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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Sweden</title>
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   <title type="html">Measuring Consumer Preferences for Postal Services in Europe</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1140.html</id>
   <published>Jan 16, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 16, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">Different market segments have varying postal service needs, according to RAND Europe research conducted for the European Commission. All consumers value parcel services, reliability, and low levels of loss, but big businesses value letter services more than small or medium businesses or the public.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Low Fertility in Europe &#8212; Is There Still Reason to Worry?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/06/17.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, cultural, and economic factors more than individual policy interventions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Low Fertility in Europe &amp;mdash; Is There Still Reason to Worry?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1080.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, cultural, and economic factors more than individual policy interventions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Europe&apos;s demography: Are babies back? The recent recovery in EU period fertility due to older childbearing</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9566.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">An update to the RAND Europe 2004 study into the causes and consequences of low fertility in Europe analysing the latest data, reviewing recent literature, and examining the situation in Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK in depth.</summary>
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   <title type="html">How health systems make available information on service providers: Experience in seven countries</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR887.html</id>
   <published>Jan 31, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jan 31, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report reviews information systems that report on the quality or performance of providers of healthcare in seven countries to inform the use and further development of quality information systems in the English NHS.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Funding intensive care -- approaches in systems using diagnosis-related groups</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR792.html</id>
   <published>Mar 5, 2010</published>
   <updated>Mar 5, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report reviews approaches to funding intensive care in systems that use activity-based payment based on diagnosis-related groups to reimburse hospital care (Victoria/Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, US-Medicare).&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Convergence Without Diffusion? A Comparative Analysis of the Choice of Performance Indicators in Tax Administration and Social Security</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080032.html</id>
   <published>Nov 30, 2008</published>
   <updated>Nov 30, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">This article aims to contribute to the debate around how organizations could learn from the experience of others in designing performance indicators and management systems.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Health Research Evaluation Frameworks: An International Comparison</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR629.html</id>
   <published>Oct 3, 2008</published>
   <updated>Oct 3, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Provides an overview and comparison of international health research evaluation frameworks to consider what modifications might be needed to adapt such a framework for the Canadian context.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Implementation of new curriculum arrangements for 14-19 year olds: International comparisons</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR529.html</id>
   <published>May 1, 2008</published>
   <updated>May 1, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO) in the United Kingdom. presents results of a comparative study investigating the implementation of education programmes for 14-19 year olds in three countries: The Netherlands, Sweden, and Australia.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Health and Medical Research in Sweden: Observatory on Health Research Systems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB533.html</id>
   <published>Jan 27, 2008</published>
   <updated>Jan 27, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Provides an overview of health and medical research in Sweden. The report is part of a series of country-specific reports available from RAND Europe&amp;rsquo;s Observatory on Health Research Systems. The report describes the structure of Sweden&amp;rsquo;s health research system, the processes and performance of the Swedish health research system, and an outlook which considers current and emerging health research issues in Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The provision of neonatal services: Data for international comparisons</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR515.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Gathers information on the provision of neonatal services in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden and Australia. It was produced to support the National Audit Office&amp;rsquo;s Value for Money study of neonatal services in England. Therefore, the report aims to provide a compendium of relevant data to facilitate comparisons and benchmarking of neonatal services (organisation, statistics, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">International Benchmark of Fraud and Error in Social Security Systems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060723.html</id>
   <published>Jul 19, 2006</published>
   <updated>Jul 19, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presents the results of a benchmarking exercise investigating the issue of fraud and error in the social security systems of eight European and non-European countries.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Evidence Base for the Classification of Drugs: Addendum: International comparisons of drug control policies and systems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR362z1.html</id>
   <published>May 11, 2006</published>
   <updated>May 11, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This addendum provides selected additional information about drug use, strategy, punishment and treatment regimes, and drug education in the UK. It provides selected additional information on the USA, the Netherlands, and Sweden, to complement that already provided in the main report on drug education systems. The information provides an overview of the drug classification systems and the punishment and treatment regimes in place.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Use of Evidence in Illegal Drug Classification</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR362.html</id>
   <published>Mar 3, 2006</published>
   <updated>Mar 3, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Four case studies examine the scientific, medical and social harms caused by illegal drugs, and the issues surrounding the types of evidence used in classifying them.  The studies focus on drug policy making in the UK, with comparisons to the U.S., Netherlands, and Sweden. &lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Sweden&apos;s Varying Success in Offsetting Low Fertility: Assessing the Role of Policy in Sweden&apos;s Fluctuating Fertility Rates</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050014.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2004</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2004</updated>
   <summary type="html"></summary>
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   <title type="html">Network-Based Operations for the Swedish Defence Forces: An Assessment Methodology</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR119.html</id>
   <published>Dec 13, 2004</published>
   <updated>Dec 13, 2004</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Presents a methodology to help the Swedish Ministry of Defence assess costs and benefits of architectures for network-based operations as the Swedish Defence Forces are reoriented to a wider suite of missions than homeland defence, including operations far from Sweden. Offers criteria for certain network measures and metrics for those measures, and relates those metrics broadly to interaction categories that support identification of common subnetworks and analogous systems/components in the cost-estimation process.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Study on Ideas on a New National Freight Model System for Sweden</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1663.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2002</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report describes the outcomes of an idea study on a new national freight transport model system for Sweden. The objective of the study is to provide state-of-the-art ideas that are consistent and innovative on a conceptual framework for policy orientated analyses and modelling of freight transport in a Swedish context. The new Swedish freight transport model system, that should succeed the present SAMGODS model, should cover all modes (road, rail, air, maritime) and geographic levels (international, national, regional). Furthermore, it should be able to provide medium and long run forecasts (certainly including 10-25 years ahead), and be capable of being used to assess transport policy measures and to evaluate infrastructure projects.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Low Cholesterol and Violent Crime</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000036.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Adjusting for other factors, low cholesterol is associated with increased subsequent criminal violence.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Appropriateness of Referral of Coronary Angiography Patients in Sweden</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990503.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;To evaluate the appropriateness of referral following coronary angiography in Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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