Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in ...
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor ...
Topic: Overview of quality improvement: the nature and extent of medical errors, and how healthcare organizations should respond when adverse events occur. Instructor: Leo Anthony Celi, founder and executive director of Sana
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in ...
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor ...
Topic: Principles of innovation and new practices adoption which can guide successful quality improvement projects. Instructor: Jonathan Jackson, founder and CEO of Dimagi
Introduction to Algorithms - Recitation 20: Dynamic ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Recitation 20: Dynamic Programming: Blackjack
Description: This recitation revisits the perfect-information blackjack problem that was covered in lecture. Instructor: Victor Costan
Introduction to Algorithms - Recitation 24: Final Exam ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Recitation 24: Final Exam Review
Description: This recitation covers the wood-cutting problem (dynamic programming) and Bloom filters (hashing, probability). Instructor: Victor Costan
The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, ...
The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part II
Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues the discussion of transformation and subversion in 1970s films, specifically as embodied in work of director Robert Altman. Outline - Robert Altman (1925-2006) - Career - Defining qualities: - Moral ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Lecture 23: Computational ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Lecture 23: Computational Complexity
Description: This lecture introduces computational complexity, including how most decision problems are uncomputable, hardness and completeness, and reductions. Instructor: Erik Demaine
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs and Workers
Description: This lecture talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts in Place of a ...
Description: The professor provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and Insurance
This lecture discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
This lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So Simple) Economics ...
Description: This lecture covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise and Perils of ...
Description: This lecture discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The Man Made Trap
This lecture discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 2: What is a ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 2: What is a Poverty Trap?
Lecture 2 provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social Experiments: Why and ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a Nutrition-Based ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Instructor: Esther Duflo
D-Lab: Energy - Lab 6: Charcoal Making & Stove Testing
D-Lab: Energy - Lab 6: Charcoal Making & Stove Testing
In this lab, the class does a charcoal burn from start to finish, loading the drum, lighting it, and sealing it after some of the burn. While the burn is going on, they grate yucca to make a binder and make briquettes using the contents from a previous burn. Speaker: ...
D-Lab: Energy - Lecture 7: Solar Cookers, Creative Capacity ...
D-Lab: Energy - Lecture 7: Solar Cookers, Creative Capacity Building, Trip ...
This lecture reviews solar cooker technology and a case study in D-Lab's Creative Capacity Building workshops. The session ends with final thoughts on trip preparation, including how to get good information from community partners, and how to pack. Speaker: Amy ...