BACKGROUND Young people often express a preference for seeking family planning information and services from the private sector. However, in many Marie Stopes International (MSI) social franchise networks, the proportion of young clients, and particularly those under 20 years of age, remains low. Marie Stopes Madagascar (MSM) piloted a youth voucher program that joins a supply-side intervention...

In a recently concluded Medicare demonstration, Community Nursing Organizations (CNOs) received capitated payment to provide a subset of Medicare services through a nursing case management delivery system. Demonstration participation was voluntary, both for CNOs and recruited beneficiaries, raising several challenging issues associated with selection. We investigate provider and beneficiary sel...

INTRODUCTION TOWARDS the close of 1947, it was my privilege to read a paper on Public Health Nursing in the Province to student Health Visitors at the College of Nursing in Belfast, and to follow this some weeks later with an outline of the Midwifery Services at the College of Midwives. This, the third and final talk, seeks to cover briefly the development of the whole field of our Nursing Serv...

Examining electronic services both as products and as organization, this chapter discusses the development and management of e-services at Roskilde University, Denmark. The services in question can be distinguished according to purpose into products meant for administration, communication, education, and integration. The chapter discusses several examples of e-services from the point of view of...

To the Editor: The evaluation of the surgical outreach programme to district hospitals in Sisonke Health District (SHD), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (SA), recently published in the SAMJ demonstrates an admirable commitment to improving district health services. While the authors documented a large number of flying hours and kilometres travelled and 2 160 operations performed over a 6-month peri...

Since 1948 the private sector has viewed itself as complementary to the NHS. Before the NHS was set up in 1948 health care was provided by charities and voluntary hospitals, private medical clubs, occupational medical services and works clubs, fee for service insurance, friendly societies, public medical services (which were funded by subscription), and medical fees paid on an ad hoc basis. The...

This study is an exploration of voluntary-sector resettlement practice and the encouragement of the desistance process through resettlement work. The author discusses how desistance theory ties in with resettlement practice. This exploration is important because of the current political context of esettle e t a d the Go e e t s pledge to e i e the eha ilitati e ideal. Th ough this e i al, the G...

Interest in decentralized approaches to environmental management has grown significantly in recent years. Along with the standard instruments of environmental policy—quantity, price, and technology regulations—a growing number of voluntaryand information-based approaches (VIBAs) to environmental management have emerged. These include more decentralized policies, programs, and market trends, suc...

A number of existing works have focused on the problem of malicious following activity detection in microblog services. However, most of them make the assumption that the spamming following relationships are either from fraudulent accounts or compromised legitimate users. They therefore developed detection methodologies based on the features derived from this assumption. Recently, a new type of...