Beyond Bangladesh, OECD countries must act to save lives in the garment industry

Driving dangerously to save lives.

Correspondence: Samrat Sinha, MA, PhD Centre for Study of Political Violence Jindal School of International Affairs Sonipat Narela Road Sonipat, Haryana 131001 NCR of Delhi, India E-mail: [email protected] The article ‘‘In the Line of Duty: A Study of Ambulance Drivers During the 2010 Conflict in Kashmir’’ provides critical insights into the nature of risks faced by local health care workers...

Telecommunication Industry and Productivity Convergence in the Oecd Countries

The telecommunication industry appears one of the driving force of the new economy, which is characterized by the diffusion of, information and communication technologies and their applications. So, the analysis of the productivity evolution in the telecommunication industry, for different countries, is the first step to understand the productive patterns of the national economies. In particula...

Can lean save lives?

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to show how over the last 18 months Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust have been exploring whether or not lean methodologies, often known as the Toyota Production System, can indeed be applied to healthcare. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH This paper is a viewpoint. FINDINGS One's early experience is that lean really can save lives. The Toyota Production System is a...

Does Medicare save Lives?

Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. We measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admission rates on weekdays and weekends. The age profiles of admissions and comorbidities for these patients are smooth at age 65, suggesting that the severity of...

Immunizations save lives!