Featured Graphic. Ethno-Demographic Change in English Local Authorities, 1991–2011

Health underachievement and overachievement in English local authorities.

OBJECTIVE To identify English local authorities that "overachieve" and "underachieve" in health terms, given their level of deprivation, sociodemographic context, and region. DESIGN Cross sectional study using data from the 1991 UK census and mortality data from 2000-2. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS 354 local authorities (total population 49 558 000). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Life expectan...

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Natural disasters and local demographic change in the United States

Classic studies on local demographic consequences of natural disasters in the United States are now more than 30 years old, raising questions about how and to what extent relevant patterns have changed over intervening years, as the number and cost of recorded environmental hazards have increased. This study examines these questions at the county level for the nation as a whole, using recent ce...

Can local governments buy a good performance evaluation? Theory and evidence from the comprehensive performance assessment of English local authorities

The use of Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) to monitor the performance of 148 English local authorities (unitary and two-tier) between 2002 and 2008, and reward good performers with lower central intervention was a unique policy experiment. Taking advantage from the English assessment procedure this paper studies, both theoretically and empirically, two issues: 1) the relationship bet...

Ethno-pharmaceutical formulations in Kurdish ethno medicine

Abstract Kermanshah is a city in west of Iran with a specific customs and cultures between the Kermanshah is a city in west of Iran with a specific customs and cultures between the people who are living here. According to historical documents these cultures are very ancient and belong to more than one thousand years. The climate condition in this place forces people to find the solution of thei...