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We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What to Do About Corruption in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We ur...

Keynote talk: Embedded vision systems

While machine vision research has continued to improve multi-fold over the past few decades, it still significantly falls short of the abilities and efficiencies of the primate visual cortex system. The primate brain is especially superior as pertains to comprehending and interacting with complex natural environments. In energy-efficiencies, the brain is estimated to be five to six orders bette...

Plain Talk about Systems Complicatedness

Micro Photovoltaic Modules for Micro Systems

Amorphous silicon based solar modules are very attractive for the powering of various microsystems for both indoor and outdoor applications. This technology offers a lot of flexibility in terms of module design, output voltage, shape, size, choice of substrates and offers also the possibility to embed sensors such as photodiodes. This paper focuses on the development of micro-solar modules with...