Background Micronutrient deficiency in Tanzania is a significant public health problem, with vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affecting 34% of children aged 6 to 59 months. Since 2007, development partners have worked closely to advocate for the inclusion of twice-yearly vitamin A supplementation and deworming (VASD) activities with budgets at the subnational level, where funding and implementation o...

Personal health budgets (PHBs) were piloted in the National Health Service (NHS) in England between 2009 and 2012 and were found to have greater positive effects on quality of life and psychological well-being for those with mental health problems than commissioned service, as well as reducing their use of unplanned care. The government intends to extend PHBs in England for long-term conditions...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to the long-term maintenance of coral-dominated tropical ecosystems, and has received considerable attention over the past two decades. Coral bleaching and associated mortality events, which are predicted to become more frequent and intense, can alter the balance of different elements that are responsible for coral reef growth and maintenance. The g...

We consider budget constrained combinatorial auctions where bidder i has a private value vi for each of the items in some set Si, agent i also has a budget constraint bi. The value to agent i of a set of items R is |R ∩ Si| · vi. Such auctions capture adword auctions, where advertisers offer a bid for those adwords that (hopefully) reach their target audience, and advertisers also have budgets....

Research background: Globalization is a powerful engine of structural changes in national, regional and global economies. Except for positive economic effects, globalization also has negative effects. One them the deterioration environmental situation ongoing climate change. Purpose article: The paper focuses on current financing trends to mitigate effects Generally financial funds come from in...

19 Coral reefs play a critical role in coastline protection and support fisheries and tourism. Maintaining 20 these ecosystem services requires, as a minimum, positive biological carbonate budgets, whereby 21 rates of carbonate production exceed erosion. Coral bleaching and associated mortality events, 22 which are predicted to become more frequent and intense, can rapidly diminish carbonate 23...

279 National Tax Journal Vol. LX, No. 2 June 2007 Abstract Medicaid spending has become a major element in state budgets and support from federal Medicaid grants is now a main source of state government funding. We discuss recent, ongoing, and prospective reforms of intergovernmental fi nances and regulations, including the 1996 welfare reform, the introduction of Medicare Part D, Section 1115 ...

The new Coalition Government has made clear its intention to ‘strengthen the power of GPs to act as patients’ expert guides through the health system’, by enabling them to commission care on their patients’ behalf (Cabinet Office, 2010). This briefing paper has been developed jointly by six national organisations who have been working together over a number of months to explore what needs to ha...