Participatiesamenleving: de opkomst en neergang van een begrip

De Koning was in september 2013 nog niet uitgesproken of de participatiesamenleving werd enthousiast omarmd. Het enthousiasme duurde nog geen jaar. Toen duidelijk werd dat het verrekte ingewikkeld was om met minder geld meer mensen te helpen, boette het begrip razendsnel aan populariteit in. Wat rest, is de herinnering

Nationalisme is al lang weer doodgewoon

Er was de afgelopen jaren meer nationalisme in Nederland dan Wouter Beekers doet voorkomen in zijn essay, vindt Menno Hurenkamp. Zowel in het streven naar ‘nationaal gevoel’ als in wetgeving is nationalisme al lang weer doodgewoon

Vrijheid, onder andere een ideaal

Essay naar aanleiding van B. Snels en F. Halsema (2005) ‘Vrijheid als ideaal’, Amsterdam Boom, in Beleid en Maatschappij, nr 1 2006

Effectiveness and costs of implementation strategies to reduce acid suppressive drug prescriptions: a systematic review

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Evaluation of evidence for the effectiveness of implementation strategies aimed at reducing prescriptions for the use of acid suppressive drugs (ASD).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A systematic review of intervention studies with a design according to research quality criteria and outcomes related to the effect of reduction of ASD medication retrieved from Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library. Outcome measures were the strategy of intervention, quality of methodology and results of treatment to differences of ASD prescriptions and costs.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The intervention varied from a single passive method to multiple active interactions with GPs. Reports of study quality had shortcomings on subjects of data-analysis. Not all outcomes were calculated but if so rction of prescriptions varied from 8% up to 40% and the cost effectiveness was in some cases negative and in others positive. Few studies demonstrated good effects from the interventions to reduce ASD.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Poor quality of some studies is limiting the evidence for effective interventions. Also it is difficult to compare cost-effectiveness between studies. However, RCT studies demonstrate that active interventions are required to reduce ASD volume. Larger multi-intervention studies are necessary to evaluate the most successful intervention instruments.</p

Beyond crime statistics: the construction and application of a criminogenity monitor in Amsterdam

Criminologists have devoted a great deal of attention to risk factors - also called criminogenic factors - leading to criminal offending. This paper presents a criminogenity monitor which includes 19 risk factors that underlie crime. These factors do not themselves cause criminal behaviour; rather, they must be seen as signals that crimes may be committed. After discussing how the criminogenity monitor was constructed, we apply the risk factors we examined to the situation in Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands. The monitor is intended to function particularly as an instrument to rationalise policy-makers' work in targeting and preventing symptoms of crime at three geographical levels: the entire city, its boroughs and its neighbourhoods. © 2012 The Author(s)