Some recent developments in social service in Great Britain.

National Health Service Principles as Experienced by Vulnerable London Migrants in “Austerity Britain”: A Qualitative Study of Rights, Entitlements, and Civil-Society Advocacy

Background Recent British National Health Service (NHS) reforms, in response to austerity and alleged ‘health tourism,’ could impose additional barriers to healthcare access for non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrants. This study explores policy reform challenges and implications, using excerpts from the perspectives of non-EEA migrants and health advocates in London.   Methods A qualitative ...

The health and social care divide: bridging the gap.

It is nearly three years since the full introduction of the reforms advocated in the Caring for People White Paper (DoH 1989) and reports and articles are now being published which comment on the initial effects of these changes, particularly those which have arisen from the health and social care divide created by the reforms. This article examines the nature of this division of responsibility...

Online Public Access Catalog Retrieval Structures and Techniques: With Reference to Recent Developments in the United States and Great Britain

ماهیت‌شناسی تحولات سال2011 شمال افریقا؛ به‌مثابه جنبش اجتماعی جدید

The uprising and developments in the Arab world that the Tunisian protests began, a wave of requests and political, economic and social demands to other classes of  people and then to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region ,including Egypt. The developments in some of the changing political systems in the region, regional order and also affect the interests and approach powe...

Trends in the uptake and delivery of smoking cessation services to smokers in Great Britain.

S moking kills more people than any other avoidable factor in the UK, and smoking cessation interventions are among the most cost effective treatments in medicine. Guidelines recommending routine implementation of smoking ascertainment and cessation in clinical practice were first published in the UK in 1998, and in the same year the UK government allocated funding to establish specialist smoki...