How to help

How to help teachers' voices.

It has been shown that teachers are at high risk of developing occupational dysphonia, and it has been widely accepted that the vocal characteristics of a speaker play an important role in determining the reactions of listeners. The functions of breathing, breathing movement, breathing tonus, voice vibrations and articulation tonus are transmitted to the listener. So we may conclude that listen...

Can Social Contagion Help Global Health ‘Jump the Shark’?; Comment on “How to Facilitate Social Contagion?”

The instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the Millennium project. In asking, ‘How to facilitate social contagion?’, Karl Blanchet of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...

How to help, and how not to help, the poor in the megacities of the South

Generalising about urban governance and the urban poor across most of the globe is unhelpful. Unfortunately, I see far too many current examples of that disease. Latin America is not China and is most certainly not like most of Africa or the Indian subcontinent. A recent paper in this journal argued that every city in the South suffers from poor and corrupt management. While accepting that such...

How to Help Men with LUTS Help Themselves - Executive Summary

Dr. Robert Star welcomed participants and introduced the theme of the meeting. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is a condition that affects the physical and mental well-being of a substantial percentage of the male population, especially those in their middle and later years. Although traditional treatments have focused on the association of LUTS with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), newe...

How to help a battered woman.