Background The Northern Territory has the highest rates of kidney disease in Australia with Aboriginal people from remote areas suffering the heaviest burden. Despite this, dialysis services are largely centralised in urban areas requiring many people to relocate for treatment. …
Health human resource development (HHRD), including nursing human resource development (NHRD) is essential for any country. HHRD is an unexplored area of study in Pakistan. In this exploratory study, qualitative methodology was used to obtain the perceptions of key stakeholders …
Since its inauguration in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) has been providing “free at the point of delivery” healthcare to all UK citizens. However, lately, there has been unprecedented concern over the capability of most NHS hospitals to demonstrate best value in provid…
Healthcare as a system has been and will always be a vital public provision to support human existence. The onus rests with every nation's healthcare system to provide health services; and individuals to consciously embrace healthy living. The health status of people in rural ar…
Performance measurement is an important concern that has recently attracted much attention in the logistics area from both practitioners and academics. The performance measurement of logistics companies is based upon diverse performance indicators. However, to date, limited atte…
Major railway stations in England and Wales are highly networked and open locations, frequently crowded, and are vulnerable to criminal and terrorist activities. Successive Government policies and agendas have sought to lessen this susceptibility, by promoting the understanding …
Community is a complex term whose usage within sociology has ranged from beinga key idea to being dismissed as irrelevant. At the same time as its virtual dismissal bysociology, community continued to have widespread usage within everyday language andas an adjunct to social poli…
The economic activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the extractive industries of developing countries produce a myriad of immediate negative social, economic and environmental impacts on communities hosting their operations. Consequently, stakeholders have increasing…
Widespread car usage of around 800 million of cars travelling 30 billion of kilometres on a daily basis has led to many benefits but also to significant environmental and societal impacts such as congestion, air and noise pollution and urban sprawl. This thesis aims to investiga…
he digital revolution in the latter part of the twentieth century has resulted in the increased use and development of Cyber-Physical Systems. Two of which are Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). Both are relatively new areas of interes…
Although much has been written on the benefits of hosting 'mega events' including the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, smaller but still significant sport events of global significance such as the Golf World Cup have received hardly any attention by researchers. This de…
Project performance relies upon effective project management. Indeed, project management has been recognized as an important means for making changes in the organisation. Efficiency in project management, obviously, enhances the probability of project success, which consequently…
This study used two surveys to explore the gap in service quality between recently established hospital accreditation standards and the perceptions of healthcare providers as well as customer groups of a premier nonprofit teaching hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. The SERVQUAL survey…
Ce mémoire présente une recherche qualitative de type exploratoire portant sur la collaboration parents-intervenants dans le contexte de l'action éducative en milieu ouvert (AEMO) auprès des enfants en danger au Sénégal. Le but de la recherche est d'identifier et de promouvoir u…
Jurisdictional ownership of all natural resources, including wetlands and river channels, belongs to the state in Bangladesh, and access to and control over wetland resource are determined by the existing top-down, command-and-control, bureaucratic management regimes. Grounded s…
Territorial conflict between India and Pakistan over the issue of Kashmir has been simmering for more than half a century. The dispute can be counted among those outstanding issues that need a prompt peaceful resolution. However, this would-be resolution process puts obligation …
Dünya’da her geçen gün artan nüfus ile birlikte kentsel bölgelere yönelim olmuş ve buna istinaden kentlerde nüfus ciddi oranda artmıştır. Bu olay ne kadar ekonomik açıdan iyiye gidişin göstergesi gibi görünse de bu gelişimin çevresel ve sosyal açıdan olumsuzlukları görmezden gel…
In the last few decades, an important theme in organizational theory has been the increased organizational vulnerability as they operate in an intrusive environment. No matter how theorists and scholars try to solve the issue of environmental interference, there is unanimity in …