Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring

Analysing the Stewardship Function in Botswana’s Health System: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future

Background In many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: Efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. While a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future

It is with great excitement that we look forward to the New Year at Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances. As the International Year of Crystallography draws to a close, we were delighted to read in the Nature that crystallography was well represented. We were even more excited to find that a full seven of the top 100 articles were published in IUCr journals, and of these, ...

Looking from the Past to the Future

J STOR is successful for reasons its founders did not intend. Bill Bowen's inspired vision was of a solution to libraries' ever-voracious demands for space to house paper volumes. The idea was that libraries could save space by removing volumes available in electronic format. Few libraries have discarded the volumes digitised in JSTOR, but many libraries without the paper volumes have been able...

Reflecting on the past, looking to the future.

analysing the stewardship function in botswana’s health system: reflecting on the past, looking to the future

background in many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. the world health organization (who) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. while a number of studies on health systems functions have be...