A growing body of evidence attests that legislators are sometimes responsive to the policy preferences citizens in single-party regimes, yet debate surrounds mechanisms driving this relationship. We experimentally test two potential responsiveness mechanisms—elections versus mandates from party leaders—by provisioning delegates Vietnamese National Assembly with information on their constituents...

BACKGROUND Reminder systems and late patient tracers as strategies to improve patients' adherence to tuberculosis screening, diagnosis, and treatment are used in some countries, but their effectiveness has not previously been systematically reviewed. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of reminder systems and late patient tracers on completion of diagnostics, commencement of treatment in people ...

Methods We explored mechanism behind the reminder responses in two pragmatic RCTs the TATE and STarT Back trials by utilizing the fact that data that are recovered through reminders would otherwise have been missing. The present approach considered two data scenarios: (i) with the actual dataset and (ii) with a modified dataset, where outcome responses obtained after a certain number of reminde...

BACKGROUND Mobile text messages are a widely recognized communication method in societies, as the global penetration of the technology approaches 100% worldwide. Systematic knowledge is still lacking on how the mobile telephone text messaging (short message service, SMS) has been used in health care services. OBJECTIVE This study aims to review the literature on the use of mobile phone text m...

In this study, we examine whether reminders are able to overcome limited attention and effectively promote pro-environmental behavior. We conducted a natural field experiment with customers of Swiss agricultural association that delivers weekly food boxes vegetables in plastic bags. Treated received highlighting the option return bags for reuse. Reminders were provided either as flyer added box...

At the time of this writing, we are closing unprecedented year 2020 and embarking further into new decade. The rendered powerful reminders our global interconnectedness, int...

A total of 1,176 general practitioners were asked to take part in a multipractice study. One group of 568 practitioners was given very detailed information about the study and 19.7 per cent agreed to take part. The remaining 605 practitioners were given only a brief introduction to the study. Of this group 33.4 per cent agreed to take part. Two thirds of the doctors participating in the trial w...