What have been done, What should be done.

Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?

T he theory of price indexes is usually left to specialists, but when a suspicion that something has gone wrong is coupled with the possibility of large political and fiscal benefits from fixing it, the topic can move into the limelight. I suspect that much of the profession, like me, is now prepared to believe that, in some sense, the rate of growth of the Consumer Price Index likely overstate...

"What went well"? "What could have been done better"?

http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Evaluations of the processes involved in an intervention are similar to the way in which diagnoses and treatments are defined in clinical medicine. Diagnoses and interventions cannot be accomplished without knowing the physiology/pathophysiology of the organ system(s) involved. Therapy is directed at the pathophysiology. As noted in...

Thalassemia Premarital Screening Program: Public View, What has been Done, What Needs to be Done?

Premarital screening (PMS) can be an important tool to detect of carriers of hemoglobinopathies. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitude of premarital couples about Thalassemia before PMS in Denizli province. This cross-sectional study was conducted between August-December 2013. The target population was all premarital couples who applied to the City Hemoglobinopathy Cont...

What should be done in acute emergencies?

SIR—Davis (Sept 28, p 868) convincingly challenges the assumption that children under age 5 years can be singled out as the most vulnerable group during acute emergencies and that, as a result, emergency public health interventions can be reduced to a standard package of child survival measures. We have witnessed in refugee camps how such focused strategies channelled a disproportionate share o...

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