ObjectivesResearch organisations experience challenges accessing administrative and record level data due to legislative privacy restrictions and ethical considerations. Ensuring that individuals’ ...privacy are preserved while maintaining the utility of data, raises legal, ethical and privacy challenges for researchers conducting epidemiological studies. The Partnership for Work, Health and Safety (Partnership), an innovative Canadian research platform, must operate in a data-rich environment using administrative data such as occupation health data to provide evidence for policy-making that can improve workers health and safety. In order to have access to multijurisdictional data, it operates under an effective data access model that meets legislative, privacy and ethical concerns via our data partner, Population Data BC (PopData).MethodsA flexible data access protocol has been developed accommodating a multi-legislative landscape. It is a centralised privacy and security model encompassing the Privacy by Design principles ensuring privacy controls and safeguards are in place to facilitate access to both linked and unlinked data and meet ethical concerns. These protocols meet ISO 27002 requirements for information security. Research data are housed in a Secure Research Environment (SRE) provided by PopData. The SRE is a central server accessible through a firewall only via an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) using a SecurID token for authentication. The SRE provides the Partnership with secure storage and back up of data while generating audit log of all activities of the SRE. Researchers accessing data must complete privacy training and sign confidentiality undertakings. ResultsA model that offers a comparable level of data protection to all data providers and consistent data protection practices through a secure environment resulting in over 9 Data Sharing Agreements executed to access longitudinal population-based data. ConclusionsData access requires a rigorous “Privacy by Design” data access and infrastructure model and strong partnerships with stakeholders and data providers.
The Practical Playbook Michener, J. Lloyd; Koo, Denise; Castrucci, Brian C ...
2015, 2015-10-02
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For the first time, The Practical Playbook offers professionals in primary care and public health a roadmap to integrating their work with the larger goals of population health. Drawing on the ...experiences of hundreds of public health and primary care professionals from across the US, The Practical Playbook is the new benchmark for primary care and public health practitioners working to improve population health.
The Critical Success Factors for Public–Private Partnership is a major research interest worldwide therefore this paper aims to methodically review studies on the CSFs for implementing PPP from some ...selected top tier academic journals from 1990 to 2013 (years inclusive). The search results indicated an increased research interest in the exploration of PPP CSFs since 1990. The mostly identified CSFs are risk allocation and sharing, strong private consortium, political support, community/public support and transparent procurement. It was further noticed that Australia, the U.K., China and Hong Kong have been the countries of focus for most research studies on PPP CSFs. Finally the research approaches adopted are case study, questionnaire survey and mixed methods. The findings revealed provide an overview of CSFs for PPPs in order to enhance future implementations. Moreover a checklist of CSFs for PPPs has been developed, which could be adopted for further empirical studies.
•The CSFs for implementing PPP projects is increasingly becoming important to both researchers and practitioners.•Papers on CSFs for PPPs from 1990 to 2013 were analyzed quantitatively.•The top key CSFs from literature from 1990 to 2013 have been identified.•Other insights such as active contributors, research origin and methods have been analyzed.•Research gaps and future research directions are highlighted.
The present study investigates the effect of public‐private partnership investment in energy and technological innovation on consumption‐based carbon emissions for China from 1990Q1‐2017Q2. This ...study employs generalized least square (GLS) based unit root test, Maki cointegration test, fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), canonical cointegration regression (CCR) and frequency domain causality test. The finding of this study shows that (a) the cointegrating relationship among public‐private partnership investment in energy, technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, exports, imports, and consumption‐based carbon emissions is proved; (b) exports, renewable energy consumption and technological innovation are helpful to lower consumption‐based carbon emissions; (c) both public‐private partnership investment in energy, GDP and imports leads to increased consumption‐based carbon emissions; (d) in the long term, public‐private partnership investment and technological innovation cause consumption‐based carbon emissions in China. This study recommends technological innovation for the cleaner production process and public‐private partnership investment in renewable energy.
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