PROBLEM India has the world's largest number of maternal deaths estimated at 117,000 per year. Past efforts to provide skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural areas have not succeeded because obstetricians are not willing to be posted in government hospitals at subdistrict level. APPROACH We have documented an innovative public-private partnership scheme between the Gov...

The integration between health and social care organisations in the UK is an acknowledged public policy problem. Despite government efforts at implementing ‘joined up thinking’, government have found this area frustratingly ‘policy resistant’. The focus of this paper is to look at the effect that integrated health and social care information systems can have on delayed discharging of elderly pa...

Digital library users have to deal with many separate services. This paper describes e orts in the United Kingdom to use OpenURL technology to provide `joined-up' services. The focus is on zetoc, a national electronic service, which enables users to nd references in a British Library bibliographic database. zetoc now uses OpenURL technology to provide routes to services, which might give users ...

1. The United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) has experienced 10 years of primary care budget holding in a variety of forms. 2. Half of all general practitioners had joined the GP fundholding scheme by 1997, and many others had joined broader GP commissioning groups, but fundholders controlled only about 20% of the budget for hospital and community health services. 3. Research on fundhold...

Yun-Chian Cheng, David J. Houck, JunMin L1u, Marc S. Meketon, Lev Slutsman, and Pyng Wang are in the Advanced Decision Support Systems Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Robert J. Vanderbei is a member of technical staff in the Mathematics of Networks and Systems Department at A'T&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Mr. Cheng joined the company in 1985 and ...

This article examines why and how the people of Simeulue realize food security during COVID-19 pandemic. research is important to reveal can pandemic a global community experiencing crisis in various aspects. The author uses Max Weber's theory social action explain have motivation achieve security. In contrast, Joined-up Government concept explains synergy between stakeholders realizing study q...

educational psychology has approved that children will become accountable if we let them to make their own decisions, and they will be grown up self-confidence if we trust them. according to the same matters, the article no.12 of children’s rights international convention suggests providing opportunities for children to be able to make decisions whether by themselves or their representatives. t...

Peripheral destinations in Egypt face public-private partnership (P3) response challenges during COVID-19. The proposed policies and solutions of governments seem inadequate reflect a lack agility. This constructivist grounded theory (GT) study aims to investigate businesses’ perceptions concerns that may affect reshaping the P3 strategies Egypt’s tourism-related government departments at Marsa...