A Bi-Criteria DSS Dedicated to Location Problems

2011 ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Eugénia Captivo ◽  
João Clímaco ◽  
Sérgio Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Optimality Criterion ◽  
Location Problems ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Location Models

In location problems we want to determine the best way to serve a set of clients, or communities, whose location and demand are known. This implies to decide the number and location of the facilities, the size or capacity of each facility, and the allocation of the demand points to the open facilities in order to optimize some objective function. The type of optimality criterion depends on the nature of the activities or of the equipment to be installed. Most location models deal with desirable facilities, such as warehouses, service and transportation centers, emergency services, and so forth, which interacts with the customers and where usually travel is involved. The typical criteria for such decisions include minimizing some function of the distances between facilities and/or clients. However, during the last two or three decades, those responsible for the areas overall development, where the new equipment is going to be located (i.e., central government, local authorities) as well as those living there, are showing an increasing interest in preserving the area’s quality of life.

Income and Life Quality of Farmer Households Suffering Social Exclusion

2012 ◽  
pp. 63-87
Author(s):  
Anh Mai Ngoc ◽  
Ha Do Thi Hai ◽  
Huyen Nguyen Thi Ngoc
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Statistical Method ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Economic Aspect ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Impact

This study uses descriptive statistical method to analyze the income and life qual- ity of 397 farmer households who are suffering social exclusion in an economic aspect out of a total of 725 households surveyed in five Northern provinces of Vietnam in 2010. The farmers’ opinions of the impact of the policies currently prac- ticed by the central government and local authorities to give them access to the labor market are also analyzed in this study to help management officers see how the poli- cies affect the beneficiaries so that they can later make appropriate adjustments.

The concentration of people and investments in the capital of a country of Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
Francisco Coronado
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Limited Effectiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Big City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the population growth, migration, poverty, economic, political, environmental aspects and the management of the budget at national and municipal levels, including information of other cities in Peru, to define the effect on the quality of life of the population and formulate a management recommendation to help improve the quality of life in Lima and on intermediate cities. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of the study consisted on collect, review and select important factors that influence the quality of life in a big city, in this case in Lima, the concentration of people of Peru in Lima, migration and poverty, the coverage and quality of services, the concentration of the economy, public and private investments and services in Lima, some political aspects and a view of the available budget and the needed investment. Findings The deficiencies in the habitability conditions of the residents of Lima were verified considering the limited infrastructure and public services, the low level of investments and the limited effectiveness of the technical and administrative work of the municipal authorities and the central government. Although studies on other important cities in Peru are more limited, it could be said that similar limitations are being presented for example in transportation. Research limitations/implications The main obstacle to the study is the limited availability of information of such broad aspects that characterize a city that could not be covered in one paper. Practical implications The result of the study supports the need to implement appropriate management decisions about urban planning and investment policies for Metropolitan Lima, as well as to raise municipal and central government technical and legal conditions that are attractive for residents and investors for other cities in the country seeking their development, as well as to help counteract the concentration of people in Lima to control the demands of their habitability. Social implications The study could impact not only in the habitability conditions of about 10m inhabitants of Lima, but to all the 30m inhabitants of Perú. Originality/value Presents an unified vision of the social, economic and political deficiencies to the provision of services to a city concentrating the population of a country.

THE ROLE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (0) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Brdulak
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The City

To provide a good level of the quality of life of the city inhabitants, it is indispensable to follow sustainable development strategy, allowing to create social capital. This is important especially for local authorities, which should govern society by cooperating with them. Therefore, the main purpose of the article is to present implementation process and its conditions of the sustainable development strategy within the structures of local government units in Poland. Analysis is based on the authoress’ own qualitative research conducted in four voivodships in the Southern of Poland.

scholarly journals Local government reform: Community planning and the quality of life in Northern Ireland

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Knox ◽  
Paul Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Legal Power ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Local government in Northern Ireland has undergone a significant reform process in terms of both the number of councils (from twenty-six to eleven) and their functional responsibilities. Councils in Northern Ireland have always been regarded as the ‘poor relation’ of central government or non-departmental public bodies which deliver many of the services performed by local government in other parts of the UK (education, social services, housing). The reforms in Northern Ireland, while devolving relatively minor additional functions, offer councils a significant role in community planning – the legal power to hold central departments to account for services provided by them in local areas. This paper argues that councils can use this power to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants.

scholarly journals The future approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Steven Woolf
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Injunctive Relief ◽  
The Future ◽  
Local Residents

This Opinion considers a new approach that has been adopted by various local authorities who have successfully applied for injunctive relief to prevent ‘persons unknown’ from setting up encampments on any green spaces identified on a local authority map. It is suggested that the ‘preventative injunction’ is a better way to deal with traveller encampments on green spaces, as it is proactive rather than reactive. It is of particular benefit, when having regard to the huge sums of money that councils have expended on addressing the arrival of travellers in their areas. Local authorities have limited resources (time and money) and it is argued that this approach could instead help them to obviously spend the money saved to enhance the ‘quality of life’ of their local residents.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: potential relationship between psychiatric disorders and pulpits

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. e97101320372
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Arruda-Vasconcelos ◽  
Lidiane Mendes Louzada ◽  
Esdras Gabriel Alves-Silva ◽  
Rebecca Figueiredo de Almeida-Gomes ◽  
Henrico Badaoui Strazzi-Sahyon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Physical Disorders ◽  
Dental Emergency

The coronavirus outbreak is a global public health emergency with high transmission among the population. Over 18 million people were affected globally (06th August 2020). In most of the cases, patients present flu-like symptoms, such as fever, cough, headaches and myalgias are commonly reported. Lockdown measures have been implemented to control the spread of the virus. In contrast, these measures have been reported to increase the probability of psychological and physical disorders. As the pandemic intensifies, the number of patients seeking dental emergency services due to acute symptoms (i.e. pulpitis, acute apical abscesses) has increased. There is an increasing need to investigate the association between psychological disorders and dental emergencies. There is critical need for the development of public policies for mental and dental health worldwide, leading to the improvement in the quality of life of the population.

scholarly journals Statistics of interregional differences and the status of budgetary system of the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
О. V. Morozov ◽  
A. G. Biryukov ◽  
M. A. Vasiliev
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Optimal Values ◽  
Debt Policy ◽  
Budget System

The purpose of the article is to assess the status and develop measures of state policy to overcome consistently interregional differences in the level and quality of life of the population based on promoting the independence of regional and local authorities of the Russian Federation. The applied purpose of the work is to determine the optimal values of the distribution of revenues of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation at the levels of the budget system as a financial condition of the solvency of the subnational authorities. According to the provisions of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 07.05.2018 No. 204 “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of Development of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2024” the range of issues is of critical importance, as it requires the inclusion of regional and local authorities in the implementation of national projects.  Materials and methods. The article analyzes the changes in the level of interregional differences in the main indicators of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for 2000, 2005 and 2016–2018. Based on the analysis of interregional differentiation by own and total revenues of their consolidated budgets, the changes in the level of financial independence of subnational authorities were assessed. As factors, hindering the development of regions with “self-reliance”, the state debt policy, the practice of inter-budget transfers, and the income structure of three-tier budget system of the country are analyzed. The methodological basis of the study is the work on regional statistics, structural analysis, quantitative modeling. Tabular and graphic methods of visualization of research results, statistical methods of processing of initial data were used. To solve the problems of the study, standard Microsoft application packages were used.  Results. The article shows the excessive centralization at the Federal level of the main decisions that determine the fiscal and debt policy of regional and local authorities, the “explosive” growth in the volume of subnational debt for these years, as well as the “blurring” of inter-budget transfers from the Federal budget to the budgets of the Russian Federation regions. The debt policy of the state and inter-budgetary regulation are estimated as not fully corresponding to the tasks of spatial development of the country. A system solution for optimizing the structure of three-level budget system of the Russian Federation is proposed and a method for defining the optimal values of the distribution of revenues of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation by levels of the budget system is presented.  Conclusion. The high heterogeneity of Russia’s spatial development is one of the features of its economy. The article deals with the differentiation of Russian regions in terms of the level and quality of life of the population, analyzes the factors that led to this differentiation. State fiscal and debt policy, inter-budget transfer policy are the key factors in consistently solving the problems of overcoming interregional differences in the level and quality of life of the population, improving the competitiveness of the country, ensuring sustainable economic growth. Achieving the optimal structure of the budget system (as well as the movement to it) will create conditions not only for the inclusion of subnational authorities in the implementation of national projects, but also for the implementation of the diversity of the potential of its regions – a unique advantage of the Russian Federation.  

Can Local Authorities Shape the Quality of Life?

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Kowalska ◽  
Paulina Ucieklak-Jeż ◽  
Agnieszka Bem ◽  
Rafał Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Authorities

scholarly journals Fatigue and Its Association With Quality of Life Among Carers of Patients Attending Psychiatric Emergency Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Ji ◽  
Wen Li ◽  
Hui Zhu ◽  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Teris Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency Services ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Insomnia Symptoms

Aims: Carers of psychiatric patients often suffered from mental and physical burden during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to the lack of mental health services. This study investigated the pattern of fatigue and its association with quality of life (QOL) among the carers of patients attending psychiatric emergency services during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, carers of patients attending psychiatric emergency services during the COVID-19 pandemic were consecutively included. Fatigue, insomnia symptoms, depressive symptoms, and QOL were assessed with standardized instruments.Results: A total of 496 participants were included. The prevalence of fatigue was 44.0% (95% CI = 39.6–48.4%). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that fatigue was positively associated with higher education level (OR = 1.92, P < 0.01) and more severe depressive (OR = 1.18, P < 0.01) and insomnia symptoms (OR = 1.11, P < 0.01). ANCOVA analysis revealed that the QOL was significantly lower in carers with fatigue compared with those without (P = 0.03).Conclusions: Fatigue was common among carers of patients attending psychiatric emergency services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering the adverse impact of fatigue on QOL and other health outcomes, routine screening and appropriate intervention for fatigue are warranted for this subpopulation.

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