1) Introduction. a) Information and meanings are present everywhere around us as well as within ourselves. b) Specific studies have been implemented in order to link information and meaning: Semiotics, Biosemiotics. Analytic Philosophy, Linguistics, Phenomenology. Psychology. c) No general coverage is available for the notion of meaning. d) We propose to fill this lack by a systemic approach to...

We consider the construction of set estimators that possess both Bayesian credibility and frequentist coverage properties. We show that under mild regularity conditions there exists a prior distribution that induces (1 − α) frequentist coverage of a (1 − α) credible set. In contrast to the previous literature, this result does not rely on asymptotic normality or invariance, so it can be applied...

Background Military conflict has been an ongoing determinant of inequitable immunisation coverage in many low- and middle-income countries, yet the impact of conflict on the attainment of global health goals has not been fully addressed. This review will describe and analyse the association between conflict, immunisation coverage and vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks, along with...

In responses to Norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from Thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (UHC) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by one of the three public health insurance systems. This commentary aims to generate global discussions on how best UHC can be gradually achieve...