Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Introduction of an objective structured clinical exam on midwifery life saving skills, and examinees satisfaction

Introduction. Training midwives on life saving skills is one of the most important strategies in preventing maternal and neonatal mortality, especially in areas that physicians are absent. The effectiveness of each training program must be evaluated. Objective structured clinical evaluation can be applied to evaluate the learner skill improvement on special tasks with lowest skill evaluation bi...

Inequities in the Freedom to Lead a Flourishing and Healthy Life: Time for a Progressive Social Protections Framework; Comment on “Inequities in the Freedom to Lead a Flourishing and Healthy Life: Issues for Healthy Public Policy”

Evidence now shows that the key drivers of poor health are social factors, such as education, employment, housing and urban environments. Variations in these social factors—or the conditions in which we live our lives—have lead to a growth in health inequalities within and between countries. One of the key challenges facing those concerned with health equity is how to effect change across the b...

On Saving the Death Penalty: A Comment on Adam Gershowitz’s Statewide Capital Punishment

[Accidents from the viewpoint of protection and saving of life].

The cell phone effect on pedestrian fatalities

1366-5545/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tre.2008.08.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 973 353 5529; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (P 1 See Loeb et al. (1994) for a detailed review of th This paper examines the impact of cell phone usage on pedestrian fatalities in the United States using econometric models and specification error tests. The model makes u...