South Korea: Searching for a New Direction of Administrative Reform
In: Australian journal of public administration: the journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 30-44
ISSN: 0313-6647
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In: Australian journal of public administration: the journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 30-44
ISSN: 0313-6647
In: Asian affairs: an American review, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 94-107
ISSN: 0092-7678
The author explores administrative reform actions in North Korea paying special attention to institutional restructuring, separation between the Korean Workers'Party and government, establishment of the civil service, management training, decentralization etc. He discusses also administrative reform in China and what North Korea can learn from Chinese experiences. (DÜI-Sen)
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In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 258-272
ISSN: 0004-4687
In: International journal of public administration: IJPA, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 423-446
ISSN: 0190-0692
In: International journal of public administration: IJPA, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 675-710
ISSN: 0190-0692
Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in a timely fashion, allowing continued Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission within communities. Currently recommended gold-standard diagnostic tests for tuberculosis are laboratory based, and multiple investigations may be necessary over a period of weeks or months before a diagnosis is made. Several new diagnostic tests have recently become available for detecting active tuberculosis disease, screening for latent M. tuberculosis infection, and identifying drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis. However, progress toward a robust point-of-care test has been limited, and novel biomarker discovery remains challenging. In the absence of effective prevention strategies, high rates of early case detection and subsequent cure are required for global tuberculosis control. Early case detection is dependent on test accuracy, accessibility, cost, and complexity, but also depends on the political will and funder investment to deliver optimal, sustainable care to those worst affected by the tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus epidemics. This review highlights unanswered questions, challenges, recent advances, unresolved operational and technical issues, needs, and opportunities related to tuberculosis diagnostics.
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