This paper analyzes the for-profit transformation of health care, with emphasis on Internet start-ups, physician practice management firms, insurance plans, and hospitals at various stages in the industry life cycle. Venture capital, conglomerate diversification, publicly traded equity, convertible bonds, retained earnings, and taxable corporate debt come with forms of financial accountability ...

BACKGROUND In spite of increasing research into intersections of public policy and health, little evidence shows how policy processes impact the implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. Our research sought to understand how and why strategies for engaging partners from diverse policy sectors in the implementation of HiAP succeed or fail in order to uncover the underlying soc...

The Scottish government’s Public Health Supplement (a levy on large retailers selling alcohol and tobacco) was an innovative tax that was successful in generating predictable revenues but failed to stimulate substantial behavioral change among retailers (eg, decisions to stop selling alcohol or tobacco). A tax may be considered a “health” tax on the basis that it raises revenue for health spend...

The main objective of this study is to analyze spillover fluctuations between inflation fluctuation and (un)employment fluctuation in relation to agriculture, industry and services sectors of Iran. In line with this, PANEL in Mean-MGARCH model has been used concerning Iran’s agriculture, industry and services sectors over the period of time from spring 2002 to winter 2016. The results show that...

"'Biotechnology' is a terrible term," says David Kingsbury of the National Science Foundation, who has been chairing the federal-wide effort to coordinate biotechnology regulations and guidelines (1). Although definitions of biotechnology have changed often during recent years, the word's meaning has seldom proved a serious stumbling block However, in 1986, federal officials renewed the debate ...

Climate change is one of the most important issues affecting different economic sectors. Although this phenomenon has had a larger effect on the agricultural sector due to the heavy dependence of agriculture on weather conditions as compared to the other economic sectors, other economic sectors such as the industry, mining and service sectors are also influenced by weather changes due to their ...

The north Australian beef industry is complex and dynamic. It is strategically positioned to access new and existing export markets. To prosper in a global economy, it will require strong processing and live cattle sectors, continued rationalisation of infrastructure, uptake of appropriate technology, and the synergy obtained when industry sectors unite and cooperate to maintain market advantag...