Divide and Conquer: Be explicit about distinct coverage areas that each person owns, and be willing to defer to the other person on their area.
This is highly unlikely in the THS series of surveys given the whole population coverage, explicit and validated sampling methodologies and the application of weighting factors to the results to ensure representativeness for the general population of Hong Kong (see additional file for details).
INSIDE MATT LAUER'S DOWNFALL Blockbuster reports from The New York Times and Variety detail a history of sexual misconduct that involves sex in his office, sex toys, harassing staffers during Olympics coverage and explicit text messages by the "Today" show's biggest star.
And in December, the Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, agreed to buy an influential Hong Kong newspaper, The South China Morning Post, as part of an explicit effort to reshape media coverage of China.
"I think the thuggish bullying implicit, or indeed explicit, in the Sun's coverage – obviously highly professional and technically excellent as it was – starts to become extremely bad for democracy," said Independent editor Roger Alton.
Using rankings of the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions to make coverage decisions is explicit.
Today it's recommending the government sets explicit targets for business broadband coverage to ensure SMEs aren't left lagging behind.
Practical Suggestions Some are obvious: rededication to intellectual honesty; finding reporters who are truth-seekers; finding reporters who know the subjects they are assigned to; find reporters with memory spans that reach back before the last Super Bowl; make policy preferences explicit and quarantine straight news coverage from them; curb conflicts of interests -- political and financial.
There have been efforts by the MoH since 2007 to roll out a Basic Services Package (BSP) and Hospital Services Package (HSP) with the explicit aim of achieving universal coverage.
Although there are several moral and methodological controversies over the use of economic evaluation to guide health resource allocation[ 3, 10, 11], it is increasingly being used in some industrial countries on the grounds that it can inform more explicit and transparent health care coverage decisions[ 12].
