In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

PURPOSE Hypothetico-deductive reasoning (HDR) is an essential learning activity and a learning outcome in problem-based learning (PBL). It is important for medical students to engage in the HDR process through argumentation during their small group discussions in PBL. This study aimed to analyze the quality of preclinical medical students' argumentation according to each phase of HDR in PBL. ...

A simple proof of the asymptotic formula for the ruin probability of a risk process with a positive constant interest force [derived earlier by Asmussen (Asmussen, S., 1998. The Annals of Applied Probability 8, 354–374)] is given. The proof is based on a formula obtained by Sundt and Teugels (Sundt, B., Teugels, J.L., 1995. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 16, 7–22). © 2000 Elsevier Science...

This article reports physician-based measures of access to care during the 3 years surrounding the 1989 physician payment reforms. Analysis was facilitated by a new system of physician identifiers in Medicare claims. Access measures include caseload per physician and related measures of the demographic composition of physicians' clientele, the proportion of physicians performing surgical and ot...

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