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Background Preventive brain magnetic resonance imaging screening of asymptomatic people has uncertain clinical benefit and can generate incidental findings, downstream healthcare utilisation, psychological effects, and ethical concerns. In Japan,...
Background Childhood obesity is a key policy challenge facing governments globally. Three decades of policy initiatives in England have been largely unsuccessful in reducing prevalence and inequalities in childhood obesity. Parents and families are...
Background Contingency management (CM) is a highly effective adjunct to medication for opioid use disorder that is rarely offered in specialty addiction treatment programs. Primary outcome analysis of the Project MIMIC (Maximizing Implementation of...
Democratic governments must often make binding decisions while policy-relevant science remains unsettled. This article develops the Public Certainty Regime (PCR) to analyze how institutions make scientific uncertainty administratively usable. It...
Background Since the 2000 World Education Forum, international organizations have encouraged low- and middle-income countries to strengthen school health systems through national school health policies based on the Health Promoting School (HPS)...
Enhancing the effectiveness of green agricultural policies is critical to promoting agricultural green development in China, where family farms are an important force in environmentally friendly production. Using monitoring data from nearly 2,000...
Industrial policy is on the rise. A key instrument used by governments is import licensing to protect domestic industries. However, evidence of its effectiveness is limited. Using customs and firm level data, we estimate the effects of the...
Sustainable development constitutes a necessary path to promoting ecological civilization and an inevitable choice for achieving coordinated interaction with capital markets. Industrial policies oriented toward sustainable development are crucial...
This paper investigates a continuous-time optimization problem for a target benefit pension (TBP) plan, in which members exhibit loss aversion and evaluate benefits through an S-shaped utility function relative to a habitual target benefit. It is...
Achieving conservation targets like protecting and conserving 30% of the planet by 2030 (“30 x 30”) depend fundamentally on ground-level implementation capacity, in particular rangers. We audited 45 global macro-governance documents and 21 National...
Background Performance measurement plays a central role in governing healthcare system reforms, yet defining what should be monitored is often challenging in complex and decentralized systems. Rather than functioning as neutral tools, performance...
Regulations for securitisation have been subject to widespread criticism both before and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Before the crisis, they were criticised for creating perverse incentives for banks and, after the crisis, they were...
It is very prevalent to tackle constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) through evolutionary algorithms. The performances of these algorithms heavily rely on different constraint handling techniques and search strategies. It is...
Background Menu labelling has emerged as a promising strategy to encourage healthier food choices. There is a need for evidence from low-and middle-income countries to guide their efforts to implement restaurant menu labelling. This study aimed to...
Regulatory sandboxes are authority-involved arrangements for bounded regulatory inquiry that combine temporary regulatory accommodation or intensified guidance with structured regulatory evaluation. They generate evidence under test-specific...
Background Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based prospective payments are being implemented in China as a value-oriented provider-payment reform intended to promote cost-conscious, standardized care. This study examined how DRG implementation reshaped...
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is limited by donor–recipient incompatibilities in blood type, graft-to-recipient weight ratio (GRWR), and future remnant liver volume (FRLV). Liver Paired Exchange (LPE), adapted from kidney exchange,...
The transition to a zero-carbon and digital economy is expected to drive a substantial increase in the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs), while concerns over supply security have strengthened interest in recycling. Despite its potential,...
The transition toward a circular economy depends not only on technological innovation, but also on the governance conditions that enable or constrain its implementation in practice. Rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF), widely used in construction and...
UAV swarm planning, control, and task-allocation algorithms can generate multiple feasible operational schemes, but final scheme adoption may depend on contextual acceptability factors that are not reducible to a single numerical performance score....
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The policy sciences are distinctive within the policy movement in that they embrace the scholarly traditions innovated and elaborated by Harold D....
Health Research Policy and Systemscovers all aspects of the organisation and use of health research – including agenda setting, building health...
The primary concern of Environmental & Resource Economics(ERE) is the application of economic theory and methods to environmental issues and...
