introduction: private health care providers (pps) considered a major gateway to the health services for tb (tuberculosis) patients. however, tb management practices by pps is inadequate. national tb program need to collaborate with private health care providers. this paper is aimed to provide a comprehensive management program for public private mix (ppm) in tb dots (directly observed treatment...

introduction: european foundation for quality management has designed the efqm model to determine the rate of organization development and excellence and construct ways to achieve organizational excellence. this model is used to compare the current situation of each organization with an ideal organization. the aim of this study was to determine the performance self-assessment scores in selected...

The philosophical underpinning of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) entails a collaborative partnership between academic researchers and the community. The Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model is the partnership model most widely discussed in the CEnR literature and is the primary model we draw upon in this discussion of the collaboration between academic researchers and the comm...

Choice mechanisms and social networks, including "marriage markets", seem well-suited to be modelled using agent-type simulations. Few real-world empirical examples are available in the public literature, particularly those using human populations of size. We reviewed partnership models in both the micro-simulation and agent-based literatures. We then empirically implemented an algorithm derive...

Ireland has been one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union or the OECD in the 1990s. This paper reviews the policy approach which underpins the country’s economic transformation, tracing the role of industrial policy, European integration, macroeconomic stabilization and social partnership. Despite the initial success of the outward-looking strategy, a combination of domestic f...

Our paper offers the first justification for the U.S. bankruptcy code, in which firms are not allowed to commit themselves ex-ante in their lending agreements either to (Chapter 7) liquidation or to (Chapter 11) reorganization in case of distress ex-post. If fire-sale liquidation imposes negative externalities on their peers, then firms can be collectively better off if they are all forced into...

Steele et al. (2005) describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. A multilevel multistate competing risks model is used to examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the di...