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International comparisons carried out by the World Health Organization show that as long as psychiatrists from different countries are trained to interview patients using a standardized format, they can agree on who is suffering from schizophrenia.
Economists are rightly trained to treat unemployment as a lagging indicator, but these data can also be useful in forecasting the near future.
Despite the many laws enacted, lawyers trained, courtrooms built, and millions of technical-assistance dollars spent, China’s legal institutions remain weak, especially when the cases brought before them have – or acquire – political implications.
Instead, they advocate diplomacy “on steroids,” staffed by diplomats trained in new media, cross-cultural communications, granular local knowledge, and networks of contacts with under-represented groups.
Within a few hours of the accident, critics trained their sights on all the usual suspects: the Minerals Management Service, for giving BP a pass on routine inspections and lapsing into a relationship with the oil industry that United States President Barack Obama denounced as “cozy”;Obama himself, for having failed to enact the reforms at the Interior Department that he had promised while campaigning for election; the oil services firm Transocean, for the faulty blowout preventer; and, of course, BP, for a “lax” and even “reckless” safety culture.
But as someone trained in American law who has taught at an American law school, I also am aware of the shortcomings in how Sharia is applied, especially in its treatment of women.
Yet, in much of Africa, a lack of affordable medications, and a dearth of trained doctors and nurses, means that patients rarely receive the care they need.
On average, African countries have fewer than one trained pathologist for every million people, meaning that most diagnoses come too late for treatment.
Once again, an adequately trained parrot, unlike many economists nowadays, would ask whether the economic problems that current levels of government debt are causing reflect too much public debt supplied by governments or too much public debt demanded by the private sector.
In the 1980s, under President Ronald Reagan, the US (with funding from Saudi Arabia) trained thousands of Islamic extremists to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
As then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted in 2010, “We trained them, we equipped them, we funded them, including somebody named Osama bin Laden….And it didn’t work out so well for us.”
The EU has money and the SCO organization, most of whose members border Afghanistan, has trained personnel and direct experience in the region.
A traditional social program is usually judged by the volume of services provided, such as the number of people trained or homeless people sheltered.
Moreover, refugee doctors must be trained to address the diversity of medical needs they will face in their adoptive homes.
Every one of these future refugees will need access, at some point, to medical professionals trained in refugee health, diversity, and inclusion.
The misplaced fear that allowing opioids to be used in hospitals will fuel addiction and crime in the community has led to tight restrictions on their use, and clinicians are not trained to provide them when they are needed.
The Lancet Commission draws attention to the Indian state of Kerala, where trained volunteers are at the center of community-based palliative care, bolstered by international collaboration with the WHO, university researchers, and non-governmental organizations.
Two decades ago, Haqqani and several other warlords were funded and trained by Pakistan and the US working together.
And many poor countries do not have a single medical school, and when their citizens study abroad, they often stay there, or are ill-equipped for a low-tech milieu that is so different from where they trained.
But achieving universal access will require a trained workforce, and at the moment, Africa suffers from a dearth of capable human capital.
Public-private partnerships, like Schneider Electric’s Access to Energy program, have trained many electricians globally, but only a fraction have been in Africa.
Studies in Washington State show that home visits from trained staff can reduce child abuse, improve children’s quality of life and physical and mental health, and reduce child-welfare and litigation costs.
These participants must be trained to provide quantitative estimates of their uncertainty for the different variables.
Donors have trained police and prosecutors and built courts and detention centers.
Today, more than ever, I believe the challenges and opportunities of the multi-media world can only be addressed if we invest massively to create a trained and highly skilled workforce truly capable of taking on the world.
Xu Zerong, a social scientist trained at Harvard and Oxford, is serving a 13-year sentence in Guangdong Province for photocopying materials on Chinese military tactics during the 1950-53 Korean War.
CHWs are local community residents with at least a high-school education, who are trained for a few months in the management of specific health challenges, such as identifying potentially HIV-infected individuals, bringing them to the clinic for testing, and helping them to adhere to their medical protocols.
For example, aid financiers should require that security forces hired to oversee a project, or who respond to project-related protests, are properly trained and strictly observe international standards on managing public assemblies.
Just as the Devil can quote scripture for his purpose, Third World communitarianism can be the slogan of a deracinated tyrant trained, as in the case of Pol Pot, at the Sorbonne.
Throughout his rule, religion-based politics grew along with the number of madrassahs and fighters trained and equipped by Pakistani and US intelligence agencies.
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