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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Composite indicator"”.
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The design of composite indicators of healthcare quality: a multi-method analysis
High profile composite indicators seeking to summarise aspects of the quality of healthcare organisations often have important impacts: they may be reputationally consequential for healthcare organisations, may affect prioritisation for inspection or action by regulators, and may be responsible for …
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Financial System Development and Economic Development in Malawi
… on whether one uses bank-based or market-based indicators of financial development. This paper seeks to address by using the composite indicator of financial development, developed by the International Monetary Fund( IMF), which captures depth, access, and efficiency of the financial system. …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… to the proliferation of numerous development indicators. Emerging from conventional one-dimensional economic, social, and health indicators, the Human Development Index (HDI) as a composite indicator, has drawn the attention of researchers and administrators alike. For China the HDI is …
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Economic opportunities or integrational challenges — The case study of Ukraine
… supervise them. The third goal was to create a composite indicator and then apply it in the comparison between Ukraine and other EU candidate countries. Based on the result, Ukraine is behind not only the least developed EU Member States, but even many Western-Balkan countries are in better …
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Social Vulnerability and Public Health: Developing A Metric For Medical Emergency Management In Florida
… has alluded to the inherent ties between indicators of social vulnerability and the quality of public health. With disparate access to finances, insurance, transportation, and medical services, areas of elevated social vulnerability tend to compound risk in terms of medical needs during a …
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Analyzing the intersection of climate vulnerability and household food insecurity in northern ghana: a sustainable livelihoods approach
… Indices Tool (RDIT) Software. Further, with the composite indicator approach, the extent of vulnerability of the municipalities and households in relation to livelihoods, climate change and food security was computed. With formative-formative higher order construct, smart PLS-SEM was used to …
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Predictors of difficult intubation in obstetric cohort of patients: an analysis of the prospective obstetric airway management registry (OBAMR) (substudy – R025/2018)
… was performed. Hypoxaemia was thus used as a composite indicator of anatomical and physiological difficulty. Results: Data was collected for 1095 general anaesthetics in the ObAMR. Overall, 143/1091 of patients (13.1%, 95%CI 11.1 to 15.4%) experienced peripheral oxygen saturation below 90%. …
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Engineering Robust and Autocatalytic Architectures for Human Missions to Mars
… person on Mars per year and the Robustness Composite Indicator (ROCI), finding that dual-site designs with 30 to 42 crew strike a balance between affordability to NASA, mission value, high robustness with a self-rescue capability, and potential for autocatalytic growth. A case study proposes …
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The feasibility of implementing advanced metering technology in high income areas in South Africa
… economic, environmental and social. The composite indicator framework template was selected as it was not tailor made for a specific reason and could be adapted for this research. The necessary framework input parameter data were acquired from practitioners in the field through …
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Measuring and evaluating economic impact of publicly-funded research centres
The aim of this thesis is to develop and test frameworks and tools to measure and evaluate the economic impact of publicly funded research centres, thus addressing calls from policymakers for greater accountability and justification for investment of public funding towards research activities. In …
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Investigating Multidimensional Factors Affecting Water Supply Resilience to Disasters
… conceptual framework; (2) selecting appropriate indicators; (3) refining the indicators based on data availability; (4) correlation analysis; (5) scaling the indicators; (6) weighting the variables; (7) measuring the indicators; and (8) aggregating the indicators. This framework allows …
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Methods, Tools, and Data to Facilitate Development and Implementation of Essential Health Benefit Packages
… and 3) Lack of agreed-upon performance indicators. Through my dissertation, I aim to strengthen the effective implementation of EHBPs by utilizing innovative methods, tools, and data that bridge the gap between EHBPs development and implementation. For the first aim of the dissertation, …