Reducing Risk Through Inversion and Self-Strengthening

Reducing Risk through Human Centred Design

The National Academy of Science’s report on Human-System Integration in the system development process (NAS HSI report) [12] explains how human needs can be integrated into system design using an incremental systems engineering development process that continually assesses risks at each phase of the system development. This paper suggests how appropriate Human Centred Design (HCD) methods can b...

Reducing liability risk through informed consent.

A new report by the American Medical Association reveals why medical liability claims are so devastating and costly for America's doctors: just over 42% of all physicians and an astonishing 57% of physicians in surgical subspecialties have been sued. Nearly 61% of physicians aged 55 or older have faced the ordeal of a lawsuit. But what if the specter of litigation could be reduced through bette...

Reducing International Risk through Quantity Contracts

We investigate a tool which small manufacturers engaging in international supply contracts can use to dampen the variations in their income caused by exchange rate uctuations. The method we study involves contractual speci cations for a minimum purchase quantity with the buyer. The particular case we consider is that of a smaller manufacturer providing a product to a large overseas corporation,...

Guest Editorial: Strengthening NCD prevention through risk factor surveillance

T he burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), especially heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease, is rising in low and middle-income countries, particularly in Asia (1). NCD deaths account for 60% of all deaths in the world and one in two deaths in the Asian region. Prevention programmes and policies are in their infancy in this region (2)...

Editorial: Biological Engagement Programs: Reducing Threats and Strengthening Global Health Security Through Scientific Collaboration