This case study was conducted to determine the benefits of a multi-dimensional study abroad program that included a community service component. It encompassed the following aspects of the study abroad experience: motivation for travel, language learning research, the role of autonomy in language learning, and cultural awareness, behaviors, and attitudes. The researcher acted as a participant a...

Much attentmn has been gwen to the effects of the recession on the financmg of the socml security program m the Umted States and abroad, where smnlar economm condltlons have arisen This report concentrates on the repercussions m France Fmanclal problems for the soclal security systems of many countries have been created by the combmatlon of mflahon and recession m the 1970’s Benefits, Indexed u...

A DOZEN of these Sydenham Memorial Lectures have already been given and several of them have made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Sydenham and his times. It was in one of these lectures that Dr. Dewhurst first gave us in summary form the new biography of Sydenham, based on newly accessible sources in the Bodleian Library, which was later published in greatly expanded form in the ...

this article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by lunt and marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. the commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. the commentary als...

I recently paid a visit to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. My aim was to exchange ideas about postgraduate training with the medical teachers there. Brown is one of America’s leading universities, and I saw a great deal that challenged my preconceptions about medicine in the USA, and also made me question some of our working practices in the UK. Most of my time was spent observing...

Rumania’s rapid rate of economic growth in post,war years has allowed for a significant increase in real wages of t,he working population, despit,e the diversion of a large portion of increasing national income into capital accumulation. Despite a similarly rapid rise in total expenditures for pension purposes, growth of benefits granted to t,he average pensioner has not, kept, pace wit’h earni...

In a number of ways, the United ingdom’s National Health Service NHS) is a unique experiment, springng from the fusion at the end of World ar II of a number of synergistic eleents: a powerful desire for social hange; a determination on the part of he populace not to repeat the experince of the broken promises after orld War I; the presence on the table n 1945 of a plan for social service reorm,...