BACKGROUND Based on practices in commercial organizations and public services, healthcare organizations are using service charters to inform patients about the quality of service they can expect and to increase patient-centeredness. In the Netherlands, an integrated regional stroke service involving five organizations has developed and implemented a single service charter. The purpose of this s...

A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to nonchoosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,...

SUMMARY This article examines the relationship between business actors and implementation of right to development in Africa. It focuses on implications a possible (future) international legally-binding instrument human rights. Although there is no guarantee that such an will eventually be adopted ratified by states near future, nevertheless critically ways which clarification some issues associ...

A mong other disruptions that Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans in 2005 was an upheaval of the city’s public schools. The system, which had already been struggling with poor student performance and financial mismanagement, suffered approximately $800 million in property damage, and 64,000 students were displaced. In the storm’s wake, New Orleans drastically reformed its public education ...

In this article, legal issues associated with the termination of professional activity an athlete are considered. The results obtained show that there no specific procedures for terminating activities in sports, but it does not follow from circumstance is need to comply already established obligations at all. From a perspective, terminates their when they decide stop taking part sports competit...