The International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. The challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...

Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of maintaining product inventories in the face of unpredictable demand and stochastic factory output makes standard scheduling models, such as job-shop, inadequate. Currently applied algorithms, such as simulated anneali...

background: the aim of this study was to analyze the effects of thoron and thermal treatment for aging-related diseases in humans. materials and methods: all subjects inhaled thoron with a high concentration (about 4900 bq/m3) for 2 weeks. blood pressures were measured and blood samples were collected after each treatment 1, 2 and 3 weeks after the first treatment. results: the α-atrial natriur...

Article history: Received 18 November 2011 Received in revised form 16 June 2012 Accepted 16 July 2012 Available online 21 July 2012 This paper analyzes the effect of health investment, and hence of health capital, on physical capital accumulation and long-run economic growth in an extended Ramsey model with an Arrow– Romer production function and a Grossman (1972) utility function. The paper c...

background: optimal allocation of resources commensurate with performance improvement is the concerns of all countries including iran. estimation hospitals production function is important in the economic management of hospitals. objective: the aim of this study was to estimate the production function of iranian selected public hospitals as well as analyze the economic behavior in use of hospit...

wind power has been widely considered in recent years as an available and a clean renewable energy source. the cost of wind energy production is currently the main issue, and increasing the size of wind turbines can reduce wind energy production costs. hence, megawatt wind turbines are being rapidly developed in recent years. in this paper, an aerodynamic analysis of the nrel 5mw turbine is car...

productivity shocks are one of the most important factors that influence the firms ‘ decisions on he optimal consumption of production inputs. unobservable productivity shocks create selection and simultaneity problems causing biased estimates of production function by ordinary least squares. however, to estimate coefficients associated with production function by levinsohn and petrin technique...

To calculate partial and total productivity of production factors in broiler farms in Yazd province, 72 manufacturing units were selected based on simple random sampling method and their information and statistics were collected for one production period in the second half of 2013. To measure productivity, the Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated using classic and fuzzy regression met...