OBJECTIVE To explore stakeholders' acceptance of criteria for setting priorities for the health care system in Uganda. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used. It was distributed to health workers, planners and administrators working in all levels of the Ugandan health care system. It was also distributed to members of the public. Participants were asked how strongly they agreed or...

the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. this article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

introduction mahmoodabad county is located at the coastal region of the country, and it is neighbor of coastal areas where are full of tourism and entertainment applications. this has led to intense development towards suburbs and human domiciles in this county. the 432-unit of mehr housing project in the mahmoodabad, mazandaran province, iran, is located at the 52° 11' to 52° 29' eas...

conclusion the use of ahp method can be promising for fostering the evaluation method and subsequently promotion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the radiology departments. the present model can fill in the gap in the accreditation system of the country’s hospitals in respect with ranking and comparing them considering the significance and value of each individual criteria and standard. a...

The water crisis in arid and semi-arid areas causes more integrated studies regarding the utilization of urban wastewater. In this research, the analytic hierarchy process was conducted in 2014 according to the relative weight of criteria resulted from a questionnaire and a primary normal matrix. The results showed that the criteria including the quality of wastewater and benefit per co...

background:   objective: to determine whether different diagnostic criteria of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) are suitable for iranian population.   materials and methods: prospective study was performed on 617 pregnant women. 1804 subjects referred for 50 g glucose challenge test (gct) between 24th and 28 th weeks of gestation. 617 women with abnormal gct (blood glucose ≥130 mg/dl) underw...

south pars oil operation activities in the south of boshehr province require settling new population in line with balancing relations among human, space and activity in this area it is necessary to organize and arrange population and shaping new residences for new population and these are unavoidable. under study area includes 5 counties, 11 villages and 5 cities this area reaches to dashtestan...

The fuzzy structured element (FSE) theory is a very useful toolfor dealing with fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)problems by transforming the criterion value vectors of eachalternative into the corresponding criterion function vectors. Inthis paper, some concepts related to function vectors are firstdefined, such as the inner product of two function vectors, thecosine of the included ...