World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource manag...

BACKGROUND In Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies have reported an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) among people living with HIV. NCD management can be feasibly integrated into HIV care; however, clinic readiness to provide NCD services in these settings should first be assessed and gaps in care identified. METHODS A cross-sectional survey conducted in July 2013 as...

BACKGROUND Factitious disorder (FD) is the deliberate production or simulation of symptoms in order to adopt the sick role. OBJECTIVE The authors look at FD in the neurology setting. METHOD The authors examined documented, published cases. RESULTS FD cases in neurology are strikingly different from those in other specialties in terms of their demographics. Whereas the paradigm of FD in me...

Immigrant workers are a vulnerable and underserved population. The average life expectancy of the migrant worker is 49 years, compared to 77.2 years for most Americans. Immigrant workers have a higher disease burden than other populations and work in occupations with high hazard levels. In addition, they have low socioeconomic levels and face many barriers to accessing healthcare services. Undo...

The paper contributes to the literature on the post-communist political economy of protest, and specifically to the question how governments handle public discontent with the outcomes of transition. The paper argues that the current economic crisis disrupts a key element of the post-Soviet political economy, workplace welfare. In the pre-crisis past, workplace welfare was found to contain worke...

Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work,...