the aim of this research is consider the importance of decision maker level of analysis in the study of foreign policy. this capability created by the regard to the role of man in foreign policy and international relations theories. however, the main research question is whether the decision maker level of analysis will be the theoretical support for the analysis of foreign policy and what are ...

a bstract background: nurses’ infl uence on health policy protects the quality of care by access to required recourses and opportunities.this is a new and important concept for nursing; however, research studies on policy infl uence of nurses in health care sector are lacking a basic conceptual understanding of what this concept represents. the aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of nur...

background despite the significant role “values” play in decision-making no definition or attributes regarding the concept have been provided in health policy-making. this study aimed to clarify the defining attributes of a concept of value and its irrelevant structures in health policy-making. we anticipate our findings will help reduce the semantic ambiguities associated with the use of “valu...

The need to strengthen the field of health policy and systems research has been widely recognized among public health research organizations. This is especially so in the case of Latin America and the Caribbean. Moreover, there is also an increasing interest in the development of new research models with greater capacity to influence policy agendas and health reforms. This publication argues th...

abstract comparative advantage is one of the important economic criterions in production, import and export programming. in this survey, existence and nonexistence of the most important vegetables(potato, cucumber and tomato) comparative advantage in jiroft aria in the year 1385-86 by use of two comparative advantage recognition indexes was determined. the first indexes were social cost benefit...

The article discusses the appropriation of the theory developed by Habermas to analyze health policies and management. The fundamental concepts of the discursive theory of democracy as a deliberative policy, procedural democracy, the public sphere and civil society are analyzed. An attempt is made to demonstrate that the concepts of deliberative policies are grounded on basic theoretical catego...

OBJECTIVES In this paper we focus on governance and the added value of regionalization in the context of health policy implementation. What are regional boards' patterns of action in the governance process?How do these patterns favour policy implementation? ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: To enhance our understanding of the role of regional boards in governance processes, we relied on four conceptual con...