The US healthcare system is experiencing a funding shortfall that constrains efforts to provide healthcare to our citizens. Patients are no longer sure they will receive adequate healthcare during their senior years. One solution is to create an annuity at birth for each individual. This annuity...

This paper describes a multi-year attempt to develop, implement and maintain an evidence-based international clinical decision support system for preventing and treating chronic wounds. Incidental to implementation efforts, over 37,000 wound assessments, risk assessments and treatment events...

As an object of public management, Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) is characterised by a high level of uncertainty and complexity. The paper argues that to cope with the phenomenon of STI as a coherent area of policy formulation and regulation, a balancing of rational-, reflexive- and...

Private insurance is a good method to cope with the disasters in regard to the developing countries. But this insurance has to be combined with solidarity and public intervention in order to guarantee a real security. The paper presents this argument according to the theory of human rights and...

This article proposes a five years assessment of the efforts undertaken by the African countries to answer Dakar commitment on the six objectives of Education For All, with a focus on the millenium development goal relating to the universal primary schooling by 2015. If the progress recorded...

Este trabajo presenta la metodología de las Cuentas Nacionales de Salud (CNS) y su importancia en el diseño de políticas en la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC). Después de presentar el significado el concepto de las CNS y de resaltar algunos de los resultados recientes en los...

This paper discusses how antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect...

Public sector R&D in India has recorded a negative growth since 1991. Although there has been an increase in private sector investment in R and D, this cannot completely arrest the impact of the withdrawal of public investment and will result in a weaking of India's competitive strength in a...