The state of healthcare was the most urgent issue for the Polish government to deal with according to ** percent of respondents in 2020. Next on the list were the financial situation of pensioners and environmental pollution, with ** percent of respondents each.

November's Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical errors has sparked debate among US health policy makers as to the appropriate response to the problem. Proposals range from the implementation of nationwide mandatory reporting with public release of performance data to voluntary reporting and quality-assurance efforts that protect the confidentiality of error-related data. Any successful safety program will require a national effort to make significant investments in information technology infrastructure, and to provide an environment and education that enables providers to contribute to an active quality-improvement process.

In December 2024, 11 percent of survey respondents said that the most important problem facing the United States was the high cost of living and inflation. Another 20percent said that the government and poor leadership was the most serious concern for the nation.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the most important national issues in Sweden in 2017 according to respondents. ** percent of the respondents stated the level of immigration to be one of the most important problems facing Sweden, while only * percent stated "Sweden's infrastructure – roads, railways, bridges, public buildings, flood defences etc" to one of the most important national issues.

The AGRI National Project (ANP; https://research.ucalgary.ca/alberta-gambling-research-institute/research/national-gambling-study) provided an unparalleled opportunity for the investigation of how gambling in Canada had been impacted by COVID. While the ANP Online Panel was intended to capture Canada-wide gambling and problem gambling, while accounting for the inter-provincial variation in legal gambling provision, the ANP COVID Online Panel was designed to extend this examination to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic social and economic restrictions on gambling and problem gambling. To examine the impact of the pandemic on gambling in Canada, we extended the ANP Online Panel Study, conducting two additional data collection waves. This two-wave panel study was administered by Leger and re-recruited AGRI National Project Online Panel participants. As such, the ANP online panel follow-up survey data became the baseline data for this study. For the first wave of data collection, COVID Wave 1, recruitment from ANP Online Panel follow-up participants (n = 4707), was conducted expeditiously (May 14th – June 1st, 2020). Data collection began one month after the nation-wide ‘lockdown’ began and concluded while all of the provinces were still enforcing these widespread social and economic restrictions. A total of n = 3449 participants completed the COVID Wave 1 survey. Six-months later, the COVID Wave 2 recruitment began, and participants who had completed the COVID Wave 1 survey were invited to participate. The COVID Wave 2 data collection period took place between the 1st and 20th of December 2020, after the easement of nation-wide COVID restrictions. During this Wave 2 data collection period however, while the nation-wide lockdown was repealed, many provinces were still instituting some restrictions. Gambling venues for example, were open but reduced capacity to adhere to social distancing space requirements. Nonetheless, the COVID Wave 2 data collection was designed to determine what pandemic lockdown related changes were enduring. Furthermore, together with the ANP Online Panel follow-up data as a baseline, this study becomes an ABA design, with a large and stratified sample. COVID Wave 2 data, as an added benefit, provides the AGRI National Project with an appropriately timed third annual data collection. Additional information on sampling, retention, study variables, and survey questionnaires can be located in the accompanying user manual and codebooks. The manual and codebooks were created by Rokelle T. Shaw and Carrie A. Shaw.

ABSTRACT With the deepening of the national health program, the number of people participating in sports activities is increasing, and the problem of insufficient community sports resources is becoming more and more obvious. It is an effective way of solving the problem of injecting sports resources into the public service system of national fitness, but the process of integration of sports resources and public national fitness service is not smooth. Through expert consultation and a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, this study analyzed the current situation of university sports resources into the public service system of national fitness, and collected the evaluation of social fitness personnel on the opening of university resources by means of a questionnaire combined with experts' opinions, using a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to transform subjective and fuzzy evaluation into objective and specific evaluation points. The research shows that the current level of university sports resources into the public service system of national fitness is low, which shows that the sports resources sharing policy under the national fitness has not been well implemented. The study proposes that the level of sharing of sports resources can be strengthened by the awareness of sharing of sports resources by university leaders and improving the management system. This study is expected to represent a reference for the university sports resources into the public service system of national fitness in the new era.

With the creation of the first drug court in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989, problem-solving courts emerged as an innovative effort to close the revolving door of recidivism. Designed to target the social and psychological problems underlying certain types of criminal behavior, the problem-solving model boasts a community-based, therapeutic approach. As a result of the anecdotal successes of early drug courts, states expanded the problem-solving court model by developing specialized courts or court dockets to address a number of social problems. Although the number and types of problem-solving courts has been expanding, the formal research and statistical information regarding the operations and models of these programs has not grown at the same rate. Multiple organizations have started mapping the variety of problem-solving courts in the county; however, a national catalogue of problem-solving court infrastructure is lacking. As evidence of this, different counts of problem-solving courts have been offered by different groups, and a likely part of the discrepancy lies in disagreements about how to define and identify a problem-solving court. What is known about problem-solving courts is therefore limited to evaluation or outcome analyses of specific court programs. In 2010, the Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded the National Center for State Courts a grant to develop accurate and reliable national statistics regarding problem-solving court operations, staffing, and participant characteristics. The NCSC, with assistance from the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), produced the resulting Census of Problem-Solving Courts which captures information on over 3,000 problem-solving courts that were operational in 2012.

The Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI) originated in 2000 as a Canadian interprovincial research initiative to develop and validate a new measure to identify problem gamblers in population health surveys. Since the CPGI was introduced, all Canadian provinces and many jurisdictions in other countries have relied on this measure to estimate the prevalence of problem gambling in general and special populations. In 2007, the OPGRC carried out the process of soliciting researchers for data that were collected using the CPGI instrument in order to compile and harmonize data into one large dataset. This is a cross-national and cross sectional dataset (n=21,374) compiled from seven major prevalence studies of Canadian adults (18 or older) residing in the Canadian provinces. It includes 2191 variables with information on gambling activities, gambling behaviours, adverse consequences related to gambling, and problem gambling correlates. Selected variables were harmonized to facilitate cross national comparisons. Included in this concatenated dataset are the following individual problem gambling prevalence studies: National Validation Study 2001, Alberta 2002, British Columbia 2003, Manitoba 2002, Ontario 2001, Ontario 2005, and Newfoundland and Labrador 2005. Please see the Data Source section below for the citations and direct links to the individual datasets comprising this consolidated dataset.

The AGRI National Project (ANP) was a three-year longitudinal study conducted by a multi-institute research team based at the Alberta Gambling Research Institute (AGRI). The aim of the study was to capture a national-wide picture of gambling and problem gambling in Canada. The ANP had ten research objectives. The Online Panel Study was one of three parts of the ANP and was central to many of the ten objectives. The aims of the study included but was not limited to: Determine provincial and demographic differences in gambling and problem gambling; Determine the prevalence of online gambling; and Determine the use of and perceived effectiveness of harm minimization initiatives in preventing problem gambling. The Online Panel Study collected data on several gambling-specific aspects of the responders' lives. The data contains gambling-specific information including: Demographics; Gambling attitudes and beliefs in gambling fallacies; Gambling participation; and Family history of problem gambling; In addition to gambling-specific data, the Online Panel Study contains general data variables including: Psychological factors (personality, mental health); and Comorbid factors (behavioural addictions, substance use, PTSD) A sample of 10,199 participants were recruited from each province of Canada. Participants were recruited through the Leger Opinion's registered pool of online participants. The LEO participant pool is structured to be demographically and geographically representative of the Canadian adult (18 years and older) population. Of the initial 10,199 participants, 4,707 participated in the follow-up survey. LEO registered participants were sent an email asking if they participated in gambling activities once per month. Participants who did gamble and consented to participating in the study were directed to an online survey. The baseline data was collected between August 2018 and October 2018. The follow-up data was collected between August 2019 and November 2019. Additional information on sampling, retention, study variables, and survey questionnaires can be located in the accompanying user manual and codebooks. The manual and codebooks were created by Dr. Carrie A. Shaw (née Leonard)

This study constituted a systematic national assessment of local law enforcement perceptions of the distribution of gang and gang-like problems in large cities in the United States, law enforcement reactions to gangs, and their policies toward gang problems. One purpose of the study was to examine changes in law enforcement perceptions of the U.S. gang problem that have occurred since NATIONAL YOUTH GANG INTERVENTION AND SUPPRESSION SURVEY, 1980-1987 (ICPSR 9792) was undertaken. The overall goal was to obtain as "conservative" as possible an estimate of the magnitude of the gang problem in the United States as reflected by the official reaction, record-keeping, and reporting of local law enforcement agencies. The agencies were asked to refer the interviewer to the individual representative of the agency who could provide the most information about the agency's processing of information on gangs and other youth-based groups engaged in criminal activity. To obtain each law enforcement agency's official, not personal, perspective on gang problems, anonymity was intentionally avoided. Each respondent was first asked whether the respondent's agency officially identified a "gang problem" within their jurisdiction. Gangs were defined for this study as groups involving youths engaging in criminal activity. Respondents were then asked if their department officially recognized the presence of other kinds of organized groups that engaged in criminal activity and involved youths and that might be identified by their department as crews, posses, or some other designation. Based on affirmative answers to questions on the officially recognized presence of gangs and the kinds of record-keeping employed by their departments, agencies were sent customized questionnaire packets asking for specifics on only those aspects of the gang problem that their representative had reported the agency kept information on. Variables include city name, state, ZIP code, whether the city participated in National Youth Gang Intervention and Suppression Survey, 1980-1987, and, if so, if the city reported a gang problem. Data on gangs include the number of homicides and other violent, property, drug-related, and vice offenses attributed to youth gangs and female gangs, total number of gang incidents, gangs, gang members, female gang members, and gangs comprised only of females for 1991, number of juvenile gang-related incidents and adult gang-related incidents in 1991, number of drive-by shootings involving gang members or female gang members in 1991, and numbers or percent estimates of gang members by ethnic groups for 1990 and 1991. Respondents also indicated whether various strategies for combating gang problems had been attempted by the department, and if so, how effective each of the crime prevention measures were.

The number of lower-division (LD) and upper-division (UD) course sections, courses, course-instructor pairs, and departments as well as the respective summary statistics for racial opportunity gaps.

This report compares state-level mental health prevalence estimates generated from the 2008 to 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) with estimates of similar measures from the 2006 to 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). It also describes the methodologies of these two surveys, such as survey mode and questionnaire design, and discusses how methodological differences may have contributed to differences in estimates.

Summary of the academic performance of PEERs and non-PEERs for Instructor J across 5 sections of the same course.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the most important national issues in Norway in 2017 according to respondents. ** percent of the respondents stated the level of immigration to be one of the most important problems facing Norway, while only ** percent stated "Norway's infrastructure – roads, railways, bridges, public buildings, flood defences etc" to one of the most important national issues.

Summary of the counts and proportion of students obtaining A and B grades versus C, D, and F grades for Instructor J across 5 sections of the same course.

This study focuses on various national issues. Topics addressed include issues and ratings, national sovereignty, health problems, worries, New Years's eve and Y2K, favorites in entertainment and sports. Demographic data include household composition, sex, age, education, presence of handicap among household members, ideology, income, Hispanic origin, race and number of telephone lines in the household.

description: During a December 1981 threats and conflicts survey, twenty-nine resource problems were identified for Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge. This plan summarizes current status and measures taken to address these problem areas, as well as limited changes in the original list. In some cases, specific problems as listed in the December 1981 report have been grouped; i.e. airborne chemicals such as sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxides. These are reported as a single problem area since any actions are on a collective basis.; abstract: During a December 1981 threats and conflicts survey, twenty-nine resource problems were identified for Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge. This plan summarizes current status and measures taken to address these problem areas, as well as limited changes in the original list. In some cases, specific problems as listed in the December 1981 report have been grouped; i.e. airborne chemicals such as sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxides. These are reported as a single problem area since any actions are on a collective basis.

A collection of data serving as documentation of Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Complex priority resources of concern.

Water and sediment was collected to assess the occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in National Park waters of the northern Colorado Plateau, USA. CEC presence in water and sediment is reported for 21 sites in eight U.S. national parks in the northern Colorado Plateau region. From 2012 to 2016, at least one PPCP and/or WWI was detected at most sites on over half of sampling visits, indicating that CECs are not uncommon even in isolated areas. Maximum concentrations in this study were generally below available water quality benchmarks, sediment quality guidelines, and concentrations known to induce biological activity in vitro. C occurrence patterns and similarities between continuous and isolated flow locations suggest that direct contamination from individual visitors may also occur. While the data indicate there is little aquatic health risk associated with CECs at our sites, results demonstrate the ubiquity of CECs on the landscape and a continued need for public outreach concerning resource-use ethics and the potential effects of upstream development. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Weissinger, R., B. Blackwell, K. Keteles, W. Battaglin, and P. Bradley. Bioactive contaminants of emerging concern in national park waters of the northern Colorado plateau, USA. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier BV, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 636: 910-918, (2018).

The national agenda—the subset of issues which national public opinion and policymakers regard as the country’s political priorities at the moment—changes over time and reflects a complex interaction between the public and political leaders, each influencing and responding to the other. For an issue to resonate on the national agenda, at least in matters of domestic affairs, public concern about objective conditions may serve as a condition of constraint and potential receptivity. To explore the dynamics of national agenda setting, I focus on the issue of national health care reform during the 1980s and 1990s—an issue that rose to the national agenda suddenly and dominated national politics for three years after a long period of quiescence during the previous decade. A number of studies have examined the politics of health care reform, but none systematically address the process by which health care reform emerged as a national priority in the first place. I explain how public concern about objective real-world conditions provided an important foundation for the issue’s rise to the na tional agenda but itself was insufficient during the decade preceding the issue’s rise. Public concern about health care problems, which were understood mainly as personal, not political problems, existed well before the issue’s sudden rise in 1991. Rather than educating the public through Downsian “alarmed discovery” of new information about health care problems, political leaders channeled the public’s existing concern about objective conditions and persuaded the public to attach new, distinctly political relevance to information it already possessed. Leadership built upon existing objective public concern about objective conditions, rather than building up public concern in any significant way. Leadership transformed the political character of health care by spurring the public to consider their personal experiences with health care, particularly their negative experiences, as politically relevant without changing its opinion about underlying conditions.