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PubMed2005

Industry, innovation and social values.

Remaining important tasks in finding and developing new drugs and vaccines for HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer and other diseases require continued industry research and development. Industry's research and development pipeline has produced drugs that have saved AIDS victims previously facing certain death, but still no cure nor vaccine is yet available. Experience with the process of research and development indicates that it requires more than a decade of development to produce a new drug with costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Intellectual property protection is critically important in assuring that drug development continues. Partnerships between industry and the public sector have increased access to new therapies in developing countries and promise to enhance access to both patented and generic medicines in the future.

Chemistry, Pharmaceutical↗
PubMed2001

Low-hanging fruit: social values and industry discretion in toxics use reduction policy.

In this article, we examine the implementation of an innovative environmental policy, the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA), which seeks to shift environmental intervention into production through the reduction of toxics use. TURA attempts to promote change by requiring facilities to undertake toxics use reduction planning as a way to identify opportunities for reducing hazardous chemical use, and the creation of a new third-party policy actor known as the toxics use reduction planner to monitor facility compliance. We draw upon interviews with toxics use reduction planners to highlight the limited nature of change actually wrought by toxics use reduction planning. The article concludes that industry preferences, while not wholly inconsistent with change, have largely determined the way in which this public policy has been implemented.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1989

[Medico-social value of the organization and development of ambulatory hematological services].

The authors have validated socio-medical and economic advantages of dispensary treatment of patients with blood diseases. It has been documented that most patients with acute leukemia can betreated on ambulatory basis. The requirement of physicians-hematologists for outpatient treatment of children and adults has been calculated. The methods of treatment suggested can be used in the public health practice.

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PubMed1992

[Voting behavior of the elderly: motivation and background].

On the occasion of the Dutch election for the Second Chamber of Parliament held on September 6, 1989 the Central Bureau of Statistics conducted a National Voters Survey (NKO). Voting behaviour and information about the backgrounds of this behaviour were collected among 1506 voters. A formerly developed explanatory model of party choice of the electorate also appears to apply to the 382 elderly voters (55 years and older) in the sample. The results show that party choice of elderly is mainly determined by the characteristics income, social class, religion, social values (social criticism) and opinions about politicians. The elderly differ from the younger voters (18-54 years old) on several points. For the elderly, the characteristics sex, education and social class play a more important role, whereas certain values (family values and postmaterialism) are more relevant for the 18-54 year-old group. In addition it turned out that as far as the explanation of party choice is concerned, the elderly are not a homogeneous group. Voters aged 75-plus in particular can be distinguished from the 55-64 and 65-74 year-old groups.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1990

A short-term outcome evaluation of the "I'm Special" drug abuse prevention program: a revisit using SCAT inventory.

In the previous evaluation of "I'm Special" (ISP) drug abuse prevention/education program, the long-term impact was reported. The current study examines the short-term outcome of the ISP to establish a conceptual link between what has been observed longitudinally to the short-term outcome. The evaluation instrument used is children's Self-Concept Attitudinal (SCAT) Inventory. Subjects are the third grade students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The evaluation design employed is before and after-measurement without a control group. In the absence of a control group, the treatment effect of the ISP is estimated on the basis of individual growth curve models. Through the study, it has been learned that the ISP was able to generate positive changes along six attitudinal dimensions included in the SCAT Inventory. The six scales have shown close relationships to student performance at school: student-teacher relationship; self-esteem, attitude toward school, basic social values, advanced social values, and the perception of family cohesiveness. Of these, the first four scales have shown statistical significance at the .05 level. It is estimated that the ISP is capable of generating a significant amount of positive attitudinal changes on a short-term basis with a time span of about four months between pre- and posttests. These findings are consistent with the conclusions obtained from the longitudinal study where student alcohol and other drug using behavior and other related student problem behaviors were significantly lower among the ISP recipients than non-recipients of the program.

Child↗