Financing for competitiveness: Some (missed) opportunities and regulatory constraints

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions

Malnutrition: missed opportunities for diagnosis.

INTRODUCTION Malnutrition is a serious public health problem particularly in developing countries where it is responsible for 54% of under 5s mortality. Anthropometric measurements are key tools for the assessment of nutritional status and diagnosis of malnutrition. Height and weight measurements are not routinely done in most clinics and hospitals in Ghana. Children therefore miss the opportun...

Commentary: Successes and missed opportunities.

In their historical review of child health in the early 20th century, Markel and Golden1 help us understand current child health policy in the United States. Their essay describes the path not taken in 2 related areas: the professional development of pediatricians and our broader policy choices for child health. In the first path not taken, pediatrics followed the field of medicine more general...

Accident Investigation - Missed Opportunities

INTRODUCTION The chemical industry is a much safer place to work than many industries with fewer inherent hazards. Nevertheless, almost all the accidents that have occurred need not have occurred. Most of them have happened before and have been described in published reports. Someone knew how to prevent them even if the people on the job at the time did not. There is something seriously wrong w...

Commentary: Missed opportunities.

the course of economic development, populations have become increasingly urban and geographically mobile. Cities created a new ecology for disease, and colonization brought unfamiliar diseases to colonizers and colonized alike. Urban death rates were usually very much higher than rural ones, and mortality rates from infections were often catastrophically high when new diseases were first introd...