Abdominal Crises 1

Managing Toronto citywide health crises through 2-1-1 services.

Information and referral systems such as 2-1-1 can be key partners in responding to community-wide health crises and other emergency and disaster events. This paper describes the experience of Toronto 2-1-1 dealing with the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and later that year the Great Northeastern Blackout. It shares five lessons learned from these experiences and describ...

Financial Crises and Political Crises∗

The simultaneous determination of financial default and political crises is studied in an open economy model. Political crises accompany default in equilibrium because of an information transmission conflict between the government and the public. Multiple equilibria are possible: if foreign lenders are pessimistic about the country’s stability, they demand a high interest on the debt, exacerbat...

Appendix to "Financial Crises and Political Crises"

PBE Type i: Neither default nor political crisis If V ≤ χL, the costs of default are always larger than the costs of servicing the debt even for the benevolent government. Then in equilibrium, the government proposes to service the debt, which is accepted by the representative agent. Hence the debt is repaid and political crisis is avoided. Neither the benevolent government nor the self interes...

1 Capital Controls and Crises : Theory and Experience

Oculogyric Crises

BACKGROUND Oculogyric crises are involuntary movements of the eyeballs and can occur due to different etiologies. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN This video abstract shows a man with oculogyric crises due to side effect of neuroleptics. EDUCATIONAL VALUE Oculogyric crises are easy to recognize if once seen.