1. Unified Beneficiaries Database In 2003, a unified Beneficiaries Database was created, including beneficiaries of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Civil Servants Cooperative (CSC), Army, Internal Security Forces (ISF), General Security Forces (GSF) and State Security Forces (SSF). The unification of beneficiaries information implied that doublecovera...

Scientists, public servants, and patient advocates alike increasingly question the validity of published scientific results, endangering the public's acceptance of science. Here, I argue that emerging flaws in the integrity of the peer review system are largely responsible. Distortions in peer review are driven by economic forces and enabled by a lack of accountability of journals, editors, and...

Public servants’ mental health can impact how, how well, and to whom services are delivered. In this article, we extend the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) framework consider whether employees’ perceptions of themselves, their co-workers, beneficiaries predict higher psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic. Through a survey state local public servants ( n = 3,341), report alarming rates di...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the magnitude and contributory factors of socioeconomic differentials in mortality in a cohort of Korean male civil servants. DESIGN A prospective observational study of male civil servants followed up for five years after baseline measurement. SETTING All civil service offices in Korea. PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS The study wa...

INTRODUCTION Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of adult mortality globally, accounting for 63% of all deaths in 2008 with nearly 80% of those deaths occurring in developing countries. These NCDs which include hypertension and obesity alongside their complications accounted for 27% of all deaths in Nigeria, in 2008. We conducted a study among Kaduna State civil servants to det...

This study examined the effect of civil servants’ Self-Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR) and network literacy on their online learning effectiveness in a web-based training program. Participants were 283 civil servants enrolled in an asynchronous online learning program through an e-learning portal provided by the Regional Civil Service Development Institute in Taiwan. Data were collected via ...

School teaching is regarded as a stressful occupation. The present study aimed to compare the likelihood of having minor psychiatric disorders (MPD) among school teachers with that among civil servants, and to investigate what factors were specifically associated with MPD in teachers. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey of 403 teachers employed at state schools and 611 civil servants as a...

Abstract This article systematically examines how access of business groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to the executive branch European Union varies across political heads, civil servants, an understudied yet critical intermediary figure branch: advisers. Building upon exchange theory, we argue that occurrence a meeting between public officials interest depends on information legi...

Welcome to the final installment of our series covering the new CORBA Portable Object Adapter (POA) specification. The POA allows servers to (1) generate and interpret object references, (2) activate and deactivate servants, (3) demultiplex requests to map object references onto their corresponding servants, and (4) collaborate with the automaticallygenerated IDL skeletons to invoke operations ...

Events in the building industry in Nigeria in the last decade show the important role the private sector played in housingfinance. With the advent of the public-private partnership concept in almost every sector of the socio-economic spheresof the nation, the role of the private sector in housing finance cannot be over-emphasized. This paper clearly states thatthe low-income public servants do ...