Public funding, public knowledge, publication

Funding follows public prejudice

cancer in this country because we know the primary cause is tobacco. The problem has almost moved from it being a research problem to being a public health problem.' One of the problems facing researchers is that lung cancer patients are more ill by the time they are diagnosed than many other patients. But there has been substantial progress in fighting the disease, at least in men from the hig...

Funding Public Agricultural Research

Public Opinion and the Funding of Public Libraries

THEIHEORYOF PUBLIC C H O I C E suggests that high levels of demand for public library senices and positive perceptions of the quality of those senices should be associated rviith higher levels of funding for the libraries. This investigation compared self-reported use of public libraries and public opinion about library senices with levels of per-capita library f h d i n g over time. The result...

The Equity of Public Education Funding

Funding of South Australian public hospitals.

Since the 1994-95 financial year, inpatient episodes of care in South Australian public hospitals have been funded according to their casemix. This paper describes the current funding system, sets it in some context and examines what can be established about hospital performance.