The National Health Insurance Scheme, which was implemented in 2004, has been accepted by Ghanaians as one of the best homegrown social intervention programs to be introduced in the country.
The enemy here was not al-Qaida, but rather a homegrown menace empowered by foreign intervention.
To prevent future aflatoxicosis outbreaks, it is necessary to explore public health interventions that promote effective production, storage, and processing of homegrown and commercial maize.
However, many of the CDS interventions studied were limited in that they either used noncommercial homegrown electronic health records (EHR) [ 7- 13], pop-up alerts to remind providers when patients with VTE risk factors were not on prophylaxis [ 7- 13, 13- 16], or targeted select populations [ 8, 11, 12] or individual hospitals [ 17].
In short, there is a paradoxical danger that Western intervention on behalf of the Libyan rebels will end up subverting the homegrown nature of the revolt itself.
"I think the whole idea of the earthquake being an opportunity for foreigners to do more aggressive interventions is really problematic and objectionable," he said in an interview, arguing for modest, homegrown plans.
It's a prosaic exercise, but let's set forth arguments for and against a Western military intervention: Against: 1) The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality.
The partnership components that are a part of this model - involving family, community, and law enforcement - and the focus on interventions at such a personal level are attractive given the individual-based nature of the homegrown extremism threat.
You might even shed a tear for the Republican politicians who blocked Obamacare on grounds that it would mean an unwarranted intrusion of the federal government into state affairs -- yet in doing so have opened the way to greater federal intervention in their healthcare systems, through the substitution of the federal healthcare exchange for homegrown versions. .
There are many reasons I oppose a Western military intervention in Libya: the bitter experience of Iraq; the importance of these Arab liberation movements being homegrown; the ease of going in and difficulty of getting out; the accusations of Western pursuit of oil that will poison the terrain; the fact that two Western wars in Muslim countries are enough.
