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Hardwick, Bob. Managing the introduction of appraisal for allied/support staff. Sheffield: Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, Universities' Staff Development Unit, 1993.

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Office, General Accounting. Performance appraisal system for administrative, professional, and support staff. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): The Office, 1997.

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Hadland, Louise. Appraisal for support staff: System design, implementation and evaluation. Northampton: Nene College, 1994.

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Office, General Accounting. Performance appraisal system for administrative, professional and support staff. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 1999.

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Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal. Our professional ministry: Structure, support, renewal : a report by the Commission on Appraisal. Boston, Mass: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1992.

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NHS Management Executive. Information Management Group. Benefits management: Guidelines on investment appraisal and benefits realisation for Hospital Information Support Systems. Winchester: HISS Central Team, 1993.

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McGurnaghan, Paul. Development of a decision support system to assist investment appraisal in the agriculture industry. [s.l: The Author], 1993.

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Salek, Sam. Benefit-risk appraisal of medicines: A systematic approach to decision making. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

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Dixon, Robert A. The evidence based medicine workbook: Critical appraisal for clinical problem solving. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.

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Francis, Hilary. Next steps: Making the most of appraisal and inspection outcomes : an INSET manual to support action research in schools and classrooms. Edited by Vince Brian and Westall Karen. Lancaster: Framework, 1995.

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Mubonda, N. An assessment of the willingness of people to shift: An appraisal to assess the need to support new settlement in Senanga West : report for the District Planning Sub-Committee of Senanga District Council. Mongu [Zambia]: RDP Livestock Services B.V., 1991.

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Margulus, Lisabeth S. Performance appraisals made easy: Tools for evaluating teachers and support staff. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, 2005.

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Lee, Keenan. Remote sensing study in support of mineral resource appraisal of Wilderness Study Areas near Moab, Utah: Dolores River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Montrose and San Miguel counties, Colorado; Lost Spring Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Grand County, Utah; Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan counties, Utah; Indian Creek Wilderness Study Area, San Juan County, Utah; and Butler Wash Wilderness Study Area, San Juan County, Utah. [Denver, CO]: U.S. Geological Survey, 1988.

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Scherer, Klaus, Marcello Mortillaro, and Marc Mehu. Facial Expression Is Driven by Appraisal and Generates Appraisal Inference. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0019.

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Emotion researchers generally concur that most emotions in humans and animals are elicited by the appraisals of events that are highly relevant for the organism, generating action tendencies that are often accompanied by changes in expression, autonomic physiology, and feeling. Scherer’s component process model of emotion (CPM) postulates that individual appraisal checks drive the dynamics and configuration of the facial expression of emotion and that emotion recognition is based on appraisal inference with consequent emotion attribution. This chapter outlines the model and reviews the accrued empirical evidence that supports these claims, covering studies that experimentally induced specific appraisals or that used induction of emotions with typical appraisal configurations (measuring facial expression via electromyographic recording) or behavioral coding of facial action units. In addition, recent studies analyzing the mechanisms of emotion recognition are shown to support the theoretical assumptions.

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Farb, Norman A. S., and Kyle Logie. Interoceptive appraisal and mental health. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811930.003.0012.

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Interoception is the process of sensing the body’s internal state. An emerging neurobiological model supports the idea that subjective well-being is influenced by how physiological changes are detected and appraised. Contemplative interventions such as mindfulness training, which appear efficacious in reducing emotional distress, may operate by promoting curiosity and flexibility in this appraisal process. This chapter reviews evidence about the relationship between interceptive appraisal and mental health, including an account of how contemplative training modulates interoceptive networks to alter interoceptive appraisal tendencies. New measures are needed to distinguish the effects of appraisal tendencies from more implicit effects of physiological change. To support this endeavour, pilot data is introduced from a novel, respiration-focused task that experimentally manipulates interoceptive awareness, and by extension the need for interoceptive appraisal, within a given level of physiological arousal. Potential applications of this task for exploring the influence of interoceptive appraisal on affect, cognition, and behavior are discussed.

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Performance appraisal system for administrative, professional and support staff. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 1999.

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Performance appraisal system for administrative, professional, and support staff. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): The Office, 1997.

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Driever, Marie J. PERSONAL APPRAISAL DURING RECOVERY FROM MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (COPING, SOCIAL SUPPORT, TRANSITION). 1985.

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McCracken, Jennifer A. Participatory Rapid Rural Appraisal in Gujarat: A Trial Model for the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India (Sustainable Agriculture Programme - Rapid Rural Appraisal). International Institute for Environment and Development, 1988.

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Prentice Hall geometry: With lesson plans to support Texas teacher appraisal system (Prentice Hall mathematics). Prentice Hall, 1990.

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Participatory Rural Appraisal Handbook: Conducting Pras in Kenya (Natural Resources Management Support Series No. 1). World Resources Inst, 1991.

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Walker, Stuart, Sam Salek, and Filip Mussen. Benefit-Risk Appraisal of Medicines: A Systematic Approach to Decision-Making. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2009.

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Pagana, Kathleen Deska. THE RELATIONSHIP OF HARDINESS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TO STUDENT APPRAISAL IN AN INITIAL CLINICAL NURSING SITUATION. 1987.

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Moya, Dorothy N. De. RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STRESS APPRAISAL, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN PRIMIPARAE RE-ENTERING THE WORK FORCE. 1989.

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McCarthy, Geraldine. COGNITIVE APPRAISAL, COPING RESPONSES, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT IN IRISH WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER RECEIVING CYTOTOXIC CHEMOTHERAPY. 1994.

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Mcnett, Susan Cunningham. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT, CONSTRAINTS, THREAT APPRAISAL, AND COPING RESPONSES ON COPING EFFECTIVENESS IN A FUNCTIONALLY DISABLED POPULATION: A TEST OF A PROPOSED CAUSAL MODEL. 1985.

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Great Britain. Department of Energy. and Atomic Energy Research Establishment. Energy Technology Support Unit. Chief Scientist's Group., eds. Background papers relevant to the 1986 appraisal of UK energy research, development & demonstration: Reports compiled by Chief Scientist's Group, Energy Technology Support Unit, Harwell Laboratory .... London: H.M.S.O, 1987.

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World Bank. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit. East Asia and Pacific Region., ed. Project appraisal document on a proposed grant in the amount of US$12.35 Million equivalent to the government of Cambodia for a trade development support program. [Phnom Penh]: Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, 2008.

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Project appraisal document on a proposed grant in the amount of US$12.35 Million equivalent to the government of Cambodia for a trade development support program. [Phnom Penh]: Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, 2008.

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Peter, Christina R., Russell B. Toomey, Justin E. Heinze, and Stacey S. Horn. Positive Development During Emerging Adulthood for Queer Populations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190260637.003.0052.

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This chapter focuses on salient internal and external supports and challenges situated within a broader lifespan development framework for queer (e.g., queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual) emerging adults (EAs). The authors review indicators of, and disparities in, well-being, as well as the role of romantic and sexual partners, parents, family, and peer support in promoting healthy development. Challenges to positive development for queer EAs such as school harassment, lack of health-supporting education, and discriminatory laws and employment practices are reviewed alongside recent advances in rights. Research and practice recommendations for how to further improve educational and legal contexts to support the well-being of queer EAs are discussed. The developmentally situated and positive view of queer EA thriving taken in this chapter allows for the appraisal of experiences and opportunities to better support, and combat barriers to, healthy development for queer populations.

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Miles, Michele G. Business Appraiser and Litigation Support. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2004.

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World Bank. Timor-Leste Country Management Unit. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit., ed. Program appraisal document for a proposed post conflict grant in the amount of US$5 million to the Democratic Republic of East Timor for a transition support program. [Washington, D.C.]: Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, East Timor Country Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, 2002.

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The Business Appraiser and Litigation Support. Wiley, 2001.

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Performance Appraisals Made Easy: Tools for Evaluating Teachers and Support Staff. Corwin Press, 2004.

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Performance Appraisals Made Easy: Tools for Evaluating Teachers and Support Staff. Corwin Press, 2004.

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Wolf, Benjamin. The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0016.

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This chapter explores the relationship between British symphony orchestras and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Combining archival research with institutional sociology and cultural economics, it describes how the Arts Council’s demands changed between 1946 and 2000, and how financial and ideological constraints prevented the successful execution of some of these demands. Between 1946 and 1980, symphony orchestras were encouraged to focus on professional performances of the ‘fine arts’ and the performance of music by living composers. Subsequently the 1980s and 1990s witnessed a collapse in traditional ideas of artistic value and a growth in bureaucratized management, with symphony orchestras undergoing time-consuming appraisal procedures, expanding their educational activities and demonstrating limited support for the arts of ethnic minorities. Overall, the chapter suggests that the ideologies of subsidised support were in tension with each other, leading to only partial achievement of the goals that were set out by the Arts Council.

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Purdon, Christine, and C. Psych. Pathological Responsibility, Thought-Action Fusion, and Thought Control in OCD. Edited by Christopher Pittenger. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190228163.003.0018.

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Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) implicate overvalued beliefs about responsibility, beliefs about the relationship of thoughts to external events and morality (thought-action fusion), and thought control as key factors in the development and the persistence of the disorder. This chapter provides an overview of these three factors and presents case examples, empirical support, and clinical implications. Considerable empirical research indicates that people with OCD tend to endorse beliefs reflecting an overvalued responsibility and thought-action fusion (TAF). However, it is also clear that these beliefs, particularly TAF beliefs, are not unique to OCD. It has been proposed that attempts at thought suppression ironically lead to an increase in thought frequency; research has generally not yielded support for such an effect, nor for response inhibition deficits. However, there is converging evidence that suppression may have insidious effects on the appraisal of thought recurrences and mood state. Clinical implications are discussed.

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Kissane, David W., and Courtney Hempton. Conducting a family meeting. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0018.

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The strategies employed in running family meetings include collaborative agenda setting, appraisal of family needs, exploration of the impact of the illness and the family’s resultant coping, the building of consensus about the goals of care, and planning for the future. Special communication skills that guide this process are the use of circular questioning techniques and integrative summaries. Beyond the education of all families, a subgroup remains at risk and requires ongoing family support. Families with young children, offspring living with disability or mental illness, those isolated or disenfranchised, and those with high conflict warrant psychosocial referral for ongoing family therapy. Role play work with simulated family members helps build co-facilitation skills, cultural sensitivity to respond to requests to collude with relatives, and confidence in dealing with difficult families.

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Elwood, Mark. Critical appraisal of a retrospective cohort study. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682898.003.0015.

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This chapter presents a retrospective cohort study of workers from 10 countries exposed to chlorophenoxy herbicides, assessing cancer mortality. It shows the need for large collaborative international studies, and the methods used. The results are not clearly supported by toxicological and animal experimental evidence, and the question remains open. The critical assessment follows the scheme set out in chapter 10: describing the study, assessing the non-causal explanations of observation bias, confounding, and chance variation; assessing time relationships, strength, dose-response, consistency and specificity, and applying the results to the eligible, source, and target populations; and then comparing the results with evidence from other studies, considering consistency and specificity, biological mechanisms, and coherence with the distribution of exposures and outcomes. The chapter gives a summary and table of the critical assessment and its conclusions; and comments on the impact of the study and research carried out since.

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World Bank. East Asia and Pacific Regional Office., ed. Project appraisal document on a proposed loan in the amount of US$6.9 million and a grant from the global environment facility trust fund in the amount of SDR 3.1 million (US$4.1 million equivalent) to the Republic of Indonesia for a coral reef rehabilitation and management project in support of the first phase of the coral reef rehabilitation and management program. [Jakarta?]: Rural Development and Natural Resources Sector Unit, Indonesia Country Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, 1998.

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Camilletti, Elena, and Prerna Banati. Making Strategic Investments in Adolescent Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847128.003.0015.

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Investing in young people is crucial to achieve inclusive development and uphold human rights. Adolescence is a unique window of opportunity whereby countries can benefit from investing in their educated, healthy, and gainfully employed young people. Evidence is needed to support how interventions are selected, implemented, and scaled up in developing countries. When nested within human rights–based policy efforts, economic appraisals such as cost–benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses can support policymakers in formulating decisions on the types and extents of investments in adolescents and in sequencing interventions while moving toward the full realization of their rights. This chapter discusses key literature on cost analyses on investments in adolescents in low- and middle-income countries in six intervention areas: education, health, violence, child marriage, child labor, and multisectoral analyses. Evidence and information gaps are then suggested, and the importance of integrating cost analyses into human rights–based approaches to development is considered.

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Gannon, Anna. The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199254651.001.0001.

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This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.792. Outside numismatic circles, this material has largely been ignored because of its complexity, yet artistically this is the most vibrant period of English coinage, with die-cutters showing flair and innovation and employing hundreds of different designs in their work. By analysing the iconography of the early coinage, this book intends to introduce its rich legacy to a wide audience. Anna Gannon divides the designs of the coins into four main categories: busts (including attributes and drapery), human figures, animals and geometrical patterns, presenting prototypes, sources of the repertoire and parallels with contemporary visual arts for each motif. The comparisons demonstrate the central role of coins in the eclectic visual culture of the time, with the advantages of official sanctioning and wide circulation to support and diffuse new ideas and images. The sources of the motifs clarify the relationship between the many designs of the complex Secondary phase (c.710-50). Contemporary literature and theological writings often offer the key to the interpretation of motifs, hinting at a universal preoccupation with religious themes. The richness of designs and display of learning point to a sophisticated patronage with access to exotic prototypes, excellent craftsmanship and wealth; it is likely that minsters, as rich, learned, and well-organized institutions, were behind some of the coinage. After the economic crises of the mid-eighth century this flamboyant iconography was swept away: with the notable exeption of the coins of Offa, still displaying exciting designs of high quality and inventiveness, reformed issues bore royal names and titles, and strove towards uniformity.

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Jetten, Jolanda, S. Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, and Nyla R. Branscombe. Social Identity, Stigma, and Health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.013.18.

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This chapter argues that an understanding of social identity processes is critical to understand when and how stigma affects health. This chapter presents a social identity analysis of the relationship between stigma and health and starts from the premise that it is particularly difficult for individuals who belong to stigmatized groups to derive a positive identity from their social group memberships. However, when individuals turn to the stigmatized group, identify with it, and draw social support from others within it, their health will be buffered against some of the negative consequences of discrimination because group memberships—and the social identities that are derived from them—act as psychological resources. Perceptions of the broader sociostructural context that affect appraisals of discrimination and coping with stigma play an important role in determining whether the curing properties of group memberships are unlocked, turning the curse of belonging to a stigmatized group into a cure.

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Briggs, Andrew, Hans Halvorson, and Andrew Steane. Biological evolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808282.003.0012.

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The chapter discusses the history of life on Earth, and the lessons to be learned from the neo-Darwinian synthesis of evolutionary biology. The long and complex sequence of events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth requires considered interpretation. The neo-Darwinian synthesis is well-supported by evidence and gives rich insight into this process, but does not itself furnish a complete explanation or understanding of living things. This is because a process of exploration can only explore; it cannot fully dictate and can only partially constrain what type of thing will be found. What is found is constrained by other considerations, such as what is possible, and what can make sense. A brief critique of some of Richard Dawkins’ work is given, and also of the movement known as ‘Intelligent Design’. Education policy is well served by a fair appraisal of informed opinion in this area.

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Barlow, David H., Todd J. Farchione, Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Heather Murray Latin, Kristen K. Ellard, Jacqueline R. Bullis, Kate H. Bentley, Hannah T. Boettcher, and Clair Cassiello-Robbins. Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190685973.001.0001.

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The Unified Protocol (UP) for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: Therapist Guide is a treatment programv applicable to all anxiety and unipolar depressive disorders and potentially other disorders with strong emotional components (e.g., eating disorders, borderline personality disorder). The UP for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders addresses neuroticism by targeting the aversive, avoidant reactions to emotions that, while providing relief in the short term, increase the likelihood of future negative emotions and maintains disorder symptoms. The strategies included in this treatment are largely based on common principles found in existing empirically supported psychological treatments—namely, fostering mindful emotion awareness, reevaluating automatic cognitive appraisals, changing action tendencies associated with the disordered emotions, and utilizing emotion exposure procedures. The focus of these core skills has been adjusted to specifically address core negative responses to emotional experiences.

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Emond, Alan, ed. Health for all Children. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198788850.001.0001.

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This book provides an evidence-based review of the child health programme (CHP) in the UK, for children from pregnancy to the age of 7 years. The book takes account of different government policies and different models of delivery of the CHP in the four UK administrations. It utilizes research from all over the world, but references the evidence to UK policy and practice. The aim is to summarize evidence about ‘why’ and ‘what works’ in health promotion and health surveillance with children and families, and where possible give guidance on ‘how’ to implement and quality assure a programme—but it does not conclude on ‘who’ should provide the service. The review starts in pregnancy, and considers evidence of how environmental exposures and maternal stress during pregnancy affect the developing fetus, and summarizes evidence of effectiveness for interventions during pregnancy and the perinatal period. The growing body of evidence for effectiveness in health promotion and primary prevention is appraised, and recommendations made to support services based on the principle of proportionate universalism. Evidence supporting secondary prevention, screening, and case identification through opportunistic surveillance is reviewed, together with the arguments for delivery of enhanced support to families with extra assessed needs and targeted services for families with specific risk factors. To conclude, evidence-based recommendations are made for the organization and quality assurance of the CHP, and areas highlighted where more research evidence is needed to support practice. Learning links to online training and resources are provided for each chapter.

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Brunner, Ronald D., and Amanda H. Lynch. Adaptive Governance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.601.

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Adaptive governance is defined by a focus on decentralized decision-making structures and procedurally rational policy, supported by intensive natural and social science. Decentralized decision-making structures allow a large, complex problem like global climate change to be factored into many smaller problems, each more tractable for policy and scientific purposes. Many smaller problems can be addressed separately and concurrently by smaller communities. Procedurally rational policy in each community is an adaptation to profound uncertainties, inherent in complex systems and cognitive constraints, that limit predictability. Hence planning to meet projected targets and timetables is secondary to continuing appraisal of incremental steps toward long-term goals: What has and hasn’t worked compared to a historical baseline, and why? Each step in such trial-and-error processes depends on politics to balance, if not integrate, the interests of multiple participants to advance their common interest—the point of governance in a free society. Intensive science recognizes that each community is unique because the interests, interactions, and environmental responses of its participants are multiple and coevolve. Hence, inquiry focuses on case studies of particular contexts considered comprehensively and in some detail.Varieties of adaptive governance emerged in response to the limitations of scientific management, the dominant pattern of governance in the 20th century. In scientific management, central authorities sought technically rational policies supported by predictive science to rise above politics and thereby realize policy goals more efficiently from the top down. This approach was manifest in the framing of climate change as an “irreducibly global” problem in the years around 1990. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established to assess science for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The parties negotiated the Kyoto Protocol that attempted to prescribe legally binding targets and timetables for national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But progress under the protocol fell far short of realizing the ultimate objective in Article 1 of the UNFCCC, “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.” As concentrations continued to increase, the COP recognized the limitations of this approach in Copenhagen in 2009 and authorized nationally determined contributions to greenhouse gas reductions in the Paris Agreement in 2015.Adaptive governance is a promising but underutilized approach to advancing common interests in response to climate impacts. The interests affected by climate, and their relative priorities, differ from one community to the next, but typically they include protecting life and limb, property and prosperity, other human artifacts, and ecosystem services, while minimizing costs. Adaptive governance is promising because some communities have made significant progress in reducing their losses and vulnerability to climate impacts in the course of advancing their common interests. In doing so, they provide field-tested models for similar communities to consider. Policies that have worked anywhere in a network tend to be diffused for possible adaptation elsewhere in that network. Policies that have worked consistently intensify and justify collective action from the bottom up to reallocate supporting resources from the top down. Researchers can help realize the potential of adaptive governance on larger scales by recognizing it as a complementary approach in climate policy—not a substitute for scientific management, the historical baseline.

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