Continued critiques, evidence and newer reform trends have increasingly contested the use of market-centered models–the competition prescription–for urban public space maintenance as well other local services. This article adopts a contextualized contingency perspective on prescription questions status models in survey-based study current satisfaction with private providers for parks/greenspace...

Jose Pozo, EPIC's CTO, talks to Jimena García-Romeu, CEO of Alcyon Photonics, a provider photonic building blocks, PDKs and simulation software aid PIC design fabrication.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of the available information systems in decision-making process involving municipalities' health services, since technical scientific information is becoming an important tool for managers' decision-making both in the private and public sectors. METHODS Four case studies were undertaken in the state of Sao Paulo between 1998 and 2000. The municipalities included ...

OBJECTIVES Several studies have shown that a key determinant of successful health technology assessment (HTA) uptake is a clear, fair, and consistent decision-making process for the approval and introduction of health technologies. The aim of this study was to gauge healthcare providers' and managers' perceptions of local level decision making and determine whether these processes offer a condu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the involvement of stakeholders in the implementation of a local policy of integrative practices. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES Qualitative study conducted in the city of Recife, Northeastern Brazil. Data was collected from local health board records between 2004 and 2009, interviews with managers and key informants and focus groups with providers and users. The analysis was ...

The present study was conducted to clarify the direct effects of active listening (AL) training given to middle managers in a local government. Altogether, 345 middle managers participated in 13 AL training sessions over two years. We developed the Inventive Experiential Learning (IEL) method, and used it as the central training method in this study. To investigate how well the participants lea...