Commenting on a recent editorial in this journal which presented four challenges global health networks will have to tackle to be effective, this essay discusses why this type of analysis is important for global health scholars and practitioners, and why it is worth understanding and critically engaging with the complexities behind these challenges. Focusing on the topics of problem definition ...

It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...

Spatial area determination problem is defined herein as an optimization in which it required to determine both the location and shape of a spatial area, given some constraints on (e.g., size) while maximizing or minimizing objective function data risk, cost, safety, security, etc.). The can be found various domains such hydrographic survey planning, conservation military etc., recently attracts...

Abstract Behavioral theory states that decision-makers engage in search response to a performance shortfall. However, public administration research has remained remarkably inattentive of decision-makers’ attention. This study conceptually disentangles problem-defining and solution-generation as two distinct objectives, order test theoretical expectations concerning individual negative performa...