Paper 1: This review was carried out to determine the current trends and practices and to gather information on healthcare risk management. This secondary study also aimed to identify gaps in knowledge related to healthcare risk management globally and in Malaysia. Data was obtained through international reports, journal articles, books, seminar papers, internet articles and periodical materials such as newspaper articles and magazines. / The review focused on the operational definitions of healthcare risk management, its importance to healthcare, the processes, and the elements of risk management involved. The review also highlighted risk within various medical disciplines, the link between risk and quality management and healthcare risk management in Malaysia. Based on the reviews, reflections were made specifically pertaining to patients' and healthcare providers' perspectives, the legal implications and future challenges of healthcare risk management. / Paper 2: this study aimed to evaluate the extent of implementation of risk management practices in selected private hospitals which are registered with the Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia. A total of 34 private hospitals were involved in this study which used survey interview methods based on a risk audit questionnaire. Assessment was measured through the processes of risk management identification, risk analysis and treatment, and risk monitoring within an organizational context based on Standards Australia (2001) guidelines. / Paper 3: This case study attempted to understand patients' perception of risk and safety in a private hospital in Malaysia. The study specifically involved 159 patients from three clinical departments of obstetrics and gynaecology, surgical, and accident and emergency departments who sought treatment as outpatients or had stayed as inpatients. Comparison of perceived risk and safety were made among selected patients' profile, namely, gender, race, working status, age-group, number of visits and clinical departments. This survey study used a 26-item questionnaire and interview methods. The data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. / Thesis (DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2004.

Thesis (MAppSc (Project Management)) --University of South Australia, 1993

Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1999

This thesis applies innovative methods to the efficiency and productivity analysis of the Australian banking system. Key areas of investigation include the impact of regulatory reforms on bank performance, the impact of firm entry and exit on industry productivity and the changing nature of banking and the role of risk in measuring bank value-added. The latter leads to the construction of a new bank production model, emphasising risk management as part of a bank??s value-added. As such, the proposed bank output framework views risk as a productive service, rather than a bad output or externality, which is often assumed in the literature. Aided with this new framework, several refinements are suggested for the treatment and measurement of bank output by researchers and statistical agencies. A unified regulatory framework combined with a greater level of harmonisation in rules in the Australian banking sector, has meant that a pooled analysis of all deposit-taking institutions has become feasible for the first time. With an enlarged dataset new insights are gained into the relative performance of deposit-taking institutions in Australia. The results challenge commonly held views of bank efficiency and the relevance of scale, size and incumbency when measuring bank efficiency. The new definition of bank output is also applied across the sector using econometric and non-parametric techniques to gauge productivity. Problems with balanced data sets and aggregation of firm level productivity are examined. A new approach to decomposing aggregate industry level productivity is introduced based on strong axiomatic grounds and its ability to attribute productivity between continuing, exiting and entering firms. The technique is applied for the first time and uses the newly developed bank output production model. The analysis provides key information on the relative performance of firms in the Australian banking sector.

In 1998, 12 students, aged 11-12 years, were identified by primary schools in a socially disadvantaged area of New Zealand as being at risk of negative life outcomes, as a consequence of known adversities in their lives. The students were interviewed, as were their parents and teachers, and they also completed learning assessments and measures of personal and social concerns. The purpose of these evaluations was to identify risk and protective factors in the young people’s lives, and to make estimations of personal resilience. In 2008, nine of the original study participants, who were now aged 21-22 years and in emerging adulthood, were located and were interviewed again. The assessments addressed the participant’s current circumstances, and what had happened for them over the last ten years. The interviews also asked the participants to reflect about 12 resilience dimensions that have been identified in the literature (Masten & Coatsworth, 1998) and whether they considered that they were personally resilient. The recent interview data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith & Osborn, 2008). The individual analyses show a rich diversity of life paths and, as well, three sets of themes were identified across the case studies; and they are personal relationships, contexts of development (schooling and education, culture, religion, and jobs and careers), and personhood and identity. A resilience model was derived from the integration of the data from the first and second assessments with contemporary resilience studies and theorising. The central idea of the model is that resilient functioning is determined by the nature and quality of relationships within, and across, developmental settings. As a corollary, it is hypothesised that interpersonal relationships influence individual executive functioning, and emotional regulation in particular; and that these cognitive and affective capacities can translate into goal seeking and other constructive actions. The explanation of the resilience model leads onto recommendations for further research on relationships that enhance personal functioning. There are also suggestions for social policy that follow from the exposition, and some guidelines for professional practice with children and families.

Thesis (M.A. in in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Stockton, Paul. "June 2004." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-137). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 66 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Chris Klok. Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.