Analysis of Strategic Management and its Impact in Aviation Industry with Special Reference to Oman Air, Sultanate of Oman

Sultanate of Oman: building a dental workforce

BACKGROUND A medium- and long-term perspective is required in human resource development to ensure that future needs and demands for oral healthcare are met by the most appropriate health professionals. This paper presents a case study of the Sultanate of Oman, one of the Gulf States with a current population of 3.8 million, which has initiated dental training through the creation of a dental c...

The prevalence and causes of blindness in the Sultanate of Oman: the Oman Eye Study (OES).

AIMS To estimate the magnitude and the causes of blindness through a community based nationwide survey in Oman. This was conducted in 1996-7. METHODS A stratified cluster random sampling procedure was used to select 12 400 people. The WHO/PBD standardised survey methodology was used, with suitable adaptation. The major causes of blindness were identified among those found blind. RESULTS A t...

Country Progress Report Sultanate of Oman

Barriers to Developing ‘leadership’ in the Sultanate of Oman

Very little is understood about the applicability of the concept of leadership in the Arab Gulf States in general, and the Sultanate of Oman in particular. This article considers the unique context of Oman to produce an interpretation of leadership which stands outside mainstream leadership epistemologies. Thus, there is no explicit model or theory that could be usefully tested in the Omani con...

The Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Life Expectancy for Sultanate of Oman: An Empirical Analysis

This paper has investigated the impact of food production, school enrollment, inflation, population growth, per capita income and CO2 emissions on life expectancy for Sultanate of Oman. Time series data is used from 1970 to 2012. For examining the cointegration among the variables Autoregressive distributed (ARDL) lag approach is used. The estimated results reveal that food production, school e...