Area development projects are multi-million euro construction projects that aim for relatively large areas to be constructed in a concentrated time frame. Finnish municipalities have tended to favor area development projects due to the related normally positive indirect cash flow effects for municipalities, e.g., positive tax income effects, and the fact that they speed-up the municipal develop...

processing and recovery is a key functional element in municipal solid waste management system (mswms). reuse, recycle and recovery of valuable components of waste stream are given much attention in mswms in both developed and developing countries. the main concern of municipalities is the sound management of recyclable materials. source separation as a best practice for management of trash and...

The main goal of the paper is to present what virtual organizations are developed to support public administration on municipality level. The virtual organizations are visible through their Web sites. Within the last few years, in Poland a unique opportunity for virtual organizations’ development has been created. The Parliamentary Act on Access to Public Information for citizens and business w...

Background Norway is internationally known today for its political and socio-economic prioritization of equity. The 2012 Public Health Act (PHA) aimed to further equity in the domain of health by addressing the social gradient in health. The PHA’s main policy measures were (1) delegation to the municipal level of responsibility for identifying and targeting underserved groups and (2) the imposi...

This paper reports on findings resulting from our research conducted for the 2015 Business Process Intelligence Challenge (BPIC), an annual competition in which participants are tasked with conducting process mining-related analysis on a real-life dataset. This year’s data was provided by 5 Dutch municipalities, and contained activity pertaining to their building permit application process. Que...

Dengue infection plays a central role in our society, since it is the most prevalent vector-borne viral disease affecting humans. We statistically investigated patterns concerning the spatial spreading of dengue epidemics in Brazil, as well as their temporal evolution in all Brazilian municipalities for a period of 12 years. We showed that the distributions of cases in municipalities follow pow...

INTRODUCTION A telecardiology remote cardiology medical care system was implemented in 82 municipalities of Minas Gerais State, Brazil to support basic network services in the early diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors associated with the implementation of this program in the municipalities. METHOD This 2006 ecological study involved 393 ...

Hundreds of municipalities and counties across the United States have proposed or implemented immigration policies at the local level, ranging from “sanctuary” policies to those designed to exclude undocumented immigrants. Data collected on these policies are presented, and statistically analyzed at the municipal level to interrogate existing hypotheses about factors driving these policy decisi...

This study investigated the geographic distribution of dermatologists in Brazilian municipalities in relation to the population, regions of the country and human development index. We conducted an ecological study based on data from the 2010 census, the 2010 human development index, and the records of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology. 5565 municipalities and 6718 dermatologists were surveye...