Public policy strategies impact on population health by acting on the effectiveness, availability and distribution of the social determinants of health. Reducing obesity and promoting healthy weight is a key focus of governments, health promoters and researchers, and can benefit from a systems approach with 'upstream' policy action beyond the health sector. Although the literature identifies ma...

In the biomedical sciences, there is need to generate solutions for Africa's health and economic problems through the impact of university research. To guide organizational transformation, the author here presents some aspects of the state-of-the-arts of biomedical science research in advanced countries using a perspective derived from the FASEB journal publications. The author examines the thi...

Studies of hospital efficiency seldom lead to changes in practice, partly because recommendations are unspecific or results are not seen as robust. We describe a method to compare hospital costs that utilises patient-level data. We perform a two-stage analysis in which we first consider factors that explain costs among patients and then across hospital departments. We illustrate our approach by...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine developmental trends in healthcare organisation management practice and improvement work. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Primary healthcare centre (n = 1,031) and clinical hospital department (n = 1,542) managers were surveyed in spring 2007 (response rate 46 per cent). This article compares results from this survey with a study in 2003...

Eٍnterprise Geographical Information Systems (EGISs) provide municipal governments with extraordinary quantitative and qualitative benefits. A municipal EGIS consists of technology, personnel, and other resources to create, maintain, visualize, search, and share geospatial data and services. At a minimum, the municipal EGIS provides these capabilities to all departments of the municipality. Usua...

OBJECTIVES To describe changes in the organizational structure of state health-related departments/agencies between 1990 and 2009; to identify factors associated with key organizational structures; and to investigate their relationship with different resource allocations across health policy areas, as represented by state budgets. DESIGN Original data collection on the organization of state h...

E-government has been considered as one approach for changing the face of government in the eyes of the citizenry. Therefore, citizens’ socialization in relation to their engagement with e-government should be explored. This study argues that citizens played a significant role in determining the success of an e-government project in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan. This paper aims to provi...

The first part of this article outlines two complementary approaches to enhancing administrative justice. Internal mechanisms, which can be put into place by government departments and public bodies themselves, are contrasted with external mechanisms, which result in the imposition on government departments and public bodies of principles enunciated by courts, tribunals, and ombudsmen. Lawyers ...

Based on the basic problems such as motivation of quality and safety management control agricultural supermarket docking supply chain, this paper studies game behavior three parties involved in professional cooperatives, large chain supermarkets government regulatory departments under influence participation. To build a three-party evolutionary model for with participation government, goal is t...

Femicide in Peru is a problem that affects each of its departments, some to greater extent. Departments such as Madre de Dios and others the south country (such Tacna, Arequipa, Ayacucho or Moquegua) have consistently highest rates femicide recent years. This situation could be showing favorable conditions for femicides specific geographic areas part general promote higher intentional homicides...