Ministers are set to scrap plans for minimum nursing home staffing ratios as part of a move to water down proposals for national care home standards.

This chapter reviews the information and communication technology (ICT) policy development process in Africa and assesses to what extent African countries have taken on board ICT issues in their overall national development policies and plans. It is argued that African countries lag behind in technological issues hence negatively affecting the overall development of the continent due to their i...

Policies and rules by which land is governed are influenced political discourses, decisions about can provoke conflicts. In contexts of vague legal framework governing property right, planning tends to produce inequality could be observed as a instrument marginalization. Nevertheless, spatial indispensable for ensuring sustainable efficient governance. Ethiopia, urban considered unjust, often a...

This study was aimed to assess the association between regional financial deficits and Recovery Plans and the quality of the 702 projects developed by the Italian Regions within the National Prevention Plan 2010-13. Multivariate analyses showed significant associations between Recovery Plans and low quality of projects, possibly due to weak regional public health capacities. Regions with Recove...

Providing effective behavioral supports to decrease challenging behavior and replace it with appropriate alternative skills is essential to meeting the needs of many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It is also necessary for fulfilling the requirements of Medicaid-funded individual support plans and is important for moral, ethical, and societal reasons. Unfortu...

The national policy in Norway have since the last part of the 1990-ies been organized in programs that erected actions including national authorities, municipalities, regional authorities and private enterprises. What have we gained by our national activities to mainstream inclusive and accessibility policy for persons with reduced capability through the principles of Universal Design? Have we ...

OBJECTIVES Provide an introduction to national IT strategies for the health and social sectors, and point out major challenges for the future of eHealth and Telemedicine in Norway. METHODS The information provided in this article is based on reviews of national strategies and plans, and contact with projects and users in the health and social sectors. CONCLUSION IT in health and social serv...

Voluntary medical care insurance in the United States is, in general, provided through four kinds of insurers-Hue Cross hospitalization plans, Blue Shield surgical-medical plans, commercial insurance companies selling accident and health policies, and independint and nonagiliated plans. For the first three groups, national or summary information is available through the Blue Cross and Blue Shie...