Ferraye and Bloem: Laser shoes and public transport

Technological innovations are rapidly being introduced into healthcare, with the aim of improving patients’ health and promoting self-management. Examples include the development of new ambulatory technologies that can assist patients in achieving safer mobility, and devices that can provide online feedback to patients so they can better manage specific symptoms of their disease. Some of […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The IDEAL shape of promulgation

Last week I suggested that passive diffusion and active dissemination of the outcomes of research could together be called “promulgation”. To promulgate is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “to make known by public declaration; to publish; esp. to disseminate (some creed or belief), or to proclaim (some law, decree, or tidings).” I rhetorically […]

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Breakfast versus lunch, which packs the biggest punch?

Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal free breakfasts.  This policy demonstrates a party comfortable with stigmatising deprived families and will single out individual children in receipt of free lunches amongst their […]

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Richard Smith: Disappointed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on health

Democracy, we are all told and mostly believe, is “the least bad form of government.” Sadly and ironically that belief is hardest to sustain during elections when we are deluged in slogans (“strong and stable”) and wild promises, long term issues are largely ignored, and complex issues are simplified to the point where meaning is […]

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Suchita Shah: The lost brigade—why diasporas matter to global health

Reflections on the second UK-East African Healthcare Summit, London 2017 Talk of nations, national borders, and national identities has become a part of the ideological foreplay that inevitably leads up to big political events. As the UK general election looms, there couldn’t be a more apt time to consider what “homeland” means to us in […]

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