2 - Schools incorporating the Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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How to get research into practice : first get practice into research
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Reliability of data on caesarean sections in developing countries
(World Health Organization, 2005-06)OBJECTIVE: To examine the reliability of reported rates of caesarean sections from developing countries and make recommendations on how data collection for surveys and health facility-based studies could be improved. ... -
Implementation of free delivery policy in Ghana
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Midwives' attitudes to women in labour in Ghana
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2008-03) -
Measuring maternal mortality : challenges, solutions, and next steps
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Implicit self-comparisons against others could bias quality of life assessments
(Elsevier, 2007)Objectives: To explore how patient-reported health related quality of life (HRQL) and global health status are affected by use of differing personal reference frames. We hypothesised that implicit comparisons against self ... -
The assessment of pain in older people
(Royal College of Physicians, 2007-10)Pain is under-recognised and under-treated in older people. It is a subjective, personal experience, only known to the person who suffers. The assessment of pain is particularly challenging in the presence of severe cognitive ... -
The assessment and management of pain in older people : a systematic review of the literature
(Freund, 2006-01)This paper presents the findings of a systematic literature which was carried out to determine the most appropriate strategies that could be carried out for the assessment and management of pain in residents living in care ... -
Understanding consumption within a residential care home : an interpretation of George’s everyday experiences of life and death
(2007-07-02)We are witnessing perhaps the most important shift in the history of mankind – the rapid ageing of the earths population. This trend raises such issues as elderly care giving and living arrangements in old age. By virtue, ... -
Do self-reported intentions predict clinicians behaviour: a systematic review.
(BioMed Central, 2006-11-21)Background: Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of clinical research findings into routine clinical practice. Several interventions have been shown to be effective ... -
Is Unemployment harmful to health? Evidence from Britain
(2007-03-07)This paper investigates the effects of unemployment on health in Britain. It examines the effects of socio-economic variables on the duration of spells of good health by using an accelerated failure time model. Two different ... -
Earnings Aspirations and Job Satisfaction: The Affective and Cognitive Impact of Earnings Comparisons
(2007)Theories of interdependent preferences predicts that the effect of peer earnings on individual well-being is either negative, the “relative deprivation”, or positive the “cognitive effect”. The evidence so far has attributed ... -
Things Can Only get Worse? An Empirical Examination of the Peter Principle.
(2006)The results reported in this paper suggest the possible operation of the Peter Principle in a large hierarchical financial sector firm. This result holds even after we allow for variation in optimal effort over stages in ... -
Do Career Prospects Make Happy Workers? Evidence from Panel Data
(University of Aberdeen Business School, 2006)This paper investigates the relationship between career profile, job tenure, earnings and job satisfaction utilising the British Household Panel Survey Dataset (BHPS). Career status is modelled as an endogenous variable, ... -
Plausible rogues: contract and property
(Edinburgh University Press, 2005)Problem of rogue obtaining possession of motor vehicle on credit through fraudulent misrepresentation of identity and selling on to innocent third party for cash; difficulty of deciding issue of right to vehicle between ... -
Who are the moonlighters and why they moonlight: Evidence for rural communities
(University of Aberdeen Business School, 2004-11)This paper examines the incidence of and reasons for moonlighting in the context of rural communities where multiple-job holding is viewed as an important means of promoting sustainability of these communities. Drawing ...