Health divide at the polls

Bridging the Health Data Divide

Fundamental quality, safety, and cost problems have not been resolved by the increasing digitization of health care. This digitization has progressed alongside the presence of a persistent divide between clinicians, the domain experts, and the technical experts, such as data scientists. The disconnect between clinicians and data scientists translates into a waste of research and health care res...

Endogenous State Weakness in Violent Democracies: Paramilitaries at the Polls

State weakness can be self-reinforcing through electoral channels. Paramilitaries flourish where states are incapable of eliminating oppositional foes like insurgencies; paramilitaries can also, we argue, penetrate the state via elections and further weaken it from within. The state may thus tolerate paramilitaries initially, but find itself unable to eliminate them later. Rio de Janeiro’s poli...

Bridging the language divide in health

Improving quality: bridging the health sector divide.

ISSUE All too often, quality assurance looks at just one small part of the complex system that is health care. However, evidently each individual patient has one set of experiences and outcomes, often involving a range of health professionals in a number of settings across multiple sectors. ADDRESSING THE ISSUE In order to solve the problems of this complexity, we need to establish high-quali...

The realities behind the polls.