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"Early innings" in medical weed branding.

A ‘fair innings’ for eYciency in health services?

This paper reviews the severe visual focus problems of health economists–they have developed a one-sided fixation with equity issues, neglecting the eYciency agenda. The problems of meeting need are not just about access–they will vary with cost and supply. Economists in fact developed a more balanced agenda in the 1970s but have failed to follow it up. The paper defines the triple nationalisat...

Why the fair innings argument is not persuasive

The fair innings argument (FIA) is frequently put forward as a justification for denying elderly patients treatment when they are in competition with younger patients and resources are scarce. In this paper I will examine some arguments that are used to support the FIA. My conclusion will be that they do not stand up to scrutiny and therefore, the FIA should not be used to justify the denial of...

Born too soon, too small, to die--a plea for a fair innings.

In this 50th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) it is appropriate to call for fairness in the allocation of resources to prevail on behalf of extremelylow-birth-weight (ELBW) infants weighing between 800 and 1 000 g or of a gestational age (GA) of 27 28 weeks. The Writing Group for the Consortium for Health and Human Rights recently invited institutions that te...

Movement patterns and physical strain during a novel, simulated cricket batting innings (BATEX).

A simulated cricket batting innings was developed to replicate the physical demands of scoring a century during One-Day International cricket. The simulated innings requires running-between-the-wickets across six 5-over stages, each of 21 min duration. To validate whether the simulated batting innings is reflective of One-Day International batting, movement patterns were collected using a globa...