BACKGROUND Community participation in peripheral public health facilities has in many countries focused on including community representatives in Health Facility Management Committees (HFMCs). In Kenya, HFMC roles are being expanded with the phased implementation of the Health Sector Services Fund (HSSF). Under HSSF, HFMCs manage facility funds which are dispersed directly from central level in...

Facilities management is a new discipline, an exciting profession that embraces many essential areas of the built environment. The last two decades have witnessed a significant growth in the profession to the extent that there is the need to be clear on its roles both in the industry and organisation. This study looks at the role of facilities management in the procurement of a facility. It tri...

The elderly population in China is increasing rapidly. To meet elderly residents’ housing demand, Chinese government makes great efforts to build more elderly facilities. However, major challenges in the operation of these elderly facilities, such as low space utilization rate, poor accessibility, poor environment and so on, have being emerging. The critical reason for challenges can be conclud...

This paper presents a facility for definition and management of federated clusters of interrelated information. In a co-working environment, team members need to exchange information in order to coordinate their tasks execution, where typically the information is distributed over several cooperating autonomous systems. The co-working facility described in this paper supports the sharing and exc...

This article examines the current state of affairs of the health information management role in facility closure as well as the impact on revenue cycle operations. Health information management professionals are uniquely positioned to assist an organization in closure efforts because of their knowledge of revenue cycle operations, ability to work with the software products used to generate and ...

accident is one of the dangers that threated the child’s life. 85 percent of mortality in children in the world is related to accidents. lack of use seatbelt for children in raer seats is one of the major reasons of children mortality. unfortunately, in 70-75% cases, damage in children occurs in their face and head. also, the physical damage can lead to maim and death in children. on the other ...

Advances in sensor and tagging systems provide a way to capture the as-built history of a construction project to be utilized during facilities management. Recent developments in generating 3D environments using laser scanning technologies, and in acquiring quality information about built environments using embedded and other advanced sensors create an opportunity to explore the feasibility of ...

Building information modelling (BIM) provides architectural 3D visualization and a standardized way to share and exchange building information. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using BIM, not only for design and construction, but also the post-construction management of the built facility. With the emergence of smart built environment (SBE) technology, which embeds most spaces...

Background Utilization of antenatal care (ANC) services has increased over the past two decades. Continued gains in maternal and newborn health will require an understanding of both access and quality of ANC services. We linked health facility and household survey data to examine the quality of service provision for five ANC interventions across health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Method...