We find that the direction and magnitude of this bias depends on numerous factors including the relative risk (RR) of acquiring resistance in each sector, the RR of treatment failure in each sector, and the sector-specific probability of switching location for retreatment.
Bill Rammell, during his time as higher education minister put forward the idea for consideration, but a mixture of resistance from the sector and political timing meant it wasn't realised.
Even with the resistance from public sector unions, some elected officials are realizing that getting tough with the unions can be good politics in down economic times, as government employees' benefits are held up as examples of excess -- and as taxpayers (and voters) demand greater accountability.
Importantly, incremental institutional change occurred despite a long history of successful partisan and private sector resistance to reforming the health insurance system, as well as the absence of historical institutional precedents intervening in state health insurance policy [ 99].
Without that pressure, Athens would likely never be able to overcome fierce resistance from public-sector unions, professionals, the wealthy and all of the special interests determined to keep doing business as usual.
Simple linear regression and pooled regression analysis were calculated in the tolerance experiment to classify the different mechanisms of resistance into different sectors (Panda and Heinrichs 1983).
Bans on nontherapeutic antimicrobial consumption in livestock must be effectively championed despite strong resistance from industrial sectors.
Additional files provide results where we do not assume equal MDR TB prevalence in new cases (Additional File 1) and when risk of amplified resistance in the public sector exceeds that in the private sector (Additional File 2).
The bias increases sharply as resistance in the private sector diverges from that in the public sector.
Figures 5a1 and 5b1 depict a plausible scenario for new cases, where we presume the fraction of cases with drug resistance in the public sector is 10%, but only 20% of patients initially receive care in the public sector.
