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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"priority setting"”.
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IMPROVING CONSERVATION IMPACT THROUGH PRIORITY-SETTING AND EVALUATION
… project impacts. This dissertation examines priority-setting and evaluation within the context of three conservation challenges – global prioritization of locations to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, community and state-led efforts to conserve forests in Madagascar, and spatial …
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Meeting Development Objectives with Agricultural Research: Priority Setting in Zimbabwe
… research is heightened. Adoption of quantitative priority setting methods help improve the objectivity of decision-making while fostering consistency of research priorities with the attainment of research system objectives This study develops and applies a quantitative methodology for agricultural …
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Examining priority setting and resource allocation practices in county hospitals in Kenya
… resources is therefore an important question. Priority setting research has however focused on the macro (national) and micro (patient) level, and neglected the meso (organizational, hospital) level practices. There is also a dearth of literature on priority setting in developing country …
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Time on task and priority setting for continuing education administrators in Maryland community colleges
… of this study was to examine time on tasks and priority setting for Maryland community college continuing education administrators. The Delphi technique was used to compile a list of 75 tasks. A combination of survey research, card sort, face-to-face interviews, and on-site data collection was …
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Understanding What Matters Most to Immigrant Youth Living with Mental Health Concerns: A Community Priority Setting Activity in Alberta
Introduction/Background: Mental health concerns affect about one in five Canadian youth. Youth make up 19.2% of the Canadian population and according to Statistics Canada (2016), 37.5% of these Canadian youth belong to immigrant families. With an immigrant identity, the experience of displacement, …
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Caring for patients: setting priorities - an exploration of the process of prioritising care in nursing
… planning and delivery of care. The importance of priority setting has been highlighted in the nursing literature for over twenty-five years; however, there would appear to be no systematic study of this key skill.<br/><br/>This thesis explores priority setting within a novice/expert framework, …
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The setting of health research priorities in South Africa
… overall aim of this thesis is an analysis of the setting of health research priorities, with specific reference to South Africa. Other objectives include describing the technical approaches used for priority setting and developing a suitable framework for analysing and classifying health research. …
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Setting priorities for conducting and updating systematic reviews
… and members of the public. Research priority setting (RPS) is usually defined as any interpersonal activity that leads to the selection of topics and/or choices of key questions to investigate . Diverse approaches to setting research priorities are used in different countries, regions …
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Allocating healthcare resources on the basis of personal responsibility for ill-health: what role (if any) should public opinion play? A socio-ethical analysis
… need, should be a factor in healthcare priority-setting is increasingly debated. The adoption of such a principle within UK healthcare distribution policy would be both socially and ethically contentious. This study examines the concept of a 'responsibility principle' within healthcare …
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Evaluation of the Situational Judgment Test
… general constructs: problem solving, planning, priority setting, and leadership. No support from alpha internal consistency reliability analysis was found for the assembly of these items into the four a priori subscales, thus assembly of these items into the theoretical subscales and scales was …
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Describing Healthcare Concerns of Young People and Adults with Cerebral Palsy
… this research has strong potential to influence priority setting in the development of adult-based clinical programs and contribute to best practices for effective transitional care.
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Reluctant Subjects: The Place of Gay Men in Canadian Media Discourse on HIV
… is, political and cultural moves that inform priority setting and shape resource allocation for different populations.
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Financing Global Health Governance: The World Health Organization, the WHO Foundation, and the Shifting Landscape of Development Financing
… has constrained the Organization’s priority-setting authority, operational flexibility, and normative leadership.</p> <p>The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a central case study, illustrating how fragmented and unpredictable funding weakened WHO’s capacity to respond to a sustained …
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Protected area assessment and reporting: an examination of current approaches and evolving needs with application of an integrated model in Egypt
… integrated planning and assessment model and a priority setting procedure were developed to simplify and improve requirements for protected area A/R while ensuring technical rigor. The results and lessons from field testing elements of the integrated model in four Egyptian National Parks are …
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No Research About Us Without Us. Using Feminist Participatory Action Research to set the Obesity Research Agenda with Pakistani Women Living in Bradford
… conditions are high in Bradford. Research priority setting can guide the development of policy and practice, resulting in more relevant research. There are no research prioritisation exercises targeted at obesity in Pakistani women. Aim: To develop an obesity research agenda with Pakistani …
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Maximising Return on Investment for Species Conservation
… an ROI framework for single species-based priority setting and tested it by evaluating the optimal allocation of funds across protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa under different objectives centred around maximizing (i) the number of elephants and (ii) the number of stable populations at …
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Conservation of vervets, Africa’s most ubiquitous primates
… are multiple but budgets finite, conservation priority setting is often linked to the threat status of a species. Here, I aim to make a case for proactive conservation of common species. Vervets are ecologically flexible, widespread, relatively abundant monkeys with few major threats. Data were …
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Provision of free ARV in public facilities in Tanzania : do the poor benefit?
… The situation requires difficult choices in priority setting, poses serious ethical issues and imposes on government the obligation to scale up programmes in ways that are ethically sound, equitable, beneficial and sustainable as possible (WHO 2004). However in Tanzania, there is no clear …
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Inter-Port Competition and Inland Container Transport: A multiple Criteria Decision-Making Approach to Achieve Intermodal Transport System Development Stratergies in Taiwan.
… Process (AHP) and validated by the use of priority setting for the intermodal transport system at Kaohsiung port as a case study. The main idea behind mathematical programming is the optimal selection of a set of research activities given limited resource availability, decision constraints …
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Monitoring success of HIV/AIDS health care delivery : balancing donor requirements with internal management needs
… confusing with regards to coordination, priority-setting, authority, and information clarification. Health care delivery organizations that act as local service providers must balance fulfilling donor requirements with addressing internal management priorities, which considers beneficiary …
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