In 10 studies financial incentives enhanced adherence to anti-tuberculosis drugs, dental care, a weight reduction programme, substance dependency treatment, and anti hypertensive medication with odds ratios of up to 7 for anti-tuberculosis treatment.
Government is by its nature a knife that cuts to the left, in part because government employees tend to be on the left, in part because government programmes promote dependency.
This point was there in Nick Clegg's description on the Today programme of state dependency in the north-east as not only unaffordable but unhealthy.
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However, it is also good to realize that connecting programme activities cause dependencies between programme components.
While the definition of mental disorders was based on the ICD classification, studies which evaluated programmes on alcohol and drug dependency were excluded.
A set of scalar indices, the moduli of instability, related with the inception of an unstable response is introduced and their dependency on the loading programme is explicitly illustrated.
We also conclude that a PBD programme might contribute to reduced car dependency in two different ways, either by increasing acceptance for parking charges or by improving the alternatives to private cars.
But this is an emergency programme: I don't want to encourage dependency.
To many, including disability groups, Perkins's thesis appears to be nothing more than eugenics, a programme to try to "breed out welfare dependency" and, essentially, poverty, arguing that parents, rather than poverty, damage children.
