The Quality Assurance Project (QAP) was initiated in 1990 to develop and implement sustainable approaches for improving the quality of health care in less developed countries. QAP has two broad objectives: 1) to provide technical assistance in designing and implementing effective strategies for monitoring quality and correcting systemic deficiencies; and 2) to re- fine existing methods for en…
Baking a cake is a simple problem. Simple problems lend themselves to a recipe approach. The process and results are generalizable; and while special skill at cooking is a plus, it is not essential for success. Sending a rocket to the moon is an example of a complicated problem. Complicated problems are best dealt with using formulaic and expert-knowledge approaches. The overall problem can b…
Since accountability for performance has become increasingly critical in health care, it is necessary for an organization to understand the key drivers behind its performance and demonstrate the results of its work. Performance measurement has many interrelationships with quality improvement (QI), and focus on the use of the data is one of the four key principles of QI discussed in the Quality…
All health service providers want to get the most out of their investments. To enable them to do so, they need to actively manage health service assets, ensuring that they are used efficiently and optimally. All management takes place in the context of your health system’s policies and finances. If these are favourable, the management of health service assets can be effective and efficient, a…
This book is not just one of the many introductions to Human Resource Management that are published, year after year, for use in HRM classes. Authors of those introductions face many challenges, such as the need to produce something that is both theoretically sound and practically valuable, or to find a way to integrate discussions on a variety of topics into one comprehensible teaching too…
As investments involve large resources both financial and human, wrong investment decisions are very expensive to correct and detrimental to the sustainability of institutions. Managers are responsible for comparing and evaluating alternative projects so as to allocate limited resources and maximize the firm’s wealth or shareholders value Basic techniques of making capital investment appra…
Research philosophy classifications such as ontology, epistemology, and anxiology and their conflicting applications to the ‘quantitative-qualitative’ debates, are a major source of dilemma to research students in establishing their relevance to subjects areas and discipline. A number of studies have used different descriptions, categorisations and classifications of research paradigms and …
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss supply and demand in the framework of system dynamics. We first review classical supply and demand. Then we look at how to model supply and demand using system dynamics. Finally, we present a few exercises that will improve understanding of supply and demand and help improve system dynamics modeling skills.
The basic thrust of this tenth edition of Multinational Financial Management (MFM) is to provide a conceptual framework within which the key financial decisions of the multinational firm can be analyzed. The approach is to treat international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management. Thus, it builds on an…