Defining Public Will

Defining difficult public health facilities

Introduction In its efforts to strengthen the rural public health system, the National Rural Health Mission had to address the challenge of getting skilled health care providers to work in rural and remote areas. Learning from states, which had some measure of success with incentives for doctors in such areas, the central government decided to launch a scheme to provide these incentives to stat...

Defining Quality in Public Administration

Will Public Health England lead research?

2232 www.thelancet.com Vol 386 December 5, 2015 Between 1990 and 2013, mortality rates in southeast regions of England fell below those of 18 comparison countries, whereas mortality rates in Scotland and Northern Ireland remained higher than all comparison countries except the USA. This headline can be gleaned from today’s detailed report by Public Health England (PHE) and the Global Burden of ...

What will they say? – Public Announcement Games

Dynamic epistemic logic describes the possible information-changing actions available to individual agents, and their knowledge preand post conditions. For example, public announcement logic describes actions in the form of public, truthful announcements. However, little research so far has considered describing and analysing rational choice between such actions, i.e., predicting what rational ...

What will they say? - Public Announcement Games

Dynamic epistemic logics describe the epistemic consequences of actions. Public announcement logic, in particular, describe the consequences of public announcements. As such, these logics are descriptive – they describe what agents can do. In this paper we discuss what rational agents will or should do. We consider situations where each agent has a goal, a typically epistemic formula he or she ...