Richard Laing
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3720867 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Laing |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Laing |
| FIRMA | LAING R |
| AFILIACIONES | Robert Gordon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3825-217X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Walking through the abstract[ed] city and co-creating urban space
This paper explores how co-designing urban walkability can be augmented by an innovative hybrid approach, whereby virtual records and visualisations of the walking experience can enhance the awareness, perceptions and immersion of the participant in both real and virtual spaces. From one side of that model, the research explores how people might be intrigued enough to discover the real context, based on their experience informed and enriched by p…
Being there
The practice of walking allows us to engage with the city slowly, through kinaesthetic skill and the multisensorial apparatus of the body. Studying the city through this immersed practice-on-the-move facilitates attention to the direct contact with the urban environment, and hence brings forth analytical orientations that highlight ‘being there’ on the move. Indeed, if not including immersed experiences of mobility, fluidity, and contingency in t…
Phone-based monitoring to evaluate health policy and program implementation in Kenya
Monitoring and evaluating policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries are often difficult because of the lack of routine data. High mobile phone ownership in these countries presents an opportunity for efficient data collection through telephone interviews. This study examined the feasibility of collecting data on medicines through telephone interviews in Kenya. Data on the availability and prices of medicines at 137 health faciliti…
An outbreak of novel psychoactive substance benzodiazepines in the unregulated drug supply
Reading underused urban spaces
An evaluation of sustainable construction perceptions and practices in Singapore
Delivering lower carbon urban transport choices
Reducing carbon emissions from the transport sector has become a critical imperative for public policy as our understanding of the impacts of the mobility system on the environment has developed. This paper contrasts policy development in three cities (Aberdeen, Bremen and Malmö) that collaborated as part of a European Union knowledge exchange programme designed to share innovative approaches to carbon reduction in the transport sector. We identi…
The reform of the essential medicines system in China
To achieve universal health care coverage, the Government of China invested in large–scale health care reform. One of the major reform components focuses on improving access to essential medicines to reduce high out–of–pocket medicines spending. The reform policies were comprehensive, and included systematic selection of essential medicines to improve availability, centralized procurement and tendering at provincial levels, pricing policies, prov…
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider iss…
The role of plant clinics in sustainability of urban green spaces in Tehran
This article describes a research project that explored the issue of perceptions of the urban population regarding the role of plant clinics in the sustainability of green spaces in Tehran. The methodology used a combination of descriptive and quantitative research. The study involved 280 respondents from Region 17 of Tehran who attended the classes offered by plant clinics in the city. Data were collected through interview schedules. As the regr…
Remnants of Scottish stone architecture in Nova Scotia
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Scottish emigrants travelled to Canada. This paper concerns those buildings that were designed and constructed by Scottish settlers, utilising skills and materials transported from their homeland. The research concerns the extent to which buildings of those early generations of settler might still be intact, with specific reference to selected case studies from Nova Scotia. One is faced…
Measuring medicine prices in Peru
The WHO/HAI survey approach strikes an appropriate balance between modest research costs and optimal information for policy. Focusing on commonly used medicines yields sufficient and valid results. Surveyors elsewhere should consider the limits of the survey data as well as any local circumstances, such as scarcity, that may call for extra field efforts
Medicine prices, availability, and affordability in 36 developing and middle-income countries
Hunger, waiting time and transport costs
Adherence levels in Africa have been found to be better than those in the US. However around one out of four ART users fail to achieve optimal adherence, risking drug resistance and negative treatment outcomes. A high demand for 2nd line treatments (currently ten times more expensive than 1st line ART) undermines the sustainability of African ART programs. There is an urgent need to identify context-specific constraints to adherence and implement…
Drug development for neglected diseases
Ten recommendations to improve use of medicines in developing countries
Inappropriate prescribing reduces the quality of medical care and leads to a waste of resources. To address these problems, a variety of educational and administrative approaches to improve prescribing have been tried. This article reviews the experiences of the last decade in order to identify which interventions have proven effective in developing countries, and suggests a range of policy options for health planners and managers. Considering th…
If a lower dose of AZT was effective, would it make any difference
"If a lower dose of AZT was effective, would it make any difference?." Reproductive Health Matters, 6(11), p. 133
The cost per case prevented remains excessive
(1998). The cost per case prevented remains excessive. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 6, Women's health services, pp. 143-143
A strategy for promoting improved pharmaceutical use
The essential drugs programme in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Essential Drugs Action Programme has developed an innovative approach to training within the overall programme. The programme depends on the active participation of rural health staff in the production of training materials, combined with desk-top publishing technology. The modules thus produced have been used at provincial and district workshops. Such an approach to the production of training materials is applicable to subjects othe…
Meeting the Health and Housing Needs of Plantation Workers
structure which assumes the participation of several members means that plantation households cannot rely on a single wage-earning member
Dactors, private paractice and primary health care development
Gerald Bloom, Richard Laing; Dactors, private paractice and primary health care development, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 September 198
Health and health services on plantations in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is an example of a country which has achieved impressive improvements in health status since Independence despite its low income per head. However, the improvement has been uneven, with plantations consistently lagging behind. Most of the estate workers in Sri Lanka are Indian Tamils who have traditionally been economically disadvantaged and politically isolated, a pattern which began under the colonial pattern of recruitment and manage…
Anomalies of self-description
Maxwell's Demon and Computation
In this paper we show how a form of Maxwellian Demon can be interpreted as a computing automaton. We then point out some ways in which the Demon systems can be generalized, and briefly describe and discuss the properties of some of the corresponding automata. It is shown that a generalized Maxwell Demon system can carry out arbitrary Turing computations. Finally, the association developed between classes of thermodynamic systems and classes of co…
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider iss…
A strategy for promoting improved pharmaceutical use
The essential drugs programme in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Essential Drugs Action Programme has developed an innovative approach to training within the overall programme. The programme depends on the active participation of rural health staff in the production of training materials, combined with desk-top publishing technology. The modules thus produced have been used at provincial and district workshops. Such an approach to the production of training materials is applicable to subjects othe…
Being there
The practice of walking allows us to engage with the city slowly, through kinaesthetic skill and the multisensorial apparatus of the body. Studying the city through this immersed practice-on-the-move facilitates attention to the direct contact with the urban environment, and hence brings forth analytical orientations that highlight ‘being there’ on the move. Indeed, if not including immersed experiences of mobility, fluidity, and contingency in t…
Maxwell's Demon and Computation
In this paper we show how a form of Maxwellian Demon can be interpreted as a computing automaton. We then point out some ways in which the Demon systems can be generalized, and briefly describe and discuss the properties of some of the corresponding automata. It is shown that a generalized Maxwell Demon system can carry out arbitrary Turing computations. Finally, the association developed between classes of thermodynamic systems and classes of co…
Anomalies of self-description
Dactors, private paractice and primary health care development
Gerald Bloom, Richard Laing; Dactors, private paractice and primary health care development, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 September 198
Health and health services on plantations in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is an example of a country which has achieved impressive improvements in health status since Independence despite its low income per head. However, the improvement has been uneven, with plantations consistently lagging behind. Most of the estate workers in Sri Lanka are Indian Tamils who have traditionally been economically disadvantaged and politically isolated, a pattern which began under the colonial pattern of recruitment and manage…
Meeting the Health and Housing Needs of Plantation Workers
structure which assumes the participation of several members means that plantation households cannot rely on a single wage-earning member
The essential drugs programme in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Essential Drugs Action Programme has developed an innovative approach to training within the overall programme. The programme depends on the active participation of rural health staff in the production of training materials, combined with desk-top publishing technology. The modules thus produced have been used at provincial and district workshops. Such an approach to the production of training materials is applicable to subjects othe…
A strategy for promoting improved pharmaceutical use
If a lower dose of AZT was effective, would it make any difference
"If a lower dose of AZT was effective, would it make any difference?." Reproductive Health Matters, 6(11), p. 133
The cost per case prevented remains excessive
(1998). The cost per case prevented remains excessive. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 6, Women's health services, pp. 143-143
Ten recommendations to improve use of medicines in developing countries
Inappropriate prescribing reduces the quality of medical care and leads to a waste of resources. To address these problems, a variety of educational and administrative approaches to improve prescribing have been tried. This article reviews the experiences of the last decade in order to identify which interventions have proven effective in developing countries, and suggests a range of policy options for health planners and managers. Considering th…
Drug development for neglected diseases
Hunger, waiting time and transport costs
Adherence levels in Africa have been found to be better than those in the US. However around one out of four ART users fail to achieve optimal adherence, risking drug resistance and negative treatment outcomes. A high demand for 2nd line treatments (currently ten times more expensive than 1st line ART) undermines the sustainability of African ART programs. There is an urgent need to identify context-specific constraints to adherence and implement…
Medicine prices, availability, and affordability in 36 developing and middle-income countries
Measuring medicine prices in Peru
The WHO/HAI survey approach strikes an appropriate balance between modest research costs and optimal information for policy. Focusing on commonly used medicines yields sufficient and valid results. Surveyors elsewhere should consider the limits of the survey data as well as any local circumstances, such as scarcity, that may call for extra field efforts
The role of plant clinics in sustainability of urban green spaces in Tehran
This article describes a research project that explored the issue of perceptions of the urban population regarding the role of plant clinics in the sustainability of green spaces in Tehran. The methodology used a combination of descriptive and quantitative research. The study involved 280 respondents from Region 17 of Tehran who attended the classes offered by plant clinics in the city. Data were collected through interview schedules. As the regr…
Remnants of Scottish stone architecture in Nova Scotia
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Scottish emigrants travelled to Canada. This paper concerns those buildings that were designed and constructed by Scottish settlers, utilising skills and materials transported from their homeland. The research concerns the extent to which buildings of those early generations of settler might still be intact, with specific reference to selected case studies from Nova Scotia. One is faced…
The reform of the essential medicines system in China
To achieve universal health care coverage, the Government of China invested in large–scale health care reform. One of the major reform components focuses on improving access to essential medicines to reduce high out–of–pocket medicines spending. The reform policies were comprehensive, and included systematic selection of essential medicines to improve availability, centralized procurement and tendering at provincial levels, pricing policies, prov…
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider iss…
Delivering lower carbon urban transport choices
Reducing carbon emissions from the transport sector has become a critical imperative for public policy as our understanding of the impacts of the mobility system on the environment has developed. This paper contrasts policy development in three cities (Aberdeen, Bremen and Malmö) that collaborated as part of a European Union knowledge exchange programme designed to share innovative approaches to carbon reduction in the transport sector. We identi…
An evaluation of sustainable construction perceptions and practices in Singapore
Reading underused urban spaces
Phone-based monitoring to evaluate health policy and program implementation in Kenya
Monitoring and evaluating policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries are often difficult because of the lack of routine data. High mobile phone ownership in these countries presents an opportunity for efficient data collection through telephone interviews. This study examined the feasibility of collecting data on medicines through telephone interviews in Kenya. Data on the availability and prices of medicines at 137 health faciliti…
An outbreak of novel psychoactive substance benzodiazepines in the unregulated drug supply
Being there
The practice of walking allows us to engage with the city slowly, through kinaesthetic skill and the multisensorial apparatus of the body. Studying the city through this immersed practice-on-the-move facilitates attention to the direct contact with the urban environment, and hence brings forth analytical orientations that highlight ‘being there’ on the move. Indeed, if not including immersed experiences of mobility, fluidity, and contingency in t…
Walking through the abstract[ed] city and co-creating urban space
This paper explores how co-designing urban walkability can be augmented by an innovative hybrid approach, whereby virtual records and visualisations of the walking experience can enhance the awareness, perceptions and immersion of the participant in both real and virtual spaces. From one side of that model, the research explores how people might be intrigued enough to discover the real context, based on their experience informed and enriched by p…
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