Policies and thresholds vary for placing children into out-of-home care (OHC) at different ages. Evidence is lacking that quantifies the risk of entering OHC by age, and how this varies over time and between countries. We determined the age-specific cumulative incidence of ever entering OHC during childhood in Denmark and in eight local authorities in England. We used administrative data for an...

Gareth Beeston University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ, England [email protected] Thanassis Tiropanis University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ, England [email protected] Lisa Harris University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ, England [email protected] Thomas Wainwright University of Southampton University Road S...

Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Department of Health, the Scottish Executive and the North West Regional Development Agency. A final protocol has been closely assessed by an independent international review panel set up by the funders. In its report the panel concluded that “UK Biobank has the potential, in ways that are not currently available elsewhere, to support a wide range of research”. ...

A large literature documents a widespread prevalence of small stature among Indian children as well as adults. We show that a height gap relative to a richer population such as whites in England also exists, although substantially reduced, among adult immigrants of Indian ethnicity in England. This is despite positive height selection into migration, demonstrated by ethnic Indian adults in Engl...

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 ...