Antimicrobial resistance: translating political commitment into national action

Antimicrobial resistance: translating political commitment into national action

National action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in Taiwan.

Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms continue to emerge and spread. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the three major challenges in patient safety. In 2011, the World Health Organization designated “Combat antimicrobial resistance” as the theme for World Health Day, stating “no action today, no cure tomorrow.” We need to actively confront the issue of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial res...

National action for global gains in antimicrobial resistance.

www.thelancet.com Published online November 18, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00668-6 1 Few public health problems are of greater global importance today than antimicrobial resistance. Multidrug resistant pathogens are a challenge in high-income countries, and many countries, including the USA and the UK, have created national plans as well as legislation and regulation to addres...

Translating Constraint Handling Rules into Action Rules

CHR is a popular high-level language for implementing constraint solvers and other general purpose applications. It has a wellestablished operational semantics and quite a number of different implementations, prominently in Prolog. However, there is still much room for exploring the compilation of CHR to Prolog. Nearly all implementations rely on attributed variables. In this paper, we explore ...

Translating child abuse research into action.

The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study revealed that primary care clinicians did not always follow the legal mandate to report suspected child abuse to child protective services. National child abuse experts representing different disciplines met in a 2-day conference in January 2007 to discuss and develop new strategies that would address the barriers to reporting suspected child abuse a...