OBJECTIVE To understand how national and provincial tuberculosis programme managers in Pakistan perceive and engage with the Stop TB strategy, its strengths, weaknesses and their experience in its implementation. National and provincial tuberculosis programme managers play an important role in effective implementation of the Stop TB strategy. DESIGN A qualitative interview study was conducted...

Foreword Historically the disability and costs associated with mental health problems have been underestimated. This is particularly the case with anxiety disorders, the associated burden of disease now understood to be comparable to other major mental health conditions. Anxiety disorders impose a substantial cost on society and markedly compromise the quality of life for those affected. The Pr...

In this issue... Fundamental east-west synergies in electricity generation and transmission are waiting to be more fully exploited. Doing so would require provinces to rethink their electricity trading relationships with each other and with the United States.

as organization developed and the control area of management increased, assessment and control of organizational units became more essential for managers. usually managers try to assess the performance of units by defining and measuring varied indexes in operational department. also this method transforms some idea to managers, but doesn't attention to interrelationship between these index...

background: with the rapid development of health services, the progress of medical science and technology, and the improvement of materials research, the consumption of medical consumables (mcs) in medical activities has increased in recent years. however, owing to the lack of effective management methods and the complexity of mcs, there are several management problems including mc waste, low m...