To some extent, corporate interests misunderstand or willfully distort the service provided by proxy advisory firms.
Several dozen interviews with administration officials and with scientists in and out of government, along with a variety of documents, show that the core of the clash is over instances in which scientists say that objective and relevant information is ignored or distorted in service of pre-established policy goals.
However, there is little evidence examining whether HIV/AIDS programs effectively strengthen health services or divert resources from other programs and distort overall health services [ 14, 16, 17].
In recent years, the ways in which HIV/AIDS-focused programs interact with the delivery of other health services is often discussed, but the evidence as to whether HIV/AIDS programs strengthen or distort overall health services is limited.
"Edited videos of hoax patient visits are part of a coordinated campaign over the last several years to distort Planned Parenthood's services, mission and values," Kantor said in a statement on Wednesday.
Furthermore, the health care costs of occupational tumours not known to the insurance system are shifted onto general public finance through the national health service, distorting its economics.
For example, the Belgian Minister of Health exploited the conclusions of the Council's legal service to distort the Health Council meeting – undermining her role as president to facilitate the negotiating process during the second half of 1993.
At the moment, rivalry between the services distorts the procurement process.
The two-war requirement, in place since 1993, was straining the Pentagon budget and distorting the three services.
3 Such an analysis, while attractive in terms of planning national healthcare services, distorts our understanding of the health system, which increasingly does not correspond to the notion of the health system contained within the 'nation-state'.
