First Poor-Will Specimen for Saskatchewan Taken

The road not taken: the 1945 Health Services Planning Commission proposals and physician remuneration in Saskatchewan.

This article examines the development of the medical services in Saskatchewan with respect to physician remuneration from 1915 to 1949. In particular, it seeks to determine why the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of T. C. Douglas did not follow the recommendations of its Health Services Planning Commission for the establishment of a state salaried medical service based on the pr...

“ The Poor Will Always Be with You ”

(Matthew 26:11) Is poverty intractable? Have all advanced, industrial countries failed to reduce poverty? We can learn more about the presumed intractability of poverty by comparing advanced industrial countries to learn whether any of them have experienced recent, substantial declines in child poverty. This is just the tack taken by Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak in their analysis of changes in ...

The case for routinely testing the first-voided urine specimen.

A n impressive amount of evidence has accumulated in recent years documenting the importance of strict diabetic control in forestalling the microvascular complications of diabetes mel-litus. 1 " 4 This subject does not need to be reviewed here for readers of this journal. Although home glucose monitoring of capillary blood has been slowly gaining acceptance, 5 at present, the daily documentatio...

Safety First Portfolio Insurance Will

In this study, we show how a dynamic insurance program can be implemented within a mean-variance framework. The approach combines elements of the single period safety first idea suggested by Telser and developed by Leibowitz with multiperiod insurance strategies like CPPI and TIPP. The insurance program allows the user to set a probability of hitting a specified floor or target and also allows ...

Putting the Poor First