Strengthening Epidemiological Studies through Research

Strengthening Research through Data Sharing.

Strengthening health systems through embedded research

87 Realizing the health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs) requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. To address gaps in health service delivery, we need evidence on which government agencies, research institutions, donors and civil society can act.1 Unless research is relevant to specific health systems, the evidence that it generates can be dismissed by policy-makers.2 Fo...

Epidemiological research methods. Part IV. Case-control studies.

Cases* Controlst Total instead, available lists (cancer registers, admissions to hospital, notifications or registered deaths) are used, but then one cannot be sure that all cases have been assembled-for example a list of hospital admissions for ischaemic heart disease or for traumatic brain injuries would exclude deaths before' admission as well as mild episodes either not treated or treated b...

Strengthening Schedules Through Uncertainty Analysis

In this paper, we describe an approach to scheduling under uncertainty that achieves scalability through a coupling of deterministic and probabilistic reasoning. Our specific focus is a class of oversubscribed scheduling problems where the goal is to maximize the reward earned by a team of agents in a distributed execution environment. There is uncertainty in both the duration and outcomes of e...

Strengthening Instrumental Variables through Weighting

Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used to deal with the issue of unmeasured confounding and are becoming popular in health and medical research. IV models are able to obtain consistent estimates in the presence of unmeasured confounding, but rely on assumptions that are hard to verify and often criticized. An instrument is a variable that influences or encourages individuals toward ...