Luca Brusati

University of Udine | UNIUD · Department of Economics and Statistics

The external environment, diet, and lifestyle are the major determinants influencing the development of health disorders. Chronic cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diseases of digestive system and diabetes mellitus are the five major groups of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the main cause of global mortality worl...

The reform of public administration is often designed and implemented by would-be reformers rooted in perspectives ranging from public law to political science to sectoral disciplines (social work, health, education, arts and culture, etc.). The value of the insights provided by these perspectives must undoubtedly be acknowledged; for reforms to de...

This investigation aimed to estimate reliability of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire and quality of life of patients after PCI or CABG surgery. In this cross-sectional study, 268 patients after PCI or CABG surgery were studied in East Kazakhstan and Pavlodar regions of Kazakhstan from September to December 2019. The Russian version of the WHOQOL-BREF...

Italy has a long-standing tradition of non-financial reporting, which represents an ideal background for the introduction of . Following an overview of the financial and non-financial reporting obligations Italian SMEs are subject to, the chapter describes briefly the status of among large Italian firms and then presents a multiple case study analy...

The evolving nature of economic activity entails that traditional accounting standards are no longer suitable to provide a comprehensive understanding of how companies create value: for this reason, more and more countries require that companies provide “non-financial” information as well. This requirement poses specific challenges to SMEs. This ch...

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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is developed in Kazakhstan very quickly for many years. But there is no information about outcomes of PCI. The objective of this study was to analyze the outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions in two regions Kazakhstan during 2012-2018 years. This registry-based historical cohort study obtained d...

Background. Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, and the sixth most common killer among men worldwide (Aubry et al., 2013). This research was motivated by the fact that PCa screening continues to be a controversial topic in the Kazakh medical community. This study aimed at description of how newly diagnosed PCa patien...

Public sector decision-making takes place across multiple tiers of government and societal organizations. Governance arrangements have major implications on performance, especially when addressing wicked problems: dispersed authority can lead to silos mentality, thus triggering coordination problems. We explore how inter-organizational Information...

This article presents a systematic review of the English-language empirical literature about citizen participation to identify the obstacles to its implementation and the most successful ways to address them. Three sets of variables seem to impact effectiveness: contextual factors, including information asymmetries and public officials’ attitude; o...

Purpose – Interactive decision making has become a recurrent practice across countries, policy sectors and tiers of government. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how organizational arrangements, i.e. the way the interactive process is designed, influence its outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The research is carried out through a multip...

Putting into operation a new system of financing the primary health care (PHC) with elements of payment for the effectiveness of activities (per capita incentive rationing) since 2011 intended for extra salaries and training of PHC health workers makes it possible invest about 119 million U.S. dollars to motivate the specialists of district health...

The role of intangible assets as drivers of performances became critical in management studies over the last few years. Public sector organizations have been largely overlooked in this debate. This is clearly a paradox, inasmuch the meta-economic goals they pursue, together with the lack (or the weakness) of market mechanisms imply that the ability...

Interactive decisionmaking has become an established practice, especially in local governments.1 Many administrations involve citizens, social organizations, and, broadly speaking, stakeholders in the early stages of policymaking, before concrete policy proposals are developed.2 The goal of what has come to be called interactive decisionmaking is t...

Case study on business-government relations

The technical report, commissioned by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and based on interviews and documental analysis, assesses the working patterns of the multi-stakeholder body established to oversee the submission of the application and the implementation of the grant, in order for the Global Fund to draw co...

In professional bureaucracies such as publicly-owned health services providers, internal reporting systems are key to ensure the accountability of health professionals. The chapter summarizes the evidence about "what works" in the design of internal reporting systems for publicly-owned health services providers.