Observations on Current Practices in Municipal District Health Administration

Observations on Malaria in Puri District, Orissa

[The voice of municipal administrators on access to health in management practices].

Universal access to health services is a challenge for municipal administration in a society that treats health as a commodity and gives preference to the individual consumer to the detriment of the citizen. This study sought to identify the social representations in the narrative of local health managers in a micro-region of southeast Brazil about access to health services. It consists of qual...

Municipal solid waste management in Tehran: current practices, opportunities and challenges.

Tehran, the capital city of Iran and a metropolis with a population of 8.2 million and containing 2.4 million households, generated 2,626,519 tons of solid waste in 2005. The present study is aimed at evaluating the generation, characteristics and management of solid waste in Tehran. Municipal solid waste comprises more than 97% of Tehran's solid waste, while three other types of solid waste co...

Financial Regulation in the United Kingdom:Historical Foundations and Current Practices

Financial markets have been developed rapidly in recent years. New and sophisticated financial tools have been the cause of these developments which need new controlling systems to prevent crisis. Most of industrial economies have reformed regulatory structure of their financial systems. This paper reviews the regulatory developments of UK in this regard and offers new regulations and ...

Education under the municipal administration in Pakistan

The elementary education system in Pakistan is fragmented into state controlled, municipal, and private education. The first is overcontrolled under the hierarchical structure, without any system of accountability or democratic control and is subject to political intervention. In urban areas, elementary education is totally left to the municipalities. Owing to their multi-purpose nature, lack o...