Governance Implications Of Global Infectious Disease Epidemics Under Shared Health Governance Scheme. Lessons From Sars

The world is becoming flat. With the progress of globalization and world integration, the past century has witnessed a growing number of emerging and reemerging diseases. It has become a common concern the world will face a deadly infectious disease pandemic and the international community needs to set up a functional system to face up the challenge. Over the past decade, outbreaks of SARS, H5N1 and H1N1 pandemic have raised concern among public health officials and the public in general on the need of global and local pandemic control. Infectious agents have been able to take advantage of the dramatic population flow, facilitated by the advance in transportation, to reach out to every inch of land on the planet. Diseases no longer respect nation boundaries and no single country are able to handle infectious epidemics. All has pointed to an urgent need of better governance in globalized infectious disease transmission. As complex as the epidemic itself, infectious disease control presents significant governance challenges. World Health Organization (WHO) is created with a mandate to be a world governor of health. However in this post-Westphalia international regime, states still have the residual power in governance and without a real functioning world government, the role of WHO as a leader in controlling global infectious diseases is limited. It is thus crucial to answer the question of how nation states and WHO should place themselves in the architecture of global epidemics control. This paper will examine the role of nation states and global health agencies, taking China and WHO as respective examples, in preparedness and response to the SARS epidemics. It will further compare the specific strengthens of each player in containing global infectious disease outbreaks under a shared health governance scheme

Mr. Perfect

This graduate thesis film, Mr. Perfect is a 21-minute feature film. As the progress of economic, science and education in modern society, women\u27s lives are changing. Their become to be more ambitious in career; they started to try different ways of division of work in family; they get higher vision for life, especially for marriage. However, in such a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-pressure, and high-energy environment, successful businesswomen become very tired and begin to lose themselves in the life of substance and money unconsciously. Under certain situations, a great number of them still remain single to an old age after achieving their materialistic goals. This story is about a successful woman, a typical example, but even more than that, a narrative film, which shows her outlook on life and sense of values. The film was shot in HD format using DSLR camera, Canon 5D Mark II, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Pro Tools. This paper discusses the whole production processes, goals, and the actual legwork from its original conceptions to the film\u27s first official screening at RIT

Labor market segregation and the wage differential between resident and migrant workers in China

This thesis looks at the effect of industrial and occupational segregation on the wage differential between resident and migrant workers in China. It extends the work of Meng and Zhang (2001) by considering the possible employment segregation of resident and migrant workers by both industry and occupation. I contend that industry segregation is at least as important as occupational segregation for Chinese migrant workers, as most migrant workers in China have come from the countryside to fuel the booming labor-intensive manufacturing and construction industries in the cites. Due to the hukou policy (a household registration system) in China, migrant workers normally face more constraints in searching for jobs in other sectors. My empirical study confirms that the proportion of the resident-migrant worker wage differential that is explained by industrial segregation is much larger than that explained by occupational segregation. Taking both industrial and occupational segregation into account explains the substantial wage differential between resident and migrant workers, which indicates the influence of industrial and occupational barriers on the wage differential in China

Inmunonutrición para pacientes sometidos a cirugía electiva de cáncer de cabeza y cuello vs nutrición enteral estándar

 The purpose of this literature review is to examine the most recent scientific evidence on the effect and real benefits, in postoperative recovery, of enteral immunonutrition vs. standard formulas in the postoperative period in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing elective surgery. The main bibliographical sources, of high scientific impact, have been retrieved from databases such as Medline (PubMed), Cochrane Library, Elsevier, Scielo and main oncological medical societies such as SEOM, NIH and clinical guides as ESPEN. There is a great heterogeneity between the results examined from the different reviews and meta-analyses, on the effect of immunonutrition on postoperative complications. In general, the findings indicate a benefit in the use of immunonutrition, however, for head and neck cancerthey are based on poorqualityevidence due to numerous limitations, so the scientific community has notyetfound a consensus common. A more prolific investigation could confirm such results with greater benefits, for patient survival and, consequently, a shorter hospital stay, which would consequently entailless in the costs of the health system.La finalidad de esta revisión bibliográfica es examinar la evidencia científica más reciente sobre el efecto y los reales beneficios, en la recuperación postoperatoria, de la inmunonutrición enteral respecto a las fórmulas estándar, en pacientes que padecen cáncer de cabeza y cuello, sometidos a cirugía electiva. Las principales fuentes bibliográficas de elevado impacto científico, se han rescatado a partir de bases de datos como Medline, PubMed, Biblioteca Cochrane, Elsevier, Scielo y principales sociedades médicas oncológicas como: SEOM, NIH y guías clínicas como ESPEN. Existe una gran heterogeneidad entre los resultados examinados de las diferentes revisiones y metaanálisis, sobre el efecto de la inmunonutrición en las complicaciones postoperatorias. En general, los hallazgos indican un beneficio en el uso de la inmunonutrición, sin embargo, para el cáncer de cabeza y cuello se basan en evidencia de calidad deficiente por numerosas limitaciones, por lo que la comunidad científica no ha encontrado todavía un consenso común. Una investigación más prolífica podría confirmar tales resultados con mayores beneficios para la supervivencia del paciente y, consecuentemente, una menor estancia hospitalaria, que gravaría menos en los costes del sistema sanitario

Transient epileptic amnesia: an emerging late-onset epileptic syndrome.

Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) is a distinct neurologic condition occurring in late-middle/old age and presenting with amnesic attacks of epileptic nature and interictal memory disturbances. For many years this condition has been associated with the nonepileptic condition of transient global amnesia (TGA) and still today is poorly recognized by clinicians. Despite the clinical and laboratory findings that distinguish TEA from TGA, differential diagnosis may be difficult in the individual patient. Every effort must be employed for an early diagnosis, since antiepileptic treatment may readily control both ictal episodes and memory disturbances

The Anisotropic Convexity of Domains and the Boundary Estimate for Two Monge-Amp\`ere Equations

We study the exact effect of the anisotropic convexity of domains on the boundary estimate for two Monge-Amp\`ere Equations: one is singular which is from the proper affine hyperspheres with constant mean curvature; the other is degenerate which is from the Monge-Amp\`ere eigenvalue problem. As a result, we obtain the sharp boundary boundary estimates and the optimal global H\"older regularity for the two equations

The minimum wage, inequality and employment in China

This study looks at the welfare implications of the minimum wage in China, and covers three topics: the minimum wage and wage inequality, the minimum wage and employment, and the minimum wage and the gender wage gap. The main finding is that the welfare implications of the minimum wage in China are mixed, with both positive and negative welfare effects. Four main conclusions are reached. Firstly, minimum wages can effectively reduce overall wage inequality at the municipal level (despite non-compliance) through raising individual wages at the lower end of the wage distribution. Secondly, minimum wages generally have significantly negative effects on urban employment with some indication of more marked effects for traditionally disadvantaged groups such as youth, older workers, and women. Thirdly, minimum wages significantly raise women’s wages relative to men’s at the lower quantiles of wage distribution, thus reducing the gender wage gap. Together with the second result, this means that the minimum raises women’s relative wages, while lowering their employment. Fourthly, these three results are especially robust during 2004-2007, when the minimum wage system was reinforced