scholarly journals Management of Facilities at Public Universities in Africa: Current Challenges and the Way Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Samuel H.P. Chikafalimani ◽  
Nathan Kibwami ◽  
Sibusiso Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Trained Staff

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the challenges of management of facilities at public universities in Africa. Results reveal that: poor condition and the overcrowding of facilities, limited skills and capabilities of facility management departments, and lack of financial resources are the main challenges which the management of facilities at public universities in Africa faces. In worse situations, these problems have adversely affected the quality of the learning and teaching environment at the institutions and also threatened their existence. Prioritization of funding for the provision and improvement of quality facilities at public universities by governments, employment of well qualified and trained staff in the facility management departments at the public universities, and creation of innovative and smarter public-private partnerships aimed at the improvement of existing facilities and provision of new ones were identified as the key solutions that can be implemented to address the challenges that public universities in Africa are facing in relation to facilities. Findings will support public universities in Africa to address challenges of management of their facilities so that they can continue to achieve their intended objectives of offering high quality higher education, research and community engagement in order to accelerate socio-economic development of their countries on the continent in the future.

Public health as a basic condition for the socio-economic development of the region

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
А.Н. Гайфуллин
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health Situation ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Characteristics

Социально-экономическое развитие есть планомерная процедура совершенствования уровня жизни, качественных и количественных характеристик, потребляемых общественностью благ. Исходя из ситуации со здоровьем населения в регионе, выставляются соответствующие ориентиры. В разрезе региональной специфики закладываются и реализуются целевые программы, которые одновременно зависят от здоровья населения и направлены, собственно, на улучшение качества его здоровья. Согласно тематике настоящей статьи, ведущий фактор социально-экономического роста - здоровье населения, именно он будет оценен как катализатор искомого регионального развития. Socio-economic development is a systematic procedure for improving the standard of living, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the goods consumed by the public. Based on the health situation of the population in the region, appropriate guidelines are set. In the context of regional specifics, targeted programs are being laid and implemented, which at the same time depend on the health of the population and are aimed, in fact, at improving the quality of its health. According to the subject of this article, the leading factor of socio-economic growth is the health of the population, it will be evaluated as a catalyst for the desired regional development.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a Mechanism to Improve the Infrastructure Needs of Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-241
Author(s):  
Hakan Yurdakul ◽  
Rifat Kamasak
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infrastructure Investments

The public-private partnership (PPP) model has been increasingly popular in recent decades as a mechanism to support infrastructure related investment activity. PPPs creates many advantages for countries such as releasing from financial burden of high cost infrastructure investments, bringing high quality of public service and increasing efficiency of operations through transfer of private sector expertise. However, these benefits are not guaranteed for every PPP project since successful implementations are subject to several factors. This chapter aims to review the different aspects of PPPs in detail and examine the factors which play crucial roles for successful PPP implementation.

scholarly journals From the Persuasion of Theory to the Certainty of Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Al-Sharieh ◽  
Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
European Union ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public

This paper analyses the legal bases of community policing under European Union (EU) law and the national laws of England, France, Germany, Italy, Romania and Portugal. Community policing arguably helps the police achieve efficient policing while respecting the requirements of the rule of law, a founding value of the EU, and can be a form of co-operation between the EU Member States under the EU legal framework for crime prevention. Moreover, the law in the selected jurisdictions supports four elements of the community policing model: (1) the public-police partnership in establishing policing strategies and priorities; (2) the public-police partnership for crime prevention and detection; (3) proactive and preventive policing; and (4) the police as providers of high quality services tailored to improve people’s quality of life. These elements are interrelated and interdependent: their holistic legal articulation is necessary for their effective existence.

Auditors’ Use of Brainstorming in the Consideration of Fraud: Reports from the Field

2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1273-1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Brazel ◽  
Tina D. Carpenter ◽  
J. Gregory Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fraud Risk ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Fraud Risk Assessments ◽  
Audit Standards

ABSTRACT: Audit standards require auditors to conduct fraud brainstorming sessions on every audit. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has raised concerns about auditors’ fraud judgments and the quality of their brainstorming sessions. We develop a measure of brainstorming quality to examine how it affects auditors’ fraud decision-making processes. We test our measure using field survey data of auditors’ actual brainstorming sessions for 179 audit engagements. Respondents report considerable variation in the quality of brainstorming in practice. We find some evidence that high-quality brainstorming improves the relations between fraud risk factors and fraud risk assessments. We also determine that brainstorming quality positively moderates the relations between fraud risk assessments and fraud-related testing. Our results suggest that the benefits of brainstorming do not apply uniformly, because low-quality sessions likely incur the costs of such interactions without receiving the attendant benefits. By documenting best practices from high-quality brainstorming sessions, our findings can inform auditors on how to improve their consideration of fraud.

The Public Procurement and the Quality of Services: The Case of Moscow Hospitals

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Margarita  V. Kravtsova
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive Effect

The work is devoted to the search for answers to the question: “Are there any differences in the public procurement of customers who provide services of different quality?”. The article identifies the stages of the hospital procurement process in the contract system and highlights the main customer strategies used in the auction. The results of an independent quality assessment are examined and comparative hospital characteristics with low and high quality rating are conducted. The hospital needs according to the types of purchases and their annual volumes of contracts are analyzed. The advantages of competitive procedures are determined and the key factors affecting the level of competition with possible risks of unreliable execution of contracts are identified. The empirical study is based on the database which includes 5390 contracts of 2 hospitals in Moscow for years of 2011–2017. Using the methods of econometric analysis, in particular, the method of least squares and the difference in the average, the hypothesis is tested the high competition has a positive effect on the quality of medical services. The constructed regression models show that the customer providing high quality services has low competition and small rebates at the auction. At the same time there are more contract terms, delays in the supply of goods and services as compared with the customer providing low quality services. Thus it was found that the underestimation of competition at the auction indicates the desire of the hospital to guarantee a higher quality of medical services to patients while as aggressive bids of participants lead to the supply of poor purchases. The results of the study may be useful for the competent authorities in the development of legal acts for the participants of the contract system in the field of health procurement.

Water use in the tropics and subtropics and human health

Scire Salutis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Manoel Gonçalves Rodrigues ◽  
Josimar Ribeiro de Almeida ◽  
Jackeline Maria Cardoso de França Bahé
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good Population ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Public Politics

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the environmental degradation and its effects in the human health particularly related to the use of water of the tropics and subtropics areas on Earth. In this conception towards a healthy society a continuous investing in basic and environmental sanitation is very important and simultaneously less expensive than dealing with illnesses. In order to improve a better and friendly society linked to Sustainable Development with a good population life quality will need to point out a series of services to the community such as treated water supply, collection and disposal of sewers and solid residues. The public politics that efficiently provide investments of financial resources in sanitation, preventively collective health, must be a strategy to achieve the human being quality of living in the XXI century.

scholarly journals The effects of quality of evidence communication on perception of public health information about COVID-19: two randomised controlled trials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia R. Schneider ◽  
Alexandra L. J. Freeman ◽  
David Spiegelhalter ◽  
Sander van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Of Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eye Protection ◽  
Evidence Quality ◽  
Randomised Controlled

Abstract Background The quality of evidence about the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical health interventions is often low, but little is known about the effects of communicating indications of evidence quality to the public. Methods In two blinded, randomised, controlled, online experiments, US participants (total n=2140) were shown one of several versions of an infographic illustrating the effectiveness of eye protection in reducing COVID-19 transmission. Their trust in the information, understanding, feelings of effectiveness of eye protection, and the likelihood of them adopting it were measured. Findings Compared to those given no quality cues, participants who were told the quality of the evidence on eye protection was ‘low’, rated the evidence less trustworthy (p=.001), and rated it as subjectively less effective (p=.020). The same effects emerged compared to those who were told the quality of the evidence was ‘high’, and in one of the two studies, those shown ‘low’ quality of evidence said they were less likely to use eye protection (p=.005). Participants who were told the quality of the evidence was ‘high’ showed no significant differences on these measures compared to those given no information about evidence quality. Interpretation Without quality of evidence cues, participants responded to the evidence about the public health intervention as if it was high quality and this affected their subjective perceptions of its efficacy and trust in the provided information. This raises the ethical dilemma of weighing the importance of transparently stating when the evidence base is actually low quality against evidence that providing such information can decrease trust, perception of intervention efficacy, and likelihood of adopting it. Funding The Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication, thanks to the David & Claudia Harding Foundation Research in Context Evidence before this study This is the first quantitative, empirical study, to our knowledge, on the effects of communicating the quality of evidence underlying an effectiveness estimate of a public health intervention on a public audience. Added value of this study This study provides novel insights into the effects of quality of evidence communication in a public health context. It is thus of high theoretical as well as translational value. Implications of all the available evidence Members of the public may assume that information around the effectiveness of a measure such as wearing eye protection to protect against COVID-19 are based on high quality evidence if they are given no cues to suggest otherwise. Yet, when given a statement of the quality of the evidence, this can (appropriately) affect their feelings of the trustworthiness of the information and their subjective judgement of the effectiveness of the measure. This raises the issue of whether there is an ethical imperative to communicate the quality of underlying evidence, particularly when it is low, albeit with the recognition that this may reduce uptake of a public health measure.

scholarly journals Quality Human Resources in Lam Dong and the Issues Posed

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thuy Dung
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
High Tech ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Tourism Services

Lam Dong is evaluated as a potential province in socio-economic development in the Central Highlands for many years. The development speed of Lam Dong contributes significantly to the development speed of the Central Highlands and the whole country. Contributing to that growth, we must mention Lam Dong's strategy of investing in the quality of human resources. More specifically, the input of high quality human resources based on local strengths is the fast, strong and sustainable direction of Lam Dong in recent years. This paper focuses on analyzing and evaluating the quality of human resources in Lam Dong in three aspects considered to be "three specialties" of Lam Dong which are human resources in the field of high-tech agriculture and human resources. in the field of tourism services and human resources for ethnic minorities. Since then, the article proposes solutions directions in the strategy for developing human resources, especially high-quality human resources of Lam Dong in the future.

scholarly journals King Abdulaziz University Approach to Develop Financial Resources

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi ◽  
Adnan Hamza Mohammad Zahed
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost

AbstractSaudi universities have benefited a lot from the budgets provided by the government to universities in order to encourage education and spread it among the various groups of Saudi society. The public universities in Saudi Arabia, since their establishment, provide education to their students free. Based on the Saudi Vision 2030, and the new Saudi universities by-law 2020, universities can now establish their own endowments and companies, and to get revenues from the cost of the study programs, diplomas, courses, and services provided.

scholarly journals Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Kualitas Hidup Pasien Chronic Kidney Disease yang Menjalani Hemodialisa di Ruang Hemodialisa

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Handi Rustandi ◽  
Hengky Tranado ◽  
Tinalia Pransasti
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Provide Health Education

This study aimed to describe the factors that affect the quality of life of patients with CRF who undergo hemodialysis in dr. M. Yunushospital in Bengkulu 2016. The population of study is 205 people, the sampling technique used was an accidental sampling with a sample of 67 respondents.The results showed nearly all respondents aged smaller than 20 and greather than 35 years, more than the majority of respondents were female, more than the majority of respondents had pretty income or more, almost half of respondents had high levels of depression, more than the majority of respondents had either the family support, more than the majority of respondents had a high quality of life, there was a correlation between age, gender, producer, depression, and family support with quality of life, there was a relationship between sex with the quality of life for CRF patients undergoing hemodialysis in dr. M. Yunus Hospital in Bengkulu 2016.It is advisable for the public to provide health education for families of patients with CRF who undergo hemodialysis therapy on the importance of family support in improving the quality of life of family members. Keywords: Accidental Sampling, Chronic Kidney Disease, Hemodialysis, Quality of Life.    

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