3. How do policy-level issues and related health system elements contribute to variations in women's maternal health care access and experiences?
While OR techniques and models have been successfully utilized in many areas to maximize the effective use of scarce resources, the application of mathematical modeling to HIV scale-up to date typically has focused on policy-level issues (e.g., program costs) as opposed to operational-level issues [ 7- 10].
While this issue has been addressed by both the private market and at EU policy level, the issue of price variability remains.
Indeed, the split and evolving decision-making power between different policy levels for connected issues lead to a high probability that fragmented care is delivered [ 1].
Our approach may prove useful at organization and policy levels where many issues call for classification of individuals into pragmatically meaningful groups.
Conversely, our approach may be unwieldy for clinical use but finds its application at organization and policy levels where many issues call for classification of individuals into pragmatically meaningful groups.
Few countries have recognised the issue at policy level, or committed government funds to address the problem.
You hear the same tragic stories again and again, so it would be madness not to raise these issues at a policy level.
Current government initiatives in the UK and other countries, aimed at raising awareness of the early symptoms of lung cancer illustrate the importance being placed on this issue at a policy level.
We propose to address these issues by combining a policy level perspective with a firm level perspective centered around the role of corporate R&D and its changes.
One page scorecards started discussion on the issue at planning and policy level in each local government authority (district) and at state level.
