Background and Objectives: Human resources is a key factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Lack of indicators and standard tools for monitoring and evaluating human resources may cause limitations in achieving these goals. This study was done to develop evaluation indicators of human resources in the health sector. Methods: The present study was carried out using the Delphi tech...

Due to the importance of decentralization and the development of university based curriculum, most decisions regarding the design, implementation, evaluation, modification, and review of curricula are made by universities. Since delegation of Implementation Circular Curriculum Revision to universities has changed a large part of the curricula, and since any changes may be difficult, the present...

Optimization of maintenance resources to maximize the system availability is a major concern in different manufacturing systems. Therefore, a lot of effort is put to construct optimization models to reach the maximum availability level and to reduce the costs of lack of availability. However, despite these efforts, data uncertainty in the real world problems was neglected in proposed models whi...

The rapid spread of COVID-19, lack of standard treatment, time constraints, and lack of resources are challenges around the world. Considering the importance of ethics in providing care to patients with emerging diseases, this study was conducted to explain the ethical challenges in care and treatment for patients with COVID-19. The present study was conducted by qualitative content analysis du...

The lack of renewable primary resources is one of the most serious challenges in recent decades. So under this circumstance, managers are looking for appropriate solutions for the optimal use of these resources to improve the efficiency of the under management units.  One of the most widely used techniques in finding the optimal resource is data envelopment analysis (DEA). So in this paper, in ...