The rresence of increasing numbers of allied health slUdents at colleges and universities across the nation is having a great effecl on curriculum development, distribution of resources, and use of rhysical facilities Expanded slUdel1l enrollment, coupled with decreased funding for higher education, leads to concern that valuable expel'iences necessary for adequate training of allied health slU...

If austerity is our destiny, as UK Chancellor George Osborne would insist, we should anticipate that some of us will not embrace our fate quietly. The student demonstrations of early 2011 and the revolts which followed the police killing of Mark Duggan clearly demonstrated as much. The anticipation of further revolts, in the face of a deliberate drive through austerity to maintain the creditwor...

in response to the international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm)editorial, this commentary adds to the debate about ethical dimensions of compassionate care in uk service provision. it acknowledges the importance of the original paper, and attempts to explore some of the issues that are raised in the context of nursing practice, research and education. it is argued that each of ...

The financial crisis in Europe has posed major threats and opportunities to health. We trace the origins of the economic crisis in Europe and the responses of governments, examine the effect on health systems, and review the effects of previous economic downturns on health to predict the likely consequences for the present. We then compare our predictions with available evidence for the effects...

Reports have attributed a public health tragedy in Greece to the Great Recession and the subsequent application of austerity programs. It is also claimed that the comparison of Greece with Iceland and Finland-where austerity policies were not applied-reveals the harmful effect of austerity on health and that by protecting spending in health and social budgets, governments can offset the harmful...

We formulate an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity and productive and non-productive government programs to study the macroeconomic and intergenerational welfare effects caused by risk premium shocks and government debt reductions. We demonstrate that in a small open economy with a high level of debt-to-GDP ratio a small increase in the risk premium leads to substantial outp...

Corruption is endemic and pervasive in contemporary China, yet serious attempts at anticorruption enforcement have been periodic in nature. What explains the timing of anticorruption campaigns? Available data, from 1981 to 1997, suggests a plausible correlation between changes in macroeconomic policy and the intensification of anticorruption enforcement. Four major anticorruption campaigns—in 1...