Therefore, older people do not necessarily perceive initiatives provided by the municipality as a means to objectively help and support them.
Despite the fact that older people do not perceive initiatives to identify physical health problems and risks as an immediate need, VEAs indicated that if necessary, older people would prefer them to be provided by GPs.
The many governments that signed and ratified the FCTC initiative perceive this initiative as an international instrument for controlling tobacco manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
The learners perceived that the initiative could help achieving their learning outcomes.
One needs to be aware that business becomes pro-active in their participation for sustainability governance if they perceive the initiatives are fair, and offer sufficient benefit, such as distinguishing themselves from competitors, providing access to markets, or anticipating regulatory change (Rondinelli and Berry 2000; Abbott 2012; Kordos and Vojtovic 2016).
They may perceive the initiatives as patronising, as these tend to take over whatever control they still have over their own lives.
Professionals are reluctant to engage in quality improvement initiatives perceived as ineffective or even harmful [ 10], including pay-for-performance schemes misaligned with professional values [ 1, 6, 11- 13].
Despite these advantages, the UK sites also showed evidence of persisting problems of fidelity, audits that focused too much on documentation of box-ticking and resentment of perceived top-down initiatives.
The purpose of the present study was to explore how healthcare innovators of process-based initiatives perceived and made sense of factors that either facilitated or obstructed the innovation implementation and diffusion.
Information on doctors' contemplation of migration was available from responses to the question: "Have you considered moving and working abroad?" The predictor variables in our logistic regression model are perceived cost-containment initiatives at work, stress related to personal finances, experience of working abroad during vacations, job dissatisfaction, job position, age, and gender.
