Area-level mortality and morbidity predict ‘abortion proportion’ in England and Wales

Trends in induced abortion in England and Wales.

Analysis of routinely published abortion and fertility data for England and Wales between 1968 and 1980 shows that the age-specific abortion rates increased from 1968 until about 1973 when the rates peaked for all ages; rates then declined until 1977 but have subsequently returned to higher levels. Two factors are implicated: (1) the recent changes are related to parallel changes in the fertili...

Legal abortion in England and Wales 1968--78.

Current differential infantile mortality, England and Wales.

A recent publication (Taylor, 1954) reviewed the decline of infantile mortality in England and Wales during the past half-century from a diagnostic viewpoint in as far as it is possible to do so by recourse to official sources. The outcome was a strong presumption in favour of the view that there is no likelihood ofstabilization atthe presentlevel, since the tempo of decline is still steep. One...

Mortality inequalities: Scotland versus England and Wales.

This paper is an observational study of particular historical trends in mortality inequality within Great Britain, comparing England and Wales with Scotland for the period 1925-2005. The inequalities in mortality within Great Britain have become more apparent over time. Growing inequality in premature mortality in Britain affected young Scottish men most severely after 1995. It would appear tha...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...