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Evaluation Criteria for the Selection of Computer Mapping Systems

If an organization wants employees to know that pay reflects performance, compensation policy and practice must separate rewards for performance from other types of compensation rewards.

Does attention to pay satisfaction-employee perceived pay fairness— have dysfunctional consequences for organizations? The oldest and most persistent pay question—What is fair pay?-is reconsidered.

En el siglo XX las tasas de mortalidad han experimentado un pronunciado descenso en todo el mundo. Mientras las enfermedades transmisibles, que han cobrado el principal tributo en vidas humanas, han sido en gran parte dominadas, las afecciones entéricas y otras directamente relacionadas con las prácticas de saneamiento han seguido invariables. El mejoramiento del estado de salud en las naciones en desarrollo, especialmente en sectores rurales aislados, depende de la modificación de las normas de saneamiento. Esta modificación debe basarse en una conciencia de lo que son las normas y los valores relacionados con ellas. Se analizan las normas de saneamiento rural en tres países —la zona sudeste de Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico y la República Dominicana— sobre la base de un estudio en el cual se empleó esencialmente la misma forma de entrevistar a los individuos de las tres muestras. Se comparan las normas de saneamiento relativas a la fuente de abastecimiento de agua y al almacenamiento para uso familiar, así como la higiene personal y las pautas de eliminación de aguas residuales, basuras y otros desechos sólidos. Se examinan también ciertos valores con respecto a la actitud de la población.

The free movement of European citizens to live and work within the European Union (EU) is one of the fundamental pillars of the European single market. Recent EU legislation on the recognition of professional qualifications (to take effect January 2016) updates the framework within which doctors and others can migrate freely between EU member states to practise their profession. UK organisations lobbied extensively to change aspects of the original proposals, in particular those that threatened to 'water down' public protection in the interest of free movement. The legislation finally adopted significantly increases safeguards for patients and the public. The revised law covers the rules to be applied by regulators on (for example) assuring language competence, warning 'blacklists' of practitioners subject to sanctions, 'fast track' registration based on mutual recognition of professional qualifications, agreed minimum education and training requirements for mutual recognition, and encouragement of continuing professional development. Drafting of detailed secondary legislation is ongoing and poses opportunities and challenges for patient safety, quality of care and transparency.

The American health care reform initiatives of 2010 provide a unique opportunity to study the relationship between race, politics and social policy. Not only does the Affordable Care Act promise to reduce dire discrepancies in health conditions between blacks and whites; it is also a major accomplishment of America's first black President, and has been widely attributed as a presidential undertaking ("Obamacare"). Perhaps not coincidentally, "Obamacare" has been controversial, and it witnessed a much more profound resistance than similar proposals made by Presidents Nixon and Clinton. Observational and experimental studies have already suggested that racial prejudice may explain some of this phenomenon (Knowles et al 2009; Hetherington and Weiler 2009). Still, we do not know much about the specifics of this relationship, and no existing study has addressed the possibility that anti-Obama prejudice is confounded by a more generalized racial resentment, akin to the racially charged opinion associated with welfare policies such as food stamps and federal cash assistance. This paper uses a survey-embedded experiment to test the hypothesis that racial prejudice reduces support among whites for health care reform. Results indicate that white subjects, especially those who are politically independent, insured and wealthy, react negatively to health care legislation endorsed by a black politician. There is very little evidence that the race of the plan's beneficiaries has an effect on whites' reactions. In addition, whites express higher levels of specific concern, racial resentment and colorblindness when considering a plan endorsed by a black politician. In short, public opinion on health care reform is subject to the influence of multi-faceted and substantial racial prejudice, especially surrounding the race of the politician in charge.