No quick fix

Eliminating measles--no quick fix.

In recent years, a number of countries have had notable success in eliminating measles using a variety of vaccination strategies. Three WHO regions — the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe — now have measles elimination goals. In the Americas a strategy based on supplementing high routine coverage with an initial catch-up and periodic follow-up campaigns has achieved a dramatic redu...

No quick fix for social science in public health.

Editor – The perspective piece by Williams et al. on the contribution of social science to malaria control reveals the predicament of many social scientists working in public health (1). The authors correctly point out that social scientists want to adopt a theoretical and critical approach, but that such research would not be deemed useful for programmes. They have not found a way out of this ...

Material witness: A quick fix.

M AERIA L W TN SS Delicately patterned microand nanostructures can be produced without the need for laborious fabrication, by relying on physical forces to organize materials spontaneously into intricate forms. The capacity of soft materials such as surfactants and block copolymers to self-organize into regular patterns has been long recognized1–3, and superlattices and other ordered arrays in ...

The Solution First Programming Process—or “How Quick Fix is much more than a quick fix”!

Learning to program is hard and one major obstacle for students is getting to grips with the programming process itself: What do I do now, what are the next steps, and what end result do I want to achieve? Further complications arise as many, even simple, designs require quite a lot of code to be written that are just “stepping stones” on the path to a solution. Thus, instead of “writing the co...

No Quick Fix for Equity and Excellence: The Virtues of Incremental Shifts in Education Federalism