Entitlements: Not Just a Health Care Problem

Homelessness Is Not Just a Housing Problem

Editorial H omelessness is about more than rooflessness. A home is not just a physical space: it provides roots, identity, security, a sense of belonging and a place of emotional wellbeing. " So says the United Kingdom charity Crisis [1]. This Editorial's title comes from another charity, Shelter [2], which breaks down the causes of homelessness into individual factors such as drug and alcohol ...

Possible objectives and resulting entitlements of essential health care packages.

The notion of a defined 'core package of essential health care services' has appeared in many different health reform proposals in the 1990s. This paper attempts to explore the possible objectives of the 'core package' component of health care reform. Two board applications are apparent: the use of essential packages to ration scarce public funds and the incorporation of a minimum benefit packa...

Toward a more just health care system.

The Problem: Not Just Bacteria–Bacterial Biofilms

Bacteria will stick to almost any surface in an industrial water system and will almost always produce a slimy polysaccharide matrix. This state of microorganism activity is now universally known as biofilm. Biofilm poses numerous problems in water processes, including corrosion, loss of process efficiency such as heat transfer, and health issues such as Legionella infection. Biofilm is not onl...

Not just another primary care workforce crisis.

Letters Not just another primary care workforce crisis … There is a baffling disconnect in the position of Irish and Purvis on the primary care workforce crisis. 1 On the one hand, they say: 'The supply of newly qualified GPs is unlikely to match demand without international recruits and returners to the GP workforce.' On the other hand, many readers of this Journal will be astonished to learn ...