I propose dealing almost exclusively with some methodological aspects of the National Nutrition Survey from the narrowly statistical point of view, leaving statistical inferences and general comments on the results to other speakers. The Central Statistics Office was privileged to collaborate with the Department of Health, but not in so intimate a way as to render it unbecoming for us to congra...

Surgery has the potential to address one of the largest, neglected burdens of disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) has provided a blueprint for a systems approach to making safe emergency and elective surgery accessible and affordable and has started to enable African governments to develop n...

Xylitol has most commonly been studied in chewing gum, with just a few studies looking at its action in toothpaste, mouthrinse, or tablets. Most of the studies have been done in children, with fewer studies in adults. Very little has been done to look at effects of xylitol in patients over 65 or root surfaces (Makinen, et.al 1995b). There is an abundance of available evidence on xylitol’s actio...

EUROPLAN (http://www.europlanproject.eu) is a three year EU funded project (2008-2011) coordinated by the Italian National Centre for Rare Diseases (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy), which involves 30 Countries and EURORDIS. The Council Recommendations on European Action in the field of Rare Diseases (RD) which was adopted by the EU Council in June 2009 calls upon Member States to adopt Nat...

In 2015 the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) argued that surgical care is important to national health systems along with the economic viability of countries. Gajewski and colleagues outlined how the Commission’s blueprint has been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa, including two funded research projects that were integrated into national surgical plans. Here...

The prevalence of narrow provider networks on the ACA Marketplace is trending down. In 2017, 21% of plans had narrow networks, down from 25% in 2016. The largest single factor was that 70% of plans from National carriers exited the market and these plans had narrower networks than returning plans. Exits account for more than half of the decline in the prevalence of narrow networks, with the res...