BACKGROUND National health surveys are sometimes used to provide estimates on risk factors for policy and program development at the regional/local level. However, as regional/local needs may differ from national ones, an important question is how to also enhance capacity for risk factor surveillance regionally/locally. METHODS A Think Tank Forum was convened in Canada to discuss the needs, c...

countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

OBJECTIVE Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) has implemented changes to more effectively communicate risk during public health emergencies. In spite of ongoing improvements, provincial and sub-provincial leaders face barriers, such as established modes of operation, lack of training, shortage of trained risk communicators, an...

Human-horse interactions have a rich tradition and can be highly rewarding, particularly within sport and recreation pursuits, but they can also be dangerous or even life-threatening. In parallel, sport and recreation pursuits involving animals, including horses, are facing an increased level of public scrutiny in relation to the use of animals for these purposes. However, the challenge lies wi...

In order to survive in this highly competitive global marketplace, it is extremely essential for organizations to have an effective integrated marketing communication plan in place. Having a knowledge about the various types of markets that exist in the world, and in particular in Asia which is perhaps the most rapidly growing market, will help achieve this objective. This paper provides us an ...

MyPlate, the icon and multimodal communication plan developed for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), provides an opportunity to consider new approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of communication initiatives. A review of indicators used in assessments for previous DGA communication initiatives finds gaps in accounting for important intermediate and long-term outcomes. This ev...

OBJECTIVE Limited resources mean that decision-makers must set priorities among competing opportunities. Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is an economic approach that focuses on optimizing benefits with available resources. Accountability for reasonableness (A4R) is an ethics approach that focuses on ensuring fair priority-setting processes. PBMA and A4R have been used separatel...

In order to survive in this highly competitive global marketplace, it is extremely essential for organizations to have an effective integrated marketing communication plan in place. Having a knowledge about the various types of markets that exist in the world, and in particular in Asia which is perhaps the most rapidly growing market, will help achieve this objective. This paper provides us an ...

the purpose of this research was analyzing factors affecting non-participation of stakeholders in rangeland management projects. the research method was descriptive-correlative design in ranches of piranshahr rangelands in western azerbaijan province, iran. all ranches that studied (zioke yurd, ziuke mirgah chaku, khargedashan yurd and gardeh bon), are utilized in common use manner. simple rand...

Background: Today, commercial activities have become more complex and complex than in the past, and for this reason, it has become a category with more sensitivities. One of the dimensions of trade sensitivity in the present age is related to the type of allocation of trade interests and beneficiaries of these interests. In the past, only family businesses and businesses benefited from the bene...