جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

As a growing industry, medical tourism includes many economic opportunities. This industry is the largest and most diverse industry in the world, with a foreign currency income which is equal to the automotive and military weapons industries. The aim of the current research is to identify and prioritize economic opportunities related to medical tourism management, using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a multi-criteria decision-making tool.

This was a descriptive-survey research with an applied and cross-sectional approach. A survey method was used to collect data, so this study can be classified as field research. The statistical population of the research included 25 people with experience and expertise selected through purposive sampling in the fields of management, tourism, and medicine. The method of collecting data was in the form of library and field studies. The tool for collecting data was a questionnaire of paired comparisons and a check sheet. Data analysis was done with AHP method and Expert Choice 11 software. After collecting the paired comparison questionnaire and calculating the geometric mean, the inconsistency rate of the questionnaires was less than 0.1, which showed that the data had the required validity.

First, using library studies, economic opportunities related to medical tourism were identified. These opportunities included cash generation, technological advancements, job creation, diversification of tourism industry, development of health care infrastructure, knowledge transfer and cooperation, services and ancillary industries, and regional development and diversification of economic activity. Opportunities were prioritized using the AHP method. Cash generation with relative importance of 0.191 was ranked first, job creation with relative importance of 0.162 was second, and technological advances was ranked third with relative importance of 0.131. Diversification to economic activities with a relative importance of 0.45 was ranked ninth which was the lowest.

Strategic marketing, delivering quality healthcare services, competitive pricing, specialized medical care, patient-centered experience, collaboration and partnership, continuous improvement, and strengthening medical tourism infrastructure are the pillars through which medical tourism management can not only generate sustainable revenue but also provide invaluable healthcare services to patients from across the globe.

After the policies are formulated and approved, they are communicated to the managers for implementation. Several factors lead to the failure of health system policies. In this research, these factors have been identified and ranked.

This was an applied research, and in terms of strategy, it was a survey. The research community consisted of 21 experts in the field of health in the Ministry of Health and universities of medical sciences, who were selected through random and targeted sampling. The tools of data collection were interviews and questionnaires, and to analyze data, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) were used.

In this research, 4 dimensions of failure factors regarding the implementation of the health system policy were identified, including governance, management, environmental and financial resources, and 23 components of the mentioned dimensions were identified. Moreover, the most important identified failure factors through AHP and FMEA were prioritized and evaluated.

Knowledge of failure factors can help to improve the capacity of the implementation of health system policies.

Appropriate performance of the occupational health experts working in industries can reduce occupational accidents and diseases. This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of  Kashan   industries occupational health experts to identify their weaknesses and strengths.

This descriptive-analytical study was carried out on 60 occupational health experts in Kashan in 2019. The Ministry of Health checklist was used after applying the weight and calculating the incompatibility rate using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Data were analyzed by SPSS 21 software.

Performance evaluation of the occupational health experts with the checklist indicated that the best performance was related to the public activity item, while the poorest performance was related to the occupational health item. The average score of total occupational health experts was 73.76. The results of linear regression analysis showed that the total  score of industrial health experts had a significant relationship with their work experience, education, and employment status (P <0.05).

In this study, we evaluated and prioritized48 sub- items related to the performance of industries’ occupational health experts in Kashan. The findings suggested officials to consider these priorities in health interventions.

Planning has been ineffective for dealing with problems associated with long traffic jams occurring due to atmospheric instability, crashes, and inappropriate road engineering in Tehran city. This has led to subsequent pollution problems, faced the citizens with many daily challenges, and eliminated the opportunity for appropriate measures to manage urban transportation and traffic. Today, comparative studies are used to achieve optimal transportation management in most countries. The aim of this study was to improve the transportation and traffic management in Tehran city by understanding the concept of transportation and traffic management, studying related literature, formulating effective factors on the transportation and traffic management in 22 districts of Tehran, and ultimately ranking them based on their weights. The state of transportation and traffic management in the 22 districts of Tehran was evaluated by descriptive - analytical methods using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Delphi techniques. The statistical population included experts in various areas of traffic and urban services. The results showed that the 13th district was better than the others in terms of urban transportation and traffic management, with a final weight of 3.93. It is suggested that in order to optimize the management of transportation and urban traffic in Tehran, weights of components be taken into account for each urban region and be considered in the planning and management of transportation and traffic.

Choosing thesis topic is one of the most important decisions of postgraduate students and many factors affect such decision. This study aimed to prioritize the criteria for choosing thesis topic from Ph.D. students’ viewpoint, using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and ranking methods.
This analytical study was carried out on the School of Public Health PhD students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), who were in thesis topic selection phase. For data collection, a questionnaire was used; it consisted of three parts: demographic questions, pairwise comparison of criteria, and ranking the criteria affecting thesis topic selection. Data was analyzed using the AHP method, and descriptive and inferential statistics (Mann-Whitney).
A total of 80 Ph.D. students participated in this study, of whom 43 (53.8%) were male. Based on the AHP method results, the most important criterion for thesis topic selection was the novelty of subject matter and the least important one was the location of study setting. The most important criterion based on the ranking method was the participants’ interest in the topic and the least important one was the location of study setting.
Although the results of the two methods used to prioritize the thesis topic selection criteria were somewhat different, based on both method results, the most important criteria from the viewpoint of School of Public Health PhD students were the novelty of subject matter, supervisor’s proficiency in it, access to required resources, and participants’ interest in subject matter.

Environmental pollution due to dumping construction and demolition wastes has adverse effects on public health. This study aimed to select the best method for managing construction and demolition wastes disposal in Tehran by AHP.
This research was a descriptive study. The study population consisted of environmental health experts in the field of construction waste management. Initially, criteria and alternatives for construction waste management, recycling and reuse and landfilling were identified and classified. Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), different outcomes were compared based on scoring by Expert Choice 11 software.
The results of this study showed that the discharge percentage in the permanent landfills was 68%, in temporary pits was 9% and in recovery centers was 23% in the last 6 years. The final priority of criteria with respect to the economical criterion was reuse (0.492), recycling (0.274) and landfilling (0.235), respectively. Also, according to the environmental criterion, the scores for reuse, recycling and landfilling were 0.492, 0.373 and 0.198 respectively. Based on social criterion the calculated scores were 0.5, 0.279 and 0.222 for landfilling, recycling and reuse, respectively.
In this study, the reuse option with the weight of 0.439 was the best disposal option; and the recycling option with the weight of 0.312 was the second priority. Landfilling showed the lowest score with the weight of 0.250.

Since the role of the transportation is to transport goods and passengers safely and comfortably, the safety has always been a common issue. However, in the past two decades, due to the increase in accidents and casualties, it has been more important. The aim of this paper is to minimize the risk factors that threaten pedestrians by identifying accident-prone areas in the city of Qazvin for pedestrians and provide solutions to improve the safety of pedestrians.
In order to achieve the objectives of the paper at the first step the accident-prone areas were identified in the city and then by using the analytical process (AHP) with 5 parameters (vehicle speed, geometry, traffic safety, pedestrian safety behavior, environment) is evaluated.
the results show that in 38% of accidents drivers age between 19 and 27 years old and accidents mainly accrued in the intersections and squares of the city. Pedestrians behavior in the Taleghani intersection get a highest score and so it is not necessary to improve pedestrian behavior but environmental issue and lack of traffic equipment can may some problems. In Sepah intersection high volume and vehicles speed achieved the highest scores and geometry design and pedestrian behavior achieved the lowest score.
The results indicate when geometry of road is not appropriatepedestrians do not behavior safety. In Sepah intersection in addition to the improving geometry design, pedestrian Should be guided. Modifying the lightstiming and building the safety island is more suggestions that could increase the Taleghani and Sepag intersections safety.

One of the most important challenges of health system in all countries is patient safety risks. That reduces ensures of patient safety. So, recognition of these incidents, categorize and prioritize them in order to formulate policy interventions should be considered.
This cross-sectional study was carried out in clinical wards of an Educational- Therapeutic Hospital in 2015. The study population consisted of 25 clinical hospital administrators and patient Safety Liaison. Data collection was conducted in three methods (Interviews, Focus Group and Distributor Questionnaire). The collected data were analyzed using AHP Model and Expert Choice.11 software.
Among the incidents of internal ward, the highest priority related to needle stick (0.231) and the lowest related to wrong-patient Radiographs (0.028), respectively. Among the incidents of intensive care Unit, surgery and operating room, the highest priority related to failure in controlling the patients, level of consciousness (LOC) (0.316), lack of control of patients after surgery (0.199) and wrong type of blood transfusion (0.209), respectively.
According to the role of staff in incidents reduction, theoretical and practical training of staff about risk assessment methods should be done. Checklist for safe injection and safe surgery are performed and they were monitored by patient safety liaison. Also, integrated system of registration to record and report the error to identify upcoming events.

Nowadays, the growth of urban populations increases the need for services in large cities. Thus, optimal distribution of center service providers is essential. Fire stations are one of the most important components and land uses of urban emergency services which have a critical role to save lives and to protect the property of people against various accidents and disasters particularly fires. To this end, urban planners are very concerned about where to locate and design appropriate service areas to meet the needs of people. However, the main objective of fire stations establishment is to enhance security and to improve systematically the micro-level structure of the city in order to arrange the macro-level structure in line with predefined programs. In this analytical and applied research, the required information was obtained through field observations, source library, statistical yearbooks, status quo map and comprehensive plans and detailed study on Najafabad city using the localization standards and criteria of these services. After entering and processing the information, the appropriate locations were identified and prioritized in order to build new fire stations by using GIS and AHP. Also, it was used GIS analysis capabilities, and location models included in this software, weighting and buffering operation and etc. The results showed that given the performance radius of 1500 and 2000 meters for the existing fire stations, some parts of the city were not within the standard service areas. Accordingly, districts of 5, 2 and 6 had the highest priority respectively. Thus, three new fire station constructions has been proposed According to the results the performance radius of the current fire stations did not meet the needs of the population; therefore, it seems necessary to locate new stations considering various parameters.

Health education tries to provide an opportunity for people to find necessary information and skills to make high quality decisions. One of the important steps for educational planning is selection of interventions that have most returns. The aim of this study was to prioritize health education methods through Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Goal Programming (GP) techniques.
This was a quantitative-qualitative and applied study. The sample consisted of all 12 city health centers in Markazi Province, Iran. Through Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), the main criteria of health education techniques were identified and prioritized through AHP technique. Then, using WinQSB software and GP program, the best combination of health education methods was determined.
Cost, access, acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness were identified as the main criteria for selection of health education methods. Prioritized training methods include, in order, were: group education (44.4%), face-to-face education (23%), distribution of pamphlets and brochures (10%), health education films (9%), sending educational SMS (7%), seminars (4%), TV education (1%), educational exhibitions (1%), role playing (0.5%) and educational rallies(0.10%).
Methods of group education, face-to-face education, distribution of pamphlets and brochures and showing health educational films have a significant returns than other methods in terms of cost saving, meeting educational needs, target group access to educational methods, popularity and feasibility.

The goal of this study was to identify and rank the research priorities of a military health organization. This is a mixed and cross-sectional study that was done in 2013. Sample population included 24 senior managers، 32 middle managers and 15 mangers of clinics of a military health organization in Iran that were selected by purposive sampling. In qualitative section، data gathering was performed by means of interview and questionnaire. In addition، data analysis was conducted using qualitative framework analysis. In quantitative section، the criteria were prioritized using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Then، the topics were ranked via TOPSIS. 191 topics were identified and divided into seven scopes of healthcare، treatment، education، rescue and transference، human resources، drug and medical equipment along with planning and information technology. Next، they were ranked in terms of criteria including time priority، accordance with organizational goals، applicability and usefulness. To prevent from waste of research resources in the organization، allocation of assets should be based on research priorities. Such a device can assist organization in achieving the goals.

Research conducted without any need assessment not only helps solve problems but also increase the current problems and result in waste of limited resources. The aim of this research was to determine the research needs of a social insurer organization based on their manager's attitude. This is a mixed and cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2011. A purposeful sample of 11 participants from social insurer organization in Iran was selected. Data gathering was done using interview and analysis of data was conducted using Atlas.Ti 5.0 software. Also, the topics were prioritized using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method through Expert Choice 11.0 software. Titles of “Design of strategic planning,” “Pathology of structure,” and “Evaluation of family physician and referral system” with scores of 0.96, 0.85, and 0.82, respectively earned the priority of one to three. Since the resources are limited and needs are unlimited, in order to prevent research resource wasting in insurance organization, resources must be prioritized and this can assist organization achieving their goals.