An e-message system is one of the promising communication tools for fostering better collaboration between hospitals and municipal-based homecare services. However, hospital care is often confronted with patients that need a myriad of services after discharge, of which municipal homecare is only one. We conducted a qualitative interview study to examine hospital health professionals’ experience...

The article examines the essence and features of interests a member territorial community as consumer municipal services, clarifying public interest community, well providing characteristics services outlining specifics status local governments in formation maintenance such status. notion is defined: it that reflects aspirations, needs, motives, goals ideas about welfare human community. self- ...

OBJECTIVE to assess the predictive validity of the Manchester Triage System implemented in a municipal hospital in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. METHOD cohort prospective and analytical study. The sample of 300 patients was stratified by color groups. The outcome measured was the scores, obtained by patients in each classification group in the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System--28, 24 hou...

In Spain, the water supply service is a municipal responsibility and in general sector without competitors. For this reason, an efficiency analysis attains greater significance. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate of different urban utilities. An extensive data search, where several variables such as capital expenditure, cost material, or labor have been recorded, has al...

Given the increasingly important role social networking services play as information sources during and after disasters, this study aims to investigate how the municipal governments of major U.S. cities and their emergency agencies employed RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom, webcasts, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and photo-sharing platforms for emergency management. Our findings reveal tha...

Municipal Experience with "Pay-As-You-Throw" Policies: Findings From a National Survey Based on a large, nationally representative sample of cities with recycling programs, this study examines whether a Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) pricing policy for solid waste collection and disposal service is an incentive for households to change their waste disposal and recycling behaviors. The study finds that...

. This paper discusses possible extensions of energy monitoring and control systems (EMCS) to a high level control for many buildings over a large area (large scale EMCS). Extensions of current EMCS approaches appear to be emerging technologies. lnitial awareness of possibilities for such extensions was generated as a resuIt of a study conducted on the effectiveness of EMCS used by the U.S. Arm...