For example, decisions related to program funding or resource allocation, healthcare workforce planning, prevention strategy or delivery model selection, typically comprise strategic-level policy decisions, and these present a clear role for the application of operations research methodologies.
At strategic levels, these policy objectives are mainly driven by international commitments to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
At the strategic level a sectorial policy fostering the statés control over the policy area is formulated.
A purposive maximum variation sampling approach was used to recruit participants from each of four groups, that is who were either directly involved as a participating clinician or involved directly or indirectly at a policy or strategic level.
To address the issue of sustaining the practice and benefits of the CEM Model the work concludes with the articulation of a framework which establishes the integration of the EAP programme within academic programmes both at the strategic level through Teaching and Learning policies and operational processes.
Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) on city NESDPs have the potential to improve environmental policy integration at strategic level and to safeguard the sustainable development of cities.
The results show the efficiency of the linear approximation of the (s, S) policy at the strategic level to produce robust design solutions under uncertainty.
So, I think until and unless the thinking changes at the strategic level and there is a clear policy push in that direction, the things won't change," (Donor representative).
For land use policy implications at the strategic level, an appropriate regional-scale analysis appears to be more desirable; for example, see Aditjandra [71].
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense, set up a "shop," as they say, to think about American foreign policy after the Cold War, at the grand strategic level.
