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Background A growing number of researchers are trying to provide explanations for continuity and change in drug policy different contexts. Such research predominantly falls the pluralist realm public where various actors compete have their proposals accepted.Method Using a critical framework called Policy Constellations (PC), developed by Stevens Zampini, this paper attempts explain reactions B...

Patients designated as alternative level of care (ALC) are an ongoing concern for healthcare policy makers across Canada. These patients occupy valuable hospital beds and limit access to acute care services. The objective of this paper is to present policy alternatives to address underlying factors associated with ALC bed use. Three alternatives, and their respective limitations and structural ...

Background Recent British National Health Service (NHS) reforms, in response to austerity and alleged ‘health tourism,’ could impose additional barriers to healthcare access for non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrants. This study explores policy reform challenges and implications, using excerpts from the perspectives of non-EEA migrants and health advocates in London.   Methods A qualitative ...

The log export policy suggestion by Dumont and Wright (2006) is critically assessed in an effort to determine if it is based on economic efficiency. The optimal log export policy for British Columbia is derived using two different models. The first model assumes that B.C. is a small open economy, and the second is a two country model that provides B.C. the opportunity to improve its terms of tr...

Throughout the 1950s the British government practised demand management through the banking system by issuing a series of requests that they should control the levels of credit in the economy. Such an approach to economic management can be justified on two grounds [17, pp. 157-60]. From a macroeconomic point of view, the restraints on lending can be seen as a way of controlling monetary expansi...