Environmental conflicts: Key issues and management implications

Personal health records: key adoption issues and implications for management

Electronic Personal Health Records (PHRs) has been perceived as the tool to empower consumers to become active decision-makers of their healthcare instead of leaving the decision to providers. However, there has been the lack of enthusiasm and adoption of PHRs. This paper examines the current healthcare climate and attempts to understand the major challenges associated with PHRs adoption. The p...

Key Issues In Knowledge Management

This is an article about key issues in Knowledge Management (KM). It is one person's view about some of the main issues dividing practitioners about how to pursue KM, comprehend it, and eventually realize its value. I cannot, of course, cover all of the main issues here. In fact, my view of what they are may not be shared by other writers in the field. Nevertheless, I hope to cover enough of th...

Osteoporosis: Key Issues in Management

Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass with micro architectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to enhance bone fragility. This increases the susceptibility to fracture. Osteoporosis is a major public health problem. Hip fractures are the most devastating consequence of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is essentially an asymptomatic disease. Medical evaluation includes complete...

Regional issues in environmental management

A new multi-objective mathematical model for hazardous waste management considering social and environmental issues

Hazardous waste management incorporates collection, separation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous wastes. In this paper, a new multi-objective mixed integer model is presented for hazardous waste collection problem. The model aims to minimize transportation and construction costs, and environmental and population risks in hazardous waste management systems. This model is applied in...