Benchmarking Water Services
Benchmarking Water Services

Author: Enrique Cabrera Jr

Publisher: IWA Publishing

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1843391988

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Benchmarking has become a key tool in the water industry to promote and achieve performance targets for utilities. The use of this tool for performance improvement through systematic search and adaptation of leading practices, has expanded globally during the past decade. Many ongoing projects worldwide aim to address different needs and objectives, in varying contexts, with outstanding results and impact. Benchmarking Water Services provides valuable information to everyone interested in benchmarking in the water industry. The text is aimed at utilities considering joining a benchmarking project, experienced practitioners in charge of organizing a benchmarking exercise, consultants, regulators and researchers. The document is presented with a clear practice oriented approach and can be used as a how-to-benchmark guide presented from different perspectives (participants, organizers, supervising bodies). Readers will gain practical insight on real life benchmarking practices and will benefit from the experiences gained in some of the leading benchmarking projects of the water industry (including the IWA-WSAA benchmarking efforts, the European Benchmarking Co-operation and the several benchmarking projects carried out in Austria and Central Europe). The manual also presents the new IWA Benchmarking Framework, which aims to harmonize the terms used to describe benchmarking and performance indicators practices in the water industry, guaranteeing a more fluent and efficient communication. This Manual of Best Practice is edited by the IWA Specialist Group on Benchmarking and Performance Assessment, and co-published by AWWA and IWA Publishing. Praise for Benchmarking Water Services: "The continual trend of conceptual to specifics throughout the book provides for an educational experience each time the book is either casually perused or carefully studied." "The authors (Cabrera, Haskins and Fritiz) diligently pursue the focus of improvement." "Benchmarking Water Services is an in depth and practical ‘must have’ guide for any utility currently engaged in or planning to develop a benchmarking process" - Gregory M. Baird (2012) Benchmarking: An International Journal 19:2. More information about the book can be found on the Water Wiki in an article written by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/TheNewIWABenchmarkingFramework A Spanish language version of this book is available as a free eBook: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/eBookTitlesfromIWAPublishingFreetoDownload-Volume2#HBenchmarkingParaServiciosdeAgua

Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation
Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation

Author: John Brazier

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0198725922

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There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions. Difficult choices have to be made, and economic evaluation offers a systematic and transparent process for informing such choices. A key component of economic evaluation is how to value the benefits of health care in a way that permits comparison between health care interventions, such as through costs per quality-adjusted life years (QALY). Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation examines the measurement and valuation of health benefits, reviews the explosion of theoretical and empirical work in the field, and explores an area of research that continues to be a major source of debate. It addresses the key questions in the field including: the definition of health, the techniques of valuation, who should provide the values, techniques for modelling health state values, the appropriateness of tools in children and vulnerable groups, cross cultural issues, and the problem of choosing the right instrument. This new edition contains updated empirical examples and practical applications, which help to clarify the readers understanding of real world contexts. It features a glossary containing the common terms used by practitioners, and has been updated to cover new measures of health and wellbeing, such as ICECAP, ASCOT and AQOL. It takes into account new research into the social weighting of a QALY, the rising use of ordinal valuation techniques, use of the internet to collect data, and the use of health state utility values in cost effectiveness models. This is an ideal resource for anyone wishing to gain a specialised understanding of health benefit measurement in economic evaluation, especially those working in the fields of health economics, public sector economics, pharmacoeconomics, health services research, public health, and quality of life research.

Guía para la presentación de proyectos
Guía para la presentación de proyectos

Author: Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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La finalidad de esta Guía para la presentación de proyectos es servir como instrumento de trabajo a los profesionales que, tanto en el sector público como en el privado, deben preparar o analizar los antecedentes con que se someten a aprobación final y financiamiento los proyectos de desarrollo económico y social. Fue preparada por el Instituto Latinoamericano de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES) a raíz de un acuerdo con el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, como forma de mejorar la formulación de proyectos de inversión en América Latina. La Guía tiene un carácter estrictamente práctico y operativo. No es un tratado que exponga los problemas técnicos referentes a la elaboración y análisis de proyectos, ni un manual que procure enseñar en detalle cómo se plantean y resuelven esos problemas en cada caso. Propone la forma de organizar y presentar los antecedentes técnicos, económicos, financieros, administrativos e institucionales que deben reunirse y analizarse al estudiar un proyecto. Después de examinar el proyecto como instrumento de planes y programas de desarrollo y de aclarar las distintas etapas y aspectos de la formulación de proyectos, considera los requisitos que suele exigir la negociación de los mismos. Trata asimismo la Guía los aspectos parciales que componen el proyecto: estudio de mercado, estudio técnico (tamaño, proceso, localización, obra física, organización, calendario, análisis de costo), estudio financiero (inversión, Análisis y proyecciones financieras, financiamiento), evaluación económica y plan de ejecución. Incluye una lista de comprobación y control que sirve para verificar el contenido de un proyecto y determinar si se ha realizado y presentado adecuadamente. Así ordenada, se quiere que la Guía pueda usarse con flexibilidad y sentido práctico, tanto para orientar la presentación de proyectos como para facilitar su análisis y evaluación. La identificación más completa de problemas y métodos no sólo permitirá mejorar la presentación de los proyectos, sino que también facilitará la elección entre proyectos alternativos. Con ese propósito la Guía intenta dar cierta homogeneidad a la forma de presentar los proyectos. De ese modo el ILPES contribuye a perfeccionar el proceso de asignación y uso de los recursos a través de un planteamiento orgánico de las decisiones de inversión y de los múltiples factores de los que depende la realización de los proyectos.

International Community Psychology
International Community Psychology

Author: Stephanie Reich

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0387495002

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This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Author: Allison Beeby Lonsdale

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 077660399X

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While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.

Child Friendly Schools Manual
Child Friendly Schools Manual

Author:

Publisher: UNICEF

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9280643762

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This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.

Economic Evaluation in Health Care
Economic Evaluation in Health Care

Author: Michael Drummond

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0192631772

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To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigourous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. Written by an internationally acclaimed group of authors, the book provides an in-depth discussion of the latest theoretical advances and gives comprehensive reviews of the available literature. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data. It is an ideal book for those studying economic evaluation on postgraduate or professional courses in health economics or public health.