background: improvement of medical education is necessary for meeting health care demands. participation of private practice physicians in ambulatory care training is an effective method for enhancing medical students' skills. purpose: this study was undertaken to determine clinical professors' views about participation of physicians with private office in ambulatory care training. methods: par...

in the french law, the properties of public entities and at the head of them, the properties of state are divided into public domain of public entities and private domain of public entities. the criterion of distinguishing of public properties of public entities is a procedural matter that has been taken from french doctrine, however the recent law of public entities ownership passed in 2006 ha...

BACKGROUND Policy initiatives to improve retention of the rural health workforce have relied primarily on evidence for rural doctors, most of whom practice under a private business model. Much of the literature for rural allied health (AH) workforce focuses on the public sector. The AH professions are diverse, with mixed public, private or combined practice settings. This study explores sector ...

he benefits of federal, state, local, and private partnerships that support National Park Service (NPS) planning have evolved rapidly in recent decades. For instance, park planning has been opened up to comprehensive public participation. This has not always been the case; historically Congress often designated new federal parks without eliciting much public comment. A more inclusive approach t...

Methods Retrospective analysis of the Latin America Sepsis Institute (LASI) database, from 2005 to 2014. Participation was voluntary. The implementation process was based on a multifaceted intervention including a local sepsis team, protocols, screening procedures, laboratory and antibiotics flowchart for emergency department (ED), wards and intensive care units (ICU), checklists, physicians an...

This article makes the case for greater collaboration and communication between scholars and practitioners of information communications technology (ICT) for development projects and for the use of multi-methodological, cross-disciplinary approaches to understand what will make for more successful endeavors in this important arena, the necessity of which is reflected in the widespread use of pu...

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The choice of investment strategy has a great impact on the performance of transport infrastructure. Positive projects such as the "Subway plus Property" model in Hong Kong have created sustainable financial profits for the public transport projects. Owing to a series of public debt and other constraints, public-private partnership (PPP) was introduced as an innovative investment model to addre...