Addressing Fundamental Issues

A Response to the Commentary Entitled: “Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress”

(e) Alternative development; regional, inter- regional and international cooperation on development- oriented balanced drug control policy; addressing socioeconomic issues (i) Drugs, addressing socioeconomic issues and fostering alternative development, including preventive alternative development

Alternative Development (AD) continues to be recognized by Member States as a fundamental pillar of a comprehensive drug control strategy and plays an important role as a development oriented drug control approach. The concept of AD is much broader than just crop substitution and eradication, it also takes into account the various aspects of rural development and attempts to make structural cha...

Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress; Comment on “Have Health Human Resources Become More Equal between Rural and Urban Areas after the New Reform?”

Maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in China. Urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. To address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.

An Investigation of the Concept of an Ideal Family from Students’ Points of View

During the last decades many governments have used formal education as a fundamental instrument for educating children and teenagers in order to promote their personal and inter-personal skills and alleviate family-related problems. Nevertheless, due attention has not been paid to this vital issue in the Iranian education system and even Fundamental Reform Document of Education has emphasized a...

Dagstuhl Seminar on Naming and Addressing for Next Generation Internetworks

The design of naming and addressing for data networks is a fundamental architectural consideration, and several current or anticipated problems in the Internet – including mobility dynamics, forwarding table growth in the core routers, and security – point out possible limitations with naming and addressing schemes in use today. A seminar on the topic of naming and addressing for next generatio...

Successive refinement of video: fundamental issues, past efforts, and new directions

The paper provides an overview of the fundamental issues confronting scalable video compression, together with some of the most promising general approaches to addressing these issues. For motivation, the paper sketches a compelling application in remote browsing of video, whose realization is not possible without efficient highly scalable video compression technology. The paper outlines some o...