National drinking water targets – trends and factors associated with target-setting

Target setting in additive models with preferences and interval data

Setting Targets for HIV: An Evaluation of Indicator Quality and Target Achievement in National Strategic Plans

BACKGROUND National Strategic Plans (NSPs) for HIV have become foundational documents that frame responses to HIV. Both Global Fund and PEPFAR require coordination with NSPs as a component of their operations. Despite the role of NSPs in country planning, no rigorous assessment of NSP targets and performance outcomes exists. We performed a quantitative analysis of the quality of NSP indicators ...

Setting national targets to improve occupational health.

This paper describes a national strategy to improve occupational health and a longitudinal view of a 15 year project undertaken in the UK, logging the key developments. The first results should become apparent in 2005. Progress will be reported.

Perceptional and Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Household Drinking Water Management Strategies in Rural Puerto Rico

Identifying which factors influence household water management can help policy makers target interventions to improve drinking water quality for communities that may not receive adequate water quality at the tap. We assessed which perceptional and socio-demographic factors are associated with household drinking water management strategies in rural Puerto Rico. Specifically, we examined which fa...

A Method for Target Setting with Share Data

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting is one of the important subjects since according to its resultsefficiency can be increased. An important issue to be currently discussed, is to set targetwhile considering share data. The...