Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret S. Robinson, Blake Thomson et al.
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3.4 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of DALYs globally. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparative, up-to...
Derek King, Raphael Wittenberg, Anita Patel, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
BACKGROUND: we project incidence and prevalence of stroke in the UK and associated costs to society to 2035. We include future costs of health care, social care, unpaid care and lost productivity, drawing on recent estimates that there are almost 1 million people living with stroke and the current c...
Anita Patel, Vladislav Berdunov, Zahidul Quayyum, Derek King et al.
BACKGROUND: there are around 100,000 new stroke cases and over a million people living with its consequences annually in the UK. This has large impacts on health and social care, unpaid carers and lost productivity. We aimed to estimate associated costs. METHODS: we estimated 2014/2015 annual mean c...
Angela S. Donin, Claire Nightingale, Christopher G. Owen, Alicja R. Rudnicka et al.
In the UK, South Asian adults have increased risks of CHD, type 2 diabetes and central obesity. Black African-Caribbeans, in contrast, have increased risks of type 2 diabetes and general obesity but lower CHD risk. There is growing evidence that these risk differences emerge in early life and that n...
Margret Frenz
Abstract While the story of South Asian migration to Uganda in the early twentieth century is familiar, in general terms, a second migration, from the 1980s onwards, has not attracted much attention. Using a combination of archival research and oral history interviews conducted in India, Uganda, Can...
Anita Mallon, Gary Mitchell, Gillian Carter, Derek McLaughlin et al.
BACKGROUND: The social care workforce in the United Kingdom plays a vital role in providing support services yet faces systemic challenges of lower priority and lack of resources. Resilience is crucial for these workers who have been navigating challenges within a fragmented system long before the o...
Matt D. T. Hitchings (5451638), Yi Xu (131145), Bernardo García-Carreras (412539), Adriana Gallagher (13411243) et al.
The country pairs with the 100 highest total reported cases from 2010-2019 were left out one at a time, and reported cases by year were predicted from a model fit to the remaining data. Outliers/influential pairs are labeled in red, with the red line leading from the point itself to the label (Origi...
George Andreopoulos, Leonid Lantsman
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 [This collection of essays is based on papers presented at a workshop on “The Ethics of Intervention/Protection: Contending Approaches” jointly organized by the Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) and the Institute of Criminal...
Ian Tromp, Felicity Hand, Firdous Azim, R. Bruce King et al.
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