I n April 1996, occupational therapists were notified that the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board (AOTCB) is now the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). The name change is indicative of a fundamental shift in purpose from managing administration of the certification examination and verifying credentials to instituting a recertification program on a 5...

Health technology assessment (HTA) has received increasing support over the past twenty years in both North America and Europe. The justification for this field of policy-oriented research is that evidence about the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of technology should contribute to decision and policy making. However, concerns about the ability of HTA producers to increase the use of t...

Governments make policy decisions in the same areas in quite different institutions. Some assign policymaking responsibility to institutions designed to be insulated from myopic partisan and electoral pressures and others do not. In this study, we claim that differences in political context and institutional design constrain the policy choices governments make. Testable propositions based on an...

This article is a comparative analysis on financing of higher education in eleven African countries; Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Existing trends practices loans scholarships relation to capitation, policy recoveries were compared the countries that also member state Association Higher Education Financing Agencies (AAHEFA)...

employment agencies have gained an increasing significance in matching employment and vacancies in the economy. solo searches by workers, and shorterperiods of employment, have necessarilyadded to the need for third party agents for the matching process in labour markets. thus the existence of these agents and sole agent searches has created a multiplicity of wages across labour . markets. we d...

`` In June, Bill Gates gave US$ 4.6 billion of Microsoft shares to the BMGF, followed by a new campaign to combat the spread of malaria. This latest donation reduces his Microsoft holdings from 2.4% to 1.3% (although Microsoft stock accounts for 9% of his overall net worth, and he remains the world’s wealthiest individual, despite donating billions of US$). The anti–malarial campaign focuses on...

The public sector — including federal, state, and local agencies — purchases at least 10% of all energy-using products in the US. The federal government alone is the largest buyer in the world for many products. Channeling this enormous buying power toward energy-efficient products can stimulate market transformation throughout the economy. Government initiatives in the U.S. also offer a promis...

Abstract Scholars consider deficient local accountability mechanisms a key shortcoming of China's response to environmental issues. Through empirical analysis the new procurator-led public interest litigation (PIL) system, this study examines whether – and what extent can be remedied by empowering juridical institutions. It concludes that thanks procuratorates’ political insider status, relativ...

Just how committed is the government to improving health of population through prevention policy? Merely renaming agencies certainly no meaningful solution. In August 2020 England’s secretary state for health, Matt Hancock, announced that Public Health England (PHE), an executive agency Department and Social Care, was be scrapped replaced by a new organisation, National Institute Protection, f...