There is a growing conviction among policy-makers that the availability of adequate numbers of well-trained and motivated human resources is a key determinant of health system' s capacity to achieve their health, responsiveness and fairness-improving goals. The objective of this study was to estimate the cost, effectiveness and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of various distance-education...

Investment, especially through merger and acquisition (M&A), is a leading topic of concern among health care managers. In addition, the implications of this activity for organization and market concentration are of great interest to policy makers. Using a sample of 2256 firm-year observations in the health care industry during the period from 1985 to 2011, this article provides novel evidence t...

Managers at tactical and operational levels in many organizations frequently encounter similar decision problems. Decisions taken by different managers for a given problem in an organization vary due to differences in their decision making styles and/or subjectivity. Discovering classes or categories of decision makers with similar decision making styles can contribute towards organizational le...

there are different methodes for performance evaluation of economic development plans and ranking them in comparison with each other. these methods are founded on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. however, real world events are based upon uncertainty and since quantitative methods, unlike their names, are not accurate enough, they do not seem to be efficient in qualitative decision-...

abstractabstract in this paper, the role and impact of the interest groups particularly protective internal one upon public policy making for business environment is studied through analytical comparative method. firstly, definition and different types of the interest groups are introduced in brief. interest groups in this articles refer to those kinds of groups which try to influence upon publ...

Resource managers often face significant information technology (IT) problems when integrating ecological or environmental information to make decisions. At a workshop sponsored by the NSF and USGS in December 2004, university researchers, natural resource managers, and information managers met to articulate IT problems facing ecology and environmental decision makers. Decision making IT proble...