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF by Irina Kalabikhina

“…The subject area of the research, the results of which we plan to present on the pages of the journal, covers the research interests of disciplines such as demography, population economics, labor economics, social policy, behavioral economics, institutional economics, macroeconomics, marketing research, socio-economic geography, economic sociology and other disciplines. …”
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The Best Services Trial (BeST?): a cluster randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of New Orleans Intervention Model with services as usual (SAU)... by Karen Crawford, Bridie Fitzpatick, Lynn McMahon, Matt Forde, Susanne Miller, Alex McConnachie, Martina Messow, Marion Henderson, Emma McIntosh, Kathleen Boyd, Dennis Ougrin, Phil Wilson, Nicholas Watson, Helen Minnis

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Is bureaucracy being busted in research ethics and governance for health services research in the UK? Experiences and perspectives reported by stakeholders through an online survey by Helen Snooks, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Rokia Ballo, Peter Bower, Katherine Checkland, Jo Ellins, Gary A Ford, Louise Locock, Kieran Walshe

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Measuring the inequalities in healthcare resource in facility and workforce: A longitudinal study in China by Enhong Dong, Enhong Dong, Enhong Dong, Xiaoting Sun, Ting Xu, Shixiang Zhang, Tao Wang, Lufa Zhang, Lufa Zhang, Weimin Gao

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Suggested Safeguards and Limitations for Effective and Permissible Parenting Coordination (Facilitation or Case Management) in South Africa by Madelene (Leentjie) de Jong

“…An unintended negative consequence of an otherwise laudable shift in social policy which supported a shared parental involvement was that the courts became the forum for co-parents to dispute a lot of day-to-day issues in respect of their children. …”
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Court diversion for those with psychosis and its impact on re-offending rates: results from a longitudinal data-linkage study by Olayan Albalawi, Nabila Zohora Chowdhury, Handan Wand, Stephen Allnutt, David Greenberg, Armita Adily, Azar Kariminia, Peter Schofield, Grant Sara, Sarah Hanson, Colman O'Driscoll, Tony Butler

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Quality of life and burden of morbidity in primary care users with multimorbidity by Peters M, Kelly L, Potter CM, Jenkinson C, Gibbons E, Forder J, Fitzpatrick R

“…Michele Peters,1 Laura Kelly,1 Caroline M Potter,1 Crispin Jenkinson,1 Elizabeth Gibbons,1 Julien Forder,2 Ray Fitzpatrick1 1Health Services Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, 2Personal Social Services Research Unit, School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life, number of diseases and burden of morbidity of multimorbid primary care users and whether a simple disease count or a multimorbidity burden score is more predictive of quality of life.Patients and methods: Primary care patients with at least 1 of 11 specified chronic conditions were invited to participate in a postal survey. …”
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The future costs of cancer attributable to excess body weight in Brazil, 2030-2040 by Leandro F. M. Rezende, Thainá Alves Malhão, Rafael da Silva Barbosa, Arthur Orlando Correa Schilithz, Ronaldo Corrêa Ferreira da Silva, Luciana Grucci Maya Moreira, Paula Aballo Nunes Machado, Bruna Pitasi Arguelhes, Maria Eduarda Leão Diogenes Melo

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An examination of relational dynamics of power in the context of supported (assisted) decision‐making with older people and those with disabilities in an acute healthcare setting by Deirdre O′Donnell, Carmel Davies, Lauren Christophers, Éidín Ní Shé, Sarah Donnelly, Thilo Kroll

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Complementary and alternative medicine use among people living with HIV in Shiraz, Southern Iran by Seyed Hamdollah Mosavat, Seyed Hamdollah Mosavat, Mehdi Pasalar, Hassan Joulaei, Vira Ameli, Seyed Taghi Heydari, Ali Mirzazadeh, Mohammad Hashem Hashempur

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Avaliação de políticas públicas de segurança alimentar e combate à fome no período 1995-2002: 4 - Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar Evaluation of food security and anti-hung... by Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Sandra Maria Chaves dos Santos, Luciana Alaíde Alves Santana, Flavia Conceição Santos Henrique, Roseanne Porto Dantas Mazza, Ligia Amparo da Silva Santos, Lílian Silva dos Santos

“…So far, irregular school meal distribution has frustrated the program's aspirations to become a universal social policy and ensure a basic right for children.…”
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Estudos do cotidiano, pequisa em educação e vida cotidiana: o desafio da coerência/Everyday life studies, research on education and everyday life: the challenge of the coherence by Inês Barbosa de Oliveira

“…It seems each time more crucial go to everyday life, to what happens and to what that people is doing, to think about the social policy. To define youth, what it is, how is possible to think on it and approach it are central issues for the debate concerning the ways on how the society might develop suitable policies, oriented to the needs and aspirations of this heterogeneous social group. …”
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Relasi Pemerintah dan Akademisi dalam Isu Moderasi Beragama di Indonesia by Abdul Malik, Busrah Busrah

“…The discourse analysis in this article shows that the article on Islamic Moderation is an expression or response of academics in viewing the reality and state of social policy around it. The Ministry of Religion as politicians and academics from several Islamic campuses under the Ministry of Religion have mutually supportive relationships in this issue of religious moderation   Abstrak:. …”
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Vergelijkingen en verbindingen De arbeidsdeelname van vrouwen in Nederland en Nederlands-Indië, 1813-1940 by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

“…Not only did Dutch economic and colonial policies, such as the Cultivation System and the exports of Dutch textiles by the Dutch Trading Company (nhm), lead to changes in women’s work in both regions. Moreover, social policy, for instance the Social Question and Ethical Policy, also influenced legislation on and practices of women’s work in colony and metropolis. …”
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Fatigue in patients with syndromic heritable thoracic aortic disease: a systematic review of the literature and a qualitative study of patients’ experiences and perceptions by Gry Velvin, Heidi Johansen, Amy Østertun-Geirdal, Trine Bathen

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Protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of feedback on familial risk of chronic diseases on family-level intentions to participate in preventive lifestyle beh... by Carlene J. Wilson, Kayla de la Haye, John Coveney, Donna L. Hughes, Amanda Hutchinson, Caroline Miller, Ivanka Prichard, Paul Ward, Laura M. Koehly

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