in india, over the last decade, a series of stewardship failures in the health system, particularly in the medical profession, have led to a massive erosion of trust in these institutions. in many low- and middle-income countries (lmics), the situation is similar and has reached crisis proportions; this crisis requires urgent attention. this paper draws on the insights from the recent developme...

Stepped care approaches for mandated college students provide individual brief motivational interventions (BMI) only for individuals who do not respond to an initial, low-intensity level of treatment such as Brief Advice (BA). However, how BMIs facilitate change in this higher-risk group of mandated students remains unclear. Perceived descriptive norms and alcohol-related expectancies are the m...

This is the first randomized trial testing whether heavy-drinking undergraduates mandated to the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) program following a campus alcohol violation would benefit as much as heavy-drinking volunteers up to 1 year postintervention using control groups with high-risk drinkers to model disciplinary-related and naturalistic changes in ...

The Brazilian legislation did not recognize pharmaceutical patents for products and processes up until 1996, an exemption which started in 1945 for products and 1969, for processes. In this period, the domestic companies freely reproduced medicines developed by large companies from abroad and commercialized them in the local market with their own trademarks. They applied considerable efforts an...

Recuperação relativa (Re) é uma das principais preocupações de microdiálise, uma técnica de amostragem acessível que pode coletar continuamente drogas livres no sangue e na maioria dos tecidos. Para uma determinada sonda de microdiálise, a recuperação de cada composto desta sonda está relacionada às características estruturais e propriedades físico-químicas se as condições experimentais estão e...

Understanding performance measures’ place in effecting program change requires examining them relation to other structural elements and the interpretive meanings attached them. Framed using structuration theory, this paper utilizes interviews with professionals homelessness field analyze how administrators make sense of objectives associated federally-funded permanent supportive housing (PSH). ...