governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. richard saltman and antonio duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

implementation of the risk management concepts into construction practice may enhance the performance of project by taking appropriate response actions against identified risks. this research proposes a multi-criteria group decision making approach for the evaluation of different alternative response scenarios. to take into account the uncertainties inherent in evaluation process, fuzzy logic i...

this is a cross sectional study with aim of assessment and comparison between parents and female adolescents ' attitudes about the role of peers in decision making of adolescent in tehran. in this study 160 mother, 160 father and 160 female adolescents participated. with random selection 160 female adolescent with 14-19 years old from north, south , east and west of tehran were selected an...

introduction: customer satisfaction has been suggested as one of the interesting and challenging issues of management in the new millennium. in addition, oral and dental health and the quality of the services the health centers delivered to the patients directly affect the customer satisfaction. therefore, the present study aimed to identify, investigate, and rank the factors affecting the cust...

results all the frames that were examined leaded to significant framing effects: when the asia disease problem was described in a positive frame, the participants preferred the conservative frame than the risky one, while if in a negative frame, the preference reversed (p < 0.01). if the drug effect was described as “of 100 patients taking this kind of medicine, 70 patients became better”, peop...

Two complementary stances toward mathematics are illuminated in this chapter; the sense-making stance on one hand, and making-sense as a stance, other. By juxtaposing these two different stances, issues curriculum reform discussed referring to math wars United States. Based experiences writing Common Core State Standards Mathematics, chapter argues for importance of co-ordinating well difficult...