نتایج جستجو برای: disinvestment

تعداد نتایج: 265  

2016
Sara C. Hitchman Robert Calder Catriona Rooke Ann McNeill

Aim To explore tobacco profit margins and sales among small retailers in England. Methods Interviews with managers/owners of 62 small retail shops that sold tobacco in disadvantaged areas of Newcastle and London, England. The interviews included questions about tobacco sales and profit margins, and interest in reducing reliance on tobacco sales. Results The majority of retailers (89%) repor...

Journal: :Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2009
Feng Xie David Levinson

This study explores the topological evolution of surface transportation networks, using empirical evidence and a simulation model validated on that data. Evolution is an iterative process of interaction, investment, and disinvestment. The temporal change of topological attributes for the network is also evaluated using measures of connectivity, density, heterogeneity, concentration, and connect...

2010
Jon Glasby

Following a global recession, public services in many countries are preparing themselves for the worst in terms of future public spending. In the UK (which seems worse hit than many), the potential cuts are substantial. After year-on-year funding increases to bring England closer to European levels of health care spending, the National Health Service now faces the very real prospect of active c...

Journal: :Health & place 2005
C Hembree S Galea J Ahern M Tracy T Markham Piper J Miller D Vlahov K J Tardiff

Accidental drug overdose continues to be a substantial cause of mortality for drug users. Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment may be important determinants of the likelihood of drug overdose mortality independent of individual-level factors. Using data from the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, we conducted a multilevel case control study using data on accide...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2012
Suzanne Robinson Iestyn Williams Helen Dickinson Tim Freeman Benedict Rumbold

In a context of ever increasing demand, the recent economic downturn has placed further pressure on decision-makers to effectively target healthcare resources. Over recent years there has been a push to develop more explicit evidence-based priority-setting processes, which aim to be transparent and inclusive in their approach and a number of analytical tools and sources of evidence have been de...

Journal: :Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience 2011
J Bernard P Y Le Gal B Triomphe N Hostiou C H Moulin

In certain contexts, dairy firms are supplied by small-scale family farms. Firms provide a set of technical and economic recommendations meant to help farmers meet their requirements in terms of the quantity and quality of milk collected. This study analyzes how such recommendations may be adopted by studying six farms in Brazil. All farms are beneficiaries of the country's agrarian reforms, bu...

Journal: :The Sociological Review 2023

This article practically applies Sherry-Lee Linkon’s ‘half-life of deindustrialisation’ thesis in examining a deindustrialising Scottish community. Linkon contends that, while the most visibly toxic impacts deindustrialisation have dissipated over time, its lingering effects continue to cause harm more subtle ways. Utilising qualitative research from national study on community organised crime,...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2012
Helena Hansen

This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork including twelve months of participant observation and 428 interviews with 84 converts and leaders in Pentecostal ministries founded and run by former addicts in Puerto Rico, describes redefined masculinity as a treatment for addiction. Industrial disinvestment and resulting unemployment and drug trade in urban North and Latin America have led to na...

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