the fifth iranian national congress on the biology of addiction was held in 22-24 june 2011 in tehran university of medical sciences with over 100 valuable oral and poster presentations and over 300 participants. one of the main sessions of the congress was devoted to a national strategic planning and iranian drug control head quarter (dchq) introducing the first national executive road map on ...

purpose: to develop strategic planning for ophthalmology education in iran from 2008 to 2010. methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion was conducted during march, 2008 at the ophthalmic research center of shahid beheshti university. six to ten academic members of the ophthalmology department and other stakeholders participated in this study. strengths, weaknesses, oppor...

A pragmatic approach to strategic planning is presented for use by public and non-profit organizations. Benefits of the process are outlined and two examples of its application are presented-one involving a city government and the other a public health nursing service. Requirements for strategic planning success are discussed. Several conclusions are drawn, namely that: (7) strategic planning i...

Yigitcanlar, Tan and Velibeyoglu, Koray (2008) Knowledge-based strategic planning: harnessing (in)tangible assets of city-regions. Knowledge-based strategic planning: harnessing (in)tangible assets of city-regions Structured Abstract Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways of best managing city-regions' valuable tangible and intangible assets while pursuing a knowledge-based ...

Over the past decade, shifts in subsidized and affordable housing policy have led to a greater role for market dynamics and individual choice on the part of program participants and their new neighbors, and a greater awareness of the importance of neighborhood on family outcomes. Given these trends, there is an opportunity for innovative prescriptive planning models to assist in the design of p...

This study was an analysis of the effect of strategic planning on procurement of medicals in Uganda's regional referral hospitals (RRH's). Medicals were defined as essential medicines, medical devices and medical equipment. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has been carrying out strategic planning for the last 15 years via the Health Sector Strategic Plans. Their assumption was that strategic planni...

When easy and difficult items are mixed together, their reading aloud latencies become more homogeneous relative to their presentation in unmixed ("pure") conditions (Lupker, Brown, & Colombo, 1997). We report two experiments designed to investigate the nature of the mechanism that underlies this list composition, or blocking, effect. In Experiment 1, we replicated Lupker et al.'s (1997) blocki...

2 3 " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "-Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) " The only certainty is that everything is uncertain. "-Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) A riddle about decisions under uncertainty A minister of transport had to choose between two major railway designs, both of which had a v...

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...