Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps

Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps

Despite progress in developing more effective training methodologies, training initiatives for health workers continue to experience common pitfalls that have beset the overall success and cost-effectiveness of these programs for decades. These include lack of country-level coordination of health training, inequitable access to training, interrupted services, and failure to reinforce skills and...

Avoiding Liquidity Traps∗

Once the zero bound on nominal interest rates is taken into account, Taylor-type interest-rate feedback rules give rise to unintended self-fulfilling decelerating inflation paths and aggregate fluctuations driven by arbitrary revisions in expectations. These undesirable equilibria exhibit the essential features of liquidity traps, as monetary policy is ineffective in bringing about the governme...

Avoiding the poverty traps from chronic disease

less than a fundamental realignment of the global order. Current income growth in these countries is paired with a rapid demographic and epidemiologic transition. The aging population and the increasing prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases (such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes mellitus, respiratory diseases and cancer) pose considerable challenges to the weak health care systems in ...

Editorial: Going beyond "Same Old, Same Old"

CT colonography: avoiding traps and pitfalls

Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is a reliable technique for detecting tumoral lesions in the colon. However, good performance of polyp detection is only achieved if experienced CTC radiologists combine meticulous interpretation with state-of-the-art CTC technique. To reach this experience level, CTC training is mandatory. With a considerably long and steep learning curve, it has been de...