Research and development and the polio eradication initiative: too much, too soon...too little, too late?

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy and Practice; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

Far too often, there is a gap between research and policy and practice. Too much research is undertaken with little relevance to real life problems or its reported in ways that are obscure and impenetrable. At the same time, many policies are developed and implemented but are untouched by, or even contrary to evidence. An accompanying paper describes an innovative progr...

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES Ways of understanding the origins of the modern world

I will first take a 'shopping list' approach, whereby each of the main spheres is looked at. This may suggest a list of ingredients or common features, and hence "necessary causes". But more fruitful than this is probably to see how the ingredients were mixed, their relationship to each other. As in cooking, capitalism is not merely a matter of ingredients, it is the mixing of the ingredients, ...

Too much, too little, too late: treating status epilepticus without coma induction?

Public health response to the obesity epidemic: too soon or too late?

Public health actions in response to new threats are often taken despite uncertainty about the efficacy of the action. The challenge, then, is to make ongoing judgments about whether actions are taken too soon, before a sufficient understanding of the efficacy of interventions is known, or too late, after much of the prevention potential is lost. The ongoing obesity epidemic presents exactly th...

بررسی آثار تجارت خارجی بر رشد اقتصادی ایران

Foreign trade and its relation to economic growth is one of the very controversial subjects especially when it comes to choose among the development strategies in the developing countries, and still there is no consensus among economists as to how trade policies are related to economic growth rate. In the modern theories and endogenous growth models, international trade economic openness affect...