Child welfare assessments and the regulation of access to publicly funded fertility treatment

I-15: Offering Fertility Services to Whom? With Specific Regards to The Welfare of The Child

Ensuring open access for publicly funded research

On 16 July 2012, three major announcements transformed open access policy in the United Kingdom. The Research Councils UK (RCUK) announced a stronger version of the open access policy it originally adopted in 2006. 2 The UK minister of universities and science announced that the government had acceptedmost of the recent open access recommendations from theWorkingGroup on ExpandingAccess to Publ...

Attitudes to publicly funded obesity treatment and prevention.

The aim of this study was to investigate the Danish public's support for publicly funded obesity treatment and prevention. It was also examined whether levels of support could be explained by dislike of obese people and/or the belief that those who are obese are personally responsible for their condition. A representative survey of members of the Danish public (N = 1,141) was conducted using a ...

Quality of life assessments by adult substance abusers receiving publicly funded treatment in Massachusetts.

PURPOSE Quality of life (QOL) has become an important endpoint in clinical trials and studies of medical interventions for many chronic diseases, but has not been widely studied in the substance abuse field. The purpose of this study was to measure QOL in a large sample of adult substance abusers (SA), to compare QOL ratings with those for other chronic diseases, and to assess factors influenci...

Assessing the Integrity of Publicly Funded Research

Preface Since its establishment in 1992, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has conducted several studies on research misconduct and research integrity 1 in an attempt to develop a knowledge base on important issues, such as the impact of misconduct allegations on exonerated scientists, the experience of whistleblowers in the aftermath of making allegations, the research guidelines adopted ...