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What influences NHS Health Check behaviors?
Source: Public Health England; Healthmatters Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number 1 cause of death globally, with an estimated 17.7 million people having died from CVD conditions in 2015, representing 31% of all global deaths. In England in 2017, more than 124,000 people died from CVD[1]. Changing behaviors related to diet, physical activity, smoking and alcohol intake can reduce CVD…
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Characteristics of patients attending English and Welsh Hospitals with Lyme disease
Lyme disease is transmitted through the bite of specific ticks and has a variety of clinical presentations, most notably a bull’s eye rash (erythema migrans) and an associated flu-like illness. Its distribution through Europe is heterogenous with a large variation in incidence between countries and within them. Over an eighteen-year period (1998-2015) we observed a…
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The cost of diagnostic uncertainty: sorting out the tigers from the pussycats in childhood fever
© Sasha_Suzi / Getty Images / iStock Fever is a common cause of presentation to pediatric emergency departments (EDs), accounting for ~20% of all visits. Most children with fever have self-limiting viral illnesses; however, severe bacterial infections may result in almost identical clinical presentations, making diagnosis a difficult task. Because of the catastrophic consequences of…
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Follow or borrow? Is the UK NHS the best model for other countries to achieve universal health coverage?
© Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire / empics / picture alliance The global movement around universal health coverage (UHC) has gathered momentum at blistering speed. Within a few years it has transformed the focus of healthcare in many low and middle income countries from single disease strategies towards a vision of comprehensive, affordable and acceptable…
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From competition to collaboration: a global NHS
The NHS is synonymous with Britain, yet almost 15% of its workforce are originally from outside of the UK. It has always been so. In 1949, during its first full year of operating, the NHS launched a mass recruitment of health workers in the Caribbean. By 1962, over 10,000 medical students had been recruited from…