Research and policy implications of a recently published controlled study in previously untreated haemophilia patients at high risk of inhibitor development

AbstractLoss and damage from climate change, recognized as a unique research and policy domain through the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) in 2013, has drawn increasing attention among climate scientists and policy makers. Labelled by some as the “third pillar” of the international climate regime—along with mitigation and adaptation—it has been suggested that loss and damage has the potential to catalyze important synergies with other international agendas, particularly sustainable development. However, the specific approaches to sustainable development that inform loss and damage research and how these approaches influence research outcomes and policy recommendations remain largely unexplored. We offer a systematic analysis of the assumptions of sustainable development that underpins loss and damage scholarship through a comprehensive review of peer-reviewed research on loss and damage. We demonstrate that the use of specific metrics, decision criteria, and policy prescriptions by loss and damage researchers and practitioners implies an unwitting adherence to different underlying theories of sustainable development, which in turn impact how loss and damage is conceptualized and applied. In addition to research and policy implications, our review suggests that assumptions about the aims of sustainable development determine how loss and damage is conceptualized, measured, and governed, and the human development approach currently represents the most advanced perspective on sustainable development and thus loss and damage. This review supports sustainable development as a coherent, comprehensive, and integrative framework for guiding further conceptual and empirical development of loss and damage scholarship.

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A marriage of convenience or necessity? Research and policy implications for electrifying upstream petroleum production systems with renewables

Energy Research & Social Science ◽

10.1016/j.erss.2021.102226 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 80 ◽

pp. 102226

Author(s):

Magnus C. Abraham-Dukuma ◽

Michael O. Dioha ◽

Okechukwu C. Aholu ◽

Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi ◽

Chitzi Ogbumgbada ◽

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Keyword(s):

Production Systems ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Petroleum Production ◽

Research And Policy

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Psychosocial Environment: A Health Promotion Model

International Quarterly of Community Health Education ◽

10.2190/5n5y-a1xu-7tn0-9e89 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 311-341 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Snehendu B. Kar

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Health Promotion ◽

Health Behavior ◽

Personal Autonomy ◽

The Philippines ◽

Situational Factors ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Individual Level ◽

Independent Effects ◽

Research And Policy

This article presents a multidimensional model of psychosocial determinants of health behavior for health promotion research and policy analysis. Frequently, health promotion focuses almost exclusively on intrapsychic determinants and on individual level behavior. Based upon Field Theory and attitude theories, this proposed model holds that in populations with comparable sociodemographic and biological status (exogenous variables) a health behavior is a function of direct and interaction effects of five key intrapsychic and external variables. These are: behavioral intentions, social support, accessibility of means for action, personal autonomy, and action situation. Empirical tests with cross-cultural studies in Venezuela, Kenya, and the Philippines provide substantial support for the model. The findings suggest that while health promotion strategies should deal with intrapsychic determinants of behavior, key extrapsychic factors (such as social support, quality and accessibility of health care measures, and situational factors) all have direct and independent effects on health behavior as well. Health promotion research and interventions which aim exclusively at intrapsychic determinants would thus have rather limited overall value. The article discusses key research and policy implications of the model presented.

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Finding High Risk Persons with Internet Tests to Manage Risk—A Literature Review with Policy Implications to Avoid Violent Tragedies, Save Lives and Money

Review of European Studies ◽

10.5539/res.v8n1p212 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 212

Author(s):

Robert John Zagar ◽

Agata Karolina Zagar ◽

Kenneth G. Busch ◽

James Garbarino ◽

Terry Ferrari ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Revolving Door ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Success Rates ◽

Background Checks ◽

Psychiatric Admissions ◽

Severely Mentally Ill ◽

Psychiatric Conditions ◽

Mass Murders

The goal is to share policy implications of sensitive, specific internet-based tests in place of current approaches to lowering violence, namely fewer mass murders, suicides, homicides. When used, internet-based tests save lives and money. From 2009-2015, a Chicago field test had 324 fewer homicides (saving $2,089,848,548, ROI=6.42). In 60 yrs., conventional approaches for high risk persons (e.g.,. inappropriately releasing poor, severely mentally ill) led to unnecessary expense including yearly: (a) 300 mass murders (59% demonstrating psychiatric conditions); (b) 1-6% having costly personnel challenges; (c) 2,100,000 “revolving door” Emergency-Room (ER) psychiatric admissions (41,149 suicides, 90% mentally ill); (d) 10,000,000 prisoners (14,146 homicides, 20% psychiatric challenges). Current metrics fail [success rates from 25%-73%: (1) for background checks (25%); (2) interviews (M=46%); (3) physical exams (M=49%); (4) other tests (M=73%)]. Internet-based tests are simultaneously sensitive (97%), specific (97%), non-discriminatory, objective, inexpensive, $100/test, require 2-4 hrs.

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