Incumbent prime ministers who win re-election often reshuffle their cabinet ministers. These post-election reshuffles have important implications for policymaking and present a puzzle: why would alter the ‘winning team’ that has just received an electoral mandate? Existing literature largely overlooked reshuffles, so offers few compelling answers. At most, plausible but under-theorised untested...

The title for the conference has caused me a little dissonance. In the mental health field, which is the focus for this presentation, Ministers announced earlier in the year that care in the community is to be ‘scrapped’. As a result of what they perceive to be the ‘failure’ of the system of support, the previous Government’s policy of community-based mental health care is no longer to be given...

www.thelancet.com Vol 368 December 2, 2006 1947 those involved in neglected tropical diseases, and the private sector. After the review, the African Ministers of Health made the Yaoundé Declaration (panel). The declaration also welcomes the longstanding commitment of donors and NGDOs to onchocerciasis control and the pledge of Merck to provide ivermectin for as long as is needed. It also urged ...

1. Policy makers as well as the public devote considerable attention to the outcomes of higher education. For some aspects of higher education outputs and outcomes, such as the type and number of degrees awarded, the research outputs produced or the labour-market returns to higher education studies, numerous indicators exist at both national and international levels. However, for other aspects,...