MIND THE GAP European Conference in Aerospace Medicine

Health Policy and Management: In Praise of Political Science; Comment on “On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): Mind the Theory-Policy Practice Gap”

Health systems have entered a third era embracing whole systems thinking and posing complex policy and management challenges. Understanding how such systems work and agreeing what needs to be put in place to enable them to undergo effective and sustainable change are more pressing issues than ever for policy-makers. The theory-policy-practice-gap and its four dimensions, as articulated by Chini...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

The second International Conference on Holy Prophet Mohammad’s Tradition (Sireye Nabavi) in Medicine

The second International Conference on Holy Prophet Mohammad’s Tradition (Sireye Nabavi) in Medicine

On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): Mind the Theory-Policy-Practice Gap

We argue that the field of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. We highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...

Advances in Interfacing Production Systems with the Real World

August 1991 in Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-91). Nine papers were accepted for the proceedings, and six of them were discussed at the workshop. Real-time knowledge-based systems play a vital role in today’s industry. The application areas of such systems include aerospace, robotics, telecommunications, transp...