Clinical and public health management of conjunctivitis in the Israel Defense Forces

The Health Policy and Management (HPAM) Gap- From Diagnosis to Prescription: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Editorial comments--Staff procedure skills in management groups during exercises in disaster medicine.

1. Emergency and Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Health, Israel 2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3. Department of Health Systems Management, Head of Leon and Mathilda Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, BeerSheva, Israel 4. Center for Medical Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ...

Educational needs of disaster management committee members in Iranian public hospitals covered by medical universities for passive defense

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Managers and experts training is one of the areas of creation and development infrastructure of passive defense in health system organizations including hospitals. This study was conducted to assess the educational needs of disaster management committee members in Iranian public hospitals for passive defense. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted i...

Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria (A Granger Causality Approach) 1983-2012

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...

On Health Policy and Management (HPAM): Mind the Theory-Policy-Practice Gap

We argue that the field of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. We highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...