"It is a frail system at best," Mr. Tonko said.
The challenges of delivering adequate maternal health care in Indonesia are well known and include limited access to quality facilities, limited availability of health staff, lack of awareness and cultural constraints regarding safe motherhood, low nutritional and health status of women, unmet need for contraception, and a frail system for recording maternal deaths [ 1].
But among more than 700m left-behind peasants, frustrations are building (see article).As in any fast-developing economy, for all its successes China's breakneck growth masks a multitude of problems, from rampant corruption and devastating pollution to a frail banking system and the lack of independent courts to uphold the rule of law.
There is what he calls a "triage of terror," because pre-emptive action against one threat may exacerbate another (for example, an attack on a state sponsor of terror may encourage other states to seek weapons of mass destruction as insurance, undermining the already frail system of nonproliferation).
The Ebola outbreak is the result of a frail health care system.
A major driving force in the literature has been the view that a decrease in entropy supports the loss-of-complexity hypothesis [4] which states that a frail or diseased system exhibits a less complex pattern.
All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born.
"Out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born".
In stark contrast, in most rural areas, including some of the most remote locations in the world like the Amazon forest, a frail and fragmented healthcare system prevails, similar to those in third world countries, with limited resources and lack of healthcare providers.
"It is a tragic indictment of the system that such a frail and vulnerable man should have spent his final days in prison-like conditions of an immigration removal centre," said Nigel Newcomen, the prisons and probation ombudsman (PPO), in his report.
The reasons behind the exceptionally high case-fatality rate in the 1918 influenza pandemic have been associated to the virus pathogenesis [10] [12], the absence of antibiotics to treat secondary bacteremia infections [13], [14] and to a debilitated health care system, exhausted by a frail population found at the end of World War I [3].
