This study was an analysis of the effect of strategic planning on procurement of medicals in Uganda's regional referral hospitals (RRH's). Medicals were defined as essential medicines, medical devices and medical equipment. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has been carrying out strategic planning for the last 15 years via the Health Sector Strategic Plans. Their assumption was that strategic planni...

(Fam Med 2006;38(5):314-5.) In my final presidential column, I’ll describe resources that family medicine teachers can use to meet the challenges ahead. We must not underestimate the urgency of our situation, nor our need to make strategic choices and act energetically. At the same time let’s remember—and draw upon—our full quiver of arrows. By “arrows” I mean habits of mind, action plans, and ...

Rhetorical acknowledgment of the value of human rights for the AIDS response continues, yet practical application of human rights principles to national efforts appears to be increasingly deficient. We assess the ways in which international and national strategic plans and other core documents take into account the commitments made by countries to uphold human rights in their efforts towards ac...

BACKGROUND Written action plans for asthma facilitate the early detection and treatment of an asthma exacerbation. Several versions of action plans have been published but the key components have not been determined. A study was undertaken to determine the impact of individual components of written action plans on asthma health outcomes. METHODS Randomised controlled trials (n=26) that evalua...

The present research aims to design strategic management model in technical and vocational training. The research has qualitative design and for data analysis and classification, thematic Analysis Method (Thematic Network) was applied. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts of the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization. The number of 13 participants were selec...

The adoption of the principles of sustainable development (SD) is increasingly seen as an important way to align the strategic plan of organizations with the specific objectives and procedures used for project execution. However, more research is still needed to identify how SD contributes to align the strategic plan of clients of the building sector with their short-term needs of construction ...

Maintenance strategy plays a very important role in all kind of manufacturing industries. Each maintenance strategy has their characteristics, importance and drawbacks. Performance of a machine depends on the type of maintenance strategies employed on it. Machines used in industries need proper maintenance because failure of machine may cause the production loss. Maintenance strategy may vary f...

The importance of maintenance has escalated significantly by the increasing of automation in manufacturing process. This condition switches traditional maintenance perspective of inevitable cost into the business competitive driver. Consequently, maintenance strategy and operation decision needs to be synchronized to business and manufacturing concerns. This paper shows the development of conce...

We study the impact of strategic commitment on cooperation in indefinitely repeated games of strategic substitutes (Cournot) and complements (Bertrand) using laboratory experiments. Overall, strategic commitment has no effect on cooperation with strategic substitutes and a negative one with strategic complements. In the absence of strong strategic commitment, we find more cooperation in the com...