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Cloud computing and trans-border law enforcement access to private sector data. Challenges to sovereignty, privacy and data protection. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert, Gertjan Boulet
The controversial PRISM programme has uncovered a global reality of trans-border law enforcement access to private sector data, triggered by cloud computing. Law enforcement agencies are indeed increasingly targeting foreign cloud computing service providers. This reality poses challenges to both state interests and individual rights, as it does not only disturb the relations between sovereign states, but also causes legal uncertainty for the ...

Trends, wealth inequalities and the role of the private sector in caesarean section in the Middle East and North Africa: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of population-based surveys Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Stephen J McCall, Aline Semaan, Noon Altijani, Charles Opondo, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends and variations of caesarean section by economic status and type of healthcare facility in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

METHODS: Secondary data analysis of nationally representative household surveys conducted between 2008-2020 across nine Arab countries in the MENA region. The study population was women aged 15-49 years with a live birth in the two years preceding the survey. ...

(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent

Pieter Leloup, Marc Cools
While the role of the public police in the law enforcement-public health (LEPH) nexus has received increased attention in recent years, much less is known about the involvement of private security actors in this field. However, understanding the new and shifting roles of private security companies in LEPH is vitally important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security industry witnessed increased demands for health-care related services ...

Goats or Wolves? Private Sector Managers in the Public Sector KU Leuven

Steven Van de Walle
Public administration reforms have propagated the use of private sector management skills in the public sector, and an increased openness to managers with a private sector background. This has created a debate between those who think private sector experience improves public institutions by bringing core managerial values such as results orientation, efficiency, or openness to innovation, and those who argue that private sector experience can ...

How much do the public sector and the private sector contribute to biopharmaceutical R&D? KU Leuven

Steven Simoens, Isabelle Huys
When examining the prices of new medicines, the question of how much the private and public sectors have contributed to their R&D is often raised. Contributions can be assessed in terms of the investment, authorship of publications, marketing authorizations and intellectual property rights associated with biopharmaceutical R&D. This review of the empirical evidence underlines the complementary and interwoven nature of the private and ...

Towards convergence of heritage accounting perspectives : the public sector and the private not-for-profit sector Universiteit Gent

Natalia Aversano, Johan Christiaens
Heritage assets (HAs) are important goods or properties that define a country’s culture, history, and identity. Public sector entities are the primary custodians of a nation’s heritage properties; however, many local museums and historic houses are managed by private not-for-profit (NFP) organisations that essentially act to conserve these heritage places. Through a documentary analysis, this chapter aims to investigate the points of convergence ...

Role of the private sector in childbirth care Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Lenka Benova, David MacLeod, Katharine Footman, Francesca L Cavallaro, Caroline A Lynch, Oona M R Campbell

OBJECTIVE: Maternal mortality rates have decreased globally but remain off track for Millennium Development Goals. Good-quality delivery care is one recognised strategy to address this gap. This study examines the role of the private (non-public) sector in providing delivery care and compares the equity and quality of the sectors.

METHODS: The most recent Demographic and Health Survey (2000-2013) for 57 countries was used to analyse ...

The role of the private sector in the provision of antenatal care Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Timothy Powell-Jackson, David MacLeod, Lenka Benova, Caroline A Lynch, Oona M R Campbell

OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of the private sector in the provision of antenatal care (ANC) across low- and middle-income countries.

METHODS: Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 46 countries (representing 2.6 billion people) on components of ANC given to 303 908 women aged 15-49 years for most recent birth were used. We identified 79 unique sources of care which were re-coded into home, public, private (commercial) and ...