In recent years calls for evidence-based practice are being made emphatically in the nursing literature worldwide. Yet, the underlying construct, which relates to use of scientifically-based knowledge and research to practice, has been with us for a long time. This analytic paper provides an overview of research utilization models developed and used in nursing and other fields, highlighting som...

Latin American countries (among many others) face tremendous social problems. A strategy to address those problems is the key challenge for these polities. At this point, there is no shortage of (reasonably sound) technical advice on these matters by international organizations and other actors, yet progress is quite limited in many cases. Most recently, attention has turned to the role of inst...

public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

this paper examines the usefulness of the auditing organization for the auditing profession from the point of view of the scientific board members of accounting groups of public universities, master of science courses and ph.d. students of accounting at public universities, financial managers of active companies in the tehran stock exchange and the mangers of private auditing institutes. the re...

The preceding chapter set out a brief chronology of the SARS outbreak as it affected Canada. The SARS experience illustrated a variety of issues, some to do with the health services system, but many others to do with public health and the interface between public health and clinical care. Except in cases of sudden threats to the health of communities such as Walkerton, North Battleford, or SARS...