In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

The Government of Poland (GoP) is currently engaged in reforming its higher educational institutional framework and sought World Bank assistance in assessing the quality of educational services at its higher education institutions (HEIs), specifically post-graduate courses and training. The World Bank prepared a study describing and comparing strategies followed by (largely) OECD countries in r...

Higher education policy has been subject to considerable reform in OECD states over the past two decades. Some states have introduced tuition fees for the first time, others have massively increased public funding for higher education, and still others remain in stasis, retaining the elitist model with which they began the post-war era. This paper develops a formal model of the politics of high...

The impact of the existence and nature of multi-authorship on the visibility of research results is a relevant issue in the framework of the monitoring and evaluation of scientific performance. Multi-authorship involving researchers from different institutions is a growing trend typical of today’s social, economic and political development and an expression of the so-called “internationalizatio...

background: social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. in this study we tried to determine areas and sub-areas of children social health indicators.   methods: in a structured way, we reviewed the main social health databases and documents since 1995, both iranian and international were reviewed to develop conceptual framework and to extract indicators.   results: accor...