This article discusses the legal structure of the municipal Health Councils in a Health County in the state of Sao Paulo comprising six municipalities. This descriptive and exploratory study was based on documental research according to federal laws for the creation, organization, structure and routine work of the health councils. Results were presented and discussed in categories. The health c...

The value of e-government, services to citizens by public institutions through the internet, is dependent on the mutual adoption of e-government by both the public institution and the citizens. This paper describes a longitudinal study of e-government adoption by municipalities and citizens in Denmark. We studied the e-government initiative Digital Post – encrypted digital communication between...

This research investigates the impact of a geographical position system (GPS) support tool on command and control in a crisis management organization. The organizations of interest are Swedish municipal crisis management organizations and their crisis management teams. The goal is to investigate differences in the work processes of teams that have access to a GPS in its command post, compared t...

This thesis addresses the main question of viability of a GIS in a developing country municipal setting and how such a system might support municipal development. It addresses three secondary questions that are crucial to any successful implementation of a GIS: 1) What institutional restructuring is required? 2) What are the relevant maps, databases, and informational procedures and how must th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the structural mechanisms that facilitate or counteract collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and other providers of municipal healthcare. Good collaboration between these actors is crucial for high-quality care, especially for persons in need of coordinated services. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study is based on semistructured intervi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the implantation and the effects of directly-observed treatment short course (DOTS) in primary health care units. METHODS Interviews were held with the staff of nine municipal health care units (MHU) that provided DOTS in Rio de Janeiro City, Southeastern Brazil, in 2004-2005. A dataset with records of all tuberculosis treatments beginning in 2004 in all municipal health...

The explosion of online user-generated content (UGC) and the development of big data analysis provide a new opportunity and challenge to understand and respond to public opinions in the G2C e-government context. To better understand semantic searching of public comments on an online platform for citizens’ opinions about urban affairs issues, this paper proposed an approach based on the latent D...