Each abstract (or full-text of papers without abstracts) of the 7,893 eligible papers were reviewed by two independent reviewers and categorised under biomedical disease focused papers or papers that described determinants, policy, and practice.
In many ways, it is similar to the way the debate on drugs is carried out, with the health concerns and social problems of the UK the main determinant of policy, rather than the impact of those possibly devastating policies on drug-producing countries.
"The NEC, at the end of the day… is the final determinant of policy".
If you look at the stats for housebuilding – and indeed house prices – since Macmillan's day, it's clear that the single most important determinant is policy.
Because the structure of a political system that is, its formal and informal institutional arrangements is a major determinant of policy outcomes, it is frequently the target of political action of various kinds.
Methods in public health; Population health and its social and economic determinants; Population health and its material – physical, radiological, chemical and biological – environmental determinants; Health policy; economics; organisational theory and management; Health promotion: health education, health protection and disease prevention; Ethics.
Iowa's congressional delegation will die in the last ditch for ethanol subsidies because ethanol subsidies are very popular with Iowa's voters, not because Big Agra cuts fat checks to Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley.Because, other things equal, public opinion swamps most competing determinants of policy, Mr Lessig's fixation on campaign finance seems a bit of a distraction.
Figure 1 portrays the fundamental determinants of policy choices.
Institutional and market structure factors are the most substantial determinants, although policy differences play a role at the margin.
While these determinants for policy continuity are likely to endure, Tunisia's National Assembly could become a driver for more protective laws on immigration.
