While India runs the largest child feeding program in the world, experts agree it is inadequately designed, and has made barely a dent in the ranks of sick children in the past 10 years.
The health system is inadequately designed and resourced – particularly for people with cancer – with poorly equipped hospitals, a low doctor to patient ratio, and a lack of access to affordable drugs.
Despite this huge investment, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of schemes and those studies that do exist have often been inadequately designed or analysed.
The clinical trials of NXY-059 were inadequately designed, in part, because of inappropriate treatment windows and inclusion of diverse stroke patients.
Elected officials and utility companies shouldn't just turn on the lights and heat and restore crippled elevators in forgotten public housing projects that were inadequately designed in the first place.
The Kazans claimed in their suit that during construction of their home, they told the city that a storm drain on the north side of their property was inadequately designed and maintained.
Some of these studies were inadequately designed.
Prognostic factors are inadequately defined for disease-free survival and overall survival in patients with LAPC who are receiving chemoradiation, so more definitive prognostic factors would be very useful for designing clinical trials.
Gendered norms are inadequately considered in the design and implementation of demand side interventions and strategies to improve access to maternal healthcare.
In many respects, it is the most vulnerable who will have most to lose from systems that are unsafe or inadequately designed to address their needs.
For example, holding therapy and a range of coercive therapies that have been promoted have not been shown to work when subjected to the rigor of an adequate clinical trial, and studies that suggest these programs work are based on inadequately designed clinical evaluations.
