AIMS (1) To determine whether general histopathologists are aware of oral pathology as a specialist discipline and whether they use oral pathologists to identify lesions of the dental and orofacial tissues which pose diagnostic difficulties to general histopathologists. (2) To establish whether consultant histopathologists would consider dentally qualified applicants for salaried training posts...

5 Methodology Methodology 2 Summary · The Scottish Audit of Head and Neck Cancers was set up by the (then) Clinical Resource Audit Group (CRAG) of the Scottish Executive Health Department. Dr A G Robertson was the principal grant holder and lead clinician for the project. · A multidisciplinary National Steering Group Committee was set up to oversee the project and met regularly. · The aim of th...

This deliberately provocative set of interventions arises from a session by the same name at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle on 14 April 2011 and reflects closely each panellist's contribution there. The session drew a large audience and generated such animated discussion in view of the topicality of the subject matter that we felt the issues deserved...

This report details work done by the author during a six month secondment from Schlumberger Cambridge Research to Intevep during April to October 1997. A mathematical description for the flow within a porous permeable medium of oil containing dissolved gas, and capable of liberating that gas when the pressure is dropped to form small bubbles or regions of connected gas, is presented. The intent...

BACKGROUND Over the past ten years, calls to strengthen health systems research capacities in low and middle income countries have increased. One mechanism for capacity development is the partnering of northern and southern institutions. However, detailed case-studies of north-south partnerships, at least in the domain of health systems research, remain limited.This study aims to evaluate the p...

MOST MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION feel stressed at some time. If stress is ongoing, impairment may occur (defined as being unable to safely or reliably perform one's role). A continuum appears to exist between functioning well, being distressed and becoming impaired, with external (environment-related) and internal (personal-related) stressors determining where an individual will lie on th...

BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the 21st century, development assistance for HIV/AIDS has increasingly been provided through Global Health Initiatives, specifically the United States Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria and the World Bank Multi-country AIDS Programme. Zambia, like many of the countries heavily affected by HIV/AIDS in southe...

Acknowledgments The lion's share of the results reported on in this thesis has been achieved within OBASCO project atÉcole des Mines de Nantes, to a large part by means of different collaborations involving almost all of my colleagues there. These are acknowledged in the text, as some cooperations with other researchers, as the corresponding work is presented. Here, I would just like to express...

In October 2003, I started a secondment from the London School of Economics (LSE), where I hold the Richard Titmuss Chair of Social Policy, to No 10 Downing Street, where I worked as a senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. I began working initially on a specific project: developing policies on extending user choice in public services, with particular reference to health care ...

An enormous increase has been observed in the number andtypes of women’s groups and organizations around theworld. A complex of international, regional, national andlocal networks of individuals and organizations has emerged.At the same time, the recognition of women’s issues hasgrown, both nationally and worldwide, and so has the needfor comprehensive and reliable data ...