Introduction The importance of evidence-informed health policy making is widely recognised and frameworks exist to help understand the roles of different types of evidence [1,2]. However, there is limited application of these frameworks in empirical studies, particularly to inform learning and improve evidence-informed health policy development in LMICs. The objective of this presentation is to...

At the core of modern macroeconomics is some version or another of the famous Phillips curve relationship between inflation and unemployment. The Phillips curve, both in itspriginal and more recently reformulated expectations-augmented versions, has two main uses. In theoretical models of inflation, it provides the so-called “missing equation” that explains how changes in nominal income divide ...

because of the complex and variable environment of media organization, its need a road map to help them to manage this environment and respond effectively to sudden changes in front of that. policy making in media organization can play an important role in this regard. in this study has been studied the policy-making process in the islamic republic of iran broadcasting (irib) and damages of thi...

Self-help groups in the United Kingdom continue to grow in number and address virtually every conceivable health condition, but they remain the subject of very little theoretical analysis. The literature to date has predominantly focused on their therapeutic effects on individual members. And yet they are widely presumed to fulfil a broader civic role and to encourage democratic citizenship. Th...

This paper presents a critical review of state-of-the-art macro models for road accidents. Such a review is meant to identify and establish the significance of policy and socioeconomic variables affecting the level of road accidents. The aim is to identify those variables associated with effective policies and interventions to enable decision makers to improve the level of road safety. The vari...

Studies on the propagation of malware in mobile networks have revealed that the spread of malware can be highly inhomogeneous across different regions. Heterogeneous rates of contact can also be due to diverse platforms, utilization of contact lists by the malware, the clustered nature of the network, etc. In this paper, a general formal framework is proposed for leveraging such information abo...

Medical travel has expanded rapidly in recent years, resulting in new markets and increased access to medical care. Whereas several studies investigated the motives of individuals seeking healthcare abroad, the conventional analytical approach is limited by substantial caveats. Classical techniques as found in the literature cannot provide sufficient insight due to the nested nature of data gen...

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE Lack of a robust analytical tool for trend analysis of population and health indicators is the basic rationale of this study. In an effort to fill this gap, this study advances 'Change-Point analyzer' as a new analytical tool for assessment of the progress and its pattern in population and health indicators. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The defining feature of 'chan...

This paper addresses a gap in state-level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that support low-income families with children. Variation in state policy “packages” is measured by considering three characteristics of 11 social programs. Individual measures of policy are found to be weakly and inconsistently inter-correlated at the state level, but when cluster analysis is use...

OBJECTIVES This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing compliance of national health policies with WHO/AFRO guidelines. DATA SOURCES Data for this study was obtained from the national health policies of Botswana, Eritrea, Liberia, Namibia, Swaziland, Gambia, and Uganda. STUDY SELECTIONS National health policies of seven of the 19 Anglophone countries of the WHO African region ...