As Goran Sjonell, Sweden's most distinguished family doctor, says, a system in which a third party the council pays hospitals per treatment risks stimulating over-production and raising costs, which is why caps have been imposed on hospital revenues.Then again, the NHS has, in the form of its powerful GPs, a much better way of controlling spending than does Stockholm.
The heightened risks have stimulated a debate: Has the more aggressive approach — bigger fences, more agents and deportations — contributed to, or diminished, the danger?
The good news, Hammond said, is that many of the measures to reduce climate risk stimulate - not decimate - economic growth: The global low carbon economy is already worth $6tn, and is growing 4-54-5%yea year
This epidemiological risk stimulated the establishment of a state program to control congenital toxoplasmosis in October 2003.
The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models in which the financial sector plays a greater role.
Some believe that emphasizing the risks stimulates public support for investment in prevention, preparedness and research, others fear that playing up the risks too much results in public fatigue and disillusionment, especially if the scary thing fails to materialize.
"The risks of stimulating demand too little at the current time seemed greater than the risks of stimulating it too much," the minutes said.
Estrogen increases the risk by stimulating the liver to produce more of the substances that it normally makes to promote clotting.
High oil prices bring in money, but run the risk of stimulating exploration for more oil, which would damage the second goal.
On the other hand, some animal studies suggest a risk that stimulating toll-like receptors could send the immune system into overdrive, leading to toxic shock or autoimmune diseases.
The use of biopharmaceuticals to replace endogenous proteins, which may be inadequately low, carries the risk of stimulating the immune system to develop autoantibodies.
