OBJECTIVES This study examines recently revised Korean government legislation addressing global infectious disease control for public health emergency situations, with the aim of proposing more rational, effective and realistic interpretations and applications for improvement of law. METHODS The Korea reported its first laboratory-confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coro...

INTRODUCTION For more than a decade, drug shortages have made headlines. Shortages also have forced P&T committees in many hospitals and health care delivery organizations to make contingency plans for providing safe and effective therapies when conventional and preferred drugs are not available. An article published in P&T in 2011 described several concerns associated with drug shortages and s...

A number of individuals and organizations have considerable influence over the selection of global health priorities and strategies. For some that influence derives from control over financial resources. For others it comes from expertise and claims to moral authority—what can be termed, respectively, epistemic and normative power. In contrast to financial power, we commonly take for granted th...

The complexity of criminal behaviour generates growing demand for methods that enable intelligence analyst trainees and professionals to make sense of the criminal system under study. Computational modelling appears to offer methods for investigation of criminal behaviour and assessment of intervention strategies that would otherwise require long, expensive, and often ineffective analysis. In t...

The aim of this paper is a theoretical study of a cache system in order to find a way for optimization of proxy systems and to modernize construction principles. Two types of the correlations, Zipf-like distribution and normalizing conditions, play a role of fundamental laws. Corresponding system of equations allows to describe basic effects like ratio between construction parts, steady-state p...