Innovative sanitation approaches could address multiple development challenges

Innovative legal approaches to address obesity.

CONTEXT The law is a powerful public health tool with considerable potential to address the obesity issue. Scientific advances, gaps in the current regulatory environment, and new ways of conceptualizing rights and responsibilities offer a foundation for legal innovation. METHODS This article connects developments in public health and nutrition with legal advances to define promising avenues ...

Leveraging Mashups Approaches to Address Research Evaluation Challenges

The evaluation of research, i.e the assessment of productivity or measuring and comparing impact, is an instrument to select and promote personnel, assign research grants and measure the results of research projects. However, there is little consensus today on how research evaluation should be done, and it is commonly acknowledged that the quantitative metrics available today are largely unsati...

Sanitation and hygiene approaches

Scientific approaches to address challenges in coastal management

Anthropogenic activity has a negative impact on many coastal ecosystems, compromising the significant direct and indirect socio-economic benefits provided in these areas. Maintaining activities that depend on coastal zones while preserving the ecological state of the ecosystems represents a management challenge. Management of coastal zones requires scientifically based knowledge, due to the com...

Innovative regulatory approaches to reduce sodium consumption: could a cap-and-trade system work?

Many regulatory and professional organizations are calling for strict new regulations to reduce sodium consumption on a population basis. New regulations on sodium may have significant public health and economic impacts. This article explores five regulatory options to reduce sodium consumption: 1) maintaining the status quo, 2) improving risk communication and information, 3) revoking generall...