Lessons for England

Planning for epidemics--the lessons of SARS.

Undermining Value-Based Purchasing - Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Moving forward monitoring of the social determinants of health in a country: lessons from England 5 years after the Marmot Review

BACKGROUND England has a long history of government-commissioned reviews of national inequalities. The latest review, the Marmot Review, was commissioned by a government headed by the same party (the Labour Party) that had introduced the National Health Service in 1948, but the review was implemented by a coalition of different parties (Conservatives and Liberal Democrats). At the same time, a ...

Care Markets in England: Lessons from Research

A survey of acoustic conditions and noise levels in secondary school classrooms in England.

An acoustic survey of secondary schools in England has been undertaken. Room acoustic parameters and background noise levels were measured in 185 unoccupied spaces in 13 schools to provide information on the typical acoustic environment of secondary schools. The unoccupied acoustic and noise data were correlated with various physical characteristics of the spaces. Room height and the amount of ...