Given that most patients have long-term conditions, this finding could have considerable policy relevance at a time when the Hong Kong Government is actively promoting the primary care management of long-term conditions, based around a family doctor model.
As leader of the far-left faction within Tsipras's Syriza party, and the cabinet's effective number three, Lafazanis has considerable say in government policy.
Our finding, that certain forms of entrepreneurship are linked to economic development, while others are not, has considerable implications for public policy, pointing to the economic implications of ensuring that there is a strong alignment between skills and the choice of self-employment.
Despite the relatively large returns to selective college attendance among disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students, they matriculate at much lower rates than do higher-income and white students (Bastedo and Jaquette, 2011; Carnevale and Rose, 2004; Reardon et al. 2012).1 Thus, devising programs to close these gaps has considerable significance for economic policy.
And we only have to look across the Irish Sea to appreciate that Ireland has considerable scope for independent policies.
There are roughly twenty-three hundred different local prosecutorial offices in the United States; most prosecutors are elected independently; and the lead lawyer in each office has considerable discretion in setting policies.
This approach to policy making has considerable shortcomings and seems to be less than fully effective in increasing economic growth.
One policy that has considerable public health importance is California's afterschool physical activity guidelines that indicate all children attending an afterschool program accumulate 30 minutes each day the program is operating.
The capacity to adapt global health interventions to local conditions also has considerable significance from the foreign policy perspective, in the context of the discipline now known and recognized as global health diplomacy [ 10].
Right or wrong, the restrained policy means that the bank still has considerable firepower in reserve.
