A policy perspective

Evaluating and revisiting the public government: a policy feedback perspective

Existing models of quality evaluation in public sector are mainly derived from the approaches within private sector. These models which represented by the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, don&rsquot reflect the fundamental values of public administration, which are the very essence of the discipline and contrasting it from private sector. These core values, such as democratic citizenship, ...

A policy perspective.

This paper analyzes credit risk for residential mortgages. Estimates of the hazard of mortgage default are presented, based upon a large sample of conventional loans issued in the late 1970s. Mean returns are estimated, together with variances and covariances for various loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and geographic groups. These results are then used to analyze capital requirements for institution...

Policy PersPective

ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.11.58 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(6), 541–552 Summary This article revisits the roots of the clinical categorical concept of schizophrenia and its biopathogenetic model (‘dopaminergic model’), based on dopaminergic dysfunctioning in CNS, as conceived in the 1960s and 1970s. These clinical/biopathogenic concepts have been challenged by the dimen...

Pay for Performance: A Reflection on How a Global Perspective Could Enhance Policy and Research

Pay-for-performance (P4P) is the provision of financial incentives to healthcare providers based on pre-specified performance targets. P4P has been used as a policy tool to improve healthcare provision globally. However, researchers tend to cluster into those working on high or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with still limited knowledge exchange, potentially ...

QALYs and policy evaluation: a new perspective.