OBJECTIVE Health policy analysis remains surprisingly undeveloped in Australia given the power that policy exercises over the direction of public health. This paper describes the use of a policy analysis tool to evaluate the alignment between policy statements and intended outcomes of principal chronic illness policy documents in New South Wales (NSW) from 1999 to 2008. In doing so, it demonstr...

Whenever demand for a single item can be categorized into classes of di erent priority an inventory rationing policy should be considered In this paper we analyse a continuous review s Q model with lost sales and two demand classes A so called critical level policy is applied to ration the inventory among the two demand classes With this policy low priority demand is rejected in anticipation of...

We consider a single-echelon, single-item inventory system where both demand and lead-time are stochastic. Continuous review policy is used to control the inventory system. The objective is to calculate the reorder point level under stochastic parameters. A case study is presented in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Keywords—Inventory control system, reorder point level, stochastic demand, stochas...

We study a continuous review inventory model over a nite-planning horizon with deterministic varying demand and constant deterioration rate. The model allows for shortages, which are partially backlogged at a rate which varies exponentially with time. For this model an optimal replenishment policy is established. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

We analyze an infinite horizon, single product, continuous review model in which pricing and inventory decisions are made simultaneously and ordering cost includes a fixed cost. We show that there exists a stationary (s, S) inventory policy maximizing the expected discounted or expected average profit under general conditions. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

In an increasingly complex world of interrelated problems many governments have tried to modernise their institutional structures and the ways in which they go about making policy. In the UK and elsewhere this has been most apparent in the growing emphasis given to evidence-based policy making in contrast to faith-based approaches and the conviction politics of earlier periods. Much of the deba...

The long-term challenge of increasing research use in health policymaking Increasing the extent to which health policies are informed by health research has long been the hope, and indeed sometimes the expectation, of those reforming health research systems. Now though, there are grounds for believing that the hopes are increasingly beginning to be turned into realities. This optimism is based ...

There exist many inventory control studies that consider either continuous review & continuous ordering, or periodic review & periodic ordering. Mixtures of the two are hardly ever studied. However, the model with periodic review and continuous ordering is highly relevant in practice, as information on the actual inventory level is not always up to date while making ordering decisions. This pap...

Over the last 30-40 years dramatic improvements have been seen in the development of new methods for saving the lives of those involved in traffic crashes. This ranges from improvements in emergency medical response systems to advanced trauma care procedures to specific surgical intervention techniques. This paper reviews the evidence for these improvements as documented in the safety and medic...