Vaccination and Immunisation

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Miles
Keyword(s):  
Immunisation Programme ◽  
Health It ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Significant Disease ◽  
Medical Perspective

From a medical perspective vaccination, the process whereby someone is made immune to significant disease, has a long and distinguished track record and has proved highly beneficial. More recently public faith in some aspects of the process has diminished dramatically. This article by Marion Miles presents the background to, and development of, the immunisation programme currently recommended by the Department of Health. It seeks to explore reasons for non-compliance with the programme and to discuss the consequent dilemmas thus presented to professionals. Particular problems presented by looked after children are also considered.

Issues concerning the Health of Looked after Children

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Ward ◽  
Helen Jones ◽  
Margaret Lynch ◽  
Tricia Skuse
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
National Service Framework ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Health Assessments

There is substantial evidence that looked after children have extensive health needs and disabilities, that they have often missed out on routine health surveillance and health promotion before entry to care or accommodation, but that at present they receive little compensatory care. Harriet Ward, Helen Jones, Margaret Lynch and Tricia Skuse discuss these issues. They look at how frequent changes of placement and poor inter-agency communication exacerbate difficulties in gaining access to adequate health care, especially when children lack an advocate who takes proactive action on their behalf. The Department of Health has responded by issuing new Guidance that sets clear standards for service delivery, encourages children's participation, and ensures that health assessments recognise inequalities and take a holistic view of healthcare needs. The implementation of the Integrated Children's System should improve the quality and accuracy of health information concerning all children in need. New Regulations and Standards for foster care, a National Healthy Care Standard and, on a broader policy front, the National Service Framework for Children should all ensure better access to health care for this population. However, as the authors conclude, such measures will only be successful if inter-agency working can be improved through multi-disciplinary training and better co-ordinated structures for service delivery.

Children in Foster Care; Looked After Children and Education: A Review of the Literature in the UK

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Alix
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Attainment Gap ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Government Legislation ◽  
Made In

<p>This study critically examines the literature regarding the education of children in foster care; Looked After Children (LAC) in the United Kingdom (UK). It examines the progress made within UK policy and practice in just over a decade. Government legislation and policy have defined how progress for LAC should be made in the UK, and there has been a shift away from social care perspectives to more holistic educational perspectives as responsibility has shifted from the Department of Health to include the Department of Education. This has had a direct impact on the work of UK based Local Authorities and schools. It is important to gain an understanding of these changes, and how perceptions of LAC’s education is now situated. This paper explores how continued progress can be made in closing the attainment gap between LAC and their peers by focussing on three key areas: academic achievement, emerging professional roles, and the training of key professionals that work with LAC. </p>

A PLAN OF OFFICIALLY SUPERVISED INDUSTRY DAIRY FARM INSPECTION*

1954 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
George W. Grim ◽  
Fred L Barshinger
Keyword(s):  
Control Agency ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Major Portion ◽  
Health It ◽  
Milk Supply ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Official Control ◽  
Milk Industry

The author suggests a different approach to the dairy farm inspection problem. The merits of the conventional method used by many state and Municipal departments of health are weighed. An effort is made to define the responsibilities of the official control agency and to correlate these with the responsibilities of the milk distributor operating under the licensing privilege granted by the Department of Health. It is recommended that the direct supervision of the supply be left to the Health Department responsible for the milk supply where the major portion of the milk is consumed. The author holds that the most effective results in the enforcement of dairy farm requirements will be attained when departments of health transfer the major portion of the Inspection burden to the milk industry itself. The major health consideration in the metropolitan area, that of preventing milk borne discuse, can best be accomplished by intensifying efforts extended in the supervision of the pasteurizing process itself and in the application of safeguards necessary to prevent subsequent contamination.

A POLITICS OF CARE: LOCAL NURSES IN MANDATE PALESTINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-689
Author(s):  
Julia R. Shatz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Health It ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Palestinian Arab ◽  
Village Communities

AbstractThis article examines the work experiences of Palestinian Arab nurses to illuminate the operation of the colonial public health regime in Mandate Palestine. Analyzing nurses’ work in the clinics of town and village communities and their relationships with the colonial government's Department of Health, it argues that these nurses were social and political interlocutors in the system of public health, which depended upon their intimate relationships with local communities. By pulling these women out of the archives, this article complicates received wisdom among scholars about development, expertise, and the chronology of welfare. Telling the stories of these women also provides a ground-level view of the operation of daily governance in Mandate Palestine and the lived social, political, and economic realities of an often-overlooked cadre of Palestinian workers from that period.

Developing Leaving Care Services Tapping the Potential of Foster Carers

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wade
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Health It ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Substitute Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Key Dimensions

This paper by Jim Wade draws on the findings of a four-year study of specialist leaving care services, funded by the Department of Health. It situates moving on from substitute care or accommodation in the context of broader youth transitions to adulthood. Three key dimensions of transition for a sample of care leavers are discussed: the timing and nature of their moving on; their early education and employment careers; and their ability to develop networks of social support. Issues arising from the support offered by foster carers and social workers are also explored. Finally, the author makes a case for foster carers to have a more central place in the development of leaving care services.

The Emerging Role of the Specialist Nurse: Promoting the Health of Looked after Children

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hill ◽  
Vanessa Wright ◽  
Carolyn Sampeys ◽  
Kathy Dunnett ◽  
Sue Daniel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Status ◽  
Specialist Nurse ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Specialist Nurses

In the light of recent guidelines from the Department of Health, Catherine Hill, in collaboration with Vanessa Wright, Carolyn Sampeys, Kathy Dunnett, Sue Daniel, Lesley O'Dell and Janet Watkins, discusses the growing contribution that specialist nurses are making in promoting the health of looked after children. To illustrate this trend two projects, in Southampton and Cardiff, are examined, followed by a review of the current professional status of looked after children's nurses in England and Wales. All the evidence presented points to better outcomes and additional quality through nurse-led assessments.

scholarly journals Two centuries of immunisation in the UK (part II)

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lang ◽  
Sarah Loving ◽  
Noel Denis McCarthy ◽  
Mary Elizabeth Ramsay ◽  
David Salisbury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Immunisation Programme ◽  
National Immunisation Programme ◽  
National Immunisation ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Public Health Surveillance System ◽  
The Uk

The centrally coordinated response that controlled the polio epidemics of the 1950s through immunisation led to the development of a national immunisation strategy in the UK and the formation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in 1963, which oversees the immunisation programme and advises the UK Department of Health on new vaccine introductions. As a result of technological advances in vaccine development and scientific advances in immunology and microbiology over the 56 years since then, and the formation of a comprehensive public health surveillance system for vaccine-preventable disease, the National Health Service immunisation programme now covers 18 serious diseases of childhood, with an astonishing impact on child health. Here we consider the formation of the JCVI and the development of the national immunisation programme and review the introduction of vaccines over the past half century to defend public health.

Children in Foster Care; Looked After Children and Education: A Review of the Literature in the UK

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Alix
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Attainment Gap ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Government Legislation ◽  
Made In

<p>This study critically examines the literature regarding the education of children in foster care; Looked After Children (LAC) in the United Kingdom (UK). It examines the progress made within UK policy and practice in just over a decade. Government legislation and policy have defined how progress for LAC should be made in the UK, and there has been a shift away from social care perspectives to more holistic educational perspectives as responsibility has shifted from the Department of Health to include the Department of Education. This has had a direct impact on the work of UK based Local Authorities and schools. It is important to gain an understanding of these changes, and how perceptions of LAC’s education is now situated. This paper explores how continued progress can be made in closing the attainment gap between LAC and their peers by focussing on three key areas: academic achievement, emerging professional roles, and the training of key professionals that work with LAC. </p>

scholarly journals Gender features of mortality from HIV infection

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-120
Author(s):  
Alla Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Death Certificates ◽  
Health It ◽  
Female Mortality ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Hiv Mortality ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Demographic Context ◽  
Gender Features

The aim of the study is to establish the gender characteristics of mortality from HIV infection, as well as to identify the socio-demographic context of the more negative dynamics of mortality among women. We used data from the official statistics on mortality from Rosstat, as well as information from the information system on deaths in Moscow (RFS-UMIAS), which is based on data from medical death certificates issued by medical organizations of the Moscow Department of Health. It was found that the sources of more negative dynamics of female mortality are not related to their socio-demographic status, but are determined by other factors. The socio-demographic portrait of those who died from HIV is gender neutral, showing no significant differences between men and women in terms of education, or the frequency of unemployment, or the prevalence of loneliness due to lack of family. The regional vector of HIV mortality in men and women also coincides.

scholarly journals Survey of young offenders in a regional secure unit

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 535-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Lengua ◽  
Sumy Handy ◽  
Avi Dhariwal
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Young Offenders ◽  
Health It ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Secure Unit

The management of young offenders by specialist psychiatric adolescent forensic services is currently the subject of considerable debate at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and at the Department of Health. It is important to know what has been done in dealing with this very important group of vulnerable young people. This study aims to delineate how medium secure units become involved with this group and what happens to them.

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