The main goal of evidence‐based neonatology synopsis is to inform and alert neonatal practitioners of the latest advances in neonatal literature. Our reviews focus on high quality, practice changing original research articles, and systematic reviews. These articles are summarized and presented with a commentary of a clinical expert. Commentators are selected by the editorial team and invited to...

The purpose of this paper is to propose new evaluation criteria and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to assess the expanded national immunization programs (ENIPs) and to evaluate two alternative health care policies. One of the alternative policies is that private clinics and hospitals would offer free vaccination services to children and the other of them is that public health centers...

IMPORTANCE Bullying is the most widespread form of peer aggression in schools. In an effort to address school bullying, 49 states have passed antibullying statutes. Despite the ubiquity of these policies, there has been limited empirical examination of their effectiveness in reducing students' risk of being bullied. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of antibullying legislation in reduci...

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we address the issue of decision making in situations in which there is insufficient evidence at hand. Policymakers often have insufficient evidence to know with certainty what the impacts of a health policy o...

This paper reviews the current literature on social accountability as a means to achieve good governance and increased public participation for improved public service delivery. After a brief discussion on concept and tools of social accountability, this paper illustrates that such innovations have led to improvements in the performance of state agencies and actors in varying contexts across th...

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH This study presents literature reviews for the period 2000-2013 on (i) the health effects of pesticides and on (ii) preference valuation of health risks related to pesticides, as well as a discussion of the role of benefit-cost analysis applied to pesticide regulatory measures. FINDINGS This study indicates that the health literature has focused on individuals with...

The reorder point/reorder quantity policies, also referred to as (r, Q) policies, are widely used in industry and extensively studied in the literature. However, for a period of almost 30 years there has been no efficient algorithm for computing optimal control parameters for such policies. In this paper, we present a surprisingly simple and efficient algorithm for the determination of an optim...

Nowadays, customer expectations are increasing and organizations are prone to operate in an uncertain environment. Under this uncertain environment, the ultimate success of the firm depends on its ability to integrate business processes among supply chain partners. Supply chain management emphasizes cross-functional links to improve the competitive strategy of organizations. Now, companies are ...