A police car, manned round the clock by two officers, costs at least $300,000 annually. With efficient management of this resource, police services can be improved without raising taxes. This ArcView extension allows police planners to design patrol districts and to evaluate them by displaying various performance measures. The extension uses a spatially distributed queuing system (the Larson Hy...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of active trachoma (TF) in children aged one to nine years and potentially blinding trachoma (TT) in adults aged 15 years and older in six known trachoma-endemic districts in Kenya. DESIGN Community based survey. SETTING Six known trachoma endemic districts in Kenya (Samburu, Narok, West Pokot, Kajiado Baringo and Meru North). SUBJECTS A total of 6,98...

While the theoretical public finance literature argues that house prices should be influenced by the demand for local public services, there is little direct evidence concerning changes in house prices when these services are altered. Previous empirical studies have relied on cross-sectional identification of the relationship between house prices and variables that may proxy for the perceived q...

CONTEXT Local health departments are increasingly challenged to meet emerging health problems at the same time that they are being challenged with dwindling resources and the demands of accreditation. OBJECTIVE To assess the capacity of Multicounty health districts to serve as "Quality Improvement Collaboratives" and support local health departments to meet accreditation standards. DESIGN T...

The purpose of this study was to explore diffusion of information technology (IT) infrastructure and high school student achievement in four urban school districts. The study sought to address any significant correlations between student achievement and information technology infrastructure funding. The study used the American College Test (ACT) and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores from 94...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects on immunization equity of the large-scale contracting of primary health-care services in rural areas of Cambodia. METHODS Data were obtained pre-intervention and post-intervention from a large-scale quasi-experiment in contracting with nongovernmental organizations to provide primary health care in nine rural districts of Cambodia between 1999 and mid-2001. Co...