BACKGROUND: Individual behavior change is a critical ingredient in efforts to improve global health. Central to the focus on behavior has been a growing understanding of how the human brain makes decisions, from motivations ...

Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the costeffectiveness of occupational safety and health interventions from the employer perspective. Methods: A comprehensive literature search (2005 to 2016) ...

Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:. The primary objective is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of surgical interventions for people with presbyopia. ...

Multimethodology interventions are being increasingly employed by operational researchers to cope with the complexity of real-world problems. In keeping with recent calls for more research into the ‘realised’ impacts of ...

Background Poor socioeconomic status(SES)increases diarrhoea risk,mostly mediated by lack of sanitation, poor infra structure and living conditions. The effectiveness of a city-wide sanitation intervention on diarrhoea in ...

This paper examines the effectiveness of the Sterilized Foreign Exchange Intervention in pushing changes in the exchange rate in the expected direction and curbing its volatility. Furthermore, we quantify the extent to ...

This paper views recent programs of ''state-shrinking'' within a long-term cyclical perspective. It argues that the recent ''crisis of the state'' in Latin America and Eastern Europe is a product of the excessive and ...

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