The absence of appropriate financial management competencies has impeded progress in advancing the field of public health finance. It also inhibits the ability to professionalize this sector of the workforce. Financial managers should play a critical role by providing information relevant to decision making. The lack of fundamental financial management knowledge and skills is a barrier to fulfi...

OBJECTIVE To longitudinally investigate financial capacity (FC) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Longitudinal study comparing FC in cognitively healthy adults and persons with moderate to severe TBI at time of acute hospitalization (Time 1) and at 6 months postinjury (Time 2). SETTING Inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit. PARTICIPANTS Twenty healthy adult controls and ...

The capacity to manage financial affairs is a fundamental aspect of individual autonomy in society and represents a cognitively complex set of knowledge and skills that are sadly particularly vulnerable to cognitive aging and

Tree methods are amongst the most popular numerical methods to price financial derivatives. They are mathematically speaking easy to understand and they do not require severe implmentation skills to obtain algorithms to price financial derivatives. Tree methods basically consist in approximating the diffusion process modeling the underlying asset price by a discrete random walk. In fact, the pr...

This study examined the impact of Human Resource (HR) practices (selection, training, compensation, and appraisal) and participation on the financial performance of U.S. petrochemical refineries. Survey results from HR and Operations respondents indicated that appraisal and training were significantly related to workforce skills and that training and compensation were marginally related to work...

Family Medicine residency programs must change substantially to prepare for new family physicians a model of practice for the 21st century. This article describes 10 essential skills that are part of a new model of family medicine and the educational changes and resources needed to obtain them. These skills include management of a population of patients, patient-centered care, personal medical ...