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- World Development Report 2009
- Internet Symposium Approaches Assessment/Management: Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia
- 2007 Focused Update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
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Towards a new Global Social Contract
The protection of the weak and the vulnerable, the old, the very young and pregnant women, has been an ethical (and frequently religious) mandate in all human societies
Measuring ancient inequality, Vol. 1 of 1
Measuring ancient inequality, Vol. 1 of 1: "Summary: Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD, to Byzantium in 1000, to England in 1688, to Nueva España around 1790, to China in 1880 and to British India in 1947. It applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio. Rather than simply offering measures of actual inequality, the authors compare the latter with the maximum feasible inequality (or surplus) that could have been extracted by the elite. The results, especially when compared with modern poor countries, give new insights in to the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run."
Geography matters for development. Yet economic geography - that is, consideration of the "spatial" aspects that determine economic growth and the welfare of people - is seldomly taken into account in crafting development policy. In low and middle-income countries, as in rich countries, economic activity is increasingly concentrating in certain locations. However, this concentration is accompanied by sizeable—and increasing— disparities in living standards across villages, towns, cities and regions. Paradoxically, in a world which is rapidly globalizing, one of the most important determinants of well-being is still where a person is born: in which country, in what province within the country, and whether in a city or the countryside.
The 2009 World Development Report "Seeing Development in 3D" will argue that the concentration of economic activity is inevitable and even desirable for economic growth and the reduction of poverty. However, the large disparities in welfare levels between locations that often accompany this concentration are neither desirable nor inevitable. Motivated by the small differences in welfare observed in high-income countries despite the greater concentration of economic activity in these countries, the report examines whether convergence in the welfare of people across locations is a natural outcome of development, or whether there are policies governments can put in place to accelerate welfare convergence as economic activity concentrates.
Internet Symposium Approaches Assessment/Management: Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia
De: Prof. Dr. Antoni Bayes de Luna [mailto:info@myocardial.ischemia-symposium.org]
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2007 21:36
Para: achutti@cardiol.br
Assunto: ISHNE/ISCP Internet Symposium on Current Approaches for the Assessment andManagement of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia
We are pleased to welcome you to our exciting and unique international internet symposium entitled, "Current Approaches for the Assessment and Management of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia 2008." On behalf of the International Society for Holter and Non-Invasive Electrocardiology (ISHNE) and the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (ISCP), and my fellow course directors, Drs. Peter Stone from the US, Richard Verrier from the US, and Juan-Carlos Kaski from the UK, we invite you to participate in the many types of educational activities that are offered during this symposium, which will be available from January 15-31, 2008.
The symposium will include focus on the diagnosis, risk-stratification, and management of patients with coronary artery disease, and will include presentations and discussions concerning the surface ECG, Holter monitoring, T-wave alternans, exercise treadmill testing, and pharmacologic management of acute coronary syndromes, stable coronary disease, and secondary prevention. Many distinguished faculty members from around the world will be providing a broad range of interesting presentations. There will also be interviews and discussions on the web, with the opportunity for you to ask questions via e-mail and have an interactive discussion.
We are confident this symposium will be of interest to cardiovascular clinicians around the world. We look forward to having you join us in this innovative 21st century approach to net-based cardiology education!
Thank you.
Prof. Dr. Antoni Bayes de Luna, Spain.
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2007 Focused Update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines -- King et al., 10.1161/CIRCULATION
A primary challenge in the development of clinical practice guidelines is keeping pace with the stream of new data upon which recommendations are based. In an effort to respond more quickly to new evidence, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines has created a new "focused update" process to revise the existing guideline recommendations that are affected by evolving data or opinion. Before the initiation of this focused approach, periodic updates and revisions of existing guidelines required up to 3 years to complete. Now, however, new
evidence will be reviewed in an ongoing fashion to more efficiently respond to important science and treatment trends that could have a major impact on patient outcomes and quality of care. Evidence will be reviewed at least twice a year, and updates will be initiated on an as needed basis as quickly as possible while maintaining the rigorous methodology that the ACC and AHA have developed during their more than 20 years of partnership./.../
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 - TIME
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 - TIME: "50 Top 10 Lists of 2007"
Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva
Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva
A última edição de 2007 da Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva (RCBI) já está disponível on-line, nas versões em português e inglês. Concomitantemente ao lançamento da referida edição, estamos inaugurando mais uma nova ferramenta eletrônica: a newsletter da RCBI. A proposta, além de fazer com que esse periódico fique mais acessível, aproximando-o cada vez mais das comunidades médica e científica, tanto brasileiras como internacionais, é torná-lo referência da especialidade e de áreas afins. Esses boletins, inicialmente, terão periodicidade mensal, sempre trazendo destaques do conteúdo da RBCI.
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