This paper is intended to address the concepts and principles that underlie state of the environment reporting and indicators. The achievements in these two related fields of work vary from place to place, and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Overall, the work has not reached an even level of maturity, and innovations continue. Within North America, for example, these two fields of study have...

Human-centred design (HCD) approaches are adopted to develop digital agriculture interventions inclusively and responsibly. Whether these indeed lead responsible designs remains unclear, especially for low-income countries. Using a Rwandan case-study, we contribute debates on inclusive, participatory by developing framework operationalising HCD innovation in practice studying the process of des...

Everyone prescribing antibiotics should consider both their clinical and public health responsibilities. The objective should be to provide optimal patient care while at the same time seeking to minimize selective pressure that may result in the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. To this end, in 2008 the European Centre for Disease Control initiated the annual European Antibiotic Aw...

The Thailand Major Overseas Programme coordinates large multi-center studies in tropical medicine and generates vast amounts of data. As the data sharing movement gains momentum, we wanted to understand attitudes and experiences of relevant stakeholders about what constitutes good data sharing practice. We conducted 15 interviews and three focus groups discussions involving 25 participants and ...

Alcohol consumption is a common practice in both rural and urban societies in Nigeria. An estimate of about two billion people worldwide consumes alcohol with one-third of these consumers likely to suffer alcohol-related disorder. In 2000, alcohol-related ailments, accidents, violence and suicide led to 1.8 million deaths worldwide while in 2002, it was estimated to have caused 2.3 million prem...

Critical Care Medicine www.ccmjournal.org 2263 EARLY INTERVENTIONS IMPROVE OUTCOME Sepsis in the year 2016 remains the most expensive disease treated in hospitals and is the most common cause of in-hospital deaths in the United States (1). However, over the last 15 years, since the introduction of early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), there has been a consi...

The disproportionate suffering of the world's poor from AIDS and cancer has generated efforts to promote palliative care as an affordable alternative to expensive disease-modifying therapies. These well-intentioned efforts stem from a wish to respond to the suffering of the poor as quickly and widely as possible and from the view that only inexpensive interventions are feasible in poor settings...