Shifting from fossil to renewable energy sources is a major global challenge, and in this context, the European Union has promoted sustainable environmentally friendly growth as early Maastricht Treaty of 1992. To date, institutions have promulgated series environmental regulations directives aimed at promoting imposing adoption by member states internal regulations. This paper focused on Weste...

a World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for the Western Pacifi c, Manila, Philippines. doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2010.1.1.007 The Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (WPSAR) Journal was established to encourage countries in the Western Pacific Region to share information on the surveillance of and response to public health events specific to this Region. An important step in surveillance is...

Many western industrialized countries are currently suffering from a crisis in health human resources, one that involves a debate over the recruitment and licensing of foreign-trained doctors and nurses. The intense public policy interest in foreign-trained medical personnel, however, is not new. During the 1960s, western countries revised their immigration policies to focus on highly-trained p...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical features of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) in hospitalized Chinese patients, and their differences compared with western countries. METHODS Four hundred and eight hospitalized patients with ALD at First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, from January 2008 to December 2010 were studied retrospectively. Clinical data we...

For two decades crime rates, particularly for violent crimes, have been declining across the globe. Homicide rates, the best-measured violent crime, are down by 50% or more in many Western European countries and in the US. The crime drop is not limited to wealthy western countries. Over the past 20 years the homicide rate in large numbers of developing countries has declined by two-thirds or more.

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. The paper of Rasyid et al. (2009) in this issue of Acta Ortho-paedica addresses a problem that is important for those who treat bone and joint infections in developing...

The analysis of innovation in Western Balkan countries in 2012 Slobodan Cvetanovic, Danijela Despotović, Igor Mladenović & Dušanka Jovović To cite this article: Slobodan Cvetanovic, Danijela Despotović, Igor Mladenović & Dušanka Jovović (2014) The analysis of innovation in Western Balkan countries in 2012, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 27:1, 830-846, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.97492...

This report presents the available evidence on the magnitude of micronutrient deficiencies in countries in the Western Pacific Region (WPR), identifies nutrient inadequacies per capita per day based on 1999 Food Balance Sheet data and the steps required to alleviate these inadequacies through micronutrient fortification of food. Suitable food vehicles for fortification within each country are a...