PFI contributes to large deficits of Scottish health boards

Views of the chairs of Scottish health boards on engagement with quality management and comparisons with English trusts.

OBJECTIVE To describe the views of the chairs of Scottish health boards on the engagement of their boards with healthcare quality and to compare them with the views of the chairs of boards of English acute trusts. The focus of the Scottish Health Boards is on providing and commissioning care, while in England the acute trusts only provide care. METHODS We mailed a questionnaire, based on one ...

Oral Health and Risk of Arthritis in the Scottish Population: Results from the Scottish Health Survey

OBJECTIVES To investigate the link between self-reported oral health and arthritis in the Scottish population using data from the Scottish Health Survey. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were available from 2008 to 2013 on self-reported arthritis, oral health conditions and oral hygiene habits from the Scottish Health Survey. Arthritis was defined in this survey by self-reported long standing illnes...

Who contributes to the public health function?

BACKGROUND This paper describes the current nature and distribution of staff making an active contribution to the public health function in Health Authorities in England, so as to assess the extent to which the public health function is truly multidisciplinary and to begin to consider the National Health Service public health capability. METHODS A pre-piloted questionnaire was administered by...

Diminished capacity to modulate motor activation patterns according to task contributes to thumb deficits following stroke.

The objective of this study was to explore motor impairment of the thumb following stroke. More specifically, we quantitatively examined kinetic deficits of the thumb. We anticipated that force deficits would be nonuniformly distributed across the kinetic workspace, due in part to varying levels of difficulty in altering the motor activation pattern to meet the task. Eighteen stroke survivors w...

Improving population health: action learning for health and wellbeing boards