Recent Riots in the United Kingdom and France

Recent riots in the UK and France: causes and commonalities

A number of academic studies have sought to comparatively analyse the French riots of 2005 with those that occurred in England in 2011, yet these have been limited in their scope and depth. In this article, we set out a more comprehensive analysis of the causes and underlying meaning of these episodes of collective disorder through a systematic application of the Flashpoints Model of Public Dis...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

And Military Affairs : France , the United Kingdom , and Nato

Improving performance using indicators. Recent experiences in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

This article describes recent national performance improvement initiatives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. This comparison is of particular interest because each of these three countries faces similar challenges in delivering health care and improving health. Each has elevated a focus on safety and quality improvement to a national level. Marked differences in the organizat...

Recent mortality from cancer of the cervix in the United States and United Kingdom.

Death-rates from cancer of the cervix in the United States in 1950-67 are compared with similar data for England and Wales. In the United States (unlike England and Wales) statistics show no evidence of a rise in mortality-rates for cancer of the cervix among women under 60 years: they show a decline in all 10-year age-groups from 30 to 79 among White women; among non-White women a similar decl...