LSE Health and Social Care

Africa: raising the profile of obesity, heart disease and diabetes|

Public health efforts in Africa have focused on infectious diseases such as HIV, but chronic diseases are also big killers.

Few people know more about the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa than Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins|. An LSE African Initiative Fellow at LSE Health and associate professor of social psychology at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, it has been the main focus of her work since 2004. Read more|

PSSRU and SSCR to hold stall at Community Care Live 2013|

PSSRU/SSCR will be at stand 29 at Community Care Live which is being held at the The College of Social Work on Wednesday 22nd May 2013.

For further information, please see the Community Care| website.

Research into the UK government’s proposed reforms of the funding of care and support published|

The cost implications of the UK government’s recent plans to reform the funding system for care and support in England are analysed in a new research paper, which also considers the effects of options to give more help to lower income care home residents.

The paper, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of East Anglia (UEA), provides detailed estimates of the public expenditure costs of the government’s plans. It projects that the government’s current proposals, with a cap of £75,000, would add £2 billion (2010 prices) to public expenditure by 2030. This is in contrast to a projected extra £3.3 billion cost of the Dilnot Commission’s proposals, which had recommended a cap of £35,000. Read more|

To read the report in full, click here|.

LSE and Nuffield Health Research on Impact of Low Fitness|

"The average person in England does well below the recommended levels of physical activity – with the average person doing only four days of sports and exercise in any month. Adding to this all other types of moderate activity (including work and housework), the average person is still only about halfway to achieving the government goals with respect to physical activity"

This is part of a new report which has recently been published by Nuffield Health in conjunction with LSE Health and Social Care. Click here| to read more...

10th ENMESH International Conference on Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services|

Date: 3th - 5th October 2013
Venue: University of Verona, Italy

LSE Health and Social Care's Martin Knapp and David McDaid are scheduled to speak at this conference on Saturday 5th October. For further information, please see the ENMESH website|

Investing in Advocacy Interventions for Parents with Learning Disabilities: What is the Economic Argument?|

New discussion paper by Annette Bauer|, Josie Dixon|, Gerald Wistow| and Martin Knapp| has been published. To view the full paper, click here| (PDF).

Eurohealth Volume 19 Number 1|

Governing public hospitals
This issue’s Eurohealth Observer section looks at governing public hospitals. The overview article discusses innovative strategies in governing public hospitals. Four case study articles are then presented focusing on autonomous hospitals in Spain, governance arrangements in the Netherlands, legal forms of hospitals in the Czech Republic, and decentralisation in Norway. Other articles include: A nudge in the wrong direction; Addressing critical health workforce challenges; Pay-for-performance in Macedonia; Reform in the Bulgarian pharmaceutical sector; and Eurohealth Monitor.