Medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. Support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). In the previous issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific region have been discussed (2). Perhaps, there is now an urg...

Recently, the role of doctors and managers in health care management has become a hot topic in the newspapers and public magazine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this paper is to contribute constructively and scientifically to this topical issue by emphasizing that commonality and interaction between medicine and management dictate more involvement of doctors in management. Although ...

OBJECTIVES To identify and assess the barriers that health authorities face as they manage quality improvements in general practice in the context of the NHS reforms. DESIGN Qualitative case study. SETTING Three UK health authorities: a rural health authority in the south west, a deprived inner city health authority in the north east, and an affluent suburban health authority in the south e...

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

globalization of economy and changes  in the world markets in decade of 1990 enhanced the role of management accounting in strategic management process. with the aid of management accounting concepts and techniques, the competitive edge of the manufacturing firms was improved to a large extent. in this article, the major functions and responsibilities of management accounting is described, rela...