Strategies to achieve health gains for children

Addressing invisibility, inferiority, and powerlessness to achieve gains in maternal health for ultra-poor women.

Despite a continued stated commitment to social justice and equity—the guiding spirit of the Millennium Declaration in 2000—concerns have arisen that this focus has often been diluted in eff orts to translate the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into actions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in relation to MDG 5. Analyses of national survey data and local programme assessments show that po...

Translating Coverage Gains into Health Gains for All Women and Children: The Quality Care Opportunity

The proportion of women and children receiving health care in the poorest countries is increasing [1]. Unfortunately, markers of improved health outcomes, such as falling maternal or newborn mortality, have not matched expectations from the gains in the coverage of care. Robust evidence exists for one explanatory factor: the poor–rich gaps in coverage found along the continuum of care for women...

A charter to achieve health for all.

Delivery strategies to achieve therapeutic myocardial angiogenesis.

The use of recombinant genes or growth factors to enhance myocardial collateral blood vessel function may represent a new approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Proof of concept has been demonstrated in animal models of myocardial ischemia, and clinical trials are underway. Currently, it is unknown which is the safest and most effective delivery strategy to induce clinically impor...

Choosing Learning Strategies to Achieve Learning Goals

In open world applications a number of machine-learning techniques may potentially apply to a given learning situation. The research presented here illustrates the complexity involved in automatically choosing an appropriate technique in a multistrategy learning system. It also constitutes a step toward a general computational solution to the learning-strategy selection problem. The approach is...