This paper describes a research project that addresses the difficulties in dealing with regulatory documents such as national and regional codes. These documents tend to be voluminous, heavily cross-referenced, possibly ambiguous and even conflicting at times. There are often multiple documents that need to be consulted and satisfied; however it is a difficult task to locate all of the relevant...

The Joint External Evaluation (JEE), a consolidation of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR 2005) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and the Global Health Security Agenda country assessment tool, is an objective, voluntary, independent peer-to-peer multisectoral assessment of a country's health security preparedness and response capacity across 19 IHR...

IntroductIon At present in China, hospital‐based dialysis facilities are fully occupied, while the number of community hemodialysis (HD) centers is growing. In December 2016, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China (NHFPC) set up “the regulations for the basic standard and the management of hemodialysis center,”[1] which are the unified principles of the nation, as the mark ...

national drug policy (ndp) constitutes the specification of mid-term and long-term pharmaceutical objectives by the government and the determination of major strategies warranted to achieve such objectives. stated in other words, ndp determines the frameworks for the pharmaceutical activities of private and state sectors. the specification of these policies and strategies will be an effective m...

Reforming the criminal application legislation in national legal system is critical. This research uses paradigm of constructivism and type used juridical-sociological. Criminal law enforcement regulations are currently still scattered various laws regulations, it not impossible that they will disrupt system, especially implementation decisions/actions. Character building an effort to establish...

The need to establish conditions for safe irradiation was noted in Poland back in 1986 in the Atomic Law, but for over 16 years no regulations regarding this aspect were passed. The radiological incident in Bialystok (Poland) in 2001 undeniably accelerated the implementation of new legal regulations. Nevertheless, in the absence of national guidelines until 2002, most health care institutions r...

Achieving an adequate indoor acoustic comfort environment is one of the main priorities to avoid adverse effects caused by noise. Façades are constructive elements most likely be retrofitted due their delimiting function between and outdoor space. This study compares façade requirements established for new existing buildings in current national building regulations. The assessment regulations a...

This paper attempts to answer two questions. Why did state governments begin to regulate the food and drug industry in late 19 century America? And why did the federal government become the ultimate regulator of the food and drug industry in the early 20 century? I argue that state government regulation emerged as a response to high transaction costs (specifically information costs) in the mark...

Cyanotoxins are now recognised by international and national health and environment agencies as significant health hazards. These toxins, and the cells which produce them, are also vulnerable to exploitation for illegitimate purposes. Cyanotoxins are increasingly being subjected to national and international guidelines and regulations governing their production, storage, packaging and transport...

A 20-year-old, healthy man, who four years earlier had lost a kidney in a skiing accident, applied for a medical fitness certificate for service on board German flag vessels. Under reference to national and international regulations he was initially turned down, but attained permission to sail on appeal. We discuss the justification of denying persons with a single, well-functioning kidney the ...