martin powell makes the point that the death of the national health service (nhs) is constantly asserted without criteria. this article suggests that the nhs is many things, which makes criteria unstable. the alignment of interests in the structure of the nhs enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...

C R E D IT : C H R IS S C H M ID T /I S T O C K P H O T O .C O M Response ZAITSEV RAISES A VALID ARGUMENT FOR increasing student support services. It is good to see faculty understanding of the obstacles that community college students face. I certainly agree that more resources should be devoted to student guidance, tutoring services, and fi nancial aid, and I strongly advocate for the importa...

A new multivariate approach is introduced to identify the middle class of a society and to measure its possible decline. The middle class is a properly defined central region in attribute space that contains a fixed portion of the population. The decline of the middle class is measured by comparing volumes of the middle class. The use of different notions of central regions is discussed in one ...

statement of the problem: achieving a normal soft tissue facial profile is considered to be the main concern of class iii patients and the goal of most class iii treatments. purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of facemask treatment on profile with photogrammetric method. materials and method: before (t0) and after (t1) treatment photograms of 40 class iii patients ...

While a plethoric empirical literature addresses the relationship between socio-economic status and body weight, little is known about the influence of social class on nutritional outcomes, particularly in developing countries. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the social determinants of adult body weight in urban China by taking into account the influence of socia...

Background It is widely accepted that there are socioeconomic inequalities in oral health. A socioeconomic gradient is found in a range of clinical and self-reported oral health outcomes. Aim The present study was conducted to assess the differences in oral hygiene practices among patients from different socioeconomic status (SES) visiting the Outpatient Department of the Sudha Rustagi Colleg...