"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as...

The present analysis, which exploits one of the first empirical data collected from smallholders in Sierra Leone since the end of the civil war, compares the impact of two poverty reduction strategies targeting smallholders in Sierra Leone: support to rice production is compared with support to...

Health surveillance can be viewed as an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for use in planning, implementation, and evaluation of a given health system, in potentially multiple spheres (ex: animal, human, environment). As we move into a sophisticated...

Mit der Gründung der WTO am 1.1.1995 trat das TRIPS-Übereinkommen in Kraft. Es verpflichtet alle WTO Mitglieder zur Umsetzung von Rechten zum Schutze des geistigen Eigentums, welche dem Niveau industrialisierter Staaten nahezu entsprechen. Die Stärkung internationaler Immaterialgüterrechte...

Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...

Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...

The purpose of this study was to show how information from the District Health Information System can be used to empower managers to make evidence-based decisions that will strengthen the health care system to reduce the under-five mortality rate.A quantitative, contextual, exploratory...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Innovationsprozessen der medizintechnischen Industrie in Deutschland am Beispiel der bildgebenden Verfahren. Einen geeigneten Analyserahmen, um die komplexen Verflechtungen und Erfolgs-determinanten zu erfassen, bietet der Clusteransatz Michael Porters. Der...