An estimated 200 million children worldwide fail to meet their development potential due to poverty, poor health and unstimulating environments. Missing developmental milestones has lasting effects on adult human capital. Africa has a large burden of risk factors for poor child development. The objective of this paper is to identify scope for improvement at the country level in three domains--n...

This paper surveys the literature on how democracy affects economic growth. The paper first presents descriptive statistics and brief case-descriptions to illustrate how democracy and dictatorship may affect growth. Thereafter, the paper evaluates five central arguments on democracy and growth, before it surveys empirical studies on the relationship. Furthermore, the paper highlights critical m...

Rudimentary studies on aspects of biochemistry in India date back to 1927. But, in the field of Immunology, such studies were started by scholars only during early 1970s at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Science and Technology was not an immediate priority until 1961 due to domestic and political conditions in the country. We were then 11 years old since independ...

The dental profession is a noble profession. It takes years of devotion towards the subject of dentistry to get the graduate degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. However, even after such painstaking efforts the current situation of dental graduates in India is grave. There are a lot of issues that are the main cause for this problem. The dental graduates are in a state of crisis due to lack of...

The Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), colloquially labeled the “drone,” has become iconic of American military campaigns this century. However, with surging demand for RPA combat operations, the United States Air Force (USAF) has struggled to train and retain sufficient manpower to operate these aircraft. Earlier efforts to address this challenge relied on military intuition and subjective input...

INTRODUCTION The maldistribution of health care workers is a near-universal problem, particularly in developing countries. Shortages have become most critical over the past 2 decades with both out-migration of health care workers from developing to developed countries, and intra-country disparities between urban centres and rural regions. A variety of solutions have been proposed and tried, but...

In a graded manpower system, an apparently sensible transition rate may, in due course, show a tendency for certain grades to grow at the expenses of others. Achieving operational objectives in manpower planning is of paramount importance. A typical objective may be to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost. Therefore a certain d...

EDITORS Gary K. Belanger Steven Chussid Robert O. Cooley Jeffrey A. Dean Robert J. Henry Sharon D. Hill Stuart D. Josell Hannelore T. Loevy Michael J. Kanellis James W. Preisch 13arbara L. Sheller John 13. Thornton Child Health Advocate James J. Crall OFFICERS President Arthur J. Nowak President-Elect Jasper L. Lewis Jr. Vice-President Charles R. Hall Secretary-Treasurer Robert A. Boraz Parliam...

OBJECTIVE To examine the magnitude and determinants of job satisfaction in nurses working in Ministry of Health hospitals Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS A modified version of the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire is used to survey 500 nurses in 9 Ministry of Health hospitals in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Three hundred and sixty six nurses from different nationalities re...