BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE As healthcare costs keep rising, cuts in reimbursement such as the Balanced Budget Act in the United States or global budgeting have become the key to healthcare reform efforts. Limited information is available, however, concerning whether reimbursement cuts are associated with changes in stroke outcomes. The objective of this study is to determine whether 30-day mortalit...

This study aims to produce empathic budgeting models that are built through the concept of altruism. With this model, regional budgets into a result social construction is full values, empowering, emancipatory, and dedicated welfare community. uses content analysis approach find out or explain community interests in Tana Toraja Regency. The results indicate that; (1) formulation vision mission ...

Background In 2010, the Ghana Health Service launched a program of cooperation with the Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare that was designed to adapt Tanzania's PLANREP budgeting and reporting tool to Ghana's primary health care program. The product of this collaboration is a system of budgeting, data visualization, and reporting that is known as the District Health Planning and Rep...

Active participation from all stakeholders in the budget process is one of the key issues to the integration of performance information with budgeting. While individual stakeholders’ participation is cited as important by various studies, participation pattern, that is, how they engage relative to each other in performance measurement, is less known. Empirical studies on participation patterns ...

A lack of concerted action on the part of local authorities and their citizens to respond to climate change is argued to arise partly from a poor relationship between the two. Meanwhile, local authorities could have a significant impact on community-wide levels of greenhouse gas emissions because of their influence over many other actors, but have had limited success with orthodox voluntary beh...

The economic life of large investments is long and thus necessitates constant dynamic managerial actions. To be able to act in an optimal way in the dynamic management of large investments managers need the support of advanced analytical tools. They need to have constant access to information about the real time situation of the investment, as well as, access to up-to-date information about cha...