WOULD YOU SPEND MONEY TODAY TO MAKE THE WORLD A SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER PLACE FOR YOUR children and grandchildren? Most of us would. But what if the benefi t would accrue only to your great-great-great-great-grandchildren, not born until the 22nd century? That’s an awfully distant time horizon for most people. Many would probably spend today’s resources on more immediate concerns. Economists model...

The global community should be outraged by the millions of children that either die or are disabled each year because of malnutrition. We know how to prevent and treat it. The missing link is the political will to place nutrition squarely on the development agenda and to commit the necessary resources to implement programs, particularly food fortification, that we know can deliver sustainable i...

I am and always have been in complete favour of investing in general practice to expand capacity to manage both urgent care and planned care that presents to us increasingly in our work. To that extent Dr Baker and the RCGP are uncontroversial in wishing to have an 11% increase in investment. Indeed I have suggested a 12% shift of resources to primary care. Where the RCGP and its leadership are...

The educational landscape of the United States has shifted as more low-income, first-generation Latinx students enroll in 4-year universities. Despite this, many underlying structures and practices these institutions still reflect cultural norms culturally dominant groups (e.g., White, upper-to-middle-class, continuing-generation), privileging individualism. This overlooks values students, who ...

Abdul Moiz Khan The problems of the overwhelming amount of medical literature have been thoughtfully highlighted in the PLoS Medicine editorial “Drowning or Thirsting: The Extremes of Availability of Medical Information” [1]. It is of vital importance to medical professionals that they improve on their skills of sifting through the huge amounts of literature that are made available to them ever...

field. Impact investing is on the rise as it allows one to receive financial returns while also attending to some of our largest social and environmental problems. To give a proper review, this paper discusses the current state of impact investing, the six dimensions that compose impact investing, the Framework of Action based on impact investment research, recommendations to enhance the field ...

OBJECTIVES This paper reflects on the role of open source in health information system interoperability. Open source is a driving force in computer science research and the development of information systems. It facilitates the sharing of information and ideas, enables evolutionary development and open collaborative testing of code, and broadens the adoption of interoperability standards. In he...

contrarian and momentum investing strategies are two techniques which are used in stock markets to enhance portfolio return. contrarian investing strategy states that stocks which had better performances in the past should be sold and stocks that had poor performances should be bought. in practice, this strategy is used for a package of stocks and for portfolio formation. the main objective of ...