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How Could Emissions Trading Benefit Developing Countries

It is generally believed that an emission trading system requires that all involved entities are given – or accept – a firm limit on their emissions. However, such a system will work if some involved entities are allocated an emissions “budget”, even if it is not a limit. A budget will allow them to sell allowances if their actual emissions are less than their budget, but will not obligate them...

Could altitude training benefit team-sport athletes?

INTRODUCTION Following the dominance of altitude acclimatised athletes during the 1968 Olympic Games held in Mexico City (2400 m), and early anecdotal training experiments in the USA in the 1970s, altitude (hypoxic) training has become very popular among individual endurance athletes including marathon runners, cyclists, swimmers and triathletes. Altitude training is used to further enhance exe...

How could ORs benefit from the government's health IT funds?

The federal government is providing $19 billion in grants and loans for health information technology (IT). Will ORs be able to capture some of the funding to improve their systems? The funding comes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama in February 2009. Financial incentives will be available to hospitals and physicians to promote health IT, particularly th...

Could hospital community benefit enhance community health improvement?

How the new medicare drug benefit could affect vulnerable populations.

This study estimates how out-of-pocket drug costs could change for vulnerable populations (racial and ethnic minorities, the near-poor, and seniors with a greater burden of chronic conditions) who qualify for the standard Medicare drug benefit. Although the new benefit might be associated with modest-to-moderate declines in out-of-pocket spending for seniors who do not qualify for subsidies, th...