Cooperate! A paradigm shift for health equity

Cooperate! A paradigm shift for health equity

The role of competition and cooperation in relation to the goal of health equity is examined in this paper. The authors explain why the win-lose mentality associated with avoidable competition is ethically questionable and less effective than cooperation in achieving positive outcomes, particularly as it relates to health and health equity. Competition, which differentiates winners from losers,...

A Methodology for Paradigm Shift to Explain Sustainable University

The sustainable university concept is rooted in prevalent paradigms pertained to economic, social and environmental development, which all focus on systemic thought and rationality; besides, they tend to  discover and solve problems by applying an interdisciplinary approach. However, the epistemic component is what these paradigms have ignored. The purpose of this study is to explain a methodo...

A paradigm shift for socioeconomic justice and health: from focusing on inequalities to aiming at sustainable equity.

OBJECTIVES To measure the 'best possible health for all', incorporating sustainability, and to establish the magnitude of global health inequity. STUDY DESIGN Observational, retrospective. METHODS We identified countries with three criteria: (1) a healthy population-life expectancy above world average; (2) living conditions feasible to replicate worldwide-per-capita gross domestic product (...

paradigm shift of health towards obesity in childhood

Preparing for Paradigm Shift

Software systems bridge the gap between information processing needs and available computer hardware. As system requirements grow in complexity and hardware evolves, the gap does not necessarily widen, but it certainly changes. Although today’s applications require concurrency and today’s hardware provides concurrency, programming languages remain predominantly sequential. Concurrent programmin...