When the Public Speaks, Will Policy Makers Listen?

It's Time to Listen to the Dummy What It Means When the Modest Placebo Speaks.

The animus toward placebos arises from the notion that the symptoms they alleviate must belong mostly to psychosomatic illnesses. But lately the mindset that underlies placebo disparagement has been fading. The author talks with experts about placebo research, including implications for provider-patient encounters.

When policy makers begin hearing voices

One year ago, the Indian population stood at 1.027 billion, with 320 million Indian people (especially in rural areas) living below the Government of India’s official poverty line. Five hundred million people in India live on less than US$1/day, representing one third of the world’s poor people. India’s successes in poverty alleviation will seriously affect international success with internatio...

Who will speak, and who will listen? Comments on Burawoy and public sociology.

Scott (Sociology, University of Essex) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00073.x Who will speak, and who will li...

Transparency in Nigeria's public pharmaceutical sector: perceptions from policy makers

BACKGROUND Pharmaceuticals are an integral component of health care systems worldwide, thus, regulatory weaknesses in governance of the pharmaceutical system negatively impact health outcomes especially in developing countries 1. Nigeria is one of a number of countries whose pharmaceutical system has been impacted by corruption and has struggled to curtail the production and trafficking of subs...

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