BACKGROUND In healthcare today, decisions are made in the face of serious resource constraints. Healthcare managers are struggling to provide high quality care, manage resources effectively, and meet changing patient needs. Healthcare managers who are constantly making difficult resource decisions desire a way to improve their priority setting processes. Despite the wealth of existing priority ...

BACKGROUND As no health system can afford to provide all possible services and treatments for the people it serves, each system must set priorities. Priority setting decision makers are increasingly involving the public in policy making. This study focuses on public engagement in a key priority setting context that plagues every health system around the world: wait list management. The purpose ...

Sanitizable signatures enable a designated party to modify signed documents in a controlled way, while the derived signature still verifies. In this paper, we introduce the notion of non-interactive and public accountability. It allows a third party to determine whether a message-signature pair was issued by the signer or the sanitizer. The original notion of accountability does not satisfy Eur...

Introduction Constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals and biologics spurred a debate in recent years leading to increasingly persistent public calls overhaul the existing system pricing distributing health technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed controversies current model access commodities all evidence when discrepancy between global supply demand technology can be viewed as an illustra...

of the full paper The possibility calculus is shown to be a reasonable belief representation in Cox's sense, even though possibility is formally different from probability. So-called "linear" possibility measures satisfy the equations which appear in Cox's Theorem. General possibility measures encode sets of linear measures, consistent with a method of belief representation based on sets which ...

introduction: in recent years, public universities have faced many socio-economic changes. on one hand, these universities are under the main influence of the independence resulted from article 49 of law of the fourth economic, social and cultural development plan of the islamic republic of iran, and on the other hand, they have undergone double pressure due to the alterations in the number of ...

The article examines the inadmissibility of waiving subjective right in criminal process Russia. Based on nature a right, participant proceedings is free to use it (he can both and refuse social benefit provided him), however, he may be limited this freedom. With help general scientific methods analysis synthesis, substantiates that impossibility person renounce his restriction right. authors c...

this paper examines the dimensions of accountability that the executive must fulfil in the islamic republic of iran and the role of accounting in meeting accountability obligations as they are at present. accountability continues to be interpreted, almost exclusively, in terms of the fiduciary stewardship of resources appropriated by parliament. public sector resource accounting information sys...