regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...

The area of natural forest in Iran is approximately 12.4 million hectares, comprising 7.5%  of the total area of Iran. Forest management in the country was changed to the legislature after order of the Forest Nationalization Law in 1963. With  civilization development, pressure on forests was significantly increased. In the early  20th century a system of development planning began as a series ...

Nowadays, public–private partnership projects have become a standard for delivering public services in both developed and developing countries. In this paper, we are concerned with the analysis of private sector proposals and the selection of the private sector partner to whom to award the contract. To the best of our knowledge, this problem has not been addressed within a game theory framework...

During the first half of 1992 the threat of cholera to Trinidad and Tobago prompted a strong health education effort by public authorities and the private sector. To help assess the private sector effort, the cost of cholera-related advertisements and private announcements placed in the country's two leading newspapers during January-June 1992 were reviewed. The review indicated that an estimat...

In the present study, criteria and factors affecting the success of public-private partnership in urban construction projects was examined relying on the combined method (analytical and correlation). In the method, based on the literature and document review and subsequent utilizes a field study (case study, interviews with experts and distributed questionnaires) was an attempt to explore the r...

the current paper investigates non-contestable markets, and through discussing this concept and adopting an interdisciplinary approach investigates the interaction between this concept and the contestable markets. in this regard and from a positive point of view, the current paper aims to disuss the interaction of these two concepts. from a legal and normative point of view, we seek to highligh...

private healthcare services in vietnam are seen as a major part of the solution to the rapid increase in need and demand for healthcare services. formally recognized over 20 years ago, the private health services coexist with public services and are available all over the country. however, the scale and size of private sector is still small compared to the public sector and public acceptance an...