Changing Priorities

Changing paradigm and priorities

Ming-Sound Tsao, MD, FRCPC, is a Clinical Scientist in the Depart­ ment of Pathology, University Health Net work, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto. Email: [email protected] INTRoDuCTIoN Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide among males, and the second leading cause among females. In 2008, it accounted for 13% (1.6 million)...

Changing priorities in Hodgkin's disease.

Changing priorities in residential medical and social services.

During the past thirty years a high proportion of all long stay hospital beds have been closed. The responsibility for those who would have occupied those beds previously has to a large extent been transferred from health to social services departments, or to family, voluntary and private care. The overall effect has been to prioritize acute medical care, and to expose the public provision and ...

Continuous, Trustless, and Fair: Changing Priorities in Services Computing

Services computing research and practice traditionally has focused on the objectives of business alignment, software systems interoperability and on leveraging the Web as a compute platform. Corresponding technology solution stacks and architectural styles have been promoted. Today, and probably for the next decade to come, different objectives are replacing these original ones and, correspondi...

The epidemiology of blindness in children: changing priorities

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 Nearly a third of the very first issue of the Community Eye Health Journal was about blinding eye diseases in children. One article described an Indian study about improving mothers’ knowledge so that they could prevent eye conditions in their children. The other article also focused on the major causes of corneal scarring in children...