there are two ground approaches for explaining the type of administrative reforms in every country. the first approach searches creating factors of administrative reforms inside every country. but the second approach assigns diffusion of administrative reforms ties in countries to the international and global factors. relying on the second theoretical framework, this qualitative research tries ...

Purpose: Considering the importance of human resources in electronic government and emphasis on administrative health, the aim of this study was to designing the pattern of human resources development of electronic government with an administrative health approach. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and qu...

We consider the safety problem for Administrative RoleBased Access Control (ARBAC) policies, i.e. detecting whether sequences of administrative actions can result in policies by which a user can acquire permissions that may compromise some security goals. In particular, we are interested in sequences of safety problems generated by modifications (namely, adding/deleting an element to/from the s...

Health authorities in developing countries must often cope with rapid changes in the administrative, policy and socioeconomic contexts in which they work. Changes in this external environment have important implications for the roles that health planners can effectively play and the leverage they exercise throughout the system. This paper examines the challenges associated with reorienting mini...

The objective of this article is to clarify the extent and the conditions under which the European Dnion (ED) induces changes in the policy arrangements of its member states. For an accurate measurement of our dependent variable, we distinguish between ED-induced policy expansion and ED-induced policy dismantling. We argue that the extent to which European requirements lead to an expansion or d...

OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of administrative data in predicting in-hospital mortality for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS Patient data were obtained from the administrative databases on hospital discharge abstracts of the Italian region Emilia Romagna for the years 2000-2001. We used a multivariate logistic regression analysis to compare an ICD-9-CM r...

This research paper proposes a webgraph dynamics model for research institutes based on a webgraph constructed on a set of instants of time and “return back” through removal of multiple hyperlinks. Analysis of the dynamics model, conducted for the webgraph of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) using real data obtained from websites age determination, shows that emergence of new links for eac...

This paper considers the role of economic evaluation of helath care technologies in Australia and its relationship to policy and program decisions. Economid evaluation in relation to policy has been best developed in relation to drug subsidy decisions under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. A key to this successful use of economic analysis has been the availability of a well developed framewo...

This chapter’s objective is to reflect on existing and impending challenges to European Union (EU) public law from both a constitutional and an administrative angle. The background to such an overview is that the EU law has radically changed in the past decades. Next to several Treaty amendments enlarging the scope of EU policies, the EU has grown substantially in size. European administrative ...