the challenge of diversification

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... 80% of adults in the WHO European Region and up to one third of children The rates of obesity are rising in virtually all parts of the Region The costs to the health services of treating the ... The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the ... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications for the health sector and other sectors, and the...

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... idea to rest In the seventeenth century, Grotius, the father of the freedom -of -the- seas doctrine, asserted that the vagrant waters of the sea should necessarily be free as neither navigation ... Indeed, the larger the fraction of damages borne by poor countries, the lower the monetized damages, the weaker the abatement policy, and the more damages they will suffer The root problem is, of ... horizon, the high degree of scientific and economic uncertainty (not unrelated to the centuries-long timescale), the scale of the damages that may arise, and the global character of the challenge...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... challenges The role of health education in the school system must therefore not be considered in terms of a body of knowledge, but as a way of re-assessing the teaching profession and strengthening ... a fundamental change in the role of schools within society, and by extension of the meaning of educators’ professional activities In other words, the issue of the role of schools is wider than ... find their own way in their own specific contexts The hope is that it will help to support professionals in their work in the service of education and of public health HEALTH EDUCATION: ONE OF THE...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... eliminating the risk of developing the disease One of the most important medical discoveries of the twentieth century was the role of tobacco smoking as a cause of cancers of the lung and various other ... with their health-care professionals in the management of their own disease 6 Responding to the challenge of cancer in Europe Summary It is hoped that this book offers a useful review of the ... levels The EU as of January 2007 and the combined territories of the 27 EU Member States is denoted by EU27; EU25 refers to the EU during the previous wave of 12 Responding to the challenge of cancer...

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... cost of either of these cost components will therefore have a significant effect on the B/C ratios In the case of substituting to LPG, the intervention program costs and stove costs are only on the ... are only on the order of 10 percent of total cost, with annual cost of LPG being on the order of 90 percent Changes in the price of LPG will therefore significantly affect the B/C ratios Table ... (2007a) * Some of the studies reported odds ratios instead of relative risk ratios The difference is however minimal for the prevalence or incidence rates of the health outcomes in the table (a)...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... in the strategy and agreed to the aid, it is hard to think of the Marshall Plan as interference in the internal affairs of the countries involved Another important issue debated at the time of the ... interesting issues including Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War and the Commonwealth of Independent States after the fall of the Berlin Wall Although I was always aware of the political constraints on ... economies The financial implications of these parallel challenges always clash, and the way countries and the international community deal with them will determine the success or failure of the war-to-peace...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:58

... In the cohort of Tabah et al., 1-year mortality was 80% in the subgroup of medical patients and 67% in the subgroup of unscheduled surgery [16] These results are consistent with the results of ... they had been able to perform at the time of the emergency department visit; 12% of ICU admitted patients experienced a minimum of one point loss in at least one dimension of the activities of ... (0.97-2.26) of the severity of illness, the potential benefit of being hospitalized in the ICU, and beds availability in an emergency context [25] Among the reasons for not admitting a patient to the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... terminations for the reason of ineffectiveness and terminated for the reason of toxicity This was done by censoring patients with treatment terminations other than the reason of interest in the respective ... clinical perceptions of rheumatologists The authors deal effectively with the challenges posed by the type and origin of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Saad AA, Ashcroft DM, Watson ... Threats to validity of observational studies on disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: new aspects after the fall of the pyramid and the rise of new therapeutics Curr...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... is the second largest city of Guangxi The reported number of heroin users in the Liuzhou City is around 7000 The clinic is housed within the Skin and Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic of the ... application is then submitted for official endorsement by the authorised office The first dose of methadone is given at a median of days after registration (range: to working days) Of the 240 heroin ... conducted by two of the authors at the clinic Approval was sought from the local health department Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Findings...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... flexibility so the therapy may be tuned to patient body size and severity of illness This process begins with recognition of key features of the inflammatory response The network of IM, acting ... molecular weight Mean molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 30 kDa is shown in the table by the sign * and the MWCO of 50 kDa is shown in the table by the sign ** A large pore filter (polysulfone, ... networks may be manipulated by application of small changes in the activity to many network elements The more elements (e.g IM) affected, the smaller the change in their aggregate activity required for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... of phase II of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Initiated by the combined efforts of the International Sepsis Forum, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Society of Critical ... standard of care in the management of sepsis The publication of Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock earlier this year [14,15] was the culmination of ... sepsis, thereby reducing mortality from sepsis by 25% over years An unprecedented 11 organizations sponsored the evidence-based and expert opinion guidelines Another of the stated goals of the Campaign,...

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... ways The alerting of the paramedics was quite unorthodox in that they were contacted directly by bystanders and not via the dispatch centre, which is the standard Therefore, in this instance, the ... paramedics themselves were the first to initiate contact with the dispatch centre and define the need for further assistance The mode of overdose is also unusual, and we find it important to raise the ... been of little benefit to the patient The beauty of traditional CPR is that the combination of compressions and ventilations will cover most potentially reversible causes of cardiac arrest Whether...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... degree of trust from your clientele that can translate into the sale of other products The principal advantages of diversification are the lessening of risk and the opportunity for increased profit ... don’t first know the correct questions to ask in order to gather the information and data you need Even the phrasing of each question can make a notable difference in the quality of the results While ... challenge of growth in business: five critical tasks 13 Making the most of current technology and software Making the most of current technology can mean all the difference between the successful...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 22:49

... services In fact, we see the smart use of ICT as a way of empowering our citizens in the sense that they are experiencing more freedom in living their everyday lives.” The challenge of speed: Government ... is behind them Over half (55%) of European government managers polled in the survey expect little or no disruption in their sector in the next three years This is despite the fact that the clear ... huge demand for e-services from the side of the citizens,” says Mehis Sihvart, director of the agency to agency,” adds Mr Heath The private sector may have led the way, but public expectations...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:22

... test a hypothesis, we usually have to wait until the end of the study to see the analysis of the data,” says Dr Mayhew “I think we’re now coming to the point of collecting and monitoring the data ... (versus 16% for the broader group) Healthcare is the only industry sector surveyed that focuses on the Internet of Things, an area of innovation that bridges the physical and the digital © The Economist ... prepared is the healthcare sector? Healthcare executives are notably more © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2014 The challenge of speed: Healthcare confident of their ability to adapt their...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:22

... performance in these areas – be they the adoption of new technology or the revamping of existing processes – need to fit into a whole company that is capable of making use of them Otherwise, they are ... parts of the company to engage in experimental learning, since it increases the ability of those outside the C-suite to demonstrate the power of their ideas Google and Amazon engage in hundreds of ... kind of experimentation involves a fundamental rethinking of the company to focus on those active at the cutting edge of the business rather than those at the corporate centre “Look at the number...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:23

... amounts of cash: 63% say that they have about the right level of cash on their balance sheet and just think that they have too These results suggest that few executives have lost sight of the cost of ... the balance sheet, the most widespread motivation cited by Feeling the pressure? The challenge of enhancing return on equity In deciding how much cash to hold on the balance sheet, which of the ... otherwise, without the prior permission of The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited All information in this report is verified to the best of the author’s and the publisher’s ability However, the...

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